For the Record

‘I will consider it … an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard.’

President Barack Obama, speaking at a Congressional Black Caucus event about the dangers of electing Donald Trump (though Obama did not name the GOP nominee)

2025

The year by which “private car ownership will all but end in major U.S. cities,” as predicted by John Zimmer, cofounder and president of the ride-sharing service Lyft

3%

The percentage of American adults who own half of the country’s guns, according to a survey by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities

‘The whole block shook.’

Deborah Griffith, a New York City resident, describing the Sept. 17 explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood that injured 29 people; three days later, police charged a suspect in connection with that blast, as well as an earlier detonation in New Jersey

45 days, 22 hours, 38 minutes

The amount of time it took Karl Meltzer to run the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail, a new record; he averaged 29.5 minutes per mile–including sleeping

Atlantic Ocean

Obama designated the first national marine park in the ocean

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

Arctic Ocean

Arctic sea ice melted to its second-lowest area on record

‘What matters most now is the well-being of our kids.’

Brad Pitt, after his wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences

‘Topple the patriarchy!’

Jill Soloway, accepting a best-director Emmy for her Amazon series Transparent; she also called for Hollywood to put more “women, people of color, trans people, queer people … at the center of a story” and for an end to violence against transgender women

‘Reform in a profession that doesn’t need to be reformed is not the answer to fight crime.’

Chuck Canterbury, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, America’s largest police union, explaining why his organization endorsed Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, who Canterbury says “wants to work on police reform”

SOURCES: THE GUARDIAN; MEDIUM; NASA; NEW YORK DAILY NEWS; NPR; RED BULL