Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Sean "Diddy" Combs arrested in New York by federal prosecutors after grand jury indictment (More) | Longtime BBC presenter Huw Edwards avoids jail time after pleading guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children (More) | Former MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe pleads guilty to securities fraud charges (More)
> Shaboozey’s "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tops Billboard Hot 100 for 10th consecutive week as well as the Hot Country Songs chart for the 14th week (More)
> Independent hearing on Manchester City's alleged finance breaches begin; the soccer club is alleged to have breached 115 Premier League financial regulations between 2009 and 2018 (More)
Science & Technology
> Researchers produce first-ever map of brain changes occurring during pregnancy; effects include a long-lasting decrease in gray matter and a temporary increase in white matter (More) | Gray versus white brain matter, explained (More)
> US health regulators approve sleep apnea detection feature on new Apple watches, the company's latest step into health; the decision follows approval for hearing aid function on AirPods Pro 2 (More)
> Engineers develop cheap, biocompatible fabric-like filter to remove microplastics and lead from drinking water (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq -0.5%); Dow closes at an all-time high (More) | Intel shares rise nearly 8% in after-hours trading on plans to turn foundry business into subsidiary; unit offers semiconductor manufacturing services to customers (More) | Oracle shares close up 5%; chairman Larry Ellison becomes world's second-richest person (More)
> Boeing freezes hiring, considers temporary furloughs to cut costs as more than 33,000 union workers strike for fourth day (More) | See previous write-up (More) | Amazon orders workers to return to office five days a week in 2025 (More)
> AI startup World Labs raises $230M from backers including Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia's venture capital arm; aims to build AI models that interact with 3D world (More) | See other US AI startups that have raised $100M or more this year (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Two former chiefs of the New York City Fire Department charged for allegedly soliciting, accepting bribes to expedite fire safety approvals of large building projects; unclear if case is related to corruption investigation around Mayor Eric Adams' (D) administration (More)
> Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation begins hearing two weeks of testimony from former employees of OceanGate as part of probe into Titan submersible, which imploded in June 2023 and killed five people (More, w/photo)
> Death toll from flooding in central Europe rises to 18 after Storm Boris brings unusually heavy rainfall to Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia (More) | See photos (More)
> Two former chiefs of the New York City Fire Department charged for allegedly soliciting, accepting bribes to expedite fire safety approvals of large building projects; unclear if case is related to corruption investigation around Mayor Eric Adams' (D) administration (More)
> Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation begins hearing two weeks of testimony from former employees of OceanGate as part of probe into Titan submersible, which imploded in June 2023 and killed five people (More, w/photo)
> Death toll from flooding in central Europe rises to 18 after Storm Boris brings unusually heavy rainfall to Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia (More) | See photos (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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