Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Beyoncé's 32-date "Cowboy Carter" world tour kicks off from Los Angeles (More) | Mike Peters, frontman for new wave band The Alarm, dies at age 66 after three-decade battle with cancer (More)
> Paris Saint-Germain tops Arsenal 1-0 in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semifinal; Inter Milan takes on FC Barcelona in the other semifinal today (More)
> Trump administration says the University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX, which guarantees women equal opportunities in athletics, by allowing a transgender athlete to compete for the women's swim team (More)
Science & Technology
> Global analysis links exposure to phthalates—chemical precursors used to make common plastics—to more than 350,000 heart disease-related deaths worldwide per year (More)
> Meta launches a standalone AI app meant to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT; platform will reportedly include social networking features, including sharing your AI conversations with friends in a discover feed (More) | Generative AI explained in three minutes (More, w/video)
> Neuroscientists discover the chemical dopamine released along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish the sense of fear following an acute stressor; research may lead to new therapies for PTSD (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +0.6%) (More) | Hims & Hers Health shares rise 23% after Novo Nordisk says it will offer weight-loss drug Wegovy through the telehealth provider (More) | Want to go deeper on markets, tariffs, and more? Sign up for 1440 Business & Finance (Join here)
> President Donald Trump signs order preventing steel and aluminum tariffs from being stacked on top of 25% tariff on imported vehicles (More) | US consumer confidence falls to lowest level in five years amid trade tensions (More) | Amazon denies report of plans to display tariff costs next to its product prices after White House criticism (More)
> UPS to cut 20,000 jobs, close 73 leased and owned facilities by end of June amid effort to reduce the amount of Amazon shipments it handles by over 50%; Amazon was previously UPS' largest customer, accounting for 12% of revenue (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> US Navy says it lost a $67M fighter jet after it rolled off an aircraft carrier and slid to the bottom of the Red Sea; the incident, which is under investigation, comes as Houthi rebels in Yemen say they launched missiles toward the carrier (More)
> Harvard University releases internal watchdog reports on antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias on campus; recommendations include new criteria in admissions process to vet for empathy, ability to engage in civic dialogue (More) | Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities (More)
> Florida lawmakers pass bill to ban additives in water, sending the bill to Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) desk for signature; if passed, Florida will become the second state to ban the chemical compound fluoride after Utah (More)
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