56 Years Ago Today: The No. 4 Greatest Rock Band of All Time' Released Their First No. 1 Album
It spent five weeks in the top 10 on the UK Albums Chart.
Oct 2, 2026 7:00 AM EDT
On this day, 56 years ago, one of the greatest music acts of all time released their first No. 1 album.
As far as album releases went, 1970 was a golden year for rock and roll music. That year saw two iconic groups release their final albums: The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel released Let It Be and Bridge Over Troubled Water, respectively.
President Trump said in an interview published Thursday that he has not ruled out invoking the Insurrection Act or declaring a national emergency around the midterm elections in November.
"I'm not committing to anything," Trump said in an interview with Time when asked about the limits of his presidential power. "We're going to see how it plays out in court."
The outlet reported that White House advisers have already thought about how to respond if Democrats reclaim either or both the House and the Senate. One official said the administration will "be forced to think more bipartisan."
President Donald Trump consulted Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok before deposing Venezuela's president, according to a report. Days into 2026, the U.S. Military captured then-Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro in an operation carried out in the South American petrostate's capital, Caracas. Trump held a meeting with Musk the month before Maduro was captured and "spent hours" asking Grok about his presidency and his legacy, an official in attendance told TIME.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday called on Americans to vote against President Trump ahead of the midterm elections to change U.S. policy toward Tehran and accept the offer of a "peaceful coexistence." IRGC spokesperson Gen. Hossein Mohebbi made the request in a 25-page letter, marking seven months since Iran's conflict with the U.S. and Israel began in late February.
The U.S. military announced Wednesday that it completed the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission to fight the Islamic State group and prompting President Donald Trump to hail the conclusion of "a very expensive excursion into Hell." The last U.S. troops left an air base in northern Iraq under a deal between Baghdad and Washington.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the "Operation Midnight Hammer" bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities in 2025 also targeted "drug factories" because Iran "was doing drugs." Some outlets reported that his mention of "drug factories" appeared to be a first, signifying that Trump was giving another reason for his prolonged war against Iran. The conflict has raised prices and jeopardized Republicans in the midterms. Read more
The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in September, pointing to a surprising soft spot in the labor market and broader economy.
Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence to give to California health and food safety investigators. She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor. Marris had hoped the milk, unprocessed and natural, would help with her daughter Brooklyn's constipation. But doctors now suspected the unpasteurized milk, which hadn't been heated to kill off pathogens, was the source of the toddler's severe E. coli infection. Read more
A total of 29,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in September, according to a report published Friday from the Labor Department, a figure "far short of expectations," The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal, analysts were expecting 84,000 jobs to be added to the U.S. economy in September, a figure nearly three times greater than what the Labor Department reported. Additionally, the unemployment rate for September was also found to be slightly worse than what analysts predicted, ticking up from 4.1% to 4.2%.
Oct 1, 2026
We're told progressive ideas are "fringe." Really?
59% want Medicare for All
57% want a $20 minimum wage
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
63% want to pause AI development
66% want the wealthy to pay more into Social Security
Maybe it's the establishment that's out of touch.
Micron says most of next year's supply is already committed, and market trackers see prices rising into 2027.
I'm going to show clips of reporters talking to MAGA voters in Florida and you are going to see that the end is near for Donald Trump.
His drag on Republican candidates is the best thing to happen to the Florida Democratic Party since the invention of air conditioning, and sends a clear signal that his time is up.
President Donald Trump touted Korean funding for a long-stalled pipeline project in Alaska. The Korean government said they haven't promised the money.
Post your favorite MAGA tears videos so we can all laugh at them.
Steve Hilton came in with next to no chance of becoming the next California governor, but maybe if he focused on touting the feel-good messages he's been spouting since launching his campaign in front of the Huntington Beach Pier earlier this year " Make California Gold Again! Califordable! I'm a Legal Immigrant with a British Accent! " he might've convinced at least a few voters to go with him. Instead, Hilton debated like someone already preparing to launch a podcast or beg for his old Fox News job back after he gets walloped. When your solution for solving California's housing crisis is building 10 new cities, you're not running for California governor " you're angling for an influencer job with the Irvine Co. Read more
(Theory of Stupidity)
Why do smart, educated people often give up their own judgment? Three weeks before his execution in 1943, pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a chilling breakdown of human psychology from a Nazi prison cell:
"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
In this video, we unpack Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity"explaining why evil has limits, why facts cannot cure a closed mind, and how group identity forces good people to stop thinking for themselves.
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