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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Peter Yarrow of iconic folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, dies of cancer at age 86 (More) | Richard Cohen, Emmy-winning journalist and husband to Meredith Vieira, dies at age 76 (More)

> North Dakota State tops Montana State 35-32 to win a record 10th FCS football national championship (More) | Las Vegas Raiders fire head coach Antonio Pierce after 4-13 season (More)

> Former MoviePass CEO Ted Farnsworth pleads guilty to defrauding investors over the company's revenue sources and sustainability (More)


Science & Technology
> Nvidia unveils $3K AI-powered desktop for researchers and students; system allows users to run many AI models locally instead of relying on cloud computing (More) | Google to build AI model capable of simulating real-world environments (More)

> Spider study solves longstanding mystery of how the arachnids smell; researchers find olfactory hairs along male spiders' legs act as a nose to detect pheromones from females (More)

> Arizona receives approval to build 600-megawatt utility-scale solar power plant; one of the biggest solar projects in the US, the facility will power an estimated 180,000 homes (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets fall (S&P 500 -1.1%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -1.9%), driven by declines in tech stocks, including Nvidia (-6.2%), and better-than-expected economic data raising concerns over interest rate cuts (More)

> Getty Images to acquire rival Shutterstock in deal valuing combined enterprise at $3.7B, likely to face regulatory scrutiny; following the news, Getty shares closed up 24% and Shutterstock shares closed up nearly 15% (More)

> Anthropic in talks to raise as much as $2B in funding round, valuing the AI startup at $60B (More) | President-elect Donald Trump announces $20B investment from Dubai billionaire Hussain Sajwani to build new data centers in the US (More)

Politics & World Affairs

> Judge temporarily blocks release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President-elect Donald Trump's classified documents case while an appellate court reviews the issue (More) | Trump declines to rule out military force in potential US expansion into Greenland, Panama Canal (More)

> Two fast-moving brush fires erupt in Los Angeles, including a fire in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood that has grown to nearly 3,000 acres as of this writing, prompting thousands of people to evacuate (More)

> US House passes border measure requiring Homeland Security to take into custody undocumented immigrants who have been charged with theft and other crimes; Senate expected to take up the bill this Friday (More)

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