Get ready to separate your food waste from your household trash!

Happening in the World: Twice MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia won the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi, which has cut the gap between him and Jorge Martin to ten points. This is the first time in his career that Bagnaia has achieved eight wins in one season, and there are still four more races remaining in the season. Home hero Takaaki Nakagami, racing in his final Japanese Grand Prix as a full-time MotoGP racer, finished 13th. (Reuters)

Happening in the US: The Biden Administration has decided not to extend the program that has, since 2022, allowed migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haitians, and Nicaragua to arrive by plane with sponsorship and live and work in the US for two years while they pursue another legal status. Those at the two-year mark must apply for another type of legal status, depart the country, or face deportation. New migrants to the US-Mexico border may still apply for the program. (AP)

Happening in NYC: New Yorkers in all five boroughs must now separate their household trash and food waste and compost their food waste and garden scraps. The citywide composting mandate, already in effect in Queens and Brooklyn, will expand to include Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Residents will have until April of next year to fully comply. (FOX)

Happening in Our Community: On October 7, Volker R. Berghahn, Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History, will give the first lecture in the three-part 2024 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures. This first lecture is titled “Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany, 1950-2024.” These lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the current year, and this first lecture will provide a larger historical context by analyzing important controversies among historians and social scientists from 1950 to the present. More information and the link to register can be found here.

Food compost via Wikimedia Commons