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Thursday, October 1, 2026
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Good Morning! On this day in 1961, in their final game of the regular season, Yankees slugger Roger Maris hit his 61st home run, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball to hit over 60 in a season, surpassing Babe Ruth’s record of 60 set in 1927. See the historic homer here.
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 Co-Pilot Tried to Crash Israel Flight
The co-pilot of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane Wednesday morning, Israeli officials said, until passengers broke into the cockpit and subdued him. More than 170 Israelis were aboard.
Flight-tracking data showed the jet dropped over 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds. The wounded captain, lying on the floor and covered in blood, reached up and released the cockpit door lock, a spokesman for the prime minister told the media.
A second set of pilots on board, due to relieve the first pair, landed the jet at Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, where both pilots were hospitalized. Passengers reached Israel on a replacement aircraft after eight hours on the ground.
Saudi authorities are holding the co-pilot, and Israel ordered identity checks on every pilot flying into the country. One passenger who helped stop the attack was still in his bloodstained shirt when he met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The airline warned against “premature speculation” about a motive.
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Trump, AI CEOs Sign Safety Accord
President Trump and the heads of the country’s largest artificial intelligence companies signed a one-page safety accord at the White House on Tuesday. He called it “morally binding” and “almost like a constitution,” and said the industry is policing itself.
The companies agreed to four layers of controls and audits, including internal evaluations, an outside auditor, and review by each company’s board. The text says it may make sense to codify the steps into law later.
It follows months of safety failures, including models that gained unauthorized access to other companies’ systems. Trump also signed an order telling the federal government to say “Super Intelligence” instead of AI, and said he will name a czar for AI within days.
The accord carries no enforcement mechanism. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who has pushed to slow development, called the agreement only “a start.”
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Last US Troops Leave Iraq after 12 Years
U.S. Central Command said Wednesday it had completed an “orderly withdrawal” of American troops from Iraq, ending a mission that began in 2014 against ISIS. About 2,500 troops had been stationed there for years.
It’s the second time the U.S. has pulled every soldier out. The first came in 2011, eight years after the 2003 invasion. Forces returned when ISIS seized much of Syria and northern Iraq and pushed toward Baghdad.
Roughly 4,500 American service members died across the two decades, most of them between 2003 and 2011. The withdrawal was negotiated in 2024 and kept on schedule by the current administration, with Sept. 30 as the deadline.
The remaining anti-ISIS mission moves to Jordan. Iraq’s prime minister marked the departure with a ceremony, and his government has pushed its deadline to disarm Iranian-backed militias to June 2027.
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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.
➤ Two retirement destination rankings crown completely different winners, and one snubs Florida entirely. (See Top 10)
➤ Surgeons at an Ohio hospital are accused of amputating the wrong leg of a 74-year-old Army veteran. (Hear Details)
➤ Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in more than 200 years was halted about an hour before it began. (Listen Now)
  
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➤ Sen. Eric Schmitt tried to catch former special counsel Jack Smith in a lie about attending an Atlanta Hawks game, then learned Smith had been at an Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland. Democrats called for an apology. (See Details)
➤ The White House began mailing $500 refund checks to roughly 950,000 Obamacare enrollees in 30 states that the administration said were overcharged under Biden-era marketplace fees. (More)
➤ The Treasury Department will automatically create Trump Accounts for up to 60 million eligible children starting Oct. 1, eliminating the need for parents to sign up on their behalf. (More)
➤ Republican Sen. Josh Hawley introduced legislation requiring AI-powered surveillance cameras like Flock to delete driver data within 10 days and banning their use of facial recognition technology. (More)
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➤ A former Auburn football staffer was arrested this week on felony charges of leaking the team’s recruiting evaluations to rival schools. The leaked email reportedly included head coach Alex Golesh’s home address. (More)
