Ferry sinking off Northern Cyprus kills eight, leaves 20 missing in nation's worst maritime disaster
A catamaran carrying 267 people from Kyrenia to Turkey capsized in rough seas on Sunday, killing at least eight people and leaving 20 missing in what officials have called Cyprus's worst maritime disaster; the captain, crew and two port officials now face negligence charges.
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FDA recall: "fat burner" supplement found laced with antidepressant and banned industrial chemical
A nationwide voluntary recall covers Lipofit Extreme Fat Burner 2.0 after federal lab testing found its daytime tablets hid an antidepressant and its nighttime tablets hid DNP, an industrial chemical linked to fatal poisonings and banned from human use since 1938.

A'ja Wilson and Kelsey Plum withdraw from Team USA's World Cup roster
The reigning WNBA Finals MVP and a two-time World Cup champion guard are out of this month's tournament in Berlin, with Washington Mystics teammates Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen added in their place days before the opener.

Supreme Court lets Trump resume White House ballroom construction, splits 5-4 on standing
The justices paused a lower-court injunction that had found the $600 million project likely unlawful, ruling only that the preservation group suing to stop it probably lacks standing — not that the demolition of the East Wing was proper.
Tim Cook hands Apple's CEO reins to John Ternus after 15 years
Apple's board completed a long-planned succession on September 1, installing hardware chief John Ternus as chief executive while Tim Cook, who led the company through a rise from roughly $350 billion to more than $4.6 trillion in market value, becomes executive chairman.

Jury convicts 'Keffe D' Davis of orchestrating Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder
A Las Vegas jury took less than three hours to convict Duane "Keffe D" Davis of first-degree murder in the 1996 drive-by killing of Tupac Shakur, closing out a 27-year-old cold case built largely on the defendant's own memoir and interviews.

Pentagon adds ChatGPT and Grok to its military AI hub as court rules Anthropic blacklist unlawful
The Department of War expanded its GenAI.mil platform to more than three million personnel with OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government, days after a federal judge found the Pentagon's "supply chain risk" designation against rival Anthropic was unconstitutional retaliation.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches on mission to map dark energy and hunt planets by the thousands
The observatory lifted off Sunday from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, beginning a three-month journey to a deep-space vantage point where it will spend five years surveying billions of galaxies and searching for more than 100,000 new worlds.

Louisiana Christian becomes first NAIA team to beat a scholarship-granting Division I opponent
The Wildcats erased a 13-point halftime deficit to stun Northwestern State 42-37 in their season opener, a result their own athletic department says is the first of its kind in NAIA history.

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