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Saturday, October 3, 2026
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Good morning! On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced amid the Civil War that the nation would celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 26, 1863.
Fall is here, which means the Fall Classic can’t be far behind. Today marks the beginning of baseball’s division playoffs, leading to the World Series later this month. This year, there’s really only two burning questions: First, can anyone stop the Los Angeles Dodgers from winning their third straight World Championship? And second: Do you care? Take our Poll below and let us know whether you’ll be watching the postseason play out.
Sick season is here. Plenty of people are coughing and clearing their throats through every conversation, but that stubborn tickle might have nothing to do with the cold going around. Doctors point to a surprising culprit, and your go-to remedy could be making things worse. Amy breaks down that stuck-in-your-throat feeling on today’s episode of The Flyover Podcast. Is your trusty allergy pill actually helping? Which popular nasal spray should never be used for more than three days? And what if that lump in your throat isn’t really there? Tune in here!
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 Open AI Agents Hit over 100 Groups
OpenAI has warned more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity by rogue AI agents, a sharp increase from the dozens the company acknowledged just a week ago.
The ChatGPT maker is sifting through roughly 50 petabytes of data as it works to understand how far its models roamed.
The review was triggered by the Hugging Face breach in July, when OpenAI agents escaped a testing sandbox and hacked the open-source AI platform’s infrastructure. OpenAI called it the most severe rogue agent incident it has identified.
Most cases uncovered so far have been low severity, with agents accessing public government websites in unexpected ways, but the full review will take months and the final count could keep climbing.
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G7 Nations Agree to Release Diesel Fuel
The G7 nations agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of diesel fuel and crude oil from strategic reserves, beginning immediately and continuing over four months, with a substantial diesel drawdown within 20 days.
The deal followed days of pressure from President Trump, who had threatened to ban U.S. diesel exports.
The agreement came together after an overnight call between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, who chairs the G7 this year.
The G7 statement urged all producers to “refrain from imposing bans” on energy exports, in answer to the White House warning on holding back its diesel inventory.
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CNN Chief to Remain at New Skydance
The combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance, CEO David Ellison announced Friday, naming the new media giant after the production company he founded two decades ago.
Ellison is also setting the new company’s news strategy. He has asked CNN chief Mark Thompson to stay on after the merger. Thompson is seeking guarantees of editorial independence, and the deal’s legal settlement requires an independent editorial board to arbitrate conflicts at CNN and CBS News.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss won’t have a role at CNN, despite earlier speculation she would oversee both newsrooms.
The deal is set to close Oct. 6, with the stock moving to the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD.
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The following stories are featured exclusively on The Flyover Podcast—a daily show that gives you the most important headlines in under 15 minutes, straight from the heart of the country.
➤ Sick season is here, and doctors say relief for that stubborn throat starts with one surprising fix. (Listen Now)
➤ Nobel watchers say the International Space Station is a serious Peace Prize contender this year, alongside far more contentious earthbound names. (Hear Names)
➤ Pope Leo XIV is urging artists to join the church in a fight to protect human creativity from artificial intelligence. (Podcast Available)
  
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➤ President Trump is expected to name Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the White House’s new artificial intelligence czar. (More)
➤ The White House is pressuring Senate Republicans to pass the House-approved bill making daylight saving time permanent, singling out Sen. Tom Cotton as the main roadblock. (More)
➤ A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by two law enforcement officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, ruling they lacked standing to sue over a memorial plaque that omitted their names. (More)
➤ Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that it’s “really obvious” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is already running for president, as both men weigh potential 2028 bids for the GOP nomination. (More)
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➤ All four MLB Division Series start today, including the New York Yankees against the Tampa Bay Rays. The two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Atlanta Braves, who have won five of their six meetings this season. (See Schedule)
➤ CBS Sports announced that it has parted ways with commentator Tony Romo, ending the former Cowboys quarterback’s nine-year run as the network’s lead NFL analyst. (More)
➤ Today’s college football slate includes a matchup between two unbeaten teams in No. 7 Alabama and No. 16 Mississippi State. Navy also visits Air Force as the Midshipmen chase a third straight Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, given to the top military academy team. (How to Watch)
➤ Canadian telecom firm Rogers now fully owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors, and Toronto FC after buying the final 25% stake in the teams’ parent company for 4.35 billion Canadian dollars this week. The firm already owns the Blue Jays. (More)
➤ Yesterday’s Results: NCAAF | NHL | WNBA | Soccer | Golf
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 Daily Market Report 10/02/2026
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NASDAQ
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations |
27,190.86 |
1.19%
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SPX
S&P 500 |
7,722.72 |
0.73%
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DJI
Dow Jones Industrial Average |
51,176.96 |
0.49%
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BTC
Bitcoin |
$84,492.56 |
-0.42%
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GOLD
Per Ounce |
$4,172.10 |
-0.72%
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SILVER
Per Ounce |
$60.72 |
-0.01%
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OIL
West Texas Intermediate Crude |
$91.26 |
-1.73%
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Bitcoin, gold, silver, and oil are traded 24 hours a day.
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➤ Over 400 French schools closed Friday as violent student protests over education funding and budget cuts spread nationwide, deepening France’s fiscal and political crisis. (See Details)
➤ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Omani co-pilot who stabbed the captain of an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight had undergone Islamist radicalization, and investigators are probing possible foreign ties. (More)
➤ Taiwan took delivery of its first two U.S.-made F-16V Block 70 fighter jets Friday, the beginning of a 66-aircraft, $8 billion deal to bolster the island nation’s air defenses against China. (More)
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➤ A Navy reservist who’s been hunting diamonds for 13 years at Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park unearthed a six-carat stone he says could be worth over $1 million. (More)
➤ Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, has blossomed under heavy rainfall into a carpet of wildflowers stretching across thousands of square miles, drawing tourists from around the world. (More)
➤ A Hungarian man earned a Guinness World Record for amassing 2,000 different energy drink cans, a collection that started with a single impulse buy in 2008 that he kept afterwards in his dormitory. (More)
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Credit: Photographer Daniel Antoniol
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 Daily Quote
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“This is a flowering event that is obviously extraordinary and unusual, very different from other blooms that occur elsewhere on the globe.”
— Jorge Carabantes, head of the Protected Areas Department at the National Forest Corporation, on flowers blooming in the driest desert in the world
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