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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Warner Music settles copyright lawsuit with AI startup Udio, inking deal to collaborate on song creation service set to launch in 2026 (More)

> The Weeknd's After Hours ‘Til Dawn tour grosses over $1B, a feat first achieved by Taylor Swift's Eras tour in 2023 (More) | Lainey Wilson wins Country Music Association Awards' entertainer of the year title (More)

> National Book Awards presents lifetime achievement awards to Roxane Gay and George Saunders and recognizes five literary works—three by authors of Middle Eastern origin whose writings explore the region (More)


Science & Technology
> Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin reveals designs for larger, more powerful rocket, positioning the space exploration company to compete more directly with Elon Musk's SpaceX for NASA contracts (More)

> Scientists identify cells responsible for building facial features, shedding light on how genetic information from both parents combines to shape appearance and the origins of certain facial abnormalities (More)

> Researchers map ancient mammal and reptile species' transition from land back to water using machine-learning algorithms and World War II-era naval statistics, filling a gap in evolutionary history (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -1.6%, Dow -0.8%, Nasdaq -2.2%); bitcoin falls to lowest value since April (More)

> US employers added 119,000 nonfarm jobs in September, more than the 50,000 jobs economists had forecast, per delayed jobs report; unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, the highest level since October 2021 (More)

> SoftBank to invest $3B in Ohio factory for OpenAI data centers as part of $500B Stargate project, for which SoftBank pledged a total of $18B (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump criticizes Democratic lawmakers for video urging US military personnel to defy any illegal orders; calls video an act of sedition punishable "by death" (More)

> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy receives the US' proposed plan to end war with Russia; plan reportedly calls on Ukraine to abandon territory and shrink its military force, weapons arsenal (More)

> Fire erupts at UN climate summit in Brazil; officials say 13 people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation as of this writing (More) | See video (More)

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