• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the 2023 Bird Photographer of the Year awards, which fielded more than 20,000 entries from around the world.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed down across the board (S&P: -0.7%; Dow: -0.6%; Nasdaq: -1.1%).
• 🚀💳 Elon Musk reportedly borrowed $1 billion from SpaceX in the same month of the Twitter acquisition.
• 📺 Roku is laying off 10% of its staff, or ~360 workers, as it “performs a strategic review of [its] content portfolio.”

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🥼👶 Kourtney Kardashian recently underwent urgent fetal surgery, per an Instagram post; her and her unborn baby are safe and healthy.
• 🏈 The San Francisco 49ers signed defensive end Joey Bosa to a 5-year, $170 million deal; it makes him the league’s highest-paid defensive player in history. | 🎾 American Ben Shelton upset fellow American Francis Tiafoe at the US Open to reach the semifinals; the victory makes Shelton, 20 years old, the youngest male US Open semi-finalist in 30 years.
• 🐭📈 Disney has reportedly seen a 60% jump in Hulu + Live TV subscriptions relative to internal expectations since its carriage dispute with cable-provider Charter began. (Background)

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🦧🙋‍♀️ Apes and early humans evolved more flexible shoulders and elbows than monkeys to safely downclimb out of trees, per a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
• 👍🚀 The Ariane-6, Europe’s next-gen rocket, successfully completed its first "hot-fire" test on a launch pad.
• 👶 Israeli researchers have reportedly created human embryo-like structures from stem cells (no sperm or egg) and grown them outside the womb.

MISCELLANEOUS

• 🏆🎓 The WSJ/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the US rankings just dropped; Princeton, MIT, and Yale came in as the top three (in that order).
• 🚨 Danelo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison on August 31, remains at large.
• ⚖️ Donald Trump is civilly liable for defamatory statements he made about writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, a federal judge ruled yesterday; this means Trump’s upcoming trial will be focused around how much the former president should pay her in monetary damages. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right) | ⚖️ Prosecutors are seeking an indictment against Hunter Biden by September 29, per a court filing; the move comes after a previous plea deal on tax-related charges fell apart. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

CLICKBAIT

• 🏃 Tom Cruise’s running form is famous. But is it actually good?