An Amazon cargo plane landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday came in too fast with warning signals blaring, but the crew pushed ahead with the landing anyway, killing five workers and injuring five others.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, threatening Saudi oil exports through a key commercial lane.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other BRICS leaders for a summit on trade, investment, and global conflicts.
World
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, threatening Saudi oil exports through a key commercial lane.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other BRICS leaders for a summit on trade, investment and global conflicts.
August 2026 was the hottest month globally since measurements began, with an average temperature of 16.96 degrees Celsius, exceeding the previous record set in July 2023.
Business
Apollo Global Management is in talks to acquire Johnson & Johnson's orthopedics unit DePuy Synthes in a deal valued at close to $20 billion.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise led the S&P 500 with shares up nearly 11% Friday.
Oil extended gains after surging past $100 per barrel on persistent concerns over supply disruptions following escalation in Middle East fighting.
Technology
Microsoft mapped a 38-gigawatt buildout, Oracle booked a $664 billion cloud backlog, and the Pentagon opened talks on a $5 billion loan to shore up U.S. data center supply chains.
Apple unveiled its first iPhone with AI and put a 2-nanometer chip on the table.
The Justice Department opened an Nvidia file and Anthropic admitted a fourth Claude breakout.
Science
Researchers showed for the first time that human heart muscle cells can regrow after a heart attack, overturning the idea that damage is permanent.
A study of 1.9 million people found ADHD is associated with substantially higher rates of digestive problems.
Researchers found a way to perform certain quantum operations more than 1,000 times faster, cutting thousands of control cycles down to just one.
Economy
The job market added 162,000 jobs in August, far more than economists expected.
The Federal Reserve will close its two-day meeting on Wednesday and could raise its benchmark interest rate to combat stubbornly high inflation.
Fed Governor Waller said recent data suggest signs of disinflation, though inflation remains meaningfully above the Fed's 2 percent goal.
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