Demand for engagement rings gave thousands of South Africans steady work at De Beers. Now, weak sales and lab-grown stones are taking it away.

The Wall Street Journal

Diamond Mines Are Closing and South Africans Have Few Alternatives - WSJ

Call me old-fashioned, but I kinda miss when Halloween candy hit shelves in late September those devilishly delicious pumpkin-shaped peanut butter cups always felt like the true start of fall. We're … [+30621 chars]

These major Labor Day deals on top brands are tough to pass up — we found big savings on fall style must-haves, smart TVs, vacuums, kitchenware and more.

Yahoo Entertainment

Amazon Labor Day sales worth adding to your cart: Deals from Apple, Hanes, Dyson and more are up to 70% off - Yahoo

A passenger aboard a Newark, New Jersey-bound American Airlines flight was duct-taped to his seat on Thursday and later arrested after allegedly hurling racial slurs at staff and fighting with anothe… [+2042 chars]

A passenger aboard a Newark, New Jersey-bound American Airlines flight was duct-taped to his seat on Thursday and later arrested after allegedly hurling racial slurs at staff and fighting with another man. The passenger was “thrashing around” in his seat as t…

NBC News

Man duct-taped to plane seat after hurling slurs and attacking other passenger, witness says - NBC News

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump has spent 20 months promising that America was on the cusp of an economic boom. But Fridays surprisingly positive jobs report ultimately provoked frustration fr… [+6299 chars]

President Donald Trump has been promising an economic boom, but Friday's positive jobs report left him frustrated. He vented about inflation and interest rates, blaming financial markets, the Federal Reserve, and trade partners. Trump dismissed the idea that …

Associated Press

Trump keeps heralding an economic boom, but even a solid jobs report is causing problems for him - apnews.com

Checkers &amp; Rally’s is leaning into value as Americans remain squeezed by higher everyday expenses, with the fast-food chain’s CEO saying consumers’ demand for affordability has intensified over t… [+6260 chars]

Checkers & Rally’s CEO Chris Tebben says consumers continue to prioritize affordable fast-food meals as inflation and higher everyday expenses shape dining decisions

Fox Business

Checkers & Rally’s CEO says Americans’ demand for fast-food value is 'intensifying' - Fox Business

A drill rig stands at a Fervo Energy geothermal site under construction near Milford, Utah, Nov. 26, 2023.
MILFORD, Utah Deep in the Utah desert, down miles of gravel roads and hours from a major ci… [+8479 chars]

Power demand in the U.S. is rising. Fervo Energy bets that its project in Utah will prove that enhanced geothermal can be part of the power mix going forward.

CNBC

This enhanced geothermal project aims to unlock gigawatts of power to fuel the data center boom - CNBC

The GM Defense Infantry Squad Vehicle was engineered to meet U.S. military specifications. It is based on the automaker's off-road Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 midsize truck architecture.
DETROIT General … [+7909 chars]

General Motors and Ford are looking for new potential growth areas, including by seeking military contracts and getting into energy storage businesses.

GM vs. Ford: U.S. defense, energy sectors add to automakers' century-old rivalry - CNBC

Employers are increasingly turning to the 401(k) playbook to boost their workers' uptake of health savings accounts.
HSAs are tax-advantaged accounts that carry powerful financial benefits relative … [+4427 chars]

More employers are automatically enrolling workers into health savings accounts and paying contributions like a "match."

With HSAs, employers are turning to the 401(k) playbook - CNBC

College football season is kicking off and some young athletes taking the field around the country will be seeing an influx of income from name, image and likeness (NIL) and revenue sharing deals, wh… [+5844 chars]

College football athletes earning NIL and revenue sharing income face new financial challenges. A wealth advisor explains tax planning, saving strategies and building smart habits.

Why college athletes should 'live like college students' despite six-figure NIL deals - Fox Business

The short answer to the question of whether a market crash is coming is yes. It's a trick question and answer, of course, because there's bound to be a market crash at some point, but no one can tell… [+4332 chars]

It pays to listen to one of the world's best investors.

Motley Fool

If a Market Crash Is Coming, Here's the 1 Thing You Should Do, According to Warren Buffett - Yahoo Finance

An MTA construction flagger with only 11 months on the job was killed by a passing D train Thursday night, officials said.
The death of Moet McCullum, 41, marks the second deadly incident involving … [+1902 chars]

Moet McCullum is the second construction flagger killed in the subways in three years.

Gothamist

MTA worker killed by D train near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx - Gothamist

The Labor Department's latest 10-year jobs forecast has a clear loser: word processors and typists. And a clear winner: nurse practitioners. The agency's report attempts to factor in how AI and other… [+181 chars]

Labor Department has good news for nurse practitioners, bad news for word processors

Newser

These Jobs Are Expected to Grow Over 10 Years - Newser

News Quiz for September 5, 2026 - WSJ

They're both electric trucks made by Ford in the U.S., but that's one of the few things the new Ford Fathom and retired Ford F-150 Lightning have in common. The Fathom is not a direct replacement for… [+1354 chars]

The Lightning was based on the F-150's body-on-frame construction, while the Fathom was designed from the ground up as an EV made of three large parts.

Jalopnik

Ford Fathom Will Be More Than Just An F-150 Lightning Do-Over - Jalopnik

TheStreet

Jim Cramer has a blunt message for Amazon stock investors - thestreet.com

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026,… [+7437 chars]

Autonomous agents identifying as OpenAI systems used a German wiki to coordinate a timed web task and share a sandbox bypass.

Internet

Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel - The Hacker News

Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing days before the U.S. midterm elections in November, people familiar with t… [+1874 chars]

The artificial intelligence company had been expected to make its IPO prospectus public as early as next week, two sources told Reuters.

Anthropic IPO launch shifts toward mid-October: Reuters - cnbc.com

Cavatoni, of the World Gold Council, said one standard approach to move gold stocks was to sell the commodity in one place and buy it in another. "Let's say I want my gold in New York and I have it i… [+169 chars]

The Netherlands has relocated 86 tonnes of the shiny stuff - what's going on?

BBC News

Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America? - bbc.com

Novartis’ Ionis-partnered drug designed to lower levels of Lp(a), a known cardiovascular risk factor,