'Startling' Video Shows Encounter Between Russian Jet, US F-16 (Newser Morning 8)

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October 1, 2024     "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." —Jack Dempsey   1 Dockworkers' Strike Could Welcome Back Inflation Dockworkers at three dozen ports from Maine to Texas walked off the job early Tuesday in a strike that "could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks," the AP reports. Keep reading   2 'Startling' Video Shows Encounter Between Russian Jet, US F-16 Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a US Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it, the AP reports. Keep reading     At a Glance Former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, right, welcomes new NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte during a handover ceremony at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Harry Nakos) Keep reading   3 Octogenarian Nearly Became the Oldest Miss Universe Contestant Choi Soon-hwa may not have won Miss Universe Korea, but her appearance at Monday's pageant proved, as CNN put it, that "age is just a number." Keep reading   4 Perfection: NFL QB Enters the Record Books Jared Goff of the Detroit Lions threw a perfect game Monday night in his team's win against Seattle, and he's now in the record books, reports ESPN. Keep reading   5 Rudy Giuliani's Daughter: Why I'm Voting for Kamala Rudy Giuliani's daughter is out with an impassioned endorsement of Kamala Harris, writing in a lengthy piece in Vanity Fair that Donald Trump took her dad from her and imploring voters not to "let him take our country too." Keep reading   6 Vance and Walz Share a Few Goals for Their Debate With showtime rapidly approaching, the Democratic and Republican nominees for vice president have their work set out for them. Keep reading     7 Assange Slams US in First Comments Since Plea Deal For the record, Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing classified US military information. Keep reading   8 Man Who Plotted to Create 'Massive Hybrid Sheep Species' Sentenced The Montana rancher who cloned a protected species of sheep as part of a plot to create a "massive hybrid sheep species" for trophy hunting was on Monday sentenced to six months in federal prison. Keep reading   Today From Newser.AI Mafia Bust Shakes Inter Milan and AC Milan Fans See more stories from our human + machine experiment here.   This Day in History On Oct. 1, 2017, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, causing 60 deaths and more than 850 injuries. Find out what else happened on this date here.   From the Newser Archives On this day in 2021: Police Officer Reveals Himself as Serial Killer in Suicide Note   Yesterday's Most-Read Stories   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Read our stories on MSN. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2024 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved