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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman meeting Israel's president Isaac Herzog in June 2023, a file photograph illustrative of Altman and not of the events in this report

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An OpenAI Safety Lead Quit and Told The Atlantic the Company's Culture Is Broken

Oct 5, 2026/3 min read

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Hegseth Calls the Hormuz Blockade 'Ironclad' While Iran Says There Is No Military Solution

Oct 5, 2026

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The UAE Calls the Flydubai Cockpit Attack a Terrorist Act as Israel Reviews Foreign Crew Checks

Oct 4, 2026

Business

OPEC+ Seven Hold November Oil Output Steady as the Closed Strait of Hormuz Keeps Brent Above $100

Oct 4, 2026

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A Technician at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute Has Died, and Authorities Give Conflicting Accounts of Why

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Bulgaria Brought Tsar Samuel Home After a Thousand Years, Sending 48 Relics Back to Greece in Exchange

Greece handed over the remains of the 11th-century ruler on Saturday, and Sofia received them with a state ceremony, fighter jet escort and a 21-gun salute, in a swap for objects taken during the First World War.

Oct 3, 2026/2 min read

The Church of St Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the tsar's remains were taken, photographed in November 2018 and not during the ceremony

Technology

Apple Says It Will Tighten Mac 'Full Disk Access' Because AI Agents Make the Risk Grow Substantially

In a developer post on Friday, Apple said some apps use Full Disk Access in ways that put users at risk, and promised new controls so the permission can only be granted by very explicit user action.

Oct 3, 2026/2 min read

A MacBook Pro 16 laptop on display, photographed in November 2021, a file photo of a Mac and not an image of the permission screen Apple described

Travel

Hawaii's 90-Foot Hōlei Sea Arch, About 550 Years Old, Collapsed Into the Pacific During Storm Nolo

The National Park Service says one of the Big Island's best-known landmarks was standing on 23 September and gone by the night of 27 September. Rangers are warning people to stay back from the unstable cliffs.

Oct 3, 2026/2 min read

The Holei Sea Arch on the Kalapana coast, Hawaii, photographed while it was still standing, long before the collapse in September 2026

Sports

Northwestern Opened Its $875 Million Ryan Field by Running Through Penn State, 34-13, on 413 Rushing Yards

The Wildcats christened their rebuilt stadium on Friday night with a season-high 506 yards, and Matt Campbell's Penn State fell to 0-2 in the Big Ten after a second straight loss.

Oct 3, 2026/2 min read

An aerial view of Northwestern University's Ryan Field in Evanston, photographed in February 2011 before the stadium was rebuilt, so it shows the old ground and not the new one

Business

G7 Leaders Agreed to Release 100 Million Barrels From Reserves, With Diesel Front-Loaded Into the First 20 Days

The G7 pledged to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months and not to ban fuel exports, as diesel hits record prices during the Iran war.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

White oil storage tanks at a refinery in Wyoming, a file photograph taken in July 2025 that illustrates fuel storage and is not one of the reserve sites involved in the G7 release

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A lycee building in Paris, photographed in August 2023, illustrative of a French secondary school and not one of the schools closed or damaged in the protests

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About 400 French Lycées Were Shut on Friday as a Student Protest Over Class Sizes and Absent Teachers Turned Violent

Oct 2, 2026

Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, a cultural venue in the town that hosts the festival, photographed in March 2012 and not an image from this year's opening night

Lifestyle

The Hamptons Film Festival Opens Tonight With Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, Starting an 11-Day Run

Oct 2, 2026

Germinated organic alfalfa seeds growing as sprouts, a file photograph taken in March 2010 that illustrates the food involved and is not a sample from the recalled lot

Health

Alfalfa Sprout Outbreak Has Now Sickened 76 People in 16 States, With 21 New Cases Since August

Oct 2, 2026

Official portrait of Guy Parmelin, photographed in December 2019

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Swiss President Guy Parmelin Will Leave the Federal Council at the End of 2026, Saying the Passion Has Faded

Oct 2, 2026

A blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, the species studied off Palm Beach County, photographed in the Bahamas in March 2007 and not one of the sharks tested by Florida Atlantic University

Diving

Blacktip Sharks Can Hear a Sound From Nearly 250 Feet Away and Swim Straight Toward or Away From It

Oct 1, 2026

An olive ridley sea turtle, the species that nested near Seal Beach, photographed in March 2023 and not one of the animals involved in the California nesting event

Diving

A Sea Turtle Species Never Recorded Nesting in the United States Laid Eggs on a Southern California Beach

Oct 1, 2026

Traditional Korean earthenware storage jars, known as jangdok, photographed in Gangjin, South Korea in May 2015, illustrative of Korean ceramic craft and not an object from the exhibition itself

Lifestyle

The British Museum's New Korea Show Traces 2,000 Years of Art the Institution Had Never Given Its Own Exhibition Before

Oct 1, 2026

The coastline at Wailua on Kauai, illustrative of the island where the new resort has opened and not the resort's own grounds, photographed in December 2011

Travel

Hilton's First Hawaii Curio Collection Hotel Opens on Kauai This Week With Views of the Ocean Course

Oct 1, 2026

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Soldier Field in Chicago, home of the Bears, photographed in August 2014 and not on the night of this game

Sports

Case Keenum Threw Two Touchdowns as the Bears Stunned the Eagles 27-7 With Caleb Williams Sidelined

Chicago's backup quarterback went 24 of 34 for 247 yards and ran for a score as the Bears dominated Philadelphia on Monday night, outgaining the Eagles 375 yards to 248 while starter Caleb Williams sat out with a hamstring injury.

Oct 1, 2026