• ☝️ Archaeologists recently discovered a 3,200-year-old bronze long sword emblazoned with the signature emblem of Ramses II, the most powerful Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the era.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed on Friday (S&P: -0.2%; Dow: +0.1%; Nasdaq: -0.4%).
• 🚀 Boeing replaced its top defense and space executive on Friday; separately, the company’s machinist strike enters its second week. | 🚢🚫 The Port of New York/New Jersey began preparing for a complete work stoppage by the International Longshoremen’s Association, the largest North American union for maritime workers; 40+% of all US monthly imports could be impacted.
• 🏨 Motel 6 is being acquired by Oyo, a hotel operator based in India, for $525 million.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• SCOREBOARD: 🏈 CFB: #6 Tennessee beat #15 Oklahoma, #12 Utah defeated #14 Oklahoma State, and #18 Michigan prevailed over #11 USC; see a full Week 4 recap. | 🏈 NFL: See a full Week 3 recap. | 🏎️ Formula One: McLaren’s Lando Norris won the Singapore Grand Prix yesterday, narrowing the points gap between him and season leader Max Verstappen of Red Bull (who placed second).
• 🍿 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice earned $26 million at the domestic box office to retain the top spot for a third consecutive weekend; Transformers One placed second with $25 million in its opening weekend.
• 📱 Social media platforms collect, share, and process vast amounts of information about their users while offering little transparency and inadequate safeguards for kids and teens, per a new FTC report. | 🇧🇷📲 X (formerly Twitter) has reportedly complied with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court to ban certain accounts in an effort to have the court lift its nationwide block on X, per new court filings.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🍺🎗️ Alcohol accounts for just over 5% of all cancers in the US, per a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research; for reference, smoking causes ~20% of cancers.
• 🌙 A new “mini-moon” will be temporarily pulled into Earth's gravitational orbit later this month; the 33-foot-long space rock will then travel around Earth in a horseshoe path through late November.
• 🦠👃 The FDA approved AstraZeneca’s FluMist, the first at-home flu vaccine in the US, which comes in the form of a nasal spray.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 📝 The Secret Service published a report concluding that communication failures between local and federal law enforcement led to missed opportunities in stopping the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a Pittsburgh rally in July.
• 🙏 A mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, late Saturday killed at least four people and injured at least 17 others, some of whom are in life-threatening condition; police say there were likely multiple shooters as part of a targeted “hit,” and they have yet to make any arrests.
• 🏛️ Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the House will vote this week on a three-month stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown deadline of October 1; the stopgap measure won’t include a GOP-backed election security proposal, as did earlier versions of the funding bill. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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