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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Former world boxing champ Julio César Chávez Jr. misses court date for 2024 gun charges, lawyer is unaware of his whereabouts; Chávez was detained by ICE last week and was due to be deported to Mexico (More)

> NHL regular season to expand from 82 to 84 games beginning with 2026-27 season as part of new collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players association (More)

> Sean "Diddy" Combs to be sentenced Oct. 3; Combs will remain in jail as he awaits sentencing for prostitution charges (More) | Former "Tiger King" star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle sentenced to a year in prison for trafficking in exotic animals (More)


Science & Technology
> Meta poaches Apple's top AI executive, Ruoming Pang, with a compensation package reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars annually; hire follows Meta's recent hiring surge to fill its new Superintelligence Lab (More)

> NASA's Parker Solar Probe measures first direct evidence of the sun's "helicity barrier;" phenomenon is linked to the superheating of the solar atmosphere and creating supersonic solar wind (More) | NASA explained (1440 Topics)

> Engineers build and test largest-ever steel-framed building built on top of an earthquake simulator; platform may lead to new methods to safely make taller buildings in quake-prone regions (More, w/video)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq +0.0%) as President Donald Trump's trade policies keep investors on edge (More) | Trump says he will impose a 50% tariff on copper imports, with details on timing unclear; also threatens up to 200% tariff on pharmaceutical imports (More)

> SpaceX reportedly in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation (More) | Meta invests $3.5B in world's largest eyewear maker, EssilorLuxottica SA, amid push toward AI-powered wearable devices (More)

> WeightWatchers emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after completing financial reorganization; names new medical chief, plans to offer menopause therapy (More) | 1440 Business & Finance: Tomorrow's newsletter explores the history of the mortgage (Sign up here)


Politics & World Affairs
> US Supreme Court lifts a lower court ruling, clearing the way for the Trump administration to fire tens of thousands of federal workers (More)

> State Department warns US diplomats about an impostor using AI to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio in calls to high-level officials, including at least three foreign ministers (More) | Justice Department charges 10 people with attempted murder in failed effort to storm an ICE center in Texas (More)

> At least 161 people known to be missing from flooding, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) says; death toll rises to at least 109 (More) | See previous write-up (More)

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