Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Oregon, Texas, Penn State, and Notre Dame top final College Football Playoff rankings before conference championship week; see complete 12-team bracket (More) | Israel Vázquez, three-time boxing world champion, dies of cancer at age 46 (More)
> Georgia's longest-ever criminal trial, which involved Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and 28 total codefendants, ends as two codefendants found not guilty of racketeering charges (More)
> "A Different Man" wins best feature at Gotham Awards for independent films (More) | Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Drake top Billboard's list of the 21st century's greatest pop stars (More)
Science & Technology
> Amazon reportedly partnering with AI startup Anthropic to build an AI supercomputer; "Ultracluster" will combine hundreds of thousands of Amazon's in-house Trainium chips (More)
> Theoretical study suggests evidence for primordial black holes—hypothetical objects made right after the Big Bang that could be microscopic in size—may be found in hollowed planetoids (More) | Heard about black holes but don't know how they work? Click here (More)
> Researchers discover gene involved in photosynthesis that can boost poplar tree height by about 30% in the field, 200% in a greenhouse; gene also increases the biomass of other plant species (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.4%), with S&P 500, Nasdaq closing at record highs (More) | US job openings rose to 7.7 million in October, beating analyst expectations; the figure is up 372,000 jobs from September's 3.5-year low (More)
> Walmart buys TV maker Vizio for $2.3B in all-cash deal; the acquisition, first announced in February, enables Walmart to expand its advertising business and collect data on customers' viewing, shopping habits to serve targeted ads (More) | BlackRock to buy credit manager HPS Investment Partners for $12B (More)
> Food production giant Cargill, the US' largest privately held company, says it will lay off 5% of its global workforce, or an estimated 8,000 employees, amid dropping food prices following the COVID-19 pandemic (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> US Supreme Court to hear oral arguments today in US v. Skrmetti, a case surrounding a Tennessee law banning puberty blockers, hormones for minors; decision expected by June (More) | See map of 25 states with similar ban (More)
> Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister withdraws as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration (More) | Trump says he will block Japanese Nippon Steel's $14.9B acquisition of US Steel (More)
> Bangladesh summons India's top envoy after an attack on a consulate in India sparks protests in Bangladesh's capital; tensions between the two countries have been elevated as India refuses to extradite former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August (More)
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.4%), with S&P 500, Nasdaq closing at record highs (More) | US job openings rose to 7.7 million in October, beating analyst expectations; the figure is up 372,000 jobs from September's 3.5-year low (More)
> Walmart buys TV maker Vizio for $2.3B in all-cash deal; the acquisition, first announced in February, enables Walmart to expand its advertising business and collect data on customers' viewing, shopping habits to serve targeted ads (More) | BlackRock to buy credit manager HPS Investment Partners for $12B (More)
> Food production giant Cargill, the US' largest privately held company, says it will lay off 5% of its global workforce, or an estimated 8,000 employees, amid dropping food prices following the COVID-19 pandemic (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> US Supreme Court to hear oral arguments today in US v. Skrmetti, a case surrounding a Tennessee law banning puberty blockers, hormones for minors; decision expected by June (More) | See map of 25 states with similar ban (More)
> Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister withdraws as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration (More) | Trump says he will block Japanese Nippon Steel's $14.9B acquisition of US Steel (More)
> Bangladesh summons India's top envoy after an attack on a consulate in India sparks protests in Bangladesh's capital; tensions between the two countries have been elevated as India refuses to extradite former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August (More)
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