Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Alain Delon, world-renowned French acting and pop culture icon, dies at age 88 (More) | John Aprea, actor best known for "The Godfather Part II," dies at age 83 (More)
> Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark breaks WNBA's 26-year-old record for assists in a single season by a rookie (More)
> Poland's Kasia Niewiadoma wins women's 2024 Tour de France, topping defending champion Demi Vollering of the Netherlands by four seconds (More)
Science & Technology
> European Space Agency's JUICE mission to begin first-ever double gravity boost—using both the Earth's and Venus' gravity to slingshot the spacecraft—en route to study Jupiter's icy moons (More)
> Researchers find new type of nanoparticle in the human bloodstream that may aid in the diagnoses of cancer and other diseases; RNA strands packed into extracellular material reveal changes in the presence of tumors (More)
> Astrophysicists discover new form of "whistler," a type of electromagnetic radiation carrying energy into Earth's magnetosphere (More) | Magnetospheres 101 (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Friday (S&P 500 +0.2%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.2%) to close out the best week in 2024 following encouraging economic data on retail sales, labor market (More)
> X to remove staff from Brazil, suspend local operations after saying a top judge threatened to arrest its legal representative if X did not remove accounts the court has accused of spreading election-related misinformation (More)
> Two Canadian railroads' dispute with Teamsters union representing 10,000 workers could disrupt US economy if deal isn't reached this week; the railroads collectively handle an estimated $1B in trade daily (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Russia denies report suggesting previous plans for indirect talks with Ukraine to protect energy, power infrastructure (More) | See latest war updates (More)
> Libya's Central Bank says it is suspending all operations after head of IT was kidnapped in the capital of Tripoli; group responsible not identified (More)
> Indian doctors strike alongside thousands of supporters following the rape and murder of a junior physician earlier this month (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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