Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2024-25 NHL regular season kicks off tonight; see preview and predictions for all 32 teams (More) | New England Patriots safety and team captain Jabrill Peppers arrested on strangulation and drug possession charges (More)
> Taylor Swift passes Rihanna to become richest female musician in the world with an estimated net worth of $1.6B (More)
> Connecticut Sun take on Minnesota Lynx tonight (8 pm ET, ESPN2) in decisive WNBA Semifinals Game 5 (More) | LeBron James and son Bronny become NBA's first father-son duo to share court as both played in the Los Angeles Lakers preseason game Sunday night (More)
Science & Technology
> Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to pair of researchers for their discovery of microRNA, tiny molecules that help regulate gene expression (More) | Prize in Physics announced at 5:45 am ET this morning; see selection here (More)
> Comb jellies, a type of deep sea jellyfish, can fuse their bodies together following injury; behavior has never been observed in any other species (More)
> Researchers find a common chemotherapy drug may kill healthy cells in cases of colon and gastrointestinal cancers; findings may lead to improved drug combinations in such cases (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -1.0, Dow -0.9, Nasdaq -1.2%) as US 10-year Treasury yield rises above 4% for first time since August (More) | Shares of generator maker Generac close up nearly 9% as Hurricane Milton intensifies (More)
> Activist investor Starboard Value reportedly takes $1B stake in Pfizer, looks to tap former Pfizer CEO Ian Read and other ex-executives for help in turning around the drugmaker (More) | "Assassin's Creed" maker Ubisoft reportedly considering going private (More)
> Judge orders Google to offer alternatives to its Google Play store as part of final ruling in Epic Games' antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant (More) | Amazon kicks off second annual Prime Day 48-hour sale today (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Hurricane Milton strengthens to Category 5 storm—the strongest level—as Florida braces for landfall midweek, with storm surge warnings posted for Florida's western Gulf Coast (More) | Why Tampa Bay is vulnerable to the storm (More)
> New York City deputy mayor Phil Banks (D) resigns, becoming latest member of Mayor Eric Adams (D) administration to step down amid corruption probe; Adams was indicted last month on charges including bribery and wire fraud (More)
> Georgia Supreme Court restores state's six-week abortion ban while it considers an appeal to a lower court decision that had briefly struck down the 2022 law (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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