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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Jamaican Oblique Seville win women's and men's 100-meter titles at Track and Field World Championships (More) | 2025 WNBA playoffs kick off; see complete first round schedule (More)

> "Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle" hauls in $70M for the biggest US domestic box office opening weekend ever for an anime film (More)

> Terence Crawford beats Canelo Alvarez to become first male boxer to be undisputed world champion in three weight classes (More) | Ricky Hatton, British former world champion boxer, dies at age 46 (More)


Science & Technology
> Electric vehicle sales in January through August rise 25% worldwide compared to the same window last year, increase 6% in North America (More)

> New tsunami alert system from NASA successfully detected 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in late July, provided warning to Hawaii 30 to 40 minutes before waves arrived (More)

> Neuroscientists create miniature wearable microscope allowing imaging of mouse brains in real time; will help link behaviors and perception with specific brain circuits (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed Friday (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.6%, Nasdaq +0.4%) in lead-up to anticipated interest rate cuts this week (More)

> Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, backed by the Winklevoss twins, raises $425M in initial public offering, with shares closing up 14.3% (More) | What are IPOs and how do they work? (1440 Topics)

> Penske Media—owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety—sues Google over AI summaries; attributes drop in site traffic, revenue to the rollout (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Memorial honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk is set for this upcoming Sunday, Sept. 21, in Arizona (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Taliban rulers say they have reached a deal with the US to swap detainees, with at least six Americans still held captive in Afghanistan; White House has not confirmed as of this writing (More)

> Romania and Poland deploy fighter jets to protect their airspace following detection of Russian drones (More)

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