Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> MTV Video Music Awards, hosted by rapper Megan Thee Stallion, return for award show's 40th anniversary; see awards list and takeaways (More) | Frankie Beverly, frontman and founder of soul and funk band Maze, dies at age 77 (More)
>NFL hauls in 21 million viewers per game in Week 1, the most-ever for opening week and a 12% increase over last year (More) | See Week 2 preview (More)
> Justin Timberlake agrees to plea deal in drunken driving case; driving while intoxicated charges will be dropped (More) | Sean "Diddy" Combs accused of sexual battery by former Danity Kane singer Dawn Richard (More)
Science & Technology
> Meta admits to scraping data from every adult Australian Facebook user to train its AI models; says Australian law did not require it to provide an opt-out option for users (More)
> The lateral fabella, a tiny bone in the knee the size of a sesame seed, may have played a key evolutionary role in helping ancient humans walk upright; also linked to arthritis, only two in five modern humans have the structure (More)
> Researchers discover a new species of parasitoid wasp targeting adult flies; the wasp lays eggs inside other insects, ultimately killing the host (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.1%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq +2.2%) as investors weigh latest US inflation data and buy chipmaker stocks, including Nvidia and AMD, whose shares rose 8% and nearly 5%, respectively (More)
> TD Bank to pay $28M fine to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for sharing inaccurate and negative data about the bank's customers with credit reporting agencies since 2015 (More)
> PwC's US unit to lay off roughly 1,800 workers amid broader restructuring; marks accounting firm's first formal layoffs since 2009 (More) | Restaurant chain BurgerFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Mexico's Senate approves anticorruption overhaul requiring country's 7,000 judges run for election; constitutional revision—an initiative driven by the governing, left-leaning Morena party—came despite weeks of protests and strikes, with judicial workers saying the move will politicize the judiciary (More)
> Death toll from Typhoon Yagi and its aftermath rises to more than 155 people amid flash flooding and landslides; the typhoon is the strongest to hit Vietnam in decades (More)
> A man was arrested for arson over the Line Fire in San Bernardino, California (More) | Airport and Bridge Fires threaten Southern California, two of more than 60 wildfires burning in the US as of this writing (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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