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The documentary 'Linkin Park: Unshatter' follows the band through the uncertain process of recording and touring again after the 2017 death of frontman Chester Bennington. Co-directed by band member Joe Hahn and Mark Ritchie, the film uses rehearsal footage an
Pope Leo XIV told directors of major museums that art should not be reduced to decoration or 'mere aestheticism' but can serve truth, human dignity and the Gospel. He addressed the Bizot Group, an international association of museum leaders meeting in Rome. In
The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into five television networks over their temporary refusal to participate in the White House television pool after the administration stripped credentials from CNN, Politico and MS NOW. ABC, CBS, CNN
President Donald Trump called for Ukraine to choose a new president after Volodymyr Zelensky criticized a U.S. agreement to import Russian diesel. Trump blamed Zelensky and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries for high fuel prices in the United States. We h
Researchers estimate that roughly 180,000 adult and subadult Aldabra giant tortoises now live on Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, the highest population estimate ever recorded for the species. The animals now outnumber the human population of the country. They
Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of work that gleefully ignores the little fences between poetry, criticism, memoir and classical scholarship. Somewhere, every Gen X English major has just
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says the agency should stay open-minded about unidentified anomalous phenomena and have a role if credible evidence ever points to extraterrestrial intelligence. He described the issue as potentially involving foreign technolo
Pope Leo XIV has reaffirmed that the death penalty is inadmissible because it violates human dignity, speaking on the World Day Against the Death Penalty as his native United States prepares for a military execution that officials want to livestream. The timin
Indian authorities detained more than 2,000 people and locked down parts of New Delhi ahead of a youth-led protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Metro stations closed, internet access was restricted in some areas and p
Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his dismissed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey and others over claims that they conspired to link his 2016 campaign to Russia. Yes, the election was ten years ago. No, the
Dashcam footage released in Japan shows a mother brown bear charging and battering a car on a dark road in Hokkaido after the vehicle encountered her and a cub. The driver stopped, and the adult bear reversed direction, climbed onto the hood and struck the veh
Residents in parts of Panama spent the night outdoors after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake and a second magnitude 6.6 shock rattled the country, damaged buildings and triggered dozens of aftershocks. Several people were injured, but authorities had reported no dea
Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built the PTL Club with his then-wife Tammy Faye before the empire collapsed in sex and financial scandals, has died at 86. For Gen X viewers, Bakker was part preacher, part television host and part unavoidable living-room wal
A member of the White House UAP Science Advisory Council says the U.S. government has a preparedness plan for the possibility that nonhuman intelligence could someday be confirmed. Psychologist Jennice Vilhauer wrote that council members received the informati
The Trump administration has announced sanctions against the International Criminal Court as an institution, escalating a long-running fight with the tribunal that investigates genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sa
The Trump administration and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are facing international and domestic criticism over plans to livestream the December execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 at
Ukrainian archaeologists and environmental groups are asking UNESCO to protect the “great meadow” exposed when the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in June 2023. As the reservoir drained, it revealed ancient settlements, artifacts, shipwrecks and a ra
Carson Daly is returning to host a Total Request Live reunion special filmed in the show’s old Times Square home, but the project is headed to Roku rather than MTV. Daly and original TRL creator Tony DiSanto are producing the program, expected in 202
A new scientific analysis concludes that six fast-moving objects in a declassified military UAP video were most likely a small flock of birds flying much closer to the aircraft than the crew assumed. The clip, recorded near Kuwait’s Qaruh Island in J
The British government has blocked a planned Orange Order march along Garvaghy Road in Portadown after a two-week standoff revived one of Northern Ireland’s most combustible disputes. The Protestant fraternal organization had sought to return to the
The Justice Department says it will stop enforcing federal registration requirements for firearm suppressors, short-barreled rifles and several other weapons covered by the National Firearms Act. The nationwide policy follows an August ruling by a Te
President Donald Trump responded to missing out on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize by calling the decision disgraceful, embarrassing and an “indelible stain” on Norway. He delivered the complaint at an October 9 campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, trans
After more than a dozen years of searching, Jack Pearadin found a 6.03-carat yellow diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park and named it the American Dream. He says collectors suggested it might be worth as much as $1 million. Independent appraisers
French authorities have recovered two Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings stolen from a museum on the Riviera and arrested six suspects, according to the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer. The works disappeared about a month earlier and were worth millions. The recovery end
Powderfinger has confirmed a 2027 Australian reunion tour, bringing all five members back for their first major run of shows since the band’s 2010 farewell. Bernard Fanning, Darren Middleton, Ian Haug, John Collins and Jon Coghill announced the return after a
Astronomers have traced the most distant fast radio burst yet recorded to a small galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away. The signal, designated FRB 20240304B, was detected by South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope and its host galaxy was identified with
Pope Leo has approved Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as dean of the College of Cardinals, making him the first Asian cleric to hold one of the Catholic Church’s most prominent institutional roles. The appointment is historic, although the Church has appr
A federal judge in Arizona dismissed a former U.S. Agriculture Department employee’s employment-discrimination lawsuit after finding that the 67-page complaint carried unmistakable hallmarks of artificial-intelligence drafting: repetition, disconnected facts,
Mario Neurauter’s 12.46-foot bicycle drop onto a small target earned a Guinness record. The stunt occurred in 2025 and was reported on October 9, 2026.
Federal complaints describe live birds concealed in travelers’ clothing at Miami airport. The allegations are pending, and protected species complicate the case.
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