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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Catherine, Princess of Wales, announces she has completed her chemotherapy to treat an unspecified form of cancer (More)

> Fashion mogul Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years in prison in Canada after being found guilty in November to four charges of sexual assault (More) | Harvey Weinstein to undergo emergency heart surgery (More)

> FX's "Shogun" hauls in a record 14 wins at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys with FX leading all distributors with 27 awards; Primetime Emmys are set for this Sunday (8 pm ET, ABC) (More)


Science & Technology
> Astronomers discover a pair of supermassive black holes with the closest separation between the two—roughly 300 light-years—observed to date (More) | How black holes work (More, w/video)

> Scientists capture footage of young Japanese eels escaping after being eaten by a predatory fish via the animal's digestive tract and gills; marks the first known observation of the behavior in nature (More)

> Follow-up study on the first partial face transplant to include an eye shows no signs of rejection by the patient; vision has not been restored in donor eye, but has achieved blood flow (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.2%, Dow +1.2%, Nasdaq +1.2%) (More) | Terns Pharmaceuticals shares jump as much as 26% on weight-loss drug trial results (More) | Palantir shares close up 14% on news it will join the S&P 500 Sept. 23, along with Dell Technologies and Erie Indemnity (More)

> Google begins federal antitrust trial related to its ad-tech business; trial comes after a federal judge in a separate case last month said the tech giant violated laws by illegally holding a monopoly on online search and text advertising (More)

> Discount retailer Big Lots initiates Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, will sell its business to private equity firm Nexus Capital (More) | Chapter 11 overview (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump to face off in their first presidential debate tonight in Philadelphia, hosted by ABC at 9 pm ET (More) | See latest national polls (More)

> Death toll from Typhoon Yagi rises to at least 49 people in northern Vietnam, with at least 22 people missing, hundreds injured, and millions without power; Yagi is the most powerful storm to hit Asia this year (More) | Tropical Storm Francine forms in Gulf of Mexico, forecast to strike parts of Louisiana tomorrow as a hurricane (More)

> Germany tightens land borders temporarily to curb what it considers to be irregular migration and to protect the country from extremist threats (More)

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