• ☝️ A group of marine fossils dating back as early as 8.7 million years ago – including those of a megalodon and a saber-toothed salmon – were recently discovered underneath a south Los Angeles high school.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board on Friday (S&P: +0.5%; Dow: +0.7%; Nasdaq: +0.7%).
• 🚂 Norfolk Southern fired CEO Alan Shaw; the move comes amid an investigation that found Shaw violated company policies by engaging in a consensual relationship with the company's chief legal officer.
• 📺🤝 DirecTV and Disney reached an agreement in principle; Disney's channels have been restored for DirecTV's 11+ million customers.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• SCOREBOARD: 🏈 CFB: See a full week 3 recap; Texas rose to #1 in Sunday’s AP Top 25 poll for the first time in 16 years, while Georgia fell to #2. | 🏈 NFL: See a full Week 2 recap. | 🏀 Las Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson broke the all-time WNBA single-season scoring record, topping the mark set last year by the Seattle Storm's Jewell Loyd. | 🥊 UFC: Merab Dvalishvili defeated Sean O'Malley by unanimous decision at the Las Vegas Sphere to become the UFC’s new bantamweight champion.
• 🏆 The 2024 Emmy Awards took place last night. See all the winners.
• 🎸 A Jane’s Addiction concert in Boston ended abruptly on Friday after singer Perry Farrell threw a punch at guitarist Dave Navarro seemingly out of nowhere; the band, which is on a reunion tour, also canceled its Sunday show.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💊 Pfizer said its experimental drug to treat a common, life-threatening condition that causes cancer patients to lose their appetite/weight showed positive results in a Phase 2 trial.
• 🚀 The crew of SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn mission, which recently completed the first all-civilian spacewalk, safely returned to Earth early yesterday morning.
• 🌳 Louisville residents who live in areas where thousands of trees and shrubs were recently planted had 13%-20% lower levels of a blood marker of general inflammation versus a control group, per a first-of-its-kind study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🚨 Former President Trump was the target of what the FBI says “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida; Secret Service agents reportedly shot at a man hiding in shrubbery and pointing an AK-style rifle with a scope as Trump was 300-500 yards away on the course; Trump said he’s safe and well after the incident, which is under investigation; authorities have apprehended the suspect, whom reports identified as a 58-year-old male. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)
• 🔥 Firefighting crews made progress in containing all three major ongoing wildfires in Southern California over the weekend; the fires have collectively burned 115,000+ acres and counting.
• 🥩 Boar's Head is indefinitely shuttering its southern Virginia facility that’s been tied to a deadly multi-state listeria outbreak.

CLICKBAIT

• 🦠 Some cells can enter a 'third state’ beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death.' Here's how.

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