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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Thirteen novels tapped for prestigious 2024 Booker Prize for fiction longlist, including three from debut novelists (More) | Francine Pascal, "Sweet Valley High" author, dies at age 92 (More)

> The 2024 MLB trade deadline wrapped last night; see complete breakdown of every trade (More)

> "Deadpool & Wolverine" moves past $500M at the global box office, the highest global opening weekend since 2021 (More)


Science & Technology
> California officials create blockchain tokens for all 42 million of the state's registered motor vehicles; owners will be able to access title information from the Avalanche blockchain beginning in 2025 (More) | Blockchain 101 (More)

> Scientists engineer disease-causing parasite to deliver therapeutic drugs across the blood-brain barrier; Toxoplasma gondii has been shown to cause mice to lose their fear of cats (More) | What is the blood-brain barrier? (More, w/video)

> Chemists recreate conditions on early Earth, suggest the building blocks for life may have been created by cloud-to-ground lightning (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq -1.3%) as tech stocks fall amid earnings reports (More) | CrowdStrike shares fall on news Delta Air Lines could sue for damages over the software failure (More) | Microsoft shares fall in after-hours trading as cloud revenue growth misses estimates (More)

> Tesla recalls 1.8 million vehicles due to possible failure to detect unlatched hood after it opens, increasing risk of crash (More)

> London-based fertility app Flo Health raises $200M in Series C funding at over $1B valuation; company bills itself as the first "purely digital" women's health app to reach unicorn status (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Israel says it killed Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah's top military commander, in a targeted airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon; the strike—reportedly killing at least one other person and wounding 20 others—was in retaliation for Saturday's attack, killing 12 children at a soccer field (More) | See war updates (More)

> Venezuela protests continue over disputed election results; seven people reportedly killed, close to 750 arrested while election observers cast doubt onto President Nicolás Maduro's claims of victory (More)

> Project 2025 to end policy work, director to step down from the Heritage Foundation amid criticisms from Democrats, former President Donald Trump (More) | What is Project 2025? (More)

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