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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Simone Biles wins silver medal in floor exercise, her fourth medal of the Paris Olympics and her 11th Olympic medal overall (More) | See latest medal count (More)

> "Deadpool & Wolverine" now second-highest grossing film of 2024 as it brings in $824M at the global box office; Disney becomes first studio of 2024 to top $3B in sales globally (More)

> Miss Michigan Alma Cooper, a US Army officer, crowned Miss USA 2024; Miss Kentucky Connor Perry and Miss Oklahoma Danika Christopherson named first and second runner-ups (More)


Science & Technology
> New study suggests Egypt's Pyramid of Djoser was built using primitive hydraulic technology to lift stones (More) | Ancient Egypt explained in under three minutes (More, w/video)

> Nobel Prize winner Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97; Lee shared the 1957 award for demonstrating a phenomenon known as parity violation, one of the few known instances of physics not exhibiting symmetry (More)

> New tool developed to track how psychedelic compounds begin to affect neurons within minutes after ingestion (More)


Business & Markets
> AI chip startup Groq raises $640M in funding round, valuing the Nvidia challenger at $2.8B (More) | Elon Musk revives federal lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging he was manipulated into cofounding the ChatGPT maker (More)

> Walmart, Amazon, and State Grid—Chinese state-owned utility giant—top Fortune Global 500 ranking of world’s largest companies by revenue (More)

> Vietnamese billionaire tycoon found guilty of defrauding stockholders of nearly $150M by inflating the value of his company ahead of an initial public offering in Vietnam; Trinh Van Quyet was sentenced to 21 years in prison (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> At least four people killed after Debby makes landfall on Florida's Big Bend coast on the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane before downgrading to a tropical storm (More) | Debby now heads to Georgia and South Carolina; see tracker (More) | See photos (More)

> Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns, leaves country after historic 15-year rule following mass student protests; country's army chief says an interim government will be formed (More)

> Former Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis agrees to cooperate with Arizona prosecutors in 2020 election interference case; attorney general drops felony charges against Ellis, allowing her to avoid potential jail time (More)

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