Friday, February 7

In The NEWS


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> President Donald Trump signs executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls' sporting events that receive federal funds, including the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles (More)

> National Women's Soccer League agrees to $5M settlement stemming from 2021 lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct by coaches and other league personnel (More)

> Black Sabbath to reunite for Ozzy Osbourne's final concert July 5 at fundrai
ser festival that will also feature Metallica and Pantera (More) | FireAid concert raises more than $100M for Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts (More)


Science & Technology
> Cyber researchers say Chinese AI company DeepSeek, whose low-cost chatbot went viral last week, is directly connected to infrastructure of the state-owned telecom firm China Mobile (More) | DeepSeek explained (More) | How generative AI works (1440 Topics)

> Study of large crowds reveals surprisingly predictable collective motion; highly packed crowds at Spain's running of the bulls behaved like a fluid, with repeating oscillations every 18 seconds (More)

> Paleontologists discover skull fossil of oldest known relative of modern birds; 69-million-year-old specimen suggests a number of Antarctic birds survived the Cretaceous extinction event (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +0.2%) led by big tech (More) | Chip giant AMD shares close down 6% after missing Wall Street estimates on data center sales (More)

> USPS resumes accepting inbound packages from China, Hong Kong less than a day after saying it would stop (More) | US trade deficit in goods reached record $1.2T last year; imports of goods and services grew 6.6% to $4.1T, while exports hit record $3.2T (More)

> Workday—a human resource management software provider—lays off 1,750 people, or about 8.5% of its workforce, as it shifts to investing in AI (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Maryland federal judge blocks executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship; latest block is more permanent than 14-day temporary block issued Jan. 23 by a Seattle federal judge (More) | The US sends 104 migrants accused of entering the US illegally back to India (More)

> Winter weather pattern to bring mix of snow and ice storms across portions of the US Midwest and Northeast through this weekend (More) | Types of winter weather 101 (More)

> Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization following US exit last month; Argentina was expected to provide $8M toward WHO's $6.9B 2024-25 budget (More)


SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

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