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The White Sox and Yankees Swept Their Way Into the ALDS as the Phillies and Braves Were Forced to a Deciding Game Three A Study of 371,000 Americans Found Whole Fruit, Not Juice, Is Linked to Better Heart Health Creatine Helped Adults in Their 40s, 50s and 60s Build Muscle Even Without a Workout Plan, Texas A&M Study Finds Drew Henry Reset Courreges for Spring 2027 With a Pared-Back Debut at the Palais de Tokyo Physicists in Japan Cracked a 25-Year Puzzle in Measuring One of the Hardest Forms of Quantum Entanglement The UK's FCA Opened Its Crypto Authorisation Gateway, Starting the Clock on a New 2027 Regime

Saturn and its rings photographed by the Cassini spacecraft on 6 October 2004, illustrative of the mission whose archived data was reanalysed and not a new image of Enceladus itself

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Sports

The White Sox and Yankees Swept Their Way Into the ALDS as the Phillies and Braves Were Forced to a Deciding Game Three

Oct 1, 2026

Nutrition

A Study of 371,000 Americans Found Whole Fruit, Not Juice, Is Linked to Better Heart Health

Oct 1, 2026

Health

Creatine Helped Adults in Their 40s, 50s and 60s Build Muscle Even Without a Workout Plan, Texas A&M Study Finds

Oct 1, 2026

Design

Drew Henry Reset Courreges for Spring 2027 With a Pared-Back Debut at the Palais de Tokyo

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The FTC Opened a Sweeping Probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and Other Frontier AI Labs Over Consumer Risk

Chairman Andrew Ferguson's agency will send civil investigative demands compelling testimony from the leading labs, a probe begun weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face and days after the same firms signed a voluntary White House safety pact.

Oct 1, 2026/3 min read

The Federal Trade Commission's Apex Building headquarters in Washington DC, the agency that opened the investigation described in this report, photographed in May 2021

Business

A Surging Treasury Yield Wiped $50 Billion Off Australia's Market on the First Trading Day of Q4

The ASX 200 fell nearly 2 percent to its lowest level since June as the US 10-year yield breached 5.3 percent, a level a T. Rowe Price strategist said triggered systematic selling once breached, dragging every sector and the big four banks lower.

Oct 1, 2026/3 min read

The entrance to the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney, where the ASX 200 fell sharply on the first trading day of the fourth quarter, photographed in June 2009

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An Israeli Strike Killed a Gaza Journalist as the Ceasefire's Death Toll Passed 1,400

Muhammad Abdel Aziz al-Najjar became the 263rd journalist killed since the war began, one of at least eight Palestinians killed in strikes on Gaza City and Khan Younis that Al Jazeera's correspondent said show the ceasefire's violence has not stopped.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip during the Gaza-Israel war, illustrative of the strikes described in this report rather than the specific attack that killed the journalist named

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The Supreme Court Let Third-Country Deportations Resume in a 6-3 Order, With Arguments Due in December

The conservative majority lifted a lower court requirement that migrants get a meaningful chance to raise fear of torture before being sent to a country other than their own, over a dissent warning the policy risks persecution and death.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

The Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, where the justices issued the 6-3 order on third-country deportations, photographed in July 2018

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Swangy Tamarind Glazed Chicken Wings for the Flavour Replacing Swicy on Fast Food Menus

Burger King's new Special Savory Sauce launched 1 September and was already being called swangy, sweet, tangy and a touch spicy, in a roundup two days later. This home version glazes wings in the same tamarind-and-BBQ direction.

Sep 29, 2026/3 min read

An AI-generated illustration of sticky tamarind glazed chicken wings piled on a platter with sliced spring onion

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Ancient Iron Meteorites Show the Solar System Sorted Its Building Blocks by Fire From the Very Start

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Diving

Marine Surveyors Confirmed Living Coral Off Benin, More Than Sixty Years After the Reef Was Presumed Dead

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Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts for a Cider Season That Peaked Earlier Than the Calendar Says

Sep 29, 2026

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David Hartt Turned the Met's Own Versailles Panorama Into a Meditation on Paris's Forgotten Edges

Sep 29, 2026

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Recipes

A Butternut Squash and Apple Soup for Squash Season's Opening Weeks

Sep 29, 2026

Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, where the new flagship lounge is being built, photographed ahead of the announced redevelopment

Travel

Heathrow's Terminal 5 Is Getting a Bigger Flagship Lounge Built Like a British Country House

Sep 29, 2026

A National Football League game in Germany, illustrative of NFL play and not the Commanders-Seahawks game itself, photographed in November 2022

Sports

Backup Quarterback Marcus Mariota Led Washington to a 33-31 Upset That Ended Seattle's 12-Game Winning Streak

Sep 29, 2026

An AI-generated illustration of a bowl of Obatzda Bavarian beer cheese dip topped with paprika and chives, served with pretzels

Recipes

An Obatzda Bavarian Beer Cheese Dip for the Final Stretch of Oktoberfest 2026

Sep 29, 2026

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An AI-generated illustration of honey-roasted pear halves topped with crumbled blue cheese and toasted pine nuts on a plate

Recipes

A Honey-Roasted Pear and Blue Cheese Plate for a Fruit Finally Getting Its Own Moment This Fall

Bosc pear harvest began in Oregon and Washington this month, and a 9 September piece argued pears deserve their own 15 minutes instead of playing apple's understudy. This warm, five-ingredient plate roasts them with honey and Cashel Blue.

Sep 29, 2026