• ☝️ Tropical Storm Helene is forecast to rapidly intensify into a major hurricane before making landfall in Florida tomorrow evening; evacuations began yesterday for some coastal Florida residents facing a potentially dangerous storm surge.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed higher (S&P: +0.3%; Dow: +0.2%; Nasdaq: +0.6%). | 📉 Consumer confidence recorded its biggest monthly decline in over three years in September.
• ⚖️🪙 Caroline Ellison, key witness in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial, was sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the crypto exchange’s financial fraud. | 💉🏛️ Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard testified before Congress yesterday regarding the company’s blockbuster diabetes/weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy.
• 💳 The DOJ sued Visa over allegations it illegally monopolized the debit card industry; Visa processes ~60% of all debit card transactions in the US.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🎓 Utah State has reportedly agreed to join the Pac-12 starting in 2026, while UNLV is considering a similar offer; separately, the Pac-12 filed a lawsuit over $50+ million in “poaching fees” the Mountain West Conference is seeking from the Pac-12 for adding five MWC schools.
• 🧠 NFL legend Brett Favre said he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease during congressional testimony yesterday over his potential misuse of taxpayer money.
• 🎶 The Cure is scheduled to release a new song tomorrow for the first time in 16 years.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💥☄️ Precisely detonating a nuclear bomb above a theoretical incoming asteroid could move it 2-3 miles off course and help Earth avoid a cataclysmic impact, per a new study.
• 🤖 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a personal blog post laying out his vision for an AI-driven future; it includes a prediction of AI superintelligence within “a few thousand days.”
• 🦣 Human hunters in the Ice Age may have killed wooly mammoths and other large animals by driving them into sharp, stone-tipped pikes braced into the ground, rather than by throwing or thrusting spears, per a new study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ️👮 Sean “Diddy” Combs is living in the same unit of a Brooklyn jail as FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, per multiple reports. | 📱💬 Telegram will begin providing some user information, including names and IP addresses, to authorities when legally requested; the policy change comes weeks after CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France.
• 🏥⚖️ At least 210 US women were charged with crimes related to their pregnancies in the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the highest such figure since at least 1973, per a new study; almost none of the crimes involved violating state abortion bans.
• 🏛️ Congress unanimously approved a bill to boost Secret Service protection for presidential candidates; President Biden is expected to sign it into law shortly.

CLICKBAIT

• ⚡ We Finally Know What Creates Static Electricity, After Thousands of Years.