Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> New York Mets sign former New York Yankees superstar Juan Soto to 15-year, $765M contract, the most lucrative deal in sports history (More) | Dave Parker and Dick Allen elected to Baseball Hall of Fame via Classic Baseball Era Committee (More)
> President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Elon Musk among shortlist of candidates for Time magazine's 2024 Person of the Year (More)
> “Emilia Pérez” leads all films with 10 nominations for the 2025 Golden Globe Awards; "The Bear" tops on the TV side with five nods (More) | US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to perform in Broadway musical "& Juliet" this Saturday (More)
Science & Technology
> Nature Magazine releases its annual list of the top 10 people shaping science and technology in 2024; efforts range from AI weather prediction to the detection of fraud in academic papers (More)
> Social forum platform Reddit to test a conversational AI feature, allowing US users to ask questions and curate responses; model trained on years of user-generated content (More)
> Physicists make first-ever observation of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium, using Europe's Large Hadron Collider; study provides insight into first fractions of a second following the Big Bang (More) | The antimatter mystery (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.6%, Dow -0.5%, Nasdaq -0.6%); investors await tomorrow's release of key inflation data—the consumer price index report (More) | Want to learn about Wall Street, the markets, and everything in between? Sign up for 1440 Business & Finance (Join here)
> Nvidia faces probe in China over possible antitrust violations related to the chipmaker's 2020 acquisition of Israeli tech company Mellanox (More) | Hershey shares close up nearly 11% on reports of Cadbury-owner Mondelez exploring acquisition; Hershey previously rejected Mondelez's $23B takeover bid in 2016 (More)
> Rupert Murdoch loses court bid to change his family’s trust to consolidate his eldest son Lachlan’s control of News Corp. and Fox Corp; the trust currently ensures all four of Murdoch's children have equal say in governing his media empire (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take the witness stand for first time in ongoing corruption trial on accusations of fraud, breach of trust, and accepting bribes in three separate instances (More)
> Former Marine Daniel Penny acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 New York City subway death of Jordan Neely; jury's decision came three days after a more serious charge of manslaughter was dismissed (More)
> Haitian gang kills over 180 people, mostly elderly, in the capital of Port-au-Prince; gang leader reportedly targeted the group after consulting a voodoo priest who blamed them for giving the leader's son a severe illness through witchcraft (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
No comments:
Post a Comment