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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Rapper Kendrick Lamar tapped to perform at 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show (More) | Dallas Cowboys signs QB Dak Prescott to 4-year, $240M deal, making Prescott the highest-paid player in NFL history (More)

> "The Room Next Door" wins the Golden Lion, top prize at Venice Film Festival (More) | "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" hauls in $110M at domestic box office, the second-largest September opening weekend  ever (More)

> Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka defeats American Jessica Pegula to win US Open women's tennis title (More) | ... and Italy's Jannik Sinner defeats American Taylor Fritz to win men's championship (More)


Science & Technology
> CEO Elon Musk says SpaceX will begin launching uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years; optimal time windows for Mars missions occur every 26 months (More) | Mars explained in three minutes (More, w/video) | ... and the history of SpaceX (More, w/video)

> Scientists discover separate groups of nerve cells signaling to the brain whether to trigger a cough or a sneeze; discovery may help lead to improved treatments for allergies or chronic coughing (More)

> Study suggests even low levels of electrical stimulation to the thalamus—the brain region responsible for passing sensory signals between the body and brain—can induce seizures (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower on Friday (S&P 500 -1.7%, Dow -1.0%, Nasdaq -2.6%) with the S&P 500 witnessing its worst week in a year and a half following news of August jobs report (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Apple to release updates to device lineup—which drives about 60% of its annual revenue—in wake of recent sales slump today; latest iPhone model set to be the first to incorporate artificial intelligence, which Apple calls Apple Intelligence (More)

> Google will deliver opening remarks today in its second antitrust trial this year; Justice Department accuses the company of using monopolistic practices in designing and buying up rivals to its AdWords platform, now known as Google Ads (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Manhunt underway for active shooter near Kentucky I-75 who injured five people (More) | Mother of Apalachee High School shooter in Georgia reportedly warned the school to check in on her son 30 minutes before shooting began (More) | Shooting lasted roughly 1 minute, per sheriffs (More)

> Family of 26-year-old US-Turkish woman killed in the West Bank demand independent investigation (More) | Gunman approaching from Jordan kills three Israeli guards at West Bank-Jordan border (More)

> Sudan's military government rejects UN proposal for international peacekeeping force to ease 17-month civil war (More) | UN mission finds Sudanese military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces both committed abuses; war collectively killed 20,000 people, displaced 8 million (More)

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