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St. Paul – September 19, 2026 -- Rasmussen University, part of American Public University System, will confer credentials on nearly 6,200 graduates during its 2026 Minnesota Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, marking the institution's third and final commencement of the year.

Graduates span 32 states and eight academic disciplines

Attendees registered for the in-person ceremony represent 32 states and Washington, D.C., underscoring the university's national student base despite operating 20 physical campuses. The Class of 2025-2026 completed programs across nursing, health sciences, business, education, human services, justice studies, design and technology. Nearly 20% of graduates are earning a second or additional degree from Rasmussen, pointing to sustained demand for repeat credentialing among working adults.

Englewood, Colo. – September 19, 2026 -- Mission Telecom has become an approved vendor on The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS), eliminating the need for schools, libraries, higher education institutions, and nonprofits to run separate bidding processes before purchasing its wireless broadband services.

Formal bidding requirements can delay school and library connectivity by months

Public sector entities are typically required to complete a multi-step competitive bidding process before procuring new telecom services, a requirement that strains districts with limited administrative staff and can take months to complete. Mission Telecom's addition to the TIPS vendor list means it has already cleared this vetting process, giving institutions direct purchasing access without initiating their own bid.

Charlotte – September 19, 2026 -- Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) forecast third-quarter 2026 earnings of $5.55 to $5.65 per diluted share, more than doubling the $2.63 per share it posted in the same period of 2025.

The guidance, covering the quarter ending October 3, 2026, compares against second-quarter 2026 net earnings of $5.04 per diluted share and adjusted net earnings of $4.84 per diluted share once a one-time gain is stripped out.

Findlay, Ohio – September 19, 2026 -- Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) will report its third-quarter 2026 financial results via a conference call on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, at 11 a.m. EST.

Marathon Petroleum sets November 3 call to detail Q3 2026 earnings

The Findlay, Ohio-based company will host the call for investors and analysts, with access available through MPC's corporate website. A replay of the webcast will remain available for one month following the event.

Arlington, Va. – September 19, 2026 -- Performance Drone Works (PDW), a Huntsville, Alabama-based defense technology manufacturer, served as the Stars & Stripes title sponsor of the Robert Irvine Foundation's fifth annual Red Wine & Blues event, held September 15, 2026, at the Army Navy Country Club.

Senior military leaders from all six branches attended the fundraiser

The event brought together senior military leaders from every branch alongside Juan Andrade, CEO of USAA, who delivered remarks during the program. Guests were served a four-course menu designed by Chef Robert Irvine and prepared by military cooks and Enlisted Aides.

Arlington, Va. – September 19, 2026 -- The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) has released ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2026, the sixth revision of the American National Standard for workplace first aid kits, now recommending naloxone as a standard supply amid rising opioid-related deaths on the job.

Overdose deaths now account for nearly 10% of workplace fatalities

Fatal overdoses represent close to 10 percent of workplace deaths, yet only 28 percent of employers report being fully stocked with naloxone at worksites, according to a National Safety Council survey cited by ISEA. CDC data show more than 80,000 drug overdose deaths in 2024, with opioids involved in the majority of cases.

Austin, Texas – – September 19, 2026 -- Otsuka ICU Medical LLC has issued a voluntary user-level recall of one lot of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP, 100 mL, after discovering that bags labeled as saline may actually contain highly concentrated Potassium Chloride Injection.

Mislabeled overwrap conceals lethal potassium concentrate inside saline packaging

The affected lot, NDC 0990-7984-23, Lot 1042188, carries external labeling identifying it as 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP. Internally, however, the overwrap may instead contain Potassium Chloride Inj. 10 mEq (NDC 0990-7074-26, Lot 1035181), a highly concentrated formulation intended for diluted use only.

Phoenix – September 19, 2026 -- SenesTech, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNES) will present at the Lytham Partners Fall 2026 Investor Conference, a virtual event scheduled for September 29-30, 2026.

SenesTech schedules webcast for September 29 at 2:00 p.m. ET

The rodent birth control company will host a live webcast presentation at 2:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Investors can access the session via the conference website or a direct webinar link, with a replay to be made available following the event.

Management to hold one-on-one investor meetings during the conference

SenesTech executives will conduct virtual one-on-one meetings with investors throughout the two-day event. Interested parties can arrange meetings by contacting Lytham Partners directly or registering through the conference portal.

Chicago – September 19, 2026 -- McDonald's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.93 per share, a 4% increase that marks the company's 50th consecutive year of dividend growth and vaults it into the exclusive ranks of "Dividend Kings."

McDonald's dividend increase pushes annualized payout to $7.72 per share

The new quarterly rate is payable on December 15, 2026 to shareholders of record as of December 1, 2026. The 50-year streak places McDonald's among fewer than 60 U.S. public companies that have raised annual dividends for at least half a century.

Wilmington, Del. – September 19, 2026 -- Brand Engagement Network Inc. (Nasdaq: BNAI) has filed a Form 8-K/A with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing audited financials for Cataneo GmbH, the Munich-based advertising infrastructure software provider it acquired on June 30, 2026.

Cataneo's operating cash flow more than doubled to $1.85 million in fiscal 2025

The figure rose from $848,000 in fiscal 2024, according to the audited financial statements included in the filing. Operating income also more than doubled year over year, reaching $726,065 in fiscal 2025 versus $345,725 in fiscal 2024, on revenue of $9.6 million.

Pasadena, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-compressed version of a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model that runs at just 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% of its full-precision counterpart's benchmark performance.

