In The Know from 1440 Daily Digest
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Philadelphia Phillies top Arizona Diamondbacks 6-1 to take 3-2 lead in NL Championship Series | Texas Rangers top Houston Astros to push AL Championship Series to Game 7
> Screen Actors Guild and TV and film producers to resume negotiations tomorrow as strike passes 100 days | “Taylor Swift: Eras Tour” film tops box office for second weekend, bringing its total domestic box office haul to $130M
> Sir Bobby Charlton, soccer legend who helped lead England to 1966 World Cup victory, dies at 86 | Betsy Rawls, eight-time golf major winner, dies at 95
Science & Technology
> IBM unveils next-generation processor chip for AI applications that performs calculations more quickly while potentially being up to 25 times more energy efficient than existing technology
> Study suggests parasitic worms may have evolved “borrowed” genes from their hosts, which allow them to control their hosts’ movements
> Research links mass die-off of roughly 10 billion snow crabs in the Bering Sea between 2018 and 2021 to marine heat waves; increased temperatures required the animals to quadruple their caloric intake, resulting in widespread starvation
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower Friday (S&P 500 -1.3%, Dow -0.9%, Nasdaq -1.5%); 10-year Treasury yield hits 5% for first time since 2007
> American Express reports record revenue for sixth consecutive quarter; revenue increased to $15.4B in Q3
> Okta shares fall 12% after security software provider announces breach of support system by hackers
Politics & World Affairs
> House Republicans to hear from nine contenders for House speaker nominee at a forum today after Rep. Jim Jordan (R, OH-4) was removed as nominee last week
> At least six dead and 16 injured in Ukraine Saturday after Russian missile strike hits mail depot in the eastern city of Kharkiv | Canada withdraws 41 diplomats from India in latest fallout between the two nations over the killing of a Sikh leader on Canada’s soil
> Hurricane Norma makes landfall on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, while Hurricane Tammy makes landfall on the Caribbean island of Barbuda; both storms made landfall as Category 1 hurricanes
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