Friday, October 2, 2026

• 27 — the Fear & Greed Index — Fear

1. 1

   ‘I couldn’t let everybody else die,’ says hero Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar — CNN

2. 2

   Hochul to address Cornell University case after appointing Leticia James to investigate alleged gang-rape — The Guardian

3. 3

   Failed ‘torturous’ execution attempt on Christa Pike reignites death penalty debate — NPR

4. 4

   France school protests: Hundreds of schools closed and 40 headteachers hurt — BBC

5. 5

   Pentagon prepares for potential surge of naval forces in Middle East — The Washington Post

6. 6

   Trump launches midterms campaign blitz amid record low approval ratings — Al Jazeera

7. 7

   Trump is bringing big projects to red states. Republicans fear they’re too late. — Politico

8. 8

   FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen — AP News

9. 9

   Vance talks 2028, Ted Cruz and a tough midterm climate that could factor into his future — NBC News

10. 10

    DOJ charges Boston man with threatening conservative podcaster Katie Miller — The Washington Post

• This week: Senate takes final votes before elections — Roll Call
• House passes bill to fully fund DHS through May 22; top Democrat says 'dead on arrival' in Senate — ABC News
• Senate adjourns until November with Republicans fearful of losing majority — The Hill
• Senate Democrats Quash Republican-Backed Election Year Messaging Bills — The Well News
• Protect College Sports Act scheduled for historic final vote in U.S. Senate on Monday — The New York Times
• 2026-10-02 — Challenger Job Cuts
• 2026-10-02 — Challenger Job Cuts
• 2026-10-02 — Continuing Jobless Claims
• 2026-10-02 — Initial Jobless Claims
• 2026-10-02 — Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg.

r/MadeMeSmile

Sometimes memories hides in the most ordinary places...and then, years later, ambushes you while you’re changing a light bulb.

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T1 vs. JDG — VALORANT Champions Shanghai — Group Stage

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A Scottish Highland cow, just 2 hours old

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Bloomberg Business News Live

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of a Sand Dune

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LIVE: NBC News NOW - Oct. 2

• Sometimes memories hides in the most ordinary places...and then, years later, ambushes you while you’re changing a light bulb. — r/MadeMeSmile
• Make it make sense — r/humor
• Dude got the vintage special — r/Unexpected
• A Scottish Highland cow, just 2 hours old — r/interesting
• of a Sand Dune — r/AbsoluteUnits
• T1 vs. JDG — VALORANT Champions Shanghai — Group Stage — 43,204 views
• Bloomberg Business News Live — 8,711 views
• LIVE: NBC News NOW - Oct. 2 — 3,207 views
• LIVE: Christa Pike Survives 2 Lethal Injections: Tennessee Execution Halted | N18G — 1,291 views
• ESPN FIRST TAKE LIVE 4K 10/02/2026 | GET UP LIVE | Stephen A. Smith & Cam Newton Debate NFL Week 4 — 2,495 views
• Ms Rachel builds sprawling media empire while shelling out thousands to progressive candidates — 200+ searches
• Nicole Brown Simpson’s Sister Denise Says ‘I Couldn’t Save Her’ 32 Years After Domestic Violence and Murder — 500+ searches
• Kei Nishikori ends career with Japan Open loss to Frances Tiafoe — 200+ searches
• India's Asian Games 2026 schedule today, October 2: Gold and LA 2028 quotas on offer in hockey, archery — 500+ searches
• The top quotes from Beijing media day: 'Y'all are going to be like 'What?' — 2000+ searches

• Ken Urker, the Father of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s Daughter, Dies at 34 — The Hollywood Reporter
• ‘Friday Night Lights’ Oral History: ‘I Remember Watching and Bawling’ — The New York Times
• ‘Big Brother’ Season 28 Crowns Winner On CBS & America’s Favorite Houseguest Revealed — Deadline
• Ben Affleck Explains His Approach to Using AI Ethically on New Movie — The Hollywood Reporter
• Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy to Depart at Warner Bros. Following Paramount Close — variety.com

• S&P 500 fut 7,757.00 +0.43%
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• VIX 16.05 -2.07%
• 10-yr yield 5.24% -1.06%
• Dollar (DXY) 102.02 -0.08%

• 05:30 · United States — Challenger Job Cuts → -19.9%
• 05:30 · United States — Challenger Job Cuts → 43.281K
• 08:30 · United States — Continuing Jobless Claims → 1,701K vs 1,730K exp
• 08:30 · United States — Initial Jobless Claims → 197K vs 201K exp
• 08:30 · United States — Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg. → 200.00K
• 09:05 · United States — Fed Collins Speaks →  

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• Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform — 533 points

• Rajasthan Police warns public against India Post address-update scam — socialnews.xyz
• Account Takeover Is the Costliest Fraud Type, With 6 Million Victims in 2025 — All About Cookies
• Persona Expands Identity Theft Protection Tools as New Data Reveals Identity Fraud Is Becoming More Adaptive and Sophisticated — Yahoo Finance

• News: How AI Is Changing Scientific Discovery: From Hypothesis to Breakthrough — A3 Association for Advancing Automation
• HIV prevention drug hailed as breakthrough, but who gets access? — Al Jazeera
• Video Shorts - Spectroscopy Online — Spectroscopy Online
• Basic to Breakthrough: Pushing the Boundaries of Moore’s Law with Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography — Department of Energy (.gov)

• 30-year fixed 7.28% (as of 2026-10-01)
• Killeen housing market shifts in favor of buyers — KWTX
• Trump was a builder. Now his policies are hammering housing | Opinion — South Bend Tribune
• Will the affordability crisis trigger a housing market crash? — Yahoo Finance

• Giant dogs face ‘substantial’ lifespan and welfare costs, new research says — Vet Times
• This is when domesticated dogs possibly arrived in the West, new research says — ABC News
• How a 1940s US experiment tried, and failed, to create a 'super dog' — BBC

• People who walk more or walk faster live longer, study finds — Harvard Health
• Nutrition study highlights performance benefit of sodium bicarbonate and carbohydrate co-ingestion — worldathletics.org
• Low-calorie diet and exercise put early-onset type 2 diabetes in remission for 54% of participants — Medical Xpress

• There are so many games coming out in October you guys — PC Gamer
• Feature: 30 Xbox Series X|S Games To Look Forward To In August-December 2026 — Pure Xbox
• Wolverine Voice Actor Liam McIntyre Details "Stressful" Reviews for Marvel Game Release (Exclusive) — SYFY

• What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

• 2025 — 2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur.
• 2019 — A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connect…
• 2018 — The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2016 — Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.

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• Egyptians claimed to invent the guitar, but they were such lyres.

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