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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 13h

On this day in 1952, the UK tested its first nuclear weapon. Operation Hurricane set off a ~25-kiloton device inside HMS Plym, a frigate anchored off Australia's Montebello Islands. That made Britain the third nation to independently test one.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 16h

The Bronx Zoo debuted Sarka, a snow leopard cub born May 31. After passing her vaccinations and exams, the 4-month-old can now explore the Himalayan Highlands exhibit with mom Dariga. An estimated 5,000–7,000 remain in the wild across Asia.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 18h

Flash flooding in Madrigueras, Spain killed a 102-year-old woman Friday after 5.5 inches of rain fell in about 2.5 hours. Water rose over a meter in her ground-floor home. Rescuers saved about 90 people from flooded homes and vehicles.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Magma pushed a new path beneath Kīlauea's summit while lava kept erupting above it. Starting around 2 p.m. Hawaiʻi time, 98 shallow earthquakes were located under Halemaʻumaʻu crater within a day, the largest a magnitude 3.4.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

G7 agrees to release 100M barrels of oil & diesel over 4 months after U.S. pressure on Europe, with a big diesel release in the first 20 days. U.S. diesel: $6.37/gal, up 70% since late Feb. Washington drops its diesel export ban threat.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

France closed about 400 high schools Friday, roughly 1 in 10, as student protests over education turned violent. About 600 people were arrested Friday alone, for ~2,000 since the movement began. Most are children or teenagers.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today marks 157 years since the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, whose nonviolent resistance movement helped end British rule in India. He went on to lead India's independence movement through satyagraha, a strategy of organized, nonviolent civil resistance.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump called climate change "a scam" Thursday in Denton, Texas, and claimed melting ice "just set a record," calling it "the biggest ice cube that's ever been in the history of the world."

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

30-year mortgage rates are above 7%, the highest in about 20 months 🏠📈 Sales are the slowest in 14 months, and sellers are throwing in $10K–$20K just to close deals.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is creating an "Office of Religious Affairs" at the Pentagon, under his own direction. He announced the new office Wednesday in remarks to troops and officials at Quantico, Virginia.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

👑 Bear 89, "Backpack," is the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion, beating Bear 910 by 5,091 votes. Officials called it the tightest race they'd ever seen.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tennessee's lethal injection of Christa Pike failed Wednesday night. Two doses of pentobarbital left her alive, and the state's protocol doesn't say what comes next. Gov. Lee has suspended Tennessee's remaining execution this year and ordered a comprehensive third-party review.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The White House pulled CNN from Trump's press pool for Thursday's Texas/Oklahoma trip. The removals come after Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to restore credentials for CNN, MS NOW and Politico. The outlets are now asking Kelly to extend his order by 14 days.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Mexico is under a state of emergency after Hurricane Polo's remnants triggered flash flooding. Evacuations ordered in Hatch, Rincon, Salem & Garfield amid McLeod Dam concerns; up to $3.75M released for response.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is cutting 20% of U.S. general and admiral positions, roughly 160 of about 800, by Jan. 1, 2027. It doubles last year's minimum 10% target and follows his earlier order to cut four-star officers by 20%.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Supreme Court is letting the Trump admin keep deporting people to countries they have no ties to while it decides if the policy is legal ⚖️✈️ The vote was an apparent 6-3, and arguments are set for December. Full story: link in bio 🔗

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In 1988, Stacy Allison became the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Allison made it to the top of the world's highest mountain that year, a feat no woman from the United States had achieved before her.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Starship hit orbit for the first time and dropped off 26 Starlink satellites 🚀

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A whole mountainside collapsed into the Kali Gandaki River in Mustang, Nepal 😳⛰️ Monsoon floods have killed at least 24 people, 14 are missing, and more flash floods are expected.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On Sept. 28, Alexander Fleming spotted mold killing Staph bacteria in a petri dish left out at St. Mary's Hospital in London. It was penicillin, the first broadly effective antibiotic.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fat Bear Week is back! 16 brown bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are competing to be crowned the fattest of them all. Fat Bear Week has drawn more than 1.7 million votes from over 100 countries. Voting runs through Sept. 29 at explore.org.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bangkok got almost a full September's rain in two or three days. Some streets are now under waist-deep water. About 320 mm (12.6 inches) of rain fell on the Thai capital last week. That overwhelmed the city's drainage and flooded whole neighborhoods.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An NIH study found kids on screens 2+ hrs/day scored lower on language and reasoning tests and showed thinning of the cortex. It comes as the OECD reports falling student scores worldwide and countries from France to China restrict phones in schools.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NASA's new image of Earth shows its gravity, not its surface. It's built from 1B+ observations by 19 satellites, with the bumps exaggerated 10,000x. Gravity pulls slightly harder over Iceland and weaker over India & Antarctica, due to uneven mass deep in the mantle.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Putin says Russia has no plans or grounds for military action against Europe and calls EU warnings a "provocation." He also said all Ukraine peace proposals remain on the table, but Moscow must weigh its own interests first.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A New Mexico jury found Meta misled Facebook users about privacy after Cambridge Analytica. Jurors ruled 31 of 34 statements deceptive, amounting to 2M+ violations. A judge will set the penalty, and the state is asking for $5,000 per violation. Meta plans to keep fighting.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

