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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Grammy Awards draw in 15.4 million TV viewers, a 9% drop from 2024's telecast; weekend events raised $24M for Los Angeles wildfire relief (More)

> Amber Ruffin, Emmy- and Tony-nominated comedian and writer, tapped to headline 2025 White House Correspondents’ Dinner set for April 26 (More)

> Trial begins for man accused of 2022 knife attack on author Salman Rushdie that left Rushdie permanently blind in one eye (More) | Ten new sexual assault and misconduct civil lawsuits expected to be filed against Sean "Diddy" Combs in the coming days (More)


Science & Technology
> Scientists discover treatment to stop tumor formation and growth of a type of medulloblastoma, the most common childhood malignant brain cancer (More)

> Early North American communities peaked in population around the middle of the 12th century, falling by 30% before widespread European colonization, new study reveals (More)

> Researchers launch long-term study of Alzheimer's in young adults, beginning as early as age 18; 25-year project seeks to track molecular changes in the brain, find interventions for the disease before it develops (More) | How Alzheimer's works, treatments, risk factors, and more (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.7%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq +1.4%) as investors review latest batch of earnings and as US job openings fell to 7.6 million in December, the lowest level since September (More)

> Alphabet shares fall more than 7% in after-hours trading after Q4 revenue miss (More) | Google 101 (1440 Topics) | Snap shares rise 5% in after-hours trading on better-than-expected Q4 results (More)

> Cruise to slash workforce by nearly 50%, or roughly 1,000 employees, after owner General Motors ended funding to robotaxi unit (More) | Estee Lauder to trim up to 7,000 jobs, or around 11% of workforce; shares drop 16% on the news (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Senate panels advance Tulsi Gabbard's bid for national intelligence director and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid for health secretary (More) | Senate confirms Doug Collins as veterans affairs secretary and Pam Bondi as US attorney general (More) | The US sends first migrant flight to Guantánamo Bay (More) | President Donald Trump proposes US control of Gaza and Palestinians to relocate elsewhere (More) | USAID direct hires put on leave worldwide, except those deemed essential (More)

> China announces retaliatory tariffs on select US imports, including gas and coal, as well as an antitrust investigation into Google after Trump administration's 10% tariff on Chinese imports takes effect (More)

> The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's estimated 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, dies at age 88 (More)

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