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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka tops American Amanda Anisimova to win her second straight US Open (More) | ... and Spain's Carlos Alcaraz beats Italy's Jannik Sinner to win his second US Open and sixth career Grand Slam title (More)

> Lady Gaga wins artist of the year at MTV Video Music Awards; see full list of winners (More) | "Father Mother Sister Brother" wins the Golden Lion, the top prize at the 82nd Venice Film Festival; see complete list of festival winners (More)

> Carmelo Anthony, Sue Bird, and Dwight Howard headline 2025 class of inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame (More) | Davey Johnson, four-time MLB All-Star and manager of 1986 World Series-winning New York Mets, dies at age 82 (More)


Science & Technology
> Warner Bros. sues AI startup Midjourney for use of images of Batman, Superman, and other intellectual property; follows recent $1.5B settlement by Anthropic over pirated books for chatbot training (More)

> Researchers find blue-throated macaws can learn new behaviors by observing third-party interactions between others, a trait previously seen only in humans (More)

> Paleontologists discover pair of baby pterosaur fossils that died roughly 150 million years ago in a violent storm (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower Friday (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.5%, Nasdaq -0.0%) after report showing hiring slowdown, downward revision to June data (More)

> Eight OPEC+ countries agree to boost oil production next month by 137,000 barrels per day; next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 5 (More)

> Shares of Tylenol's parent company, Kenvue, fall over 9% Friday on report Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will release a report potentially linking Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces he will resign after less than a year in the role following conservative party's electoral losses in July (More)

> South Korea finalizes a deal with the US to repatriate hundreds of workers detained for alleged immigration violations at a Hyundai plant in Georgia (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Russia unleashes largest-ever drone attack on Ukraine, including striking cabinet building in Kyiv for the first time (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS