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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, and Chubby Checker headline 2025 class of 13 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (More) | The history of rock (More) | Join 1440 Society & Culture (Sign up here)

> Final autopsy report on Gene Hackman's death reveals the actor died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease days after his wife Betsy died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (More)

> Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, and six others join Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche for competition jury at 2025 Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24) (More)


Science & Technology
> President Donald Trump dismisses all scientists working on the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated climate change report (More) | Scientists solve key question limiting carbon-dioxide-to-fuel chemical reactions (More) | Artificial photosynthesis 101 (More, w/video)

> New immunotherapy drug significantly increases life expectancy for patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer in phase 3 trial (More) | What do we know about how cancer works? (More)

> Researchers reveal a new type of atomic clock with improved precision measuring quantum beats from a "fountain" of cesium atoms; clock would be off by one second after 100 million years (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close near flatline (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq -0.1%) as investors brace for packed week of earnings reports (More)

> IBM pledges to invest $150B in the US over the next five years, including $30B to advance American manufacturing of its mainframe and quantum computers (More) | What is quantum computing? (More)

> Chinese retailer Temu adds import surcharges, ranging between 130% and 150%, to items sold to US customers amid US-China trade fight (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Prime Minister Mark Carney wins federal elections in Canada, with his Liberal Party holding narrow lead in the House of Commons as of this writing (More) | See latest election results (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Conclave process to elect a new pope will begin May 7, when high-ranking clergy will sequester themselves in the Sistine Chapel until a new pope is selected (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Russian President Vladimir Putin announces unilateral 72-hour ceasefire in Ukraine beginning May 8, calls for Ukraine to join; there have been more than 20 ceasefires in the conflict to date, many failing within minutes (More)

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