➤ The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 4-3 yesterday on Alec Bohm’s two-out home run in the 10th inning. The win forces a win-or-go-home Game 3 of their Wild Card Series today. (See Schedule)
➤ The NBA is expected to choose an owner for its Las Vegas expansion team soon, with the franchise and a new arena costing at least $12 billion. Play could begin as soon as the 2028-29 season. (More)
➤ U.S. men’s national team captain Tim Ream retired from international soccer this week after 16 years. “You make it to a home World Cup, you get to captain the team,” the 38-year-old defender said. “What else is there?” (More)
➤ FanDuel’s parent company, Flutter Entertainment, saw its stock hit an all-time low this week after Brazil banned online betting. The company has lost roughly three-quarters of its value since peaking in August 2025. (More)
➤ Yesterday’s Results: MLB | NHL | WNBA | Soccer
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 Daily Market Report 09/30/2026
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NASDAQ
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations |
26,861.06 |
0.24%
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SPX
S&P 500 |
7,651.54 |
-0.25%
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DJI
Dow Jones Industrial Average |
50,906.05 |
-0.86%
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BTC
Bitcoin |
$83,597.33 |
-0.03%
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GOLD
Per Ounce |
$4,189.10 |
0.22%
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SILVER
Per Ounce |
$60.72 |
0.09%
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OIL
West Texas Intermediate Crude |
$90.54 |
1.30%
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LQDA
Liquidia Corp. |
$30.18 |
-57.30%
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Bitcoin, gold, silver, and oil are traded 24 hours a day.
➤ Big Stock Move: Liquidia Corp. shares plummeted 57% after a court ruled against it in its ongoing patent dispute with United Therapeutics over its Yutrepia drug targeted at lung disease. (More)
➤ The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge showed core prices rising 3% annually in August, well below the 3.3% economists expected, after revised measurement methods lowered readings across several categories. (More)
➤ Also beating expectations: The U.S. economy grew at a 2.2% annualized rate in the second quarter, topping the 1.5% pace economists had forecast. (More)
➤ DoorDash expanded into clothing delivery, adding Macy’s, Anthropologie, The North Face, Vans, and Timberland to its retail marketplace with delivery in as little as an hour. (More)
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➤ Four astronauts are scheduled to lift off from Florida late this morning for the International Space Station, and their capsule is set to dock about nine hours later. (See Crew)
➤ Earth’s day is not exactly 24 hours, and a new study blames the inner core. Its shifting spin tugs on the mantle above it, moving the clock by milliseconds over decades. (See Study)
➤ A four-winged dinosaur pulled from northeastern China carried feathers on both its arms and its legs, adding evidence that flight capability evolved more than once. (See Fossil)
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Throwback Thursday is brought to you by:
➤ A film student in Japan bought a batch of dusty reels at an antique shop and found something the movie world had given up on a century ago. (See Find)
➤ Every time you pair your headphones via Bluetooth, you are referencing a 10th-century Viking king with a bad tooth. Two runestones in Denmark explain how he got the job. (See Runestones)
➤ This list of strange history facts includes a 1932 contest in England where women’s figures were judged while they wore hoods over their heads—and that’s one of the milder entries. (See List)
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➤ A bear named Backpack won Alaska’s Fat Bear Week with more than 100,000 votes cast, and his fans credit a pacifist streak instead of brawling. (Meet Backpack)
➤ Twelve Impressionist paintings kept out of public view for half a century by an Argentine family are heading to auction, including a van Gogh landscape estimated at $180 million. (See Collection)
➤ Speaking of auctions, a pair of Elvis Presley’s sunglasses could fetch more than $26,000 at a London auction this week, after spending 25 years in a friend’s private collection. (See Shades)
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 Daily Quote
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“I jumped back in there, grabbed the controls, started pulling the controls.”
— Yaniv Hayoun, an Israeli passenger who helped subdue the co-pilot and then pulled the plummeting plane out of its dive
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 Today’s Trivia
Which U.S. state dropped three words from its official name in 2020?
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