Friday, September 19

In The NEWS






Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
ABC suspends "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely following Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk during his opening monologue on Monday night's show (More)

> Gino the gorilla dies at age 44; the silverback gorilla was the oldest gorilla at Disney's Animal Kingdom and had been at the park since its 1998 opening (More)

> Two-time Olympic medalist Fred Kerley becomes first track athlete to commit to Enhanced Games, a competition allowing use of performance-enhancing drugs (More) | Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh hits 56th home run to break Mickey Mantle's record for most single-season homers by a switch-hitter (More)


Science & Technology
> Ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies before Senate Health Committee; says Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month without an independent data analysis (More)

> Researchers develop AI tool that uses medical records to calculate risk for 1,231 diseases, including Type 2 diabetes and heart conditions (More) | Diabetes 101 (1440 Topics)

> Wild African chimps easily consume more than the equivalent of two standard alcoholic drinks, according to first-ever measure of ethanol in native fruits (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq -0.3%) (More) | StubHub shares close down in New York Stock Exchange debut after the ticket reseller raised $800M at a roughly $8B valuation in initial public offering (More)

> Ben & Jerry's cofounder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever stifled the ice cream brand's independence on social issues (More)

> Annual inflation among European Union members remains steady at 2%, below estimate of 2.1% and in line with the European Central Bank's target (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Three police officers are killed and two others wounded in a shooting while serving an arrest warrant in York County, Pennsylvania; the shooter has not been publicly identified as of this writing (More) | President Donald Trump says he will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization (More)

> France's major labor unions call for strikes and demonstrations today against austerity measures proposed by President Emmanuel Macron's administration; more than 250 rallies planned nationwide (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> The US and Ukraine launch $150M joint fund to invest in Ukrainian mineral reserves; each committed $75M, will split profits (More) | Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact (More)


SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

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