Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Popeye, Tintin, and "A Farewell to Arms" among popular intellectual properties that entered the public domain yesterday; works in the public domain are free for all to copy, share, and build upon (More)
> Five people charged in Argentina in connection with October 2024 death of One Direction's Liam Payne (More) | Justin Baldoni files $250M libel lawsuit against the New York Times over their coverage of Blake Lively's allegations against Baldoni of harassment (More)
> "Squid Game" season 2 hauls in 68 million views in its first four days, a Netflix record-high for a series opening weekend (More)
Science & Technology
> Montenegro formally extradites Terraform Labs cofounder Do Kwon to the US; Kwon is accused of defrauding investors of $40B in a collapsed crypto scheme in 2022 (More)
> Astronomers detect origin of latest fast radio burst—high-energy explosions of radiation that last for a second or less—coming from a galaxy about 200 million light-years away (More) | Learn more about FRBs, first discovered in 2007 (More)
> Protein in mosquito spit found to inhibit blood clotting and help transmit deadly parasites; findings could lead to gene-editing interventions that help combat diseases like malaria (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down Tuesday (S&P 500 -0.4%, Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq -0.9%), but overall surge in 2024; Nasdaq rises almost 29% on the year, driven by tech stocks, followed by S&P (+23%) and the Dow (+13%) (More)
> Securities and Exchange Commission writes off $10B in fines it says it can no longer collect; reasons range from court decisions to companies having gone bankrupt (More)
> Gas exports from Russia to Europe via Ukrainian pipelines end, as Ukraine declines to renew transit deal amid ongoing war (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Former President Jimmy Carter to lie in state in the US Capitol next Thursday; flags to be held at half-staff for 30 days (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> Wide range of new laws at the state level become official; includes 20 states with increased minimum wage, Florida's ban on social media for children under 14, and more (More)
> US House of Representatives to vote for speaker tomorrow; current speaker Mike Johnson (R, LA-4) can afford only one no vote from GOP caucus, has been endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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