* Three Americans and 34 others sentenced to death over coup attempt in Congo  CNN
* Briton and Americans among 37 given death sentence over DRC coup attempt  The Guardian
* DR Congo military court sentences 37 to death in coup trial  Al Jazeera English
* Three US citizens sentenced to death in Congo over role in failed coup  Reuters
* British plumber and three Americans sentenced to death over coup plot  The Times


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* Bomb threats force second consecutive day of school closures in Springfield, Ohio  NBC News
* Ohio town at center of GOP pet-eating conspiracy evacuates multiple schools  Axios
* Springfield school evacuated, Ohio BMV locations and county offices closed  WDTN.com
* John Legend, a Springfield, Ohio native, denounces false claims about migrants and pets, asks grace for our "Haitian brothers and sisters"  CBS News
* Francis Ford Coppola Says Donald Trump’s Comments About Pet-Eating Immigrants Are “So Outrageously Insulting”  Hollywood Reporter


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* SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts beam photos to Earth using Starlink satellites  Space.com
* First Private Spacewalk in SpaceX Capsule Achieves New Milestone  The New York Times
* Jared Isaacman Completes First Private Spacewalk on Space X’s Polaris Dawn Mission  Reason
* Billionaire takes first commercial spacewalk  Al Jazeera English
* Jared Isaacman: 11 spacewalks wey make history  BBC.com


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* Microsoft Layoffs Hit Call of Duty Warzone Mobile, Which ‘Didn't Hit as Big as Hoped’  IGN
* Microsoft to cut 650 jobs at its Xbox gaming unit — read the full memo from top exec Phil Spencer  CNBC
* Microsoft Gaming to Lay Off 3% of Global Workforce, About 650 Employees, in Additional Post-Activision Blizzard Cuts  Variety
* Microsoft Gaming makes another 650 job cuts in third round of Xbox layoffs this year  GeekWire
* Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil isn’t slowing down  The Verge


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* Springfield bomb threat used ‘hateful’ language toward migrants, Haitians, mayor says  The Washington Post
* When Political Memes Take on a Lie of Their Own  The New York Times
* JD Vance ate my dog and Elon Musk ate my cat. Will Trump address this very real issue?  USA TODAY
* Springfield school evacuated, Ohio BMV locations and county offices closed  WDTN.com
* Before Trump, neo-Nazis pushed false claims about Haitians as part of hate campaign  NBC News


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* Sundance Sets Three Cities as Finalists for Future Home of Film Festival  Hollywood Reporter
* Cincinnati named as one of 3 finalists to land prestigious film festival in 2027  WLWT Cincinnati
* Sundance reveals three finalists to host festival starting in 2027  Axios
* Then There Were Three: Sundance Shaves Contenders For 2027 Relocation Down To Final Hopefuls  Deadline
* Utah among top 3 finalists for future Sundance Film Festival home  FOX 13 News Utah


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* Time keeps on slippin’ (and tripping) in snappy, sappy coming-of-age My Old Ass  The A.V. Club
* ‘My Old Ass’ Review: Aubrey Plaza Arrives From the Future  The Wall Street Journal
* My Old Ass dodges the usual time-travel movie problems, with good reason  Polygon
* Next Big Thing: ‘Nashville’ Child Star Maisy Stella Grows Up  Hollywood Reporter
* ‘My Old Ass’ Review: If She Could Turn Back Time  The New York Times


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* Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say  CNN
* DNA of 'Thorin,' one of the last Neanderthals, finally sequenced, revealing inbreeding and 50,000 years of genetic isolation  Livescience.com
* Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia  New Scientist
* Neanderthal Lineage Was Isolated For an Astonishing 50,000 Years  ScienceAlert
* Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, our research shows  The Conversation Indonesia


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* Microsoft Gaming to Lay Off 3% of Global Workforce, About 650 Employees, in Additional Post-Activision Blizzard Cuts  Variety
* Microsoft Lays Off 650 Videogame Workers  The Wall Street Journal
* Microsoft to cut 650 jobs at its Xbox gaming unit — read the full memo from top exec Phil Spencer  CNBC
* Microsoft Lays Off Another 650 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Sends Memo to Staff  IGN
* Microsoft Lays Off 650 XBox Staffers  The Information


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* CNBC Daily Open: Moving past sticky core inflation  CNBC
* Here's the inflation breakdown for August 2024 — in one chart  CNBC
* Housing is the main inflation problem  Axios
* Inflation Numbers Resolve What the Debate Couldn’t  Bloomberg
* Inflation slowed in August, paving way for interest rate cut  ABC News


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