• ☝️ On Tuesday, an uninhabited house collapsed on the Outer Banks island of Hatteras in North Carolina; it marks the area’s third house-collapse in four days, and the 10th such incident since 2020.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.2%; Dow: -0.7%; Nasdaq: +0.04%).
• 📱 YouTuber Marques Brownlee recently released Panels, a wallpaper app. It’s getting flamed in online reviews.
• ✈️ Southwest Airlines is reducing service to and from Atlanta, the world's busiest airport, in order to reduce costs.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 📺 Sean “Diddy” Combs is the subject of an upcoming Netflix docuseries produced by 50 Cent that will address recent abuse allegations against the music mogul.
• ⚾ The baseball from Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run – which made him the first member of the MLB’s 50-50 club – is going up for auction; bidding starts at $500,000.
• 🤖💬 Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Google on a new AI tool that will automatically generate captions for the Max streaming service. | 🎥🤖 Director James Cameron joined the board of Stability AI, which created AI image generator Stable Diffusion.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🌋 A type of magma found within extinct volcanoes could contain an abundant supply of rare earth elements, which are crucial to producing EVs and other green technologies, per a new study.
• 🫀🌌 Human heart tissue shows signs of accelerated aging after a single month in space, according to a new study published in PNAS. | 😬 Space is hard on other organs, too.
• 🧀 The world’s oldest cheese was recently discovered by researchers who noticed a mysterious white substance smeared on the heads and necks of 3,600-year-old mummies in China.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌀 Hurricane Helene is projected to further strengthen into a Category 4 storm – the strongest to hit the US in over a year – by the time it makes landfall in Florida sometime this evening; local governments in the early path of the storm have issued evacuation orders. | 🚂 Several communities near Cincinnati, Ohio, were forced to evacuate this week after officials warned a train car in the area was leaking a dangerous and highly flammable chemical; an “all-clear” was declared last night.
• 🥤 Coca-Cola is abandoning its new permanent Spiced soda flavor six months after it was released.
• 🗣️ Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made separate economic-focused speeches while campaigning in battleground states yesterday; one day earlier, Harris said she supports eliminating the Senate filibuster to pass legislation restoring abortion rights nationally. | 🗽⚖️ New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a federal grand jury on unspecified charges, per multiple reports; Adams would be the first sitting NYC mayor to face criminal charges.

CLICKBAIT

• 🏡💔 Secret Trusts, a Bitter Divorce and the Battle Over One of America’s Biggest Homes.