The Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Edition
GOP Opens Midterm Convention, Apple Readies $2,000 Foldable, and Fat Bear Week
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105.3 mph
The record-setting velocity of Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz's throw, which robbed the Dodgers' Teoscar Hernandez of an inside-the-park home run. No throw that fast had ever been recorded -- for scale, it's roughly 35 mph faster than most U.S. highway speed limits.
Source: Bleacher Report
Friday, Sept. 11: The US marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks with somber commemorations and national security retrospectives.
Friday: Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe meet in an all-American US Open men's semifinal in New York.
- 1776The Continental Congress officially names the new nation the 'United States'
- 1850California is admitted to the Union as the 31st state
- 1947Engineers find a moth in Harvard's Mark II computer, logging the first literal computer 'bug'
- 1956Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
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There's a Hot New Egg-Freezing Startup. It's Weirder Than You Could Imagine
How Cofertility, a hot new egg-freezing startup, built a business model weirder than you could imagine.
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'Constantly on my mind' - 9/11 agony endures for bereaved, 25 years on
Why the grief of families bereaved on 9/11 endures, in their own words, 25 years after the attacks.
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