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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Pro Football Hall of Famer and podcaster Shannon Sharpe accused in $50M civil lawsuit of sexual assault and battery (More)

> Duke star freshman Cooper Flagg confirms he will enter NBA Draft, is widely projected to be top pick (More) | ... and NBA playoffs are ongoing; see latest bracket (More) | ... as are the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs; see complete schedule (More) | Hockey 101 (More)

> Ill-fated 2017 Fyre Festival to be turned into music streaming service that includes a subscription video-on-demand platform; Fyre Festival 2 was recently postponed indefinitely (More)


Science & Technology
> NASA's Lucy mission makes flyby of 150-million-year-old asteroid fragment; images expected to shed light on the collision processes during the early formation of the solar system (More) | The history of NASA (More)

> Engineers develop hyper-resilient lithium-ion battery that can be stretched and twisted and can continue to power devices after being cut in half (More)

> Lemur study reveals evolutionary changes to the way their brains respond to oxytocin determine whether females are highly aggressive or amiable; results shed light on how hormones influence behavior in humans (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -2.4%, Dow -2.5%, Nasdaq -2.6%) as US dollar drops to three-year low after President Donald Trump pressures Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates immediately (More) | Learn more about markets, taxes, and much more with 1440 Business & Finance (More)

> FTC sues Uber for alleged deceptive billing and cancellation practices tied to its Uber One subscription service (More) | Justice Department asks federal judge to address Google's monopoly in internet search by forcing the $1.8T tech giant to sell Chrome, among other measures, as three-week hearing on remedy kicks off (More)

> Walgreens to pay up to $350M to settle federal claims over allegedly filling millions of invalid prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances from August 2012 to March 2023 (More) What you need to know about the opioid crisis (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> White House expresses support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who reportedly shared sensitive information about US strikes in Yemen in another Signal group chat, which included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer (More)

> Nadine Menendez, wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez (D), convicted of joining her husband in yearslong bribery scheme tied to Egypt (More) | Man pleads guilty to killing 23 people and wounding 22 others in a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart in 2019, receives life sentence without parole (More)

> US Supreme Court hears challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurers provide certain preventive health services at no cost (More)

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