Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Toronto Blue Jays lead World Series 3-2 after beating the Los Angeles Dodgers last night, teeing up potential for title-clinching win in Game 6 tomorrow at 8 pm ET (More)
> Paramount to lay off roughly 2,000 employees—about 10% of workforce—as it targets $2B in cost cuts following acquisition by Skydance in August (More)
> Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola auctions seven watches—including one valued at roughly $1M—after $120M film "Megalopolis" grosses $14.4M in box office (More)
Science & Technology
> Startup Character.AI to ban minors from engaging in open-ended chats with its chatbots next month after lawsuits from families over child safety (More)
> Researchers determine attention lapses caused by sleep deprivation coincide with fluid flushing from the brain, a process that typically occurs during sleep (More)
> Scientists discover age-related changes in T cells can trigger weaker vaccine responses in adults around age 65, suggesting older adults may need tailored vaccine formulations and treatment schedules (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.6%) after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signals Fed may not cut rates again this year (More) | Fed lowers interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to 3.75%-4% (More)
> Starbucks reports same-store sales growth in September for first time in nearly two years (More) | Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time (More)
> General Motors to permanently lay off 1,750 workers in Michigan and Ohio and temporarily lay off 1,550 in Ohio and Tennessee amid slowing EV demand (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Hurricane Melissa weakens to a Category 1 storm en route to the Bahamas after killing at least 30 people across Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic (More) | See live updates (More)
> Sudanese rebel group Rapid Support Forces kills 460 patients at a hospital in el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur; the group, allegedly backed by the UAE, has reportedly killed over 2,000 people in the three days since capturing the city (More)
> Brazilian police raid on a drug gang in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday kills at least 119 people—the city's deadliest raid on record (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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