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The Supreme Court heard arguments October 14 in Salazar v. Paramount Global, a case asking how a law born in the video-store era applies to modern online tracking. The Salazar v. Paramount video privacy dispute is not about whether VHS deserves a com
The October 14 Roman telescope exoplanet update is a real engineering development in a mission that will study worlds beyond our solar system. NASA reports that its team completed tests of Roman’s Wide Field Instrument and refined the telescope’s foc
The latest Al Jardine Beach Boys reunion story is about more than an old logo coming out of storage. In an interview published October 14, Jardine discussed his Cerritos concert with Bruce Johnston and David Marks. Rolling Stone reports that Carnie W
The Bexar County horses donkey rescue has supplied this week’s reminder that a traffic hazard does not always have a license plate. Reporting published October 14 describes deputies rounding up two horses and a donkey near Interstate 35 and Kinney Ro
A new proposal for federal trial remote access victims could make criminal proceedings easier for affected people to follow. Reuters reports that a judicial rulemaking panel is considering a narrow exception to the federal criminal-broadcasting ban s
New reporting on October 14 adds a disturbing emergency-response chapter to Tennessee’s failed September 30 execution of Christa Pike. WPLN obtained dispatch recordings showing confusion over whether requests for an ambulance were genuine. The Christ
The FCC political ad rates deadline has become another election-season Supreme Court fight. Reuters reports that the justices on October 14 lifted a lower-court deadline for the FCC to decide a Democratic challenge to discounted advertising rates for
The latest Marjorie Taylor Greene rally response is a fresh escalation in her split with Donald Trump. On October 14, the former congresswoman condemned MAGA after video from a Youngstown rally showed men attacking a female protester, according to Me
The October 14 Pope Leo recovery update brings encouraging postoperative details without resolving every question about his health. EWTN reports that the Vatican’s medical bulletin said Leo had begun walking in his room, received respiratory physioth
Mike Love returned to a Beach Boys performance in Cincinnati despite what the group described as serious health challenges. Reporting published October 12 describes assistance from John Stamos. The Endless Summer tour is scheduled to continue into November. En
A recent research paper describes how the COSMIC system at New Mexico’s Very Large Array is extending searches for extraterrestrial technology into higher radio frequencies. The paper was posted August 18 and is associated with Acta Astronautica. It is a resea
A nine-year-old pet iguana named Tasslehoff was brought down from a tree by firefighters in Spring Hill, Kansas, after about a week on the loose. October 8 reporting places him roughly 35 to 45 feet above the ground before the rescue. The classic cat-in-a-tree
Republicans hold a 53–47 Senate majority, and Democrats are targeting competitive races to change control in November. Reuters’ October 12 overview identifies contests ranging from familiar battlegrounds to unexpectedly competitive states. The map is complicat
The Vatican said on October 12 that Pope Leo XIV will enter hospital Tuesday ahead of an operation to remove a lung nodule. He continued his Monday schedule, including seven planned morning meetings. This is a concrete scheduling update to the surgery announce
On October 11, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon temporarily blocked the Trump administration from paying for disputed political advertisements with taxpayer money. This is a new court order in the case Daily Junk Food previously covered at the filing stage.
Turning Point USA chief executive Erika Kirk used a Sunday television appearance to describe the conservative organization's ballot-chasing operation for the 2026 midterm elections. The campaign sends activists into battleground states to identify likely suppo
About two dozen orphaned rescue kittens took a private field trip through the SEA LIFE aquarium at the Mall of America, meeting sharks, stingrays and fish from the safe side of the glass. The visit lasted nearly two hours and included kittens with names such a
California Governor Gavin Newsom apologized to tribal nations for historic state violence and dispossession, then vetoed two bills designed to give tribes a stronger voice over water projects and protection of sacred sites. Nothing complements an apology quite
Jack White reunited the Raconteurs during his October 10 Nashville concert, bringing Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler together for the band's first performance since December 2019. The surprise encore happened at The Truth, White's hometown ven
SETI researchers are highlighting a proposal to search lunar material for microscopic technosignatures: tiny engineered particles that might have crossed interstellar space and become preserved in Moon dust. The SETI Institute has scheduled an October 15 discu
The Chhattisgarh High Court has ordered the state government to answer a constitutional challenge to its 2026 anti-conversion law and accompanying rules. The petition argues that the measure interferes with freedom of religion and other fundamental rights. The
Finance ministers and central bankers are heading into the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok with an agenda dominated by war, expensive debt and economic growth that keeps surviving just well enough to avoid being declared missing. The gathering be
A British grower has produced a pumpkin weighing 2,856.8 pounds, reported as a new world record. The squash arrived just in time for Halloween and weighs roughly as much as a compact car, assuming the compact car spent all summer drinking fertilizer and refusi
Wildfires in Indonesia have pushed injured and exhausted orangutans into plantations and settlements, where rescuers are treating animals suffering burns, smoke exposure and trauma. On Borneo, residents found a male orangutan struggling to breathe in a palm-oi
Astronomers report the first radio emission unambiguously traced to a planet outside our solar system rather than its host star. The bursts came from Beta Pictoris b, a young gas giant about 63 light-years away, and were detected with South Africa's MeerKAT ar
Bruce Springsteen headlined Tom Morello's Power to the People festival in Maryland, turning Merriweather Post Pavilion into a concert, protest rally and very loud reminder that Gen X never fully returned the borrowed copy of 'Nebraska.' The event combined rock
Pope Leo XIV said he expects to undergo surgery soon to remove a nodule from his lung, making an unusually direct disclosure about his health. The Vatican said the procedure is planned and that further information will be provided through official channels. Ev
Two lawsuits are challenging television advertisements paid for by the Trump administration, arguing that public money was used for political propaganda ahead of the midterm elections. The Democratic National Committee filed one case and a coalition led by Com
A research expedition is heading to Nikumaroro, an uninhabited Pacific atoll, to search for evidence that Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan landed there after disappearing in 1937. The team expects to reach the island on October 13 and investigate featu
Astronomers have identified what appears to be the first confirmed planet formed from material shed by a dying star. The gas giant circles the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 about 250 light-years away and completes an orbit every 4.4 days. Researchers call it a 'pho
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