Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Europe tops the US to win golf's Ryder Cup for the ninth time in the last 12 matches (More) | Four Top 10 teams upset in college football's Week 5 (More)
> Assata Shakur, Black liberation activist who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, dies at age 78 after living in Cuba in exile for 40 years (More)
> "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" fully back on the air after network TV giants Nexstar and Sinclair reinstate Kimmel more than a week after suspending his show (More) | Dolly Parton postpones upcoming December shows in Las Vegas, citing health issues (More)
Science & Technology
> Amazon expected to unveil new models of its Kindle reader and Echo speakers, among other products, at its annual fall hardware event tomorrow (More)
> Dual-drug inhaler cuts asthma attacks in children aged 5 to 15 by 45% in clinical trials; approach would replace the commonly used salbutamol inhaler (More)
> Engineers demonstrate micro-robots made from lung cells; devices may enable targeted drug delivery in hard-to-reach areas of the body (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up Friday (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +0.4%) following report core inflation held steady in August, as expected (More)
> Video game company Electronic Arts is reportedly set to go private this week via a $50B acquisition by investment group, including President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner (More)
> IT consulting firm Accenture warns it will fire workers who cannot be retrained to use AI; firm has laid off 11,000 staff in the past three months (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> New York City Mayor Eric Adams ends his bid for reelection; Adams was running as an independent after winning his first term as a Democrat (More)
> Crowd surge at a rally in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu kills at least 40 people (More) | State Department revokes Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s visa after he joins pro-Palestinian rally in New York (More)
> Tropical Storm Imelda forms in the Atlantic, is expected to bring heavy rains to the Southeast US this week (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS

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