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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> British rock band Pink Floyd sells entire music catalog and name and likeness rights to Sony Music for $400M (More) | Vice presidential debate pulls in 43 million viewers, a 25% decline from the 2020 debate (More)

> Michael Jordan-owned 23XI racing team sues NASCAR over alleged anticompetitive practices (More)

> Olivia Rodrigo concert film tapped for Oct. 29 release on Netflix (More) | Live-action "Rugrats" film in the works at Paramount (More)


Science & Technology
> Largest brain map ever created for any organism developed by scientists; fruit fly study reveals more than 54 million nerve cell connections, thousands of new types of neural cells (More) | Explore project (More)

> Researchers discover the vast majority of thunderstorms emit high-energy gamma rays; study carried out with a retrofitted U2 spy plane, findings shed light on the formation of lightning (More)

> Engineered fabric automatically adjusts to body temperature to passively cool or warm the body; material was inspired by color-changing squid skin (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets rise slightly (S&P 500 +0.0%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.1%) as investors appear wary amid widening Middle East conflict (More)

> Tesla shares close down 3.5% after Q3 electric vehicle deliveries miss analyst expectations (More) | Humana shares close down nearly 12% to lowest level since 2020 after Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services downgraded health insurer's Medicare star ratings (More) | Medicare star ratings 101 (More)

> General Motors CEO Mary Barra, CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch, and Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser top Fortune's annual list of 100 most powerful women in business (More) | See original list (More, free w/email)


Politics & World Affairs
> Judge unseals Special Counsel Jack Smith's filing in former President Donald Trump's federal 2020 election interference case; redacted brief details argument why Trump's actions shouldn't be immune from criminal charges (More) | Read the brief (More)

> President Joe Biden deploys up to 1,000 soldiers to aid in Hurricane Helene relief efforts as death toll surpasses 181 people (More) | Search efforts are ongoing; see live updates (More)

> Undetected World War II-era bomb explodes on the runway at Japan's Miyazaki Airport, causing 80 flight cancellations but no injuries; the 500-pound US-made bomb left a 23-foot-wide crater at the area once used as a kamikaze airfield (More)

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