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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2024 WNBA season kicks off; see biggest storylines (More) | ... and season predictions (More) | NFL's regular season schedule released tonight (8 pm ET, NFL Network) (More)

> Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story writer, dies at 92 (More) | Filmmaker Roman Polanski acquitted in French court of defaming actress who accused Polanski of sexual assault (More)

> George Clooney to debut on Broadway in spring 2025 in stage adaptation of "Good Night, and Good Luck" (More) | Pop culture edition of "Jeopardy!" tapped for Amazon Prime Video (More)



Science & Technology
> Google reveals Project Astra, an AI-powered app that can answer queries based on an object in the camera's field of vision (More) | See all updates from Google I/O conference (More)

> Climate analysis finds 2023 was the warmest summer in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 2,000 years; tree ring analysis was used to supplement instrumental evidence, which dates back to 1850 (More) | How tree ring analysis provides climate data (More)

> Human embryos primarily develop from only one of two cells created during the first division of a fertilized egg, while the second cell develops into the yolk sac; discovery expected to help improve in-vitro fertilization treatments (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq +0.8%) despite news of higher-than-expected wholesale prices in April, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell comments indicating interest rates to remain steady (More)

> Boeing allegedly violated a 2021 settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution over deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 involving its 737 Max aircraft, US Justice Department says in court filing (More)

> UK mining firm Anglo American plans to spin off or sell diamond company De Beers as it works to fend off $43B takeover bid from Australian rival BHP Group (More) | Walmart to lay off hundreds of corporate employees, require majority of remote workers to return to office most days (More)

SOURCE:  1440 News