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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> TikTok to bring back millions of songs to its platform after settling dispute with Universal Music Group over royalty payments and AI policies; deal includes TikTok’s assurances to remove AI-generated music and better credit UMG artists (More)

> Duane Eddy, Grammy-winning guitarist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, dies at 86 (More) | Peter Oosterhuis, six-time Ryder Cup participant and longtime golf analyst, dies at 75 (More)

> Screen Actors Guild signs deal with Nielsen to provide viewership data for streaming content (More)


Science & Technology
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> China set to launch Chang'e 6 lunar mission to retrieve rock samples from the far side of the moon early this morning (More) | Samples were collected from earlier lander; see what makes the far side of the moon interesting to scientists (More)

> Scientists pinpoint cells in the brainstem that help regulate the body's immune system response; findings shed light on the brain's role in inflammation and may lead to new therapies for autoimmune diseases (More)

> Researchers recreate the face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman after reassembling skull fragments found in an Iraqi cave (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.9%, Dow +0.9%, Nasdaq +1.5%) as investors look ahead to today's US jobs report (More) | Apple announces $110B share buyback—the largest in the company's history; also reports 10.5% year-over-year drop in iPhone sales amid headwinds in China (More)

> Sony Pictures, Apollo Global extend $26B all-cash offer to buy Paramount Global, marking Apollo's second bid to buy the entertainment giant; Paramount currently weighing merger with Skydance Media (More) | Nvidia-backed CoreWeave raises $1.1B in funding, valuing the cloud-computing startup at $19B (More)

> US weekly jobless claims hold steady at 208,000 for the week ending April 27; figure matches number of weekly jobless claims from prior week, which has been the fewest since mid-February (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> At least 2,000 people reportedly arrested so far at dozens of US colleges over pro-Palestinian protests; crew begins cleanup at University of California, Los Angeles, campus, where at least 200 people were arrested (More) | See updates on the Israel-Hamas war (More)

> Rescue teams recover and identify body of fifth construction worker who died in the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge in March; one construction worker remains unaccounted for (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Brood XIX cicadas begin to emerge in Arkansas, one of 17 states expected to see trillions of cicadas in a double brood event this year (More) | What is a cicada double brood event? (More)

SOURCE:  1440 News