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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking trial continues as ex-aide testifies Combs kidnapped her at gunpoint, threatened to kill rapper Kid Cudi (More)

> President Donald Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from California if it allows a transgender female athlete to compete in state's high school track and field championship (More) | Cornell wins first NCAA men's lacrosse title since 1977; UNC finishes season undefeated to win women's lacrosse championship (More)

> Billie Eilish dominates the 2025 American Music Awards, bringing home seven awards (More) | Rick Derringer, legendary rock musician and songwriter whose career spanned six decades, dies at age 77 (More)


Science & Technology
> Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will remove COVID-19 shots from its list of recommended immunizations for healthy children and healthy pregnant women (More) | See announcement via X (More)

> Researchers discover first tools made from whale bones dating back 20,000 years in what is now Western Europe, roughly 15,000 years earlier than previously known (More)

> New memory model suggests brain cells known as astrocytes are involved in storing memories; may explain brain's larger-than-expected storage capacity (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +2.1%, Dow +1.8%, Nasdaq +2.5%) on optimism the US will secure a trade deal to prevent 50% tariffs on goods from the European Union (More)

> Salesforce acquires cloud data management firm Informatica in $8B equity deal (More) | Motorola Solutions to buy wireless radio-maker Silvus Technologies for $4.4B (More) | Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, raises $600M at $9B valuation, up from $3.5B valuation in 2023 (More)

> Southwest ends policy of two free checked bags per passenger, the last major airline to offer the perk; most Southwest passengers will now pay $35 for a first checked bag, $45 for a second (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> State Department pauses all new student visa interviews as Trump administration considers updating procedures to vet applicants' social media profiles (More)

> Chaos erupts at new Gaza distribution center as thousands of people attempt to secure aid from US- and Israeli-backed distribution group (More) | See updates on the war (More)

> Cholera outbreak in