• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the LensCulture Black & White Awards 2024, with the winning photographers hailing from 22 countries across 5 continents.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -0.9%; Dow: -1.0%; Nasdaq: -1.6%). | 🏡 September home sales fell to their lowest level since 2010; US home sales overall are on track for their worst year since 1995.
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• ✈️ Boeing reported a $6+ billion loss in Q3, its largest since 2020; the company’s striking machinists voted to reject Boeing's latest contract offer (64%–36%). | 🥤 Coca-Cola posted quarterly revenue and earnings that topped expectations.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏈 The Kansas City Chiefs acquired five time All-Pro WR DeAndre Hopkins from the Tennessee Titans for a conditional 5th-round pick.
• ⚖️ Director Roman Polanski, 91, no longer faces a trial over an alleged sexual assault on a minor in 1973 after reaching a settlement, per AFP; Polanski fled the US decades ago after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old in a 1977 plea bargain.
• 🎮 Netflix shut down its Southern California-based video game studio that was focused on producing AAA games; the company still owns five other game studios.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🤖 Microsoft is releasing a suite of autonomous AI models – or "agents" – that can serve as virtual employees for its customers; it’s also giving users the ability to create autonomous agents of their own using Copilot Studio.
• 🚁 The FAA issued a final rule for how electric-powered flying taxis (aka eVTOLs) should be operated, and how pilots will be trained to fly them.
• 🥽 Apple is reportedly scaling back production of its current Vision Pro mixed reality headset to focus on building a cheaper model. | 🎮 Another Apple report: The tech giant is reportedly working on a separate dedicated app store for games, which would rival the Epic Games store.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🚨📈 The FBI recently – and quietly – revised national crime statistics for 2022 to show a 4.5% overall increase in violent crime, instead of a 2.1% decrease the agency first reported last September, per a recent RealClearPolitics report. | 💰🗳️ The Justice Department sent a letter to billionaire Elon Musk’s super PAC warning that its new $1 million/day giveaway in battleground states may violate federal law.
• 🍔🦠 One-fifth of US McDonald's restaurants have temporarily stopped selling Quarter Pounders due to an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 49 people and killed one.
• 🇰🇵🇷🇺 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed the US has evidence North Korea sent at least 3,000 military troops to Russia to aid in its war with Ukraine, affirming accusations made by Ukraine and South Korea in recent days. | 🇹🇷 A major defense facility in Turkey experienced what officials are calling a terrorist attack that killed five people and wounded 22 others. | 💥 Hezbollah confirmed that a top official widely expected to be the militant group’s next leader was killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month.

CLICKBAIT

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