Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> No. 3 seed American Coco Gauff takes on No. 1 seed Iga Świątek in French Open semifinals today (More) | See complete women's bracket (More) | ... and men's bracket (More)
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Science & Technology
> Neuroscientists identify molecular process in the brain that promotes opioid addiction; same process, which adds fat cells around neurons to help signals move faster, is involved in learning new skills (More)
> Researchers discover major cause of inflammatory bowel disease; 95% of patients with the condition shared genetic mutation causing white blood cells to release excess inflammation-causing chemicals (More)
> Microsoft unveils AI platform capable of modeling global weather and air pollution, while providing predictions in minutes; model is comparable to Google's GraphCast platform (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.2%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq +2.0%) with S&P 500 and Nasdaq reaching record highs amid Nvidia stock rally and economic data fueling interest rate cut hopes (More) | Nvidia overtakes Apple as world's second most valuable company as market capitalization passes $3T (More)
> Canada becomes first G7 country to cut interest rates, reducing rates from 5% to 4.75%; European Central Bank expected to cut interest rates today (More) | Hiring for private US companies slows to four-month low in May, per ADP report (More)
> BlackRock, Citadel Securities, and roughly two dozen other investors raise $120M to launch Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange later this year to compete with the New York Stock Exchange; exchange plans to be apolitical, CEO-friendly (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Amanda Knox loses appeal to toss 2009 slander conviction; Knox—ultimately cleared in the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher—had been charged with slander for falsely implicating a Congolese bar owner in the murder (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> Gunman and five others arrested after shootout near the US Embassy in Beirut; suspect wore ISIS insignia, per US official (More) | More than a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters arrested while barricading the Stanford University president's office (More) | Israel launches operation in central Gaza; dozens reported killed (More)
> Ukraine has deployed US-made weapons to strike inside Russia, a US senator confirms, days after Biden administration partially lifts weapons restrictions (More) | See updates on the war (More)
> Microsoft unveils AI platform capable of modeling global weather and air pollution, while providing predictions in minutes; model is comparable to Google's GraphCast platform (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.2%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq +2.0%) with S&P 500 and Nasdaq reaching record highs amid Nvidia stock rally and economic data fueling interest rate cut hopes (More) | Nvidia overtakes Apple as world's second most valuable company as market capitalization passes $3T (More)
> Canada becomes first G7 country to cut interest rates, reducing rates from 5% to 4.75%; European Central Bank expected to cut interest rates today (More) | Hiring for private US companies slows to four-month low in May, per ADP report (More)
> BlackRock, Citadel Securities, and roughly two dozen other investors raise $120M to launch Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange later this year to compete with the New York Stock Exchange; exchange plans to be apolitical, CEO-friendly (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Amanda Knox loses appeal to toss 2009 slander conviction; Knox—ultimately cleared in the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher—had been charged with slander for falsely implicating a Congolese bar owner in the murder (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> Gunman and five others arrested after shootout near the US Embassy in Beirut; suspect wore ISIS insignia, per US official (More) | More than a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters arrested while barricading the Stanford University president's office (More) | Israel launches operation in central Gaza; dozens reported killed (More)
> Ukraine has deployed US-made weapons to strike inside Russia, a US senator confirms, days after Biden administration partially lifts weapons restrictions (More) | See updates on the war (More)
SOURCE: 1440 News
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