On October 13, Tatton Spiller, the founder of online news service Simple Politics, answered queries from Wikinews reporter Ash Thawley. The organisation, as of October 23, had 829,000 followers on Instagram, 233,000 on Facebook, and 83.7 thousand on Twitter, with posts covering political news within the United Kingdom, including policy, quotes from politicians, and collations of headlines.
Yesterday, a capsule from NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer spacecraft containing samples from the asteroid Bennu arrived in the US city of Houston, Texas. The capsule was en route to the Johnson Space Center after landing in the Utah Test and Training Range the day before. This was NASA's first asteroid sample return.
On September 17, two tram stops in the West Midlands Metro system opened in the Wolverhampton, UK city centre: Pipers Row and Wolverhampton Railway Station. Wikinews reporter Ash Thawley spoke with David Rock after he rode the extension on September 17.
U.S. tennis player Coco Gauff won against Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the U.S. Open September 9 in the women's singles final at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, New York.
Belgium became the first 2024 Eurovision Song Contest participant country to announce their entrant when public broadcaster RTBF on August 30 publicised their internal selection of Thomas "Mustii" Mustin.
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