📅 Hot Girl Summer is Over…

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🛍 Zoom out: The deals aren’t just at Target – the bullseye brand is one of many retailers aiming to kick off this year’s holiday shopping season before Halloween as supply chain challenges mount.

• Over the past week, Amazon rolled out “Black Friday-worthy” deals across every product category and Best Buy expanded its annual membership program, with one of its key perks being access to hard-to-find holiday items.

⏱️ Procrastinators, beware... Forecasts predict a sharp jump in year-over-year holiday spending, but supply chain woes and labor shortages could lead to shipping delays or more items out of stock than usual. “I’ve been doing this for 43 years and never seen it this bad,” the CEO of toymaker MGA Entertainment told Bloomberg.

📝 The bottom line: Whether you’re gifting an air fryer, Apple Watch, or an awfully hot coffee pot, it may be a good idea to combine your Halloween and holiday shopping this year… as long as the music doesn’t creep up, too.

🎁 … their legal defense, that is. Eighteen former NBA players were arrested yesterday for allegedly carrying out a conspiracy to defraud the league's health care plan of nearly $4 million.

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The nine justices will consider a range of pivotal cases in the upcoming term, which “promises to be among the most momentous in generations,” per Reuters. They include:

1. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (starting Nov. 3): This case regarding a century-old New York gun law questions whether the Second Amendment covers the right to carry firearms outside the home.

• Lower courts have upheld the law, which requires some applicants to demonstrate “proper cause” to receive a conceal-carry license, over the objections of gun-rights advocates who say it violates the Constitution.

2. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dec. 3): This case focuses on a 2018 Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

• The Court will consider whether all rules restricting abortions prior to viability are unconstitutional. Their decision has the potential to overturn nearly five decades of abortion precedent set by Roe v. Wade.

3. Carson v. Makin (Dec. 8): This case challenges Maine’s public education system, which relies on state tuition vouchers for non-religious private schools in areas where there aren’t enough students to justify public schools.

• Parents who prefer religious schools have sued the state, arguing the practice is discriminatory; Maine says it should be viewed as equivalent to operating its own schools, which can’t be religious by law.

👁️ Looking ahead… Next week, the Court will consider a case brought by the Justice Department seeking to reinstate the death penalty for the man convicted of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

🔬 The Answer To Cancer ?

Gerardo Ferbeyre & Sebastian Igelmann (left); A rendering of the enzyme complex named HTC (right); Images: University of Montreal Health Center

🤔 How it works… HTC protects cells from hypoxia, a lack of oxygen that normally leads to their death. The researchers found HTC is often hijacked by certain cancer cells to improve their metabolism and allow them to survive in low-oxygen environments.

• “Most interestingly, inhibition of these enzymes stopped the growth of prostate cancer cells, suggesting that HTC could be a key target to develop new therapeutics for a variety of cancers, including prostate cancer,” said senior author Gerardo Ferbeyre.

👁️ Looking ahead… The scientists' next step will be to come up with a detailed, high-resolution digital structure of the enzyme in order to design drugs able to affect its functions.

Image: Scottish SPCA

Neil and Lucy Henderson’s cat, Forbes, went missing in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2011.

• Desperately searching for their fur baby, the couple was absolutely “distraught” when he never turned up. After nine months of no Forbes, they had accepted the worst – and eventually moved ~100 miles away to Edinburg.

⏩ Fast forward... Last month, they received a call that Forbes had been found less than two miles from where he went missing – ten years after it happened.

• “I recognised him immediately,” shared Neil. “Forbes did give me a big cuddle so I'm hopeful that he remembered us.”

What group of animals, when together, are referred to as an ambush ?

A) Tigers
B) Jaguars
C) Hyenas
D) Leopards

(keep scrolling for the answer)

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A) Tigers

The other collective animal names:

• A shadow of Jaguars
• A cackle of Hyenas
• A leap of Leopards