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A charter aircraft carrying two pilots and six passengers crashed Thursday at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport in western Alaska, about 450 miles west of Anchorage, killing everyone on board. NTSB Alaska chief Clint Johnson confirmed the occupancy, and investigators face a difficult recovery on remote terrain far from any road system.

The cause is not yet known, and the aircraft type has not been released. Radar-site airstrips like Cape Newenham are used mostly for military and government logistics, which will shape both the response and the eventual investigation.

Walmart reported fiscal Q2 revenue up 5.9% with global e-commerce jumping 23%, and raised its full-year outlook — but US comparable sales rose just 2.6% versus the 3.5% analysts had modeled, and the stock closed roughly 9% lower Thursday. Price caps on certain drugs shaved 0.8 points from health-and-wellness, according to CFO John David Rainey.

Rainey told CNBC the company's business is "strong" and that tariff refunds helped the quarter. Wall Street reacted more to the softer comp number and the sales guide than to the raised outlook, sending shares to their worst day in months.

The Panama Canal Authority told shipping firms Thursday it will cut daily transits from 36 to 32 vessels starting September 15, citing low rainfall from a strong El Niño pattern amplified by climate change. The authority said the change is meant to preserve service reliability and water reserves for human consumption.

Move lands on an industry already dealing with severely reduced Strait of Hormuz traffic during the Iran war. Shippers now face two chokepoints running well below capacity at the same time.

Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, were convicted of inciting subversion under Hong Kong's national security law. Each faces up to 10 years in prison, and Amnesty International said the case rests on vague, overly broad and arbitrary definitions of subversion.

State media in China now put the Typhoon Maysak toll at 159 dead and 10 missing, a month after reporting just 39. Flooding from the collapse of six dams in Nanning caused 107 of those deaths, and Guigang alone estimates $2 billion in direct damage.

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Peru's Ayacucho region at around 1 p.m. local time Thursday, USGS said, felt across Ica, Arequipa, Huancavelica, Apurímac, Cusco, and Lima. Civil Defense head Luis Vásquez reported two injuries during evacuations, and no immediate reports of major structural damage.

Severe storms hit the Northeast Thursday, with a possible tornado tearing apart a beach club at Atlantic Beach on Long Island and flash flooding stranding drivers in Jersey City. First responders ran water rescues as social-media video showed airborne debris moving through several communities.

Minnesota reported 23 people sick with E. coli or salmonella tied to a specific alfalfa-sprouts producer, with two hospitalized and one patient carrying both bacteria. Wisconsin has identified another 18 cases, and public-health officials say three distinct E. coli strains in a single outbreak is unusual.

An Alabama jury found that The New York Times defamed basketball player Kai Spears in a 2023 story about a fatal Tuscaloosa shooting. Spears was wrongly described as a passenger in a car at the scene, and the paper corrected the report days later with an editor's note.

Bond yields kept climbing overnight, and spot gold rose 0.64% to $4,546.88 an ounce, heading for a third straight weekly gain. Asia finished mixed with the Nikkei down 0.30% and the Kospi up 0.88%, while Brent crude slipped to $93.42 a barrel.

Samsung Electronics unveiled a shareholder-return plan of 90 to 110 trillion won — roughly $65 billion to $80 billion — with about 30 trillion won earmarked as Q3 cash dividends. Move follows an SK Hynix buyback as Korean memory makers ride the AI hardware boom.

Pop Mart shares fell Thursday after first-half results showed a drop in Labubu sales across Asia and the Americas, and Citi cut its price target. Home-market strength has been carrying the plush-and-vinyl brand's global growth, and the ex-China cooldown is the first real crack.

Scientists now classify the mysterious "little red dots" in James Webb telescope images as a genuinely distinct object: black hole stars. Researchers say the finding could resolve long-standing puzzles about how supermassive black holes grew so enormous so early in the universe.

A deep-learning system trained on the academic-to-patent pipeline aims to give venture investors early signals on which papers will end up cited in commercial patents. Researchers behind it warn that the model may reinforce existing biases toward well-cited labs and famous institutions.

Humans still perform most tasks better than China's newest humanoid robots, makers conceded days after Unitree's 460% IPO-day surge and 18.7% slide. Keenon's Wan Bin says reaching 99.9% task completion is the real engineering barrier, and his firm has already shipped over 100,000 robots.

Jacob deGrom struck out 10 over six shutout innings Thursday, reaching 2,000 career strikeouts in the second-fewest games in history. Texas beat Washington 2-0 behind a combined one-hitter, trimming Houston's lead in the AL West to a single game.

Zach Neto went 5-for-6 with his 21st home run and a career-high seven RBI in an 18-3 demolition of Houston on Thursday night. Los Angeles piled up a season-high 18 hits, its biggest offensive night since a 25-1 win over Colorado in June 2023.

Angel Reese was perfect from the field — nine shots, nine makes, 20 points, 10 rebounds, five assists — as the Atlanta Dream ran the Sparks off the floor in a 36-point rout in Los Angeles. Rhyne Howard added 26 points on 5-of-8 from three, and Nneka Ogwumike had 11 and 6 in the loss.

Gerrit Cole went six innings of one-run ball with eight strikeouts and one walk on 93 pitches, and Luis Garcia Jr. added three hits including a double, a triple, and three RBIs as the Yankees knocked off the Orioles 6-1. Ryan Yarbrough closed the door with three hitless innings and four strikeouts.

Chris Hansen walked out of a private A24 screening of "Primetime" on Thursday after refusing to sign a release. Pattinson portrays the veteran "To Catch a Predator" host in Lance Oppenheim's film, which premieres at the Venice Film Festival.

Dave Bautista has been officially cast as Kratos in Amazon Prime Video's forthcoming "God of War" series, replacing Ryan Hurst after Hurst suffered an on-set injury. The former WWE star has been publicly lobbying for the role since 2018.

Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is releasing a third solo album rooted in his childhood in Nephi, Utah, and has revealed he isn't sure fame is worth it anymore. Cites Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and John Conlee as formative influences on the new country-leaning record.

What it is: England now has roughly 1.1 million people with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis on their GP records, up from about 700,000 three years ago. The same three-letter label covers Greta Thunberg, Robbie Williams's recent self-description of "a bit of autism," and 34-year-old James Fitzpatrick, who has a learning disability, does not talk, and needs constant care.

The detail: ASD as currently defined captures core differences in communication and behavior, but nothing in the diagnosis specifies the level of support a person needs. Clinicians tell the BBC that the sharp diagnostic growth is partly better recognition — especially in girls and women — and partly a broader cultural relabeling as social norms shift around neurodiversity. The same trend has arrived in schools, workplaces, and hiring pipelines, where "autistic" now describes wildly different lived experiences with very different needs.

Why it matters: Broad umbrella diagnoses draw scarce funding toward people with the loudest voice and away from those most dependent on services. Families of adults like Fitzpatrick worry that public conversation increasingly centers on late-diagnosed high-functioning adults, while care systems for people with severe support needs stall. Some clinicians want the DSM and ICD to split ASD into narrower categories that make service allocation and research cleaner; others argue the umbrella is what has made progress on rights and inclusion possible.

What to watch: Watch whether the next DSM revision reopens the "levels of support" language that lower-functioning families say never made it into practice. Watch what the UK's autism-services waiting lists — now over the two-year mark in some regions — do to the political salience of the debate. And watch schools and employers, where the mismatch between the label and the individual is doing the most real-time damage on both sides of the spectrum.

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