~Bitcoin News of the Day

• Christian Angermayer claimed the United Kingdom’s latest tax proposal for non-doms would be a “huge mistake” and be “a bigger act of national self-harm than Brexit.” Christian Angermayer has reportedly left the United Kingdom for Switzerland’s Bitcoin hub, Lugano, citing the UK’s plans to raise taxes on offshore wealth.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• The federal government postponed an auction of floating offshore wind leases off the Oregon coast on Friday after developers said they wouldn't bid and the state's governor asked that all leasing activities stop.

~Politics_and_Law

• Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria's new chancellor. He has used the term "Volkskanzler," or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Kickl has rejected the comparison.

~Stacker_Sports News

• It has been 186 days since opening day, but just when you thought it was last call Sunday, the lights are staying on for another day, extending the National League wild-card drama until Monday. While we wait to see who emerges from the scrum to fill out the postseason, and fascinated to see how Ohtani performs in his first postseason, here are our 2024 award winners, leaving you readily agreeing or screaming into the night.

~Tech & ~Science

• Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab has left negotiations to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected to raise about $6.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday. The tech giant recently fell out of the talks for the round, set to close next week, the newspaper said, citing a person familiar with the matter.

~History with Mystery

• The date was September 29, 1954, the location: New York's Polo Grounds. The occasion: Game 1 of the 1954 World Series between the Giants, the home team and champions of the National League, and the Cleveland Indians, a club that had won an incredible 111 out of 154 games to take the American League pennant. The event: an acrobatic catch and throw by Giants center fielder Willie Mays. Was it the best play in the sport’s history?

~Entertainment World

• “Saturday Night Live” began its 50th season with a parade of former co-stars, including Maya Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris, Andy Samberg as her husband Doug Emhoff and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden.