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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "The Outsiders" wins Best Musical, "Stereophonic" wins Best Play at 77th Tony Awards; "Stereophonic" leads all shows with five awards (More)

> Bryson DeChambeau edges Rory McIlroy to win golf's 124th US Open, his second major championship (More) | Edmonton Oilers stave off elimination, beating the Florida Panthers 8-1; Panthers have 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup Final series (More)

> "Inside Out 2" hauls in $155M in its opening weekend, the second biggest opener ever for an animated film at the US domestic box office (More)


Science & Technology
> Chipmaker Nvidia releases Nemotron-4, a platform to create synthetic data that can be used to train large language models in place of real content (More) | Generative AI models are running out of data (More)

> Ancient ant specimen trapped in amber suggests the insects evolved to have complex social lives as early as 100 million years ago (More)

> Baby stars travel at thousands of miles per second around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, astronomers find (More) | Learn about black holes, the universe's most mysterious objects (More, w/video)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed Friday (S&P 500 -0.04%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.1%), with the Nasdaq climbing to a record high (More)

> Hyundai's Indian unit files for an initial public offering, seeking to raise $2.5B with a listing planned for later this year (More)

> Subscription vitamin startup Care/of announces it is shuttering operations and laying off all staff; pharmaceutical company Bayer had a 70% stake in Care/of once reportedly valued at $225M (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Wildfire north of Los Angeles expands to over 14,000 acres as of this writing, forcing over 1,200 people to evacuate (More) | Heat dome expected in the Northeast and Midwest this week (More) | What is a heat dome? (More, w/video)

> Seventy-eight countries affirm Ukraine's territorial integrity at peace summit; countries including India, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa don't sign on to text while Russia and China were not invited (More) | Russia ends hostage situation in a prison in southern city of Rostov-on-Don allegedly involving ISIS-affiliated inmates (More)

> Police in Germany shoot man wielding an ax hammer and gas bomb at a parade in Hamburg hours before the city hosted the first soccer match of the 2024 European Championship (More)

SOURCE:  1440 News