- ☝️ Fox News hosted separate segments yesterday featuring the two main presidential candidates: an all-women town hall with former President Trump, and an interview with Vice President Harris.
BUSINESS & MARKETS
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- 💰 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +0.5%; Dow: +0.8%; Nasdaq: +0.3%); the Dow posted its third record closing high in four sessions.
- 🤔 What 66 economists say about where the economy is headed, in charts.
- ⚖️ Raytheon will pay $950+ million to settle DOJ investigations into an alleged government contract fraud scheme, violations of foreign bribery laws, and the Arms Export Control Act.
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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
- 🙏 Liam Payne, 31, who rose to fame as a singer in the since-disbanded pop group One Direction, was found dead in Buenos Aires after falling from his third floor hotel room balcony.
- 🦚🏟️ NBC Universal is starting to stream local sports on Peacock. | 📰🤖 The NY Times issued a cease and desist order to AI search engine startup Perplexity over allegations its AI model is using the Times’ content without permission.
- 🎥 Filming in LA fell 5% in Q3, yet another sign that Hollywood is struggling to recover from the pandemic and last year’s writers/actors strikes. (More: There’s no business like show business – until you’re part of a mass layoff)
SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH
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- ⚡⚛️ Amazon is going nuclear: AWS announced a deal with Dominion Energy to invest $500+ million towards the development of next-gen small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). | ⚡📈 Global electricity demand is growing faster than expected, with supply increasingly coming from emission-free sources, per a new International Energy Agency report.
- 🌕 The closest and largest supermoon of 2024 will light up the night sky tonight; a full moon in October is called a “Hunter’s Moon.”
- 💉 An entrepreneur and recovering drug addict has embarked on a long-shot attempt to bring a fentanyl vaccine to market that helps prevent accidental drug deaths.
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MISCELLANEOUS
- 🚀⚖️ SpaceX is suing California regulators after they rejected the company’s request to allow more rocket launches.
- 🇮🇹 Italy’s government approved a law banning citizens from going abroad to have a baby via surrogacy; the practice is already banned within Italy; while the ban applies to all couples, activists and some lawmakers see it as disproportionately affecting LGBTQ couples.
- 🇺🇸🗳️ The different paths to victory in the 2024 election.
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