Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> 2024 UEFA European Championship semifinals kick off today with Spain taking on France (3 pm ET, Fox); see full preview (More) | Eighteen-player roster for Team USA men's soccer Olympic team announced (More)
> Shaboozey becomes the first Black male artist to simultaneously top Billboard's Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts with "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (More)
> Complete rosters for 94th MLB All-Star Game (July 16) announced, including 32 first time All-Stars (More) | Twelve-team field set for Paris Olympics men's basketball competition (More)
Science & Technology
> James Webb Space Telescope discovers a Jupiter-like exoplanet roughly 64 light-years away with an atmosphere predominantly made of hydrogen sulfide; compound is responsible for the "rotten egg" odor (More) | James Webb telescope 101 (More, w/video)
> Ex-Meta researchers debut EvolutionaryScale, an AI-powered large language model, to predict protein structures; model was trained on 2.7 billion protein sequences and structures (More)
> Neuroscientists capture in real time the brain activity that underlies the subjective feeling of curiosity; patients underwent brain imaging while attempting to decode depictions of ambiguous situations (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq +0.3%) ahead of inflation data and batch of Q2 earnings reports; S&P 500, Nasdaq close at record highs (More)
> Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge tied to two 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people; Boeing to pay $244M fine, invest at least $455M in safety and compliance programs (More) | Boeing in talks with US Defense Department over contracts that may be compromised due to guilty plea (More)
> Mike Bloomberg's charity donates $1B to Johns Hopkins University's medical school, resulting in free tuition for most medical students starting this fall (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Roughly 3 million people in Texas are without power as of this writing after Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane—the season's first hurricane to hit the US; at least three deaths reported in Texas (More) | Beryl weakens to tropical depression; track it here (More)
> Three Columbia University deans placed on indefinite leave over text messages that were allegedly antisemitic in nature; university to launch antisemitism and antidiscrimination faculty training program (More)
> Kenyan cult leader and 94 codefendants begin trial over terrorism charges related to the deaths of more than 400 followers (More) | See our previous write-up (More)
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