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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Minnesota Timberwolves beat Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals; Game 5 is tomorrow in Minnesota (More) | Boston Celtics sweep the Indiana Pacers 4-0 to win the Eastern Conference Finals, advance to the NBA Finals (More)

> Albert Ruddy, two-time Oscar-winning film producer known for "The Godfather" and "Million Dollar Baby," dies at 94 (More) | "Beautiful Girls" singer Sean Kingston faces 10 charges in Florida related to fraud and theft (More)

> Two albums pass 300,000 units sold in a single week for first time in eight years as both Taylor Swift's and Billie Eilish's latest albums haul in more than 300,000 units sold (More)


Science & Technology
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> OpenAI begins training its next generation large language model to replace current GPT-4, may take up to a year before it is available; CEO Sam Altman to lead safety and security committee (More)

> New mRNA vaccine shown to be effective in preventing lab animal deaths from H5N1 avian flu currently spreading across the US (More) | See current status of the outbreak (More)

> Engineered CAR-T cells, typically used in cancer immunotherapy, shown to treat chronic asthma in mouse studies (More) | How CAR-T works, in pictures (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.02%, Dow -0.6%, Nasdaq +0.6%); Nasdaq closes above the 17,000 level for the first time ever, boosted by a 7% rise in shares of chipmaker Nvidia (More)

> Adam Neumann drops $500M bid to buy back WeWork; US judge overseeing WeWork's bankruptcy proceedings instead sign off on a restructuring deal approving $450M in funding from SoftBank (More)

> Former FTX executive Ryan Salame sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to make illegal political contributions and operate an unlicensed money-transmission business (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Storms in North Texas with baseball-sized hail leave almost 800,000 residents without power, including across Dallas and Fort Worth (More)

> Georgia's parliament overrules president's veto of the "foreign agents" bill that sparked weekslong protests; bill requires media and nonprofits to register as foreign agents if over 20% of funding comes from outside the country (More)

> Tens of thousands of people protest in Armenian capital of Yerevan after Armenia's prime minister agrees to hand over four border villages to Azerbaijan (More)

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