Thursday, December 12

In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Time magazine taps WNBA Rookie of the Year Caitlin Clark as its 2024 Athlete of the Year (More) | North Carolina tops Wake Forest 1-0 to win 2024 NCAA women's soccer national championship (More)

> Two more hotel workers charged in Argentina in a case related to the death of One Direction's Liam Payne (More) | Former cycling world champion Rohan Dennis pleads guilty to charge related to the death of his wife, Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins (More)

> Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas," which debuted in 1994, tops Billboard Hot 100; the song extends its record with six distinct runs atop the chart (More)



Science & Technology

> Construction uncovers a 1,375-year-old pyramid along the site of a future highway in central Mexico; structure dates to the pre-Hispanic Metztitlán kingdom (More)

> James Webb Space Telescope measurements confirm gap in cosmological model, suggests additional factor needed to explain why the universe is expanding at a faster rate than its early stages (More) | What do scientists know about the Big Bang? (More)

> New cancer treatment eliminates bladder and lung tumors in mice without side effects by combining targeting drugs and engineered radioactive antibodies (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.3%); investors await new inflation data from November, set to be released today (More)

> Federal judge temporarily halts supermarket chain Kroger's proposed $25B acquisition of rival Albertsons pending Federal Trade Commission proceedings; Washington judge then permanently bars merger from the state, citing competition concerns (More)

> Walgreens shares close up nearly 18% on reports of potential sale to private equity firm Sycamore Partners, marking the highest one-day jump in shares in the pharmacy chain's history (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Franklin Fire near Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, burns over 2,800 acres as of this writing, places 12,500 people under evacuation orders (More) | See live updates (More)

> Suspect in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears in Pennsylvania court for extradition hearing to New York (More) | See profile on the suspect (More)

> Polygamous sect leader—who worked to start an offshoot of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—has been sentenced to 50 years in prison this week in Arizona for child sex abuse (More)


SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

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