Breaking World News - Waived Two Days Before It Could Bite | October 17, 2026 | 1930s Radio

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 17, 2026. In September Congress passed a sanctions law against Russia and Iran, 86 to 11 in the Senate and 262 to 159 in the House, and named it for a senator who had died that summer. The President signed it on September 18. On October 16, with its main sanctions due to take effect two days later, he waived them. Tonight's report: • The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act. Graham died July 12, 2026. Senate 86-11 on August 7. House 262-159 on September 16. Signed September 18. Waived October 16. Sanctions were due October 18• What it allowed: tariffs up to 500% on all Russian products, up to 100% on the five largest importers of Russian crude and gas, sanctions on Russian banks, the shadow fleet and the energy sector. The executive order raised the tariffs as the law provides and then largely waived them• The release valve is in the law itself. The President may waive by certifying to Congress that it is in the national interest. No White House justification beyond the order has been published and we say so rather than implying none exists• Rep. Don Beyer calls on Congress to fix the law. Zelensky: "We cannot accept these agreements" and "Gas deals will follow"• The watchdog Urgewald counts 134 vessels in the Russian gas trade since 2022 and 42 tankers carrying Russian gas since the law was signed. Labelled as an advocacy group's figures• The Starlink story moves again. The Telegraph, citing four sources, says Musk proposed the slowdown to Trump and one source says Trump agreed• A quotation we declined to repeat. The headline says "They were both in on it." The words actually attributed to the source in the body are "The reality is that they were both in it." Not the same sentence. We read the one with a source attached• So: Reuters places the order inside the White House, the Telegraph places the suggestion with Musk, and both named men say it was not them. The Pentagon has given no public explanation at all• Seven killed across Ukraine, around 90 injured. 289 of 332 drones downed. 22 locations struck. But the regional injury figures add up to 100 against a national total of 90. We ran the addition and we tell you• UN migration agency: 32% of households could heat their homes last season. In the frontline regions it was 1%• Pope Leo calls for a ceasefire at Russian-occupied Oleshky in a call with Putin. About 2,000 residents remain trapped• A tanker burns in Hormuz and the IRGC says it struck a naval mine on an unauthorised route. That is the same explanation Tehran gave for the GFS Pride last week, which JMIC could not substantiate. We are not calling it false. We are saying the first one did not stand up• At the UN, all seven candidates for secretary-general drew a veto, in the first round where permanent members used coloured straws to signal them Followed by "From the Homefront" — Dorothy Wilson makes Boston brown bread, steamed three and a half hours, from Fannie Farmer's 1896 recipe read verbatim. Not opinion. Where accounts conflict, both are given. The "Winrad Broadcasting Service" is fictional. All voices are AI-generated. No affiliation with any actual news organization. SOURCES: Kyiv Independent — https://kyivindependent.com/trump-waives-latest-russia-sanctions-amid-growing-ukraine-us-tensions/Kyiv Independent — https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-watchdog-names-ships-carrying-russian-gas-blasts-trump-sanctions-waiver/Kyiv Independent — https://kyivindependent.com/musk-asked-trump-to-restrict-ukraines-starlink-service-telegraph-reports/Times of Israel — https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-17-2026/Food Reference (Farmer 1896) — https://www.foodreference.com/html/boston-brown-1896.html Full sources and recipe verification are in the Substack edition.