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In Best Medicine a brilliant surgeon leaves Boston to become a small-town doctor where he spent childhood summers. Despite his medical skills, his rude manner alienates locals as he battles hidden phobias and struggles with personal connections. The premiere, "Be Careful What You Fish For": While Martin continues to struggle with his blood phobia, a mermaid washes ashore in Port Wenn to the amazement of everyone in town. Meanwhile, Judith, a well-meaning townsperson creates havoc while on prescribed oxygen, Louisa continues to see Martin's girlfriend Eden for medical guidance and Greg and George's success from the seas urchin boom take its toll on the both of them. Season 2 starts on FOX.

A 236-acre plant that will make the active ingredient of Lilly's Foundayo weight-loss pill, with more than 600 permanent jobs and about 4,000 construction jobs. Lilly expects it running by 2030.

Prediction-market traders expected Anthropic to ship the successor to Claude Opus 5 (released July 24, 2026) within days. On 19 September 2026 Polymarket's per-day market made September 21 the single likeliest day at 31%, ahead of September 22 at 25%, and its deadline market gave a release by September 30 an 83% chance and by October 31 98%. Anthropic had not announced the model; the “Opus 5.1” name comes from leaked early-access identifiers and early tester reports.

Amazon pledges $20 million and launches the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, a corporate coalition with Aldi, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Ecolab and others that aims to raise $100 million for water projects across the basin in two years.

Ferrero and its unions fixed the 2025/2026 objectives-linked bonus for about 7,000 Italian employees at between 2,426 and 2,555 euros gross per site, paid with October 2026 wages, after targets were more than 90% met.

Red Line Club members voted for a Spectraflame purple Porsche 959 with the debut of gold-hubbed Real Riders BB wheels, sold made-to-order at $28 on Mattel Creations until 6 October.

Qualcomm unveiled two flagship phone chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026 - the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 - on a 2 nm process with 5 GHz Oryon cores, the X105 modem and Wi-Fi 8, for phones from Xiaomi, OnePlus, OPPO, vivo, Honor and Motorola.

World leaders address the UN General Assembly Hall in New York from 22 to 28 September 2026, as Assembly President Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh opens the 81st session's debate and António Guterres gives his final address as Secretary-General.

When a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty, a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy as a family of law enforcement agents become the target of a mysterious assassin. Bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries, the Hollingsworth family must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice... even if it means betraying their sworn code. The premiere, "Pilot": A family of law enforcement agents investigate a double homicide involving a U.S. Marshal. A mysterious murder hits close to home, forcing the Hollingsworths to focus on protecting each other as a family. Season 1 starts on NBC.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new Claude 5.5 family, which it says matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Alaska's final tally put the 2026 Bristol Bay sockeye run at 45.7 million fish and the catch at 30.1 million, the first run under 50 million since 2014, though the salmon were worth $264.0 million to fishermen.

George Lucas's museum of narrative art opens to the public on 22 September 2026 in Exposition Park, after a build that ran years past its first target date. It is given over to storytelling as art - illustration, comics, film and the painted image side by side - rather than to a single medium, and it lands beside the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center in the city's museum quarter.

The ZET SCALE shipper alliance, backed by Microsoft and PepsiCo, picked Tesla as primary supplier for 2,500 battery-electric Class 8 trucks, the largest US electric truck order, nearly doubling the country's electric heavy-truck fleet.

Qualcomm agreed to acquire PickNik, the Boulder robotics software company behind the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework, promising to keep MoveIt open while tying it closely to Dragonwing robotics chips and Arduino boards.

TSMC's 18th Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum brings chip designers, EDA and IP partners and customers to the Santa Clara Convention Center on 23 September, opening a global series that ends in Israel in December.

The Monaco Yacht Show's 2026 edition, likely its 35th, opens at Port Hercule the week of 23 September.

Google releases two text-to-speech models that design new voices from a written description, clone a voice from a 30-second sample with the owner's recorded consent, and take line-by-line acting direction in more than 100 languages.

Doc centers on the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Larsen, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she's treated, colleagues she's crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away. She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience. The premiere, "Wherefore Art Thou": On Amy and Sonya's first day as Co-Chief Resident, they must coach a fresh crop of interns through a mysterious case that seems to defy medical logic. Jake and TJ adjust to new roles within the hospital. Meanwhile, Dr. Ben Grant returns to Westside with a secret plan to reshape the Surgical Department. Season 3 starts on FOX.

Moroccans voted from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday 23 September 2026 for all 395 seats in the House of Representatives, and turnout was 38.02%, down from 50.35% in 2021. It was the first national vote since the deadly youth-led Gen Z protests; results are due from 24 September.

Brothers is a heartfelt odd couple love story revolving around the strange and beautiful bond between Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Matthew and Woody's friendship is tested when their combined families attempt to live together on Matthew's ranch in Texas. Season 1 starts on Apple TV.

Qualcomm launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 at Snapdragon Summit 2026, an audio-wearable platform with twice its predecessor's AI capability, micro-power Wi-Fi 6E for direct-to-cloud assistants and support for camera-equipped earbuds and audio glasses.