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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> New York Yankees top Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4 in Game 4 to avoid World Series sweep; Game 5 is set for tonight (8 pm ET, Fox) (More)

> Teri Garr, Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated actress best known for starring roles in "Tootsie" and "Young Frankenstein," dies at age 79 (More)

> "Anora" leads 2024 Gotham Awards nominations for independent films with four nods (More) | Netflix and Universal renew animated movie licensing deal, will add live-action films to Netflix's offering beginning in 2027 (More)


Science & Technology
> LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant, an AI-powered agent built to take on a number of tasks involved in employee recruitment (More)

> Ocean scientists observe the largest predation event on record; millions of capelin—small anchovy-like fish—formed a miles long group while being fed on by cod (More)

> Astronomers discover one of the fastest spinning stars to date; located in the Sagittarius constellation near the center of the Milky Way, the neutron star rotates more than 700 times per second (More) | What are neutron stars? (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.2%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq +0.8%) with Nasdaq closing at record high (More)

> Alphabet earnings beat expectations, fueled by cloud business; shares rise 6% in after-hours trading (More) | Snap shares rise 10% in after-hours trading after beating earnings expectations (More) | Starbucks warns remote corporate employees to return to office at least three days per week or face getting fired (More)

> Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok-owner ByteDance, ranked China's richest person, worth $49.3B, in country's annual Hurun Rich List (More) | Number of dollar billionaires falls by one-third in China as country's stock market and economy slow (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Jailed man who attacked husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D, CA-11) sentenced to life in prison without parole on state charges of kidnapping, burglary, and false imprisonment (More)

> UK teenager accused of killing three girls at Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July owned al-Qaida terror manual, produced deadly poison ricin, per police (More)

> UN mission finds UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces in Sudan committed widespread acts of sexual violence amid civil war; the 80-page report includes interviews with victims and family members (More)

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