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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Phil Donahue, nine-time Daytime Emmy-winning talk show host and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, dies at 88 (More) | Oprah Winfrey and other TV personalities react to Donahue's death (More)

> Ohio State leads all schools with four players selected to college football's AP preseason All-America team with the regular season set to begin this Saturday (More)

> "Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel reveals breast cancer diagnosis (More) | Disney taps "World News Tonight" producer Almin Karamehmedovic as president of ABC News (More)


Science & Technology
> Self-driving car company Waymo reveals details on its "generation 6" vehicle, offering more passenger space and the ability to handle a wide range of weather conditions (More)

> Airline Lufthansa demos the use of a thin material on plane body mimicking shark skin in an effort to save fuel; the microstructure on sharks is estimated to reduce drag by up to 10% (More)

> Scientists identify potential sources of the Nematostella vectensis sea anemone's exceptionally long life (More) | What are stem cells and how do they work? (More, w/video)

Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.0%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq +1.4%); S&P 500, Nasdaq extend winning streak to eighth consecutive session ahead of Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium (More)

> Japanese 7-Eleven owner receives preliminary takeover bid from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard, which owns Circle K; shares of Japan's Seven & i rise roughly 27% on the news, valuing company at $38B (More) | General Motors to lay off around 1,000 salaried employees in software and services unit (More)

> Activist investor Carl Icahn to pay $2M to settle charges from US Securities and Exchange Commission alleging Icahn failed to timely disclose various personal loans he secured by using his stock in Icahn Enterprises as collateral (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago; see updates from the first day (More) | Republican-led House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees release impeachment report on President Joe Biden, stop short of formally calling on impeachment vote (More)

> Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim responsibility for Sunday bomb blast near synagogue in Tel Aviv; at least one person wounded (More) | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly accepts US-led cease-fire and hostage-release proposal for Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; Hamas urged to accept deal (More)

> Ukraine destroys third bridge in Russia's southwestern Kursk region in bid to disrupt supply routes (More) | Ukraine orders evacuation of eastern city of Pokrovsk in its Donbas region amid Russia's advances (More) | See war updates (More)

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