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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "Conclave" leads all films with 12 nominations at the 2025 British Academy Film Awards, or BAFTA Awards; "Emilia Pérez" is just behind with 11 nods (More) | "Challengers" and "A Complete Unknown" lead 2025 Writers Guild Awards nominations (More)

> Nine NBA games rescheduled due to Los Angeles fires and Atlanta winter storm (More) | Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, and Michael Vick headline 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class (More)

> NCAA approves payment for women's basketball teams who compete in March Madness; $15M will be distributed among tourney teams and will expand to $25M by 2028 (More)


Science & Technology
> Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander successfully launches, with a lunar touchdown date of March 2; NASA-led mission is part of a series of flights to deliver payloads to the moon's surface (More)

> Meta unveils AI-powered speech-to-speech platform that can perform real-time translation across 101 languages (More) | Watch Mark Zuckerberg discuss the company's push into all things AI (More)

> DNA analysis of a first-century gravesite in southern England reveals occupants shared a maternal family tree tracing back to a single woman; study suggests women were at the center of Iron Age Celtic communities (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets rise (S&P 500 +1.8%, Dow +1.7%, Nasdaq +2.5%), with all three major indexes notching best day since November after tame inflation data (More) | Core consumer price index rises 3.2% year-over-year in December, less than expected (More) | Want to learn about inflation, and many other topics? Sign up for 1440 Business & Finance (More)

> JPMorgan posts record quarterly and annual earnings and revenue, with Q4 profits jumping 50% to over $14B and annual profit reaching $58B (More) | Goldman Sachs beats revenue and earnings estimates; records Q4 profit of $4B, highest in more than three years (More)

> Meta Platforms plans to lay off 5% of workforce, or about 3,600 people, based on performance evaluations (More) | Short-seller Hindenburg Research to shut down (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US Food and Drug Administration bans use of Red Dye No. 3 from nation's food supply, drinks, and ingested drugs due to potential cancer risks; move comes 35 years after the FDA banned the artificial coloring from cosmetics (More)

> Six Trump Cabinet nominees face Senate confirmation hearings, including Pam Bondi for attorney general, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for secretary of state, and former Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) for CIA director; see recap (More) | President Joe Biden delivers farewell address to nation (More)

> US Supreme Court weighs First Amendment constitutionality of Texas’ age-verification requirement for pornography sites (More)

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