• ☝️ CDC data shows average life expectancy across the US fell by 0.6 years between 2020 and 2021, largely due to a combination of the Covid pandemic and drug overdoses; in 2022, life expectancy at birth was 77.5 years.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board on Friday following Powell’s speech (S&P: +1.2%; Dow: +1.1%; Nasdaq: +1.2%)
• 📝 Restaurants aren’t stoked about the FTC’s proposed rule to crack down on “junk fees.”
• ⚖️🏘️ The Justice Department and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage Inc., a property management software company, accusing the firm of enabling landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices. (Dive deeper: Is big data driving up rents?)

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🍿 Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine returned to the top of the domestic box office with $18.3 million in its fifth weekend of release; box office newcomers Blink Twice ($7.3 million) and The Crow ($4.6 million) both performed worse than expected.
• 🏈 College football: Georgia Tech upset #10 Florida State 24-21 in Dublin thanks to a last-second field goal; see a full recap of Week 0 action. | 🏌️ Lydia Ko of New Zealand won the Women’s British Open by two strokes yesterday; Ko’s victory comes two weeks after she earned the Olympic gold medal; it also marks her third major title.
• ⚾ Shohei Ohtani became the sixth member of the MLB’s 40-40 club (40 homers and 40 steals in a season) with a walk-off grand slam on Friday; the LA Dodgers' star accomplished the feat 21 games earlier than any player in history. | ⚾ Aaron Judge hit his 50th and 51st home runs of the season yesterday; the NY Yankees slugger is currently on pace to break his own AL record of 62 homers (set in 2022). | ⚾ Lake Mary, Florida defeated Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei to take home the Little League Baseball World Series title.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🚀 NASA officially decided to return Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to Earth without its two astronauts aboard; instead, the NASA astronauts will wait until February to hitch a ride home on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.
• 🦕👣 An international research team discovered hundreds of matching dinosaur footprints in South America (Brazil) and Africa (Cameroon); dinosaurs made the tracks ~120 million years ago on a single supercontinent known as Gondwana, which broke off from the larger Pangea.
• 💊 Stressed volunteers who knowingly took a placebo pill exhibited a significant decrease in stress, anxiety, and depression after two weeks of “treatment,” per a new study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌀 Hurricane Hone made landfall on Hawaii’s Big Island yesterday as a Category 1 storm; no major damages or injuries were initially reported.
• 🚢 Italian prosecutors launched a manslaughter investigation into the recent sinking of a superyacht owned by British tech mogul Mike Lynch, which killed seven passengers on board (including Lynch).
• 💰🗳️ Kamala Harris’ campaign said it raised $540 million in just over a month since officially launching, including $82 million during last week’s DNC; her campaign reported $377 million cash on hand going into August, compared with $327 million for Trump’s campaign (which hasn’t released fundraising numbers since early August).

CLICKBAIT

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