960 years ago today, King Harold II wiped out Harald Hardrada's invading army at Stamford Bridge ⚔️ Hardrada and Harold's renegade brother Tostig were both killed. Then William of Normandy landed in the south, and Harold fell at Hastings on Oct 14, 1066 😬

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Heavy rain sent a surge of mud and debris rushing down a dry creek bed in Millard County, Utah, across a fresh wildfire burn scar. Millard County Sheriff's Office footage shows thick, dark mud and vegetation moving fast through the channel.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Grand Canyon plans to start pumping water Nov. 16 and restore South Rim supply by Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) after an Aug. 29 flash flood wrecked its pipeline and killed 3 hikers. Stage 4 water restrictions remain; officials say dates are tentative.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump-appointed judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House Thursday to restore press access for CNN, Politico & MS NOW, calling the ban likely unconstitutional. The 14-day order rejects the administration's national security rationale.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Xi Jinping is in Washington for his first U.S. state visit since 2015, with a tariff truce set to expire in November. The three-day visit includes private talks between the two leaders on Thursday and a state dinner with tech leaders.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At least five dead, six missing, 22 injured after landslides near Tokyo 🌀 Nearly 45,000 households lost power and 275 flights have been canceled.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

27 years ago today, the Mars Climate Orbiter burned up at Mars 🔥 Lockheed's software used pound-seconds and NASA's expected newton-seconds, so it flew ~57 km too low 🚀

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The administration will remove ~750K people from Obamacare plans as fraudulently enrolled and recheck ~419K more. Last month, CMS canceled 315K policies covering ~760K people over unverified documentation.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Taylor Swift will receive MTV's first-ever Artist Director Honors at the 2026 VMAs on Sept. 27. It brings her to 31 VMAs, passing Beyoncé (30) for the most in the show's history.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump has launched his own 24/7 TV station, "Trump TV: The Essentials Station," streaming on the White House's YouTube channel. The White House describes it as a single place for the administration's biggest moments: top videos, major remarks, streaming around the clock.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump told the UN he expects an Iran deal "after the midterms," but warned he could "annihilate" the regime if one isn't reached.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

COVID hospitalizations just hit their highest level since March, but roughly half of U.S. kids still can't get the updated vaccine. FDA approved the shots 3 weeks ago but the HHS hasn't released them through the free Vaccines for Children program.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

23 years ago, NASA sent Galileo into Jupiter to burn up 🪐🔥 It was almost out of fuel, and they didn't want it hitting Europa, a moon that might have an ocean and maybe life.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A Ukrainian drone attack knocked one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries completely offline. Drones hit Gazprom Neft’s Moscow Oil Refinery in the Kapotnya district, sparking fires at its two main crude-processing units.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The White House TV press pool has stopped covering President Trump in protest of his ban on CNN, MS Now and Politico. In a joint statement, the pool members said "no administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting."

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Senegal is about to host the first Olympic Games ever held on the African continent. The IV Summer Youth Olympic Games will run October 31 – November 13, 2026, across three host zones: Dakar, Diamniadio, and Saly.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is your reminder to register for the midterms. Vote.gov lets you register, check your registration status, or find your state's deadline in a couple of minutes — no matter where you live. Head to vote.gov now!

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On September 19, 1957, the U.S. detonated its first fully contained underground nuclear test. The test code-named Rainier, went off at the Nevada Test Site, about 65 miles north of Las Vegas, as part of the larger Operation Plumbbob series.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Scientists have identified a new wild cat species, the first new living feline described in over a century. The animal called the tilcayo cat, lives in Bolivia's Yungas cloud forest. At about 3 pounds and roughly 18 inches long, it's smaller than an average house cat.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Two entertainment caucuses launched in Congress on Wednesday: the MoMEntS Caucus (Kamlager-Dove, Salazar, Carter) covering music, sports, gaming and streaming, and a separate bipartisan Congressional American Film & TV Production Caucus.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thirteen days after launch, Voyager 1 pointed its cameras backward and took a picture no one had taken before. On September 18, 1977, from 7.25 million miles away (11.66 million km), the probe captured Earth and the Moon together in a single frame for the first time.

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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The White House has withdrawn Lance Schroyer's nomination to lead ICE, leaving the agency without a Senate-confirmed director. The administration gave no reason, offered no comment, and set no timeline for naming a replacement.

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