Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> MLB regular season wraps with postseason kicking off tomorrow; see playoff bracket (More) | Chicago White Sox set modern record for most losses in a season with 121 (More)
> YouTube blocks content by Adele, Green Day, Bob Dylan, and more amid legal dispute with a performing rights organization (More)
> Kris Kristofferson, Grammy- and Golden Globe-winning country music legend and actor, dies at age 88 (More) | Drake Hogestyn, longtime "Days of Our Lives" star, dies at age 70 (More) | John Ashton, actor best known for "Beverly Hills Cop" franchise, dies at age 76 (More)
Science & Technology
> California passes law expanding its consumer privacy laws to give users of brain-computer interface devices ownership over their neurological data (More) | California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoes AI safety bill, siding with tech execs (More)
> Geologists discover new subduction zone—an area where one tectonic plate slides underneath another—in the Eastern Pacific (More)
> SpaceX launches mission that will eventually return pair of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station following malfunction of their Boeing vehicle; return trip slated for February (More) | See previous write-up (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed Friday (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq -0.4%), with the Dow closing at a record high; key inflation data from August gives traders hope for additional interest cuts this year (More)
> Government-facilitated talks between Boeing and union workers collapse, with no dates scheduled for further discussions; total US gross domestic product estimated to have dropped by $1B since walkout of 33,000 production workers began this month (More)
> WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani departs amid 90% drop in share value over the past year; Sistani had spearheaded $106M acquisition of telehealth company prescribing weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Austria's nationalist-populist Freedom Party leads in yesterday's parliamentary elections with nearly 30% of the vote, the first win of its kind since WWII; remaining parties are in negotiations to form a coalition without it (More)
> Nepal flooding and landslides leave at least 148 people dead, with capital of Kathmandu hardest hit (More)
> The US says its airstrikes in Syria this month killed 37 al-Qaeda- and ISIS-affiliated militants, including two senior operatives (More)
SOURE: 1440 NEWS
No comments:
Post a Comment