General News

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- Blue Star Families will host its 2026 Welcome Week from September 26 through October 4, mobilizing hundreds of events nationwide to support the more than 600,000 military-connected families who relocate annually. Presenting sponsor Target will anchor the effort alongside corporate partners including Macy's, Starbucks, CSX, Chobani, Mondelez International, Leonardo DRS, Morgan Stanley, T-Mobile and Amazon.

Target volunteers to assemble 1,000 pantry kits at each of two marquee events

The campaign will open aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego on September 28 and close at the Virginia Air & Space Science Center in Hampton, Virginia, on October 5. At both sites, hundreds of Target employee volunteers will assemble and distribute 1,000 pantry kits containing Target-owned brand food essentials for families who recently completed a permanent change of station move to the San Diego and Hampton Roads regions.

Tokyo – September 24, 2026 -- TOYO Co., Ltd (Nasdaq: TOYO; OTC: TOYWF) will host its 2026 Analyst Day via live webcast on Tuesday, September 24, 2026, starting at 10:30 AM ET and concluding around 12:00 PM ET.

TOYO to brief analysts on vertical integration strategy across the solar supply chain

Management will use the session to outline the Company's strategy, current market trends, and expansion plans. TOYO has positioned itself as a vertically integrated solar manufacturer, spanning upstream wafer and silicon production, midstream solar cell manufacturing, and downstream photovoltaic module output.

West Chester, Pa. – September 24, 2026 -- Mole Street, an Elite HubSpot Solutions Partner, will exhibit at Booth 5 during the Digital Marketing for Financial Services Midwest Summit at the Hilton Chicago on September 22-23, presenting data from a new report co-authored with HubSpot based on a survey of 270 U.S. financial services leaders.

London – September 24, 2026 -- Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) has won the 'Excellence in Agricultural Financing Solutions – Tanzania' title at the Global Brand Awards 2026, organised by Global Brands Magazine.

TADB recognised for expanding farmer and agribusiness access to finance

The award cites TADB's contribution to agricultural financing in Tanzania, including expanding access to finance for farmers and agribusinesses while supporting sustainable agricultural value chains. The Bank's focus areas include smallholder farmer financing, agribusiness development, climate-smart agriculture and financial inclusion.

Samarkand, Uzbekistan – September 24, 2026 -- Timur Turlov, a candidate for FIDE President, has proposed that Ukraine nominate its own candidate for FIDE Vice President should his ticket win the September 26 election in Samarkand.

Turlov calls for a dedicated Ukrainian voice in FIDE leadership

Turlov, running alongside five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand, made the proposal in a post on X, describing Ukraine as "one of the world's great chess nations" with generations of players and coaches. He argued that FIDE "cannot operate in isolation from what is happening in the world" and that Ukraine "should have its own voice in the room when decisions are discussed and made."

New York – – September 24, 2026 -- Better Business Advice has named Sharps Assure a top mail-back medical waste provider for dental offices, citing its sharps container range, dental amalgam disposal product, and prepaid return services.

Sharps Assure offers five container sizes to match variable dental waste volumes

The company provides 1-quart, 1.5-quart, 1-gallon, 2-gallon, and larger-capacity sharps systems, allowing practices to size disposal capacity to procedure volume rather than committing to fixed collection schedules typical of larger healthcare facilities.

Dent Assure Waste Amalgam gives dental offices a dedicated stream for restorative waste

Amalgam waste generated during fillings, removals, or equipment maintenance requires separate handling from standard sharps. Sharps Assure's dedicated product lets practices route this material away from ordinary sharps or office waste streams.

Manama – September 24, 2026 -- Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, has joined the speaker lineup for Fintech Forward 2026, set to take place 7-8 October 2026 at Exhibition World Bahrain under the theme 'Finance in the Age of Intelligent Infrastructure'.

Gawdat brings 27 years of tech leadership to the financial services debate

Gawdat's career spans IBM, NCR, Microsoft and Google, where he helped launch nearly half of Google's global operations before leading business at Google X, the lab behind self-driving cars, Project Loon and Makani. He is also founder of the One Billion Happy movement, host of the Slo Mo podcast, and author of bestsellers including Solve for Happy, Scary Smart and Unstressable.

Seoul – September 24, 2026 -- KT&G Corporation closed its participation in InterTabac 2026, the world's largest tobacco trade fair, after operating an exhibition booth roughly four times larger than its 2025 footprint at the Dortmund, Germany event held September 15-17.

KT&G expands booth fourfold to showcase combustible and next-generation product lines

The Korean manufacturer organized its expanded space into four themed zones by product category, displaying combustible cigarette brands ESSE and BOHEM alongside next-generation products (NGP), vapor devices and nicotine pouches. InterTabac drew roughly 800 companies from more than 70 countries across 12 exhibition halls this year.

Atlanta – – September 23, 2026 -- BlueCollar Cloud has secured a platinum sponsorship of SuiteWorld 2026, Oracle NetSuite's flagship user conference set for October 25-28 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas.

BlueCollar Cloud will staff Booth 637 to pitch construction-specific ERP add-ons to NetSuite users

The company will meet contractors, project-based businesses, and NetSuite partners at the booth to demonstrate BlueCollar Projects, its NetSuite-native construction management and accounting layer. Discussions will target job costing, AIA-style billing, retainage, WIP reporting, cost codes, change orders, subcontracts, and project budgets -- functions BlueCollar Cloud says remain spreadsheet-heavy and manual for many contractors operating on NetSuite.

Miami Beach, Fla. – September 23, 2026 -- Benjamin Eskenazi MD, FACS, founder of Avabello Aesthetics, has been named to the faculty of the 14th Annual IAFA Aesthetic Symposium, set for the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on November 6-7, 2026.

Dr. Eskenazi will co-instruct a pre-symposium injection masterclass on November 5

The five-hour Anatomy & Injection Masterclass runs from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m. and is led by Professor Sebastian Cotofana, MD, PhD, PhD. The course combines cadaver dissections with live patient injection demonstrations and real-time facial ultrasound, covering neurotoxin treatment of the forehead, glabella and crow's feet, and filler treatment of the temples, tear troughs, cheeks, nasolabial folds, lips, chin and jawline. Dr. Eskenazi will perform live injections alongside co-instructors Terry Alford, DMD; Lanna Cheuck, DO; Barbara Brandt, APRN; Jill Campbell, MSN, FNP-C, CANS; and Shanna Concepcion, RN, CANS.