Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Kendrick Lamar becomes first hip-hop artist to land three albums at the same time in Top 10 of Billboard 200 albums chart (More) | Shakira resumes world tour after canceling concert over the weekend following hospitalization for a stomach illness (More)
> Paquita la del Barrio, Grammy-nominated Mexican music icon, dies at age 77 (More)
> Matt Damon tapped as star of Christopher Nolan's upcoming film "The Odyssey," slated for a July 2026 release date (More) | "SNL" 50th anniversary special hauls in 14.8 million viewers (More)
Science & Technology
> Social media platform X blocks links to secure messaging app Signal; encrypted service has been used by terminated government workers to contact journalists (More)
> Pancreatic cancer tumors reprogram adjacent nerve cells in ways that fuel tumor growth; study may lead to new ways to slow or halt the disease, which has a five-year survival rate of around 10% (More)
> Paleontologists discover 30-million-year-old skull belonging to a new species of Hyaenodonta, a leopard-like apex predator that roamed what is now Egypt after dinosaurs went extinct (More)
Business & Markets
> Chinese President Xi Jinping holds meeting with top Chinese entrepreneurs, including Alibaba’s Jack Ma and heads of electric carmaker BYD, Apple’s Chinese rival Huawei, and gaming holding company Tencent (More)
> Southwest Airlines to cut 15% of corporate jobs, or about 1,750 people, as part of cost-cutting measures; mass layoffs are first-ever in the carrier's history (More)
> OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever reportedly raising more than $1B for his AI startup Safe Superintelligence at a valuation of over $30B (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Federal judge expected to rule by today in state attorneys general effort to bar Department of Government Efficiency from firing government employees or accessing data (More) | DOGE reportedly seeking access to IRS systems that store sensitive taxpayer data (More) | Four top deputies of New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) resign in fallout from Adams' corruption case (More)
> US and Russian officials kick off talks in Saudi Arabia about ending Ukraine war, while European leaders gather in Paris for Ukraine summit (More) | Israeli forces to remain in five locations in southern Lebanon even after deadline for full withdrawal under ceasefire deal (More)
> At least 11 dead from Kentucky storm as the US faces a polar vortex this week, bringing extreme cold and snow that could set record-low temperatures (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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