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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Bob Newhart, Grammy- and Emmy-winning comedy and TV sitcom icon, dies at 94 (More) | Lou Dobbs, political commentator and longtime cable news host, dies at 78 (More)

> The 2024 Tour de France wraps up Sunday in Nice, France; see latest standings with three stages left (More)

> The 2024 Kennedy Center Honors to recognize the Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt, jazz musician Arturo Sandoval, and New York City's Apollo Theater with artistic lifetime achievement awards (More)


Science & Technology
> OpenAI debuts GPT-4o Mini, a smaller, less expensive version of its flagship large language model; critics of an earlier version said the cost to run GPT-4o priced out small developers (More) | Generative AI explained in three minutes (More, w/video)

> NASA cancels $450M robotic mission to explore the moon's south pole, citing cost overruns; materials developed to date may be repurposed for future efforts (More)

> Researchers discover the early formation of a 61-million-year-old microcontinent in the Arctic Ocean's Davis Strait; feature emerged during the separation of Greenland from Canada (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -1.3%, Nasdaq -0.7%) as investors rotate out of AI-focused tech stocks and into smaller cap stocks (More)

> Darden Restaurants, parent of Olive Garden, to buy Tex-Mex chain operator Chuy's Holdings for $605M in cash deal (More) | Ford invests $3B to expand Super Duty truck production, including at Canadian plant previously designated for electric vehicles (More)

> Amazon Prime Day hauls record $14.2B in US online sales, up 11% from 2023 (More) | Netflix beats Q2 earnings projections, raises 2024 revenue forecast; adds 8 million subscribers in Q2, pushing global audience to 277 million (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US federal appeals court temporarily blocks Biden administration from carrying out its "SAVE" student debt relief plan, which offers reduced monthly payments to borrowers (More) | Biden administration announces it will cancel $1.2B in federal student loans for 35,000 public workers (More)

> US Justice Department alleges employees of Southwest Key, the largest housing provider of unaccompanied migrant children, engaged in sexual abuse and harassment of children since at least 2015 (More)

> Ursula von der Leyen wins second term as president of the European Commission after securing 401 votes from members of parliament; she will remain in the role until 2029 (More)

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