Ternary compression shrinks memory footprint by more than 9x

Built on Qwen3.8 27B, Bonsai 2 27B reduces the model's memory requirement to 5.9 GB, a reduction of over nine times compared with the full-precision original. The model contains 27.8 billion parameters and was trained using Google v5 TPUs.

Atlanta – September 19, 2026 -- Dunamis Woman Enterprise, ranked No. 3,465 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list after posting 82% three-year revenue growth, is launching a streaming television network built around an original docuseries and podcast slate targeting its 125,000-member global audience.

New streaming network centralizes original programming across faith, healing and leadership content

The Dunamis Woman TV Network will house original television and podcast programming spanning healing, faith, identity, relationships and leadership. The initial slate includes four titles: Dunamis Woman Today (premiering October 5), the flagship docuseries House of Healing (October 10), The Professor Ari Podcast and The Dr. Dunamis Dee Podcast (both October 11).

Pleasanton, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (Nasdaq: HCTI) has signed on as the U.S. technology and capital-markets partner for the newly launched Kanzun-ARCB Growth Fund, a vehicle designed to move Malaysian healthcare companies toward Middle Eastern capital and, ultimately, U.S. capital markets.

ARCB and Kanzun formalize the fund via a Kuala Lumpur MOU

The Kanzun-ARCB Growth Fund launched through a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Kuala Lumpur, pairing Dubai-based ARCB Investment LLC's capital network with Kanzun Ventures Management Sdn. Bhd.'s deal execution in Malaysia. ARCB opened its Asia-Pacific office in Kuala Lumpur in April 2026, and this fund represents its first major platform launch in the region.

Chicago – September 19, 2026 -- Relativity has integrated its Relativity aiR legal AI platform with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing legal teams to manage case operations through natural language commands.

Legal teams can now stand up matters directly from ChatGPT Enterprise

The integration lets users create new matters, align workspaces to existing data structures, and manage access and workflows in Relativity aiR without leaving ChatGPT Enterprise. Relativity says the connection preserves the security and permissions of existing legal workflows while keeping substantive data analysis inside its own platform.

New York – September 19, 2026 -- Beast Philanthropy and The Rockefeller Foundation will fund regenerative school meal (RSM) programs reaching approximately 4,000 children in Ghana's Eastern Region and Kenya's Bomet County over the next five years, providing lunch five days a week sourced from local farmers.

Partnership targets ten schools in Ghana, three in Kenya at launch

In Ghana, the initiative starts across ten schools serving nine communities in the Eastern Region, working with CARE, Fairtrade Africa, West Akyem Co-operative Cocoa Farmers and Marketing Union, and Gold Coast Nutrition Fund to expand agroforestry and intercropping among cocoa farmers. In Kenya, the program begins in three schools in Bomet County, linking fortified bean producers to school supply chains through The Rockefeller Foundation's existing work with AGRA and deploying solar-powered clean-cooking infrastructure.

Chicago – September 19, 2026 -- LogicGate has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Third-Party Risk Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment, with IDC citing the company's connected data architecture, agentic AI capabilities, and low total cost of ownership for enterprise clients.

Beverly Hills, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Foundation and MicroNuclear, LLC have signed an agreement to jointly advance the Molten Salt Nuclear Battery (MsNB), a compact 20 MW thermal microreactor designed for resilient power and industrial process heat.

Five-party team assembles engineering and manufacturing expertise for MsNB development

The collaboration pairs INL Foundation and MicroNuclear with EXP, Premier Technology, Inc. and Porter House Inc. to cover detailed engineering, safety and licensing work, prototype manufacturing, first-fission testing and a repeatable deployment model. The group will also document design milestones and support government review and regulatory pathways ahead of demonstration and commercial-scale adoption.

Alexandria, Va. – September 19, 2026 -- Flight Safety Foundation will host its 79th annual International Aviation Safety Summit (IASS) on Nov. 10-12 at ICAO Headquarters in Montreal, drawing more than 350 attendees from across the global aviation ecosystem.

ICAO Secretary General Juan Carlos Salazar opens the summit with a keynote on scaling safety

International Civil Aviation Organization Secretary General Juan Carlos Salazar will deliver the opening keynote on Day 1, framing the summit's central theme: whether aviation is ready to scale safely amid growth, complexity, and disruption.

"Secretary General Salazar's perspective will be especially timely as aviation confronts rapid growth and increasingly complex operational challenges," said Dr. Hassan Shahidi, president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation.

Mesa, Arizona – September 19, 2026 -- Arizona Athletic Grounds (AAG) and the Carvana PPA Tour have signed a multi-decade partnership converting AAG's 41-court pickleball complex into the newly branded "PPA Campus at Arizona Athletic Grounds," a permanent national hub for professional and amateur tournaments.

PPA Tour takes over year-round operations of AAG's 41-court facility

Under the deal, the Carvana PPA Tour assumes year-round operational control of the Mesa, Arizona complex, which includes four medal courts with spectator stands and a covered Championship Stadium court seating up to 2,000. The campus already hosts recurring PPA events, including the Carvana Mesa Cup and the ongoing Veolia Arizona Open.

Burr Ridge, Ill. – September 19, 2026 -- SkinCure Oncology reported that 4.7 million Americans are diagnosed with nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) annually, a figure more than 40 percent higher than the widely cited benchmark of 3.3 million patients that has anchored healthcare policy discussions for over a decade.

Updated analysis replaces a 14-year-old dataset

The long-standing statistic of 3.3 million Americans diagnosed with 5.4 million NMSC lesions annually stems from a 2015 study built on 2012 data. SkinCure Oncology's new benchmark puts annual lesion counts at 6.7 to 7.7 million, reflecting the disease's disproportionate impact on aging populations.