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An Amazon cargo plane barreled off the runway at Miami International late Saturday, killing at least five in one of the deadliest US cargo aviation incidents in years. Debris scattered across a service road as the aircraft came to rest against a perimeter fence at low speed.

NTSB investigators arrived early Sunday and began working to reconstruct the cargo manifest, runway sensor logs, and cockpit voice recorder. Amazon paused Prime Air operations in and out of MIA through Monday as officials clear the site and interview crew and ground personnel.

An armed man charged toward Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, at the state fair Saturday before law enforcement stopped him short. Acton was unharmed, and her security team hustled her away in one of the highest-profile political-violence moments of the 2026 cycle.

State police charged the man with felony assault and multiple weapons violations, and prosecutors are considering enhanced charges under Ohio's political-intimidation statute. Acton's campaign said she will continue her fair-circuit tour with expanded security this week.

Newly surfaced videos in the ongoing 9/11 civil lawsuit reveal deeper links between a Saudi government employee and two of the hijackers than had been previously documented. Attorneys received the footage, filmed in the late 1990s in Los Angeles, as part of long-running discovery in the case.

Saudi Arabia has consistently denied state involvement in the attacks, and Riyadh's lawyers said the videos do not establish government responsibility. Plaintiffs' attorneys said the footage will support their argument at trial that the Saudi state should be held liable for damages.

At least six are dead, and dozens are feared trapped after a five-story hostel collapsed in Delhi, with eyewitnesses estimating two to four dozen residents were inside when it came down. Rescue teams are digging through rubble as families gather at the site.

Australia will let users switch off social media algorithms under legislation coming to parliament this year, a first-of-its-kind right in the world. Tech companies said the rule is technically enforceable but warned it will meaningfully reshape how they serve ads.

Jamaica has formally petitioned King Charles III for slavery reparations from Britain, bypassing normal channels through the Foreign Office. Jamaican officials asked Charles to acknowledge Britain's institutional role in the transatlantic slave trade and to endorse a formal reparations framework.

New Agriculture Department programs meant to steady cattle ranchers have failed to move retail beef prices, which remain near record highs after President Trump promised expanded imports. Herd sizes are at multi-decade lows, so don't expect quick relief at the grocery counter.

Remnants of Hurricane Marie sent huge waves and dangerous currents crashing into Southern California beaches over the weekend, forcing multiple closures and prompting emergency water rescues. Lifeguards from San Diego to Ventura pulled dozens of swimmers from rip currents by Sunday afternoon.

The SEC sued Institutional Shareholder Services on Sunday, escalating the Trump administration's push to bring proxy advisers under stricter oversight. Corporate governance experts said the case could reshape how large asset managers vote on shareholder proposals across every S&P 500 annual meeting.

The NYPD is reviewing two fatal police shootings within seven days, one at Times Square and one on the Brooklyn Bridge approach, both involving officers confronting people in mental health crises. The cases will test the department's crisis-response protocols and the Manhattan DA's approach to use-of-force reviews.

US 30-year Treasury yields pushed toward 4.8% Monday as fiscal-sustainability concerns spilled into equities, mortgage-backed securities, and dollar-priced commodities. Treasury Secretary Bessent said he does not expect long-end yields to break through 5% but declined to rule anything out.

Jaguar Land Rover said Monday it will cut thousands of jobs in a $2.3 billion cost-saving overhaul, squeezed between Chinese EVs and US tariffs. JLR shares dropped 4% in London on the announcement, with executives promising further restructuring by year-end.

Sugar futures have outperformed the S&P 500 this year, surging last week after monsoon damage and Brazilian supply concerns hit global inventories. Traders expect more upside if India tightens exports, which would ripple into everything from packaged food margins to biofuel pricing.

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Multiple companies, including SpaceX, are pushing to place data centers in orbit, citing free solar power, vacuum cooling, and reduced land competition. Reality has other ideas: launch costs, latency, servicing physics, and heat dissipation without atmosphere all remain unsolved.

A wearable monitor helped researchers detect primary aldosteronism, a treatable hormone disorder driving high blood pressure in potentially millions of patients missed by standard tests. If screening expands, it could reshape how hypertension is diagnosed rather than simply medicated for life.

One of the world's largest logistics companies is fitting a cargo ship with modern rigid sails, joining a small but growing fleet using wind assist to trim fuel bills and emissions. The tech can cut fuel use by up to 20 percent on the right routes — a rare bright spot for shipping.

The NFL extended Roger Goodell's contract four more years Saturday, keeping the commissioner in place through the next media-rights and international expansion cycle. Owners voted unanimously despite years of criticism over player conduct enforcement and stadium financing controversies.

Mookie Betts hit a late home run to rally the Dodgers past the Nationals 7-5 on Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles. Betts's blast capped a three-run rally that flipped a two-run deficit and kept the Dodgers atop the NL West.

Ben Shelton reached the US Open quarterfinals with a dominant three-set win Sunday, giving American men their strongest draw at Flushing in more than a decade. Shelton faces Frances Tiafoe in an all-American quarterfinal after Tiafoe dispatched Valentin Vacherot earlier in the day.

Taylor Fritz blew a two-set lead against Francisco Cerundolo Sunday night, exiting the US Open before the quarterfinals. Cerundolo battled back through the third, fourth, and fifth sets to win the match in nearly five hours.

The four original leads of "The Inbetweeners" are back for a Netflix reunion, with production kicking off in the UK this week. Producers said the film picks up with the characters roughly 15 years after the show's original run ended.

'Making Marie Antoinette,' the late Eleanor Coppola's intimate documentary about daughter Sofia's 2006 film, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival to strong reviews. It arrives amid renewed conversation about the shortage of female directors on the fall festival circuit.

Apple TV's "Widow's Bay" took eight awards on night two of the Creative Arts Emmys, installing it as the comedy frontrunner before the September 14 telecast. Apple collected eighteen Emmys overall, with "Pluribus" winning four and a posthumous award going to Rob Reiner.

What it is: The AI data-center buildout is transforming rural US land markets at a pace no comparable land-use shift has produced in decades, as hyperscalers race to lock down farmland, timber tracts, and lake frontage near cheap power and dense fiber lines. Land prices in some Virginia, Ohio, and Georgia counties have doubled inside eighteen months, and local land-use fights are escalating from town-hall meetings into ballot initiatives.

The detail: A single hyperscale data center can occupy 200-800 acres and consume the electricity of a mid-sized city, and the pattern of land assembly — quiet options through anonymous LLCs, followed by rapid rezoning requests — has left farmers and small-town officials feeling outmaneuvered by counterparties with unlimited capital. Developers frame the projects as economic wins with major tax bases and construction employment, but the operating footprints leave communities with 20 to 30 permanent jobs and long-term water and grid commitments they never wrote into their comprehensive plans.

Why it matters: Rural land conversion at this speed rewrites who owns America's productive countryside and who benefits from the AI economy over the next generation. Institutional and corporate buyers now account for double the farmland transfers they did five years ago, and state legislators in Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, and Indiana are drafting bills to restrict LLC-based land assembly or require public disclosure of end-use before rezoning.

What to watch: Whether any of the state bills pass before the 2027 sessions that would restrict anonymous LLC land buying, and whether the largest hyperscalers begin voluntarily disclosing land-acquisition strategies to blunt the political backlash. Residential utility rates are the other signal to watch — data-center load in Ohio has already forced regulators to flag potential rate hikes on ordinary households, and the political fallout of a first tangible rate increase would land right in the middle of a midterm cycle.

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