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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. 

➤ Halloween came with curfews and extra cops as towns braced for a repeat of last year’s teenage mayhem. (Hear More)

➤ Scientists uncovered secrets of Mars’ ancient, watery past inside a rose-colored meteorite found in the Sahara Desert. (Listen Now)

➤  Art experts revealed how beginners could start collecting valuable artwork without spending a fortune. (Podcast Available)

➤ Defending national champion No. 4 Indiana survived a scare from Minnesota, winning 23-16 in overtime after the teams traded 60-yard field goals in the closing seconds of regulation. (Watch Highlights)

➤ USC upset No. 2 Ohio State 30-18 at home as Jayden Maiava threw for 222 yards and a touchdown in the rain. Playing without quarterback Julian Sayin, the Buckeyes committed a season-high 11 penalties. (More)

➤ The Golden State Valkyries captured their first WNBA championship in just their second season Saturday, defeating the Atlanta Dream 68-63 in Game 7 behind Gabby Williams’ 30-point performance. (More)

➤ No. 1 Miami survived a scare from Bill Belichick’s North Carolina Tar Heels, pulling ahead on two fourth-quarter touchdowns to win 38-35. UNC’s Billy Edwards Jr. threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns in a losing effort. (More)

➤ Two Illinois high schools combined for a state playoff record 172 points Friday in Quincy’s 88-84 win over Chicago’s Goode STEM Academy. Goode’s field has no lights, so the game was halted late in the fourth quarter and finished at another school. (See Details)

➤ Yesterday’s Results: NCAAF | WNBA | NHL | NBA | Soccer | Golf

Weekly Market Report  Previous Week

➤ The Nasdaq fell 2.86% to 25,437.00 on Friday, its worst single-day performance since June. The Dow lost 572.25 points to end at 51,770.31, and the S&P 500 slid 140.32 points to 7,580.07. (More)

➤ More than 2 million shares of SpaceX will be distributed to eligible children through “Trump ​Accounts” in December, focusing on children living in ZIP codes with a median family income of $57,000. (More)

➤ Google is in talks with the Department of War to work on a new data security effort for the $185-billion Golden Dome missile defense program. (More)

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➤ Scammers stole $20 billion from Americans last year, and the 10 most common tricks are convincing enough to fool people who were sure they’d never fall for one, including one that can drain an entire retirement account. (See Scams)

➤ Classic American drive-ins are stirring nostalgia for the days of carhops, root beer, and burgers served curbside, with five once-popular chains recalling the golden age of roadside dining. (See Details)

➤ Property taxes generate the largest share of combined state and local tax revenue in 25 states, including Florida, Texas, and New York, while sales taxes lead in 16 states, according to a new analysis. (See Details)

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➤ A gunman killed one person and wounded six others Friday night inside a Spirit Halloween store at a Fairfield, California, mall, leaving at least three victims critically injured. (See Details)

➤ Pope Leo XIV welcomed Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams to the Vatican on Saturday, joking about his Villanova loyalties before their historic college basketball doubleheader Sunday in Rome. (See Details)

➤ Russian authorities closed Moscow’s popular Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve on Saturday after the U.S. Embassy warned of a credible threat of an imminent mass-casualty attack at the tourist attraction. (See Details)

➤ About 70,000 protesters filled the streets of Paris on Saturday over living costs and education, with violence erupting as demonstrators hurled projectiles, including a Molotov cocktail, and police fired tear gas. (See Details)

➤ Michael Douglas shared a rare update on longtime friend Jack Nicholson, 89, saying the Hollywood legend is doing well and enjoying retirement away from the spotlight. (See Details)

➤ A striking aerial photograph of a ship being dismantled won the top prize at the 2026 Siena Drone Photo Awards, which also featured spectacular images of wildlife and landscapes worldwide. (See Photos)

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Whatever happened to Jiffy Pop?

For about two decades, the surest sign that something good was about to happen in an American kitchen was the sound of popping coming from a foil-covered pan being shaken on a burner. Jiffy Pop was a snack, a science experiment, and a babysitter all at once, until the microwave quietly put it out of work.

It started in LaPorte, Indiana, where chemist Frederick Mennen took an earlier foil-pan product called E-Z Pop, gave it a sturdier handle and a better dome, and began marketing it as Jiffy Pop in 1959. By 1961, one California plant was turning out 15,000 pans a day. You can see one of the early TV ads here.

The jingle promised it was “as much fun to make as it is to eat,” which was true, and also a dare. You held the wire handle, moved the pan in slow circles, watched the foil swell into a silver balloon the size of a basketball, and listened for the moment the popping slowed. Somebody always scorched it. Somebody always ate it anyway.

The end came from just a few feet away on the countertop. Orville Redenbacher rolled out shelf-stable microwave popcorn in 1983, and the category exploded from $53 million in sales that year to $250 million by 1987. Three minutes and no shaking beat five minutes and a hot handle.

Jiffy Pop never actually died, though. Conagra still owns it, still makes it in one flavor, butter, and still sells it for about $2.50 a pan, usually on the bottom shelf near the microwave bags. Campers swear by it. So do fans of the 1996 opening scene in Scream, where a pan burning on the stove became one of horror’s great nervous-stomach props.

It lost the convenience war decades ago. It is still, pop for pop, one of the best shows in the kitchen.

Did you pop Jiffy Pop back in the day? Let us know your thoughts by replying to this email.

American Tourister’s legendary 1970s commercial put its luggage through the ultimate torture test, unleashing a rampaging ape that pounded, stomped, and hurled a suitcase around its cage without destroying it.

Did you ever make Jiffy Pop?

1. Yes, all the time 
2. Yes, occasionally
3. No, but I remember it
4. What’s Jiffy Pop?

Yesterday’s Results:

Daylight Saving Time: What’s your preference?

1. Standard time, year-round: 36%
2. Daylight Saving, year-round: 29%
3. Don’t care, just pick one: 23%
4. Keep switching, it’s fine: 10%
5. Other: 2%

Today’s Trivia

How did November get its name?

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