Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Travis and Jason Kelce sign three-year deal with Amazon's Wondery worth a reported $100M for exclusive distribution rights to their "New Heights" podcast (More)
> Leonard Riggio, who was chairman of Barnes & Noble bookstore for nearly 50 years, dies at age 83 of Alzheimer's disease (More) | Alzheimer's explained (More, watch)
> NASCAR to host Cup Series race in Mexico City in 2025, its first-ever points-paying event outside the US (More) | What is a points-paying race? (More) | NFL owners approve plan to allow up to 10% private equity ownership per franchise (More)
Science & Technology
> Security researchers say Chinese government-backed hackers targeted US internet service providers in recent months; analysts say goal was to use hack as an entry point to access corporate networks (More)
> New AI-powered model predicts whether a person's brain is aging at a faster rate than their chronological age; platform analyzes how well different brain regions communicate with each other (More)
> Event Horizon Telescope makes highest-ever resolution detection of black hole details made from Earth; advance offers a 50% increase in detail of the objects and their surrounding region (More) | Black holes explained (More, watch)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.2%, Dow +0.0%, Nasdaq +0.2%) (More) | Nvidia earnings report today expected to show triple-digit revenue growth for fourth straight quarter amid AI boom (More)
> Home prices reach record high in June, up 5.4% year-over-year per S&P Case-Shiller Index; New York, San Diego, and Las Vegas see highest jumps (More)
> Lyft tests rider verification program in nine US cities after announcing pet-friendly rides earlier in the week, following similar Uber initiatives (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Special counsel Jack Smith files revised indictment accusing former President Donald Trump of 2020 election subversion; indictment includes same four counts but limits scope of evidence per last month's Supreme Court decision (More) | See previous write-up (More) | Trump adds ex-Democrats Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to transition team (More)
> Israel rescues 52-year-old hostage from Gaza's underground tunnel, the eighth hostage to be rescued in a military operation since the 11-month war began; Israel says 108 hostages remain in Gaza, with 40 dead (More) | See war updates (More)
> Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes in letter to House Judiciary Committee the Biden administration pressured Meta to remove content related to COVID-19 in 2021; also said the company temporarily demoted content related to Hunter Biden's laptop in 2020 while fact-checkers investigated the story (More)
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