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Spanish Firefighters Airlift a Cow From a Bog, and Yes, the Helicopter Earned Its Hay
A specialized rescue team used a helicopter to lift a cow from waterlogged ground in Spain’s Sierra de Guadarrama.
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Nigella Lawson Joins “Bake Off,” and the Tent Is About to Get Considerably More Luscious
Nigella Lawson replaces Prue Leith as a judge on “The Great British Bake Off,” pairing her flavor-first style with Paul Hollywood’s precision.
Gen X Files
Chad Gilbert Gave Pop-Punk Its Crunch and Kept Playing Through the Hardest Years
New Found Glory co-founder Chad Gilbert has died at 45 after years of cancer treatment and a final return to the stage in June.
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Pope Leo Heads to France for Lourdes, Life Ethics and One Very Secular Conversation
Pope Leo’s September 25–28 visit will bring Catholic teaching on life, peace and abuse accountability into direct contact with secular France.
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Spain Says AI Cannot Regulate Itself, Which Is Also Why Toddlers Do Not Run Daycare
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says companies controlling powerful AI systems cannot be left to write and enforce their own rules.
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Putin’s Party Wins Nearly 80% of Parliament, Because Suspense Was Not on the Ballot
United Russia kept its constitutional majority after a tightly controlled election, while anti-war party Yabloko gained one small regional foothold.
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Two Cybercrime Gangs Are Fighting Over a Stolen Website, So Even Villains Have IT Problems
ShinyHunters says it hijacked rival ransomware gang Clop’s dark-web site in a public feud over an Oracle software vulnerability.
Gen X Files
Digital Dead Musicians May Tour Several Cities at Once, Because Retirement Is Apparently Broken
UK startup Unit1 raised $20 million to stage lower-cost concerts featuring hyper-realistic digital avatars of living and deceased musicians.
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Britain Finds an Industrial-Scale Fake Vinyl Empire, Because Counterfeiters Discovered Record Store Day
A British counterfeiter was sentenced after investigators uncovered thousands of fake records and a wider market worth millions of pounds.
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Australia Investigates a Church’s Election Activity, and Faith Leaders See a Dangerous Precedent
Australian faith leaders warn that an inquiry into alleged political activity linked to the Plymouth Brethren could slide into guilt by association.
Gen X Files
Suzi Quatro Is 76, Still Touring and Still Waiting for the Rock Hall to Locate Its Glasses
Suzi Quatro says her Rock and Roll Hall of Fame omission is “absolutely crazy” as she releases a new album and keeps touring at 76.
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New Zealand Tells Washington to Show Up in the Pacific Before China Owns the Group Chat
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters urged a stronger and steadier U.S. presence in the Pacific as China expands its regional influence.
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Anthropic Built a Biology Lab, Because Apparently AI Needed Actual Test Tubes
Anthropic has opened a San Francisco Bay Area wet lab to combine AI, automation and physical biology experiments aimed at difficult diseases.
Strange News
A Syrian Man Smashes Open a Wall and Finds the Library He Hid 15 Years Ago
An elderly man in Homs recovered hundreds of books he sealed behind a wall 15 years ago to protect them through Syria’s civil war.
Gen X Files
Ozzy and Black Sabbath’s Final Show Is Coming to Cinemas, So Bring Industrial Earplugs
“Back to the Beginning,” filmed at Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s final Birmingham performance, opens in cinemas worldwide October 28.
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Pope Leo Says War Strained Jewish-Christian Dialogue but Did Not Break It
A Vatican decree marking 60 years of Catholic interreligious dialogue condemns antisemitism and Islamophobia while acknowledging strains caused by war.
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China’s New Memory Chips Enter Mass Production, and Washington Just Lost Some Sleep
Chinese chipmaker CXMT says its fifth-generation DRAM platform is in mass production, narrowing a gap that U.S. export controls were meant to preserve.
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Germany’s Far Right Wins a State While Merz Calls His Result a “Disaster”
The far-right AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives suffered their worst state result since 1949.
Strange News
An Arizona Family Found a Refrigerator Full of Dynamite, Which Is Not What the Crisper Drawer Is For
A family in eastern Arizona discovered an old refrigerator containing unstable dynamite, prompting authorities to conduct a controlled detonation.
Gen X Files
Blind Faith Made One Album, Survived One Tour and Left Rock With a 57-Year Group Project
Blind Faith combined Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech for one famous album before pressure and personality ended the supergroup.
Gen X Files
Springsteen, Joan Jett and Mark Hamill Have Birthdays This Week, So Gen X May Begin Stretching Now
Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett, Mark Hamill and other familiar Gen X icons celebrate birthdays during the week of September 20–26.
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West Bank Violence Surges on the Eve of Yom Kippur, Leaving Two Families in Mourning
An Israeli man and a Palestinian motorist were killed in separate West Bank incidents as security tightened before Yom Kippur.
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Gas Hits $4.48 While Trump Calls It an “Inexpensive Price” for the Iran War
U.S. gasoline averages about $4.48 a gallon as voters blame the Iran war and reject Trump’s description of the increase as an inexpensive tradeoff.
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Trump Wants His Giant Washington Arch to Hold Drones and Snipers, Because a Monument Was Too Normal
Trump says his proposed 250-foot Washington arch would also operate as a military complex housing drones, snipers and ammunition.
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Scientists Find Running T. Rex Footprints, So Apparently Walking Away Was Never an Option
Four fossilized tracks found in North Dakota may be the first continuous footprint sequence showing a Tyrannosaurus rex running.
Gen X Files
“Strictly Come Dancing” Gets Three New Hosts, Five New Pros and One Giant British Group Project
“Strictly Come Dancing” launched its 2026 season with three new presenters, five new professional dancers and a redesigned pairing format.
Gen X Files
Michael J. Fox Gets an Emmy Standing Ovation and Reminds Everyone What Staying Power Looks Like
Michael J. Fox received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award and a standing ovation for decades of Parkinson’s advocacy and research fundraising.
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Washington Makes a Church Cover Abortion Care, and the First Amendment Argument Keeps Going
A federal appeals court rejected a church’s challenge to Washington’s requirement that health plans covering maternity care also cover abortion.
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North Korea Fires Another Missile Into the Sea, Because the Group Chat Was Too Calm
North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile and another projectile toward the sea as regional military tensions rose again.
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Ukraine Sends 1,000 Drones at Russia, Because the Future of War Has Terrible Battery Life
Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones toward Russia, including hundreds aimed at Moscow, in the largest drone assault yet on the capital.