Friday, December 13

In The NEWS


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> 2025's Academy Awards ceremony will be livestreamed on Hulu alongside ABC broadcast (More) | Sundance Film Festival (Jan. 23 to Feb. 2) announces its lineup of 87 feature films (More) | Michael Cole, actor known for starring role in "The Mod Squad," dies at 84 (More)

> Berlin tapped to host its first regular season NFL game in 2025 (More) | NCAA looking to expand March Madness tournaments to 72 or 76 teams in near future (More) | Rocky Colavito, nine-time MLB All-Star, dies at 91 (More)

> Six-time Super Bowl champion coach Bill Belichick, who stepped down as coach of the New England Patriots in 2023 after 24 seasons, hired as next head coach at the University of North Carolina (More)


Science & Technology
> James Webb Space Telescope detects and estimates the mass of a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang; "Firefly Sparkle" expected to shed light on how the Milky Way developed (More) | See the 1440 Topics page on the James Webb (More)

> Researchers discover a new type of magnetism; altermagnetism phenomenon may lead to faster and more efficient digital memory devices (More)

> Engineers develop microscopic robots for delivering drugs to specific locations inside the body; demonstration project successfully treated bladder tumors in mice (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +1.8%); Nasdaq tops 20,000 for first time, lifted by Alphabet, Tesla, Amazon, and Meta, which all closed at record highs (More)

> Consumer price index rose 2.7% year-over-year in November and 0.3% month-over-month; both figures are in line with expectations but higher than the 2.6% and 0.2% growth rates in October (More)

> SpaceX valuation rises to $350B as the company and its investors agree to buy back stock from insiders (More) | Stock buyback 101 (More) | Macy's misses analyst estimates, cuts earnings outlook after concluding investigation into employee who hid $151M accounting error (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month; the announcement by Wray, who Trump appointed in 2017, comes after Trump named Kash Patel as his intended FBI director (More)

> House of Representatives pass $895B defense bill for 2025 fiscal year, a 1% increase from 2024; the bill, which the Senate is expected to approve next week, would give 14.5% raise to junior enlisted service members (More)

> Federal judge rejects satirical site The Onion's $1.8M bid to purchase Alex Jones' Infowars site as part of bankruptcy auction proceedings, citing problems with the auction process; sale now turns to trustee to manage (More)


SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

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