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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Chi Chi Rodriguez, Hall of Fame golfer and eight-time PGA Tour winner born Juan Antonio Rodriguez, dies at age 88 (More)

> Paramount Global to lay off 15% of its US workforce in preparation for merger with Skydance Media (More)

> Colin Jost ends stint as Olympics correspondent in Tahiti after sustaining foot injury resulting in a staph infection (More)


Science & Technology
> Apple reportedly to release its smallest desktop to date, using the company's in-house built M4 chip (More)

> NASA discovers two new "super-Earth" exoplanets located dozens of light years away (More) | Everything you ever needed to know about NASA (More, w/video)

> Chemists discover new reaction to develop polymers for use in drug delivery, electronics, and more (More)

Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +2.3%, Dow +1.8%, Nasdaq +2.9%); S&P 500 notches best day since 2022 following latest labor market data (More) | US weekly jobless claims fall to 233,000 for week ending Aug. 3; figure is lower than estimates and largest drop in 11 months (More)

> Palantir shares close up 11% after announcing partnership with Microsoft; will sell secure cloud, analytics, and AI capabilities to US defense and intelligence agencies (More) | Bumble shares fall to all-time low in intraday trading after slashing annual revenue forecast (More)

> US mortgage rates fall to 15-month low, with average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.47%; total application volume rises 1% week-over-week (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris agree to participate in Sept. 10 presidential debate on ABC; Trump says he has proposed two more debates on Fox and NBC (More) | See latest polls (More)

> Japan issues major earthquake warning after 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern coast of southern Japanese island of Kyushu (More) | Tropical Storm Debby makes second US landfall in South Carolina, with flood threat expanding to northeast US; death toll rises to seven as of this writing (More)

> Barcelona police search for former Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont, who returned to Spain despite an outstanding arrest warrant over his failed 2017 independence bid; two officers arrested for allegedly assisting in his getaway (More)

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