Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Sean "Diddy" Combs sued for sexual assault and distribution of a video of the alleged assault (More) | Combs' music has seen an 18% increase in streams since his arrest last week on sex trafficking charges (More)
> MLB regular season set to wrap this weekend; see latest playoff picture (More) | ... and see latest WNBA playoff bracket (More)
> Paramount Global begins second round of layoffs that will impact 15% of its US workforce; CBS News among networks most impacted by layoffs (More)
Science & Technology
> Researchers use AI algorithm to identify more than 300 new geoglyphs—large-scale designs on landscapes—in Peru's Nazca desert; find nearly doubles number of known etchings made by the pre-Inca civilization (More) | Nazca lines 101 (More)
> Neuroscientists find the human brain categorizes zero as numerical value instead of the abstract concept of "nothing"; answer to long-standing question sheds light on how the brain processes quantitative information (More)
> Human heart tissue shows signs of accelerated aging after just one month in space, new study reveals (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.6%), with S&P 500, Dow closing at record highs (More) | China's central bank unveils biggest stimulus package since 2020 amid predictions the country will miss this year's 5% annual growth target; Chinese stocks jump on news (More)
> Justice Department sues Visa on antitrust grounds, accuses world's biggest payment network of monopolizing debit card market by penalizing businesses and banks forgoing its payment processing tech (More) | CrowdStrike executive apologizes before House subcommittee over multibillion-dollar outage in July (More)
> Southwest Airlines investor Elliott Investment Management calls for shareholder meeting as soon as next week in ongoing bid to shake up airline's board (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Thousands of people evacuate Lebanon as death toll from two days of Israeli strikes passes 560 people; Israel says it killed head of Hezbollah's rocket program (More) | See war updates (More) | War discussions dominate opening day of 79th annual UN General Assembly (More)
> Swiss police arrest multiple people behind first-of-its-kind "suicide pod"—which releases nitrogen gas inside enclosed chamber—following inaugural use by US woman; Swiss law allows assisted suicide but without external assistance (More)
> Man discovered weeks ago with rifle near golf course owned by former President Donald Trump charged with assassination attempt (More) | Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, convicted in the 1998 murder of a former newspaper journalist, amid ongoing disputes over evidence in the case (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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