Thursday, April 17

In The News


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> "Good Night, and Good Luck," starring George Clooney, hauls in $3.7M to break its own weekly box office record for a Broadway play (More)

> Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium tapped as baseball venue for 2028 Summer Olympics as LA28 organizers unveil complete venue plan for Olympic Games (More)

> Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter accused in lawsuit of sexual assault; Carter has now been accused by four women of sexual assault (More)


Science & Technology
> OpenAI reportedly considering its own social media platform to compete with Elon Musk's X, tied to its newest image-generation feature (More) | Everything you want to know about OpenAI (1440 Topics)

> AI startup Anthropic's premium Claude chatbot now integrates with Google Workspace, enabling it to reference emails in Gmail, search documents in Google Docs, and schedule events in Google Calendar (More)

> Brain imaging study reveals dogs with elongated brains exhibit stronger connections in olfactory brain regions than dogs with rounder-shaped brains, impacting their sense of smell (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.0%) (More) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares rise 5% after activist Elliott Investment Management takes $1.5B stake (More)

> Johnson & Johnson says it expects $400M in tariff-related costs this year, mostly related to China (More) | Apple airlifted iPhones worth a record $2B from India last month as US tariffs loomed (More) | ... and China is reportedly ordering its airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets in response to US import tariffs (More)

> Federal judge scraps US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping credit card late fees at $8, says rule prevents card issuers from imposing fees that are proportionate to violations (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Measles cases linked to Texas outbreak rise to 561, with 20 new infections confirmed over the last five days and at least 58 people hospitalized so far, per new data from Texas health officials (More) | See nationwide CDC data (More)

> Singapore dissolves Parliament, sets general elections for May 3; the People’s Action Party, which has ruled Singapore since the country's independence from Malaysia in 1965, is expected to maintain control (More)

> US Justice Department unseals drug trafficking charges against two leaders of Mexican drug cartel La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization, offering up to $8M for information leading to their arrest (More)


SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

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