• ☝️ 2,000+ costumes, props, set pieces, and memorabilia from Game of Thrones will go up for auction next month through Heritage Auctions; starting bids range from $500-$20,000 for items like Jaime Lannister’s full suit of armor, sections of Daenerys Targaryen’s wardrobe, and Jon Snow’s Longclaw sword.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets fell across the board on Friday (S&P: -1.7%; Dow: -1.0%; Nasdaq: -2.6%); the S&P turned in its worst week since March 2023; the Nasdaq turned in its worst week since January 2022.
• 📱 Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 16 later today.
• 🙅 7-Eleven parent company, Seven & i Holdings, rejected a ~$38.6 billion takeover offer from Circle K operator Alimentation Couche-Tard. | 🤝 Boeing reached a tentative agreement with a union representing 32,000+ workers in the Pacific Northwest; if approved, the deal would avert a strike that could begin as early as September 13. | 📺🥊 The DirecTV/Disney spat continues. Magic 8 ball says: Outlook not so good for watching Monday Night Football. (Background: Millions of DirecTV customers can’t access Disney’s channels)

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• SCOREBOARD: 🏈 CFB: #3 Texas defeated #10 Michigan, unranked Northern Illinois upset #5 Notre Dame, and unranked Iowa State took down #21 Iowa; see a full Week 2 recap (link) | 🏈 NFL: See a full Week 1 recap. | 🎾 US Open: World #2 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus defeated American Jessica Pegula on the women’s side to claim her third Grand Slam; on the men’s side, world #1 Jannik Sinner of Italy defeated American Taylor Fritz to earn his second Grand Slam. | 🥇 The 2024 Paris Paralympic Games wrapped up this weekend; see final medal count.
• 🏟️🎤 Kendrick Lamar will headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans. | 🤝🏈 Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott signed a four-year, $240 million contract extension, making him the highest paid player in NFL history.
• 🎭🏆 The Creative Arts Emmy Awards took place this weekend; the primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is set for this Saturday. | 🍿 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice earned $110 million in its opening weekend, making it the second-highest grossing September opener of all time, behind It (2017).

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🌌 The Milky Way galaxy’s outer boundary may stretch much further into space than initially thought (and is already touching its closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy), per a new study published in Nature Astronomy.
• 🧠 Students who suffered a sports-related concussion were found to have slightly improved cognitive performance compared to student-athletes who didn’t, per a new study; the researchers speculate this could be explained by these type of personas having increased access to higher education.
• 🚀 Boeing’s Starliner space capsule safely returned to Earth early Saturday without any passengers onboard, ending its troubled test flight that launched June 5.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🥚⚠️ The CDC issued a warning over recalled eggs sold in stores and restaurants across Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois, citing 24 hospitalizations linked to salmonella.
• 🇷🇺 Two NATO members – Romania and Latvia – yesterday reported separate incidents of Russian drones violating their airspace.
• ⚖️🗽 The judge in former President Trump's New York hush-money case delayed his sentencing until after the election (November 26) "to avoid any appearance" of political motivations. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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