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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Liam Payne, member of boy band One Direction, dies at age 31 after three-story fall from hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina (More)

> New women's 3-on-3 basketball league Unrivaled signs TV rights deal with TNT; the 30-player league launches January 2025 (More) | Caitlin Clark and A'ja Wilson highlight All-WNBA team (More)

> NFL owners unanimously approve NFL legend Tom Brady's bid to buy minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders (More)


Science & Technology
> STAT releases annual Wunderkind list, spotlighting the top early-career researchers in the biomedical and health sciences (More)

> Mosquitoes have taste preferences, with some compounds either promoting or inhibiting biting and egg-laying behaviors; findings may lead to new methods to reduce insect-borne diseases (More)

> Researchers find 70% of the meteorites found on Earth to date can be traced back to just three separate collisions in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +0.3%); Dow reaches record close (More)

> United Airlines shares close up 12% to prepandemic high after company reports better-than-expected Q3 earnings (More) | Morgan Stanley shares close up 6% after firm tops Q3 earnings and revenue estimates (More)

> Defense contractor Raytheon agrees to pay $950M to settle federal charges, including defrauding US Department of Defense and bribing a Qatari official (More) | Federal Trade Commission finalizes rules requiring companies to make it easier for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Israel strikes in and near Beirut, including killing a city mayor and 15 others at a council meeting after most residents evacuated; Israel says it is striking Hezbollah targets, including an underground weapons cache (More) | See war updates (More)

> Italy passes law barring citizens from pursuing surrogacy abroad, with violations punishable by up to $1M in fines and two years in prison; around 250 Italian couples—90% of them heterosexual—pursue surrogacy each year, per legal experts (More)

> Las-Vegas-area county official Robert Telles (D) sentenced to life in prison for the murder of investigative journalist Jeff German, with the possibility of parole after 28 years (More) | See previous write-up (More)

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