The Tuesday, September 22, 2026 Edition
Northeast Flight Halt, Dart Knee Injury, and a Diving Gannet
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The number of northern states -- Ohio, Virginia, and Illinois -- where armadillos have recently turned up, well beyond the Southern range they have historically occupied. Scientists point to milder winters as a key driver of the armored animals' steady expansion north.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Today: The autumnal equinox arrives, officially ushering in fall -- marked worldwide with celebrations from Japan's Higan to the neo-Pagan Mabon.
Sunday: The MTV Video Music Awards air, where Taylor Swift will receive the network's inaugural Artist Director Honors.
- 1862President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
- 1975Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford in San Francisco
- 1980Iraq invades Iran, igniting the eight-year Iran-Iraq War
- 1994'Friends' premieres on NBC, launching a decade-long television phenomenon
The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can't it catch people before they die?
Why billions of dollars in US border surveillance towers still fail to find migrants before they die in the desert.
MIT Technology Review · James O'Donnell and Eileen Guo$ Subscription
Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
How a Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9 billion through the global banking system.
Financial Times$ Subscription
Did Thomas Jefferson Father Sally Hemings' Children? After More Than a Decade of Research, the Answer Is Finally Firmly in Hand
How more than a decade of research finally settled whether Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings' children.
Smithsonian Magazine
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