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A severed fiber cable grounds hundreds of Northeast flights, the US inks an Arctic security pact, and Sydney’s cockatoos master the drinking fountain.
Politics & World
A construction crew in New Jersey accidentally severed a Verizon fiber-optic line serving air traffic control Monday, prompting an FAA ground stop and hundreds of canceled flights across the Northeast.
Politics & World
President Trump joins leaders from Denmark and Greenland at the UN General Assembly Tuesday to sign…
Sources: Reuters, Fox News, Stars and Stripes +1
Science & Tech
British Columbia filed suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman in California court, the first government…
Sources: BBC World, The Guardian, Engadget
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
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 GuoSubscription
How a Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9 billion through the global banking system.
Financial TimesSubscription
How more than a decade of research finally settled whether Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings’ children.
Smithsonian Magazine
The autumnal equinox arrives, officially ushering in fall — marked worldwide with celebrations from Japan’s Higan to the neo-Pagan Mabon.
The MTV Video Music Awards air, where Taylor Swift will receive the network’s inaugural Artist Director Honors.
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