Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Oklahoma City Thunder top Minnesota Timberwolves 4-1 to advance to NBA Finals for first time since 2012 (More) | Defending champs Florida Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes to reach the NHL Stanley Cup Final for a third straight year (More)
> Broadway hauls in $1.9B across all productions for the 2024-25 season, an all-time record and 23% jump from last year (More)
> Women's College World Series kicks off today with eight teams vying to become the NCAA softball national champion (More) | Onosato Daiki becomes first Japanese sumo grand champion, or yokozuna, since 2017; six of the last seven yokozunas were Mongolian (More)
Science & Technology
> Astronomers discover unexplained celestial object emitting both X-rays and radio waves roughly every 44 minutes; candidates—including a strongly magnetized neutron star and a white dwarf—fit some, but not all, of the data (More)
> Researchers successfully extract proteins from 200-year-old brain tissue, opening a new way to study the biology of deceased communities; technique relies on urea, the main component of urine, to break open cells in recovered tissue (More)
> New fuel cell design stores three times the energy of best-in-class battery technology; prototype uses liquid sodium metal as fuel, may have applications in electric planes (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.6%, Dow -0.6%, Nasdaq -0.5%) (More) | Federal court blocks Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs, saying president exceeded authority in using 1977 law to justify imposing duties (More)
> Nvidia beats estimates with 69% year-over-year Q1 revenue growth (More) | GameStop shares down nearly 11% after purchasing over $500M in bitcoin (More) | Elon Musk's xAI to pay messaging app Telegram $300M to integrate xAI's Grok chatbot for one year (More) | Anthropic appoints Netflix cofounder to board (More)
> Joby Aviation shares rise nearly 29% after electric air taxi maker receives $250M from Toyota (More) | Hailey Bieber's skincare brand Rhode to be acquired by e.l.f. Beauty in up to $1B deal (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Justice Department opens investigation into decade-old California law allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports teams aligning with gender identity (More) | Transportation Department moves to end program carving out $37B for women- and minority-owned businesses in highway, transit contracts (More)
> European Union lifts all non-security-related sanctions on Syria, following US decision to lift sanctions earlier this month (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> Swiss glacier collapses, burying almost the entire village of Blatten; 300-person town had evacuated earlier in the month at geologists' warning (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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