Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 MLB regular season wraps up this weekend; see latest playoff picture (More) | Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh becomes the seventh player to hit 60 home runs in a single season (More)
> "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" brings in 6 million viewers, its largest audience in more than a decade, in his Tuesday return after being suspended by Disney last week (More)
> Golf's Ryder Cup, a team competition pitting the US against Europe, kicks off today from the Bethpage Black Course in New York (More) | UEFA reportedly to suspend Israeli soccer teams from international competitions over the war in Gaza (More)
Science & Technology
> OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a paid feature that generates personalized subject matter briefs for users overnight (More)
> Scientists find more sea creatures living on toxic sunken World War II warheads than in the surrounding seabed, raising questions about how marine life responds to pollution (More)
> New Earth-mapping satellite captures North Dakota farmland and Maine's coast in detail; the joint US-India mission will track shifts in land and ice to help forecasters and first responders address natural disasters (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.5%) (More) | US trade deficit falls to two-year low in August, per federal trade report (More)
> President Donald Trump approves deal divesting TikTok's US operations from Chinese owner, ByteDance, to new joint venture including Oracle, private equity firm Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX; China must approve deal (More) | Trump announces new tariffs on goods including pharmaceutical drugs, furniture (More)
> Starbucks to lay off 900 nonretail employees, will close hundreds of North American locations as part of $1B restructuring plan (More) | Elon Musk's xAI sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets about Grok chatbot (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Denmark temporarily shuts down several airports after drone sightings in four locations, including an air base housing F-16 and F-35 fighter jets (More)
> Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks before UN General Assembly, puts forth governance plan for postwar Gaza excluding Hamas (More) | Microsoft cuts off cloud services to Israel's military following reports they were used to surveil Palestinians (More)
> White House directs federal agencies to plan mass firings in the event of a government shutdown next week (More) | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons hundreds of generals and admirals for a rare meeting next week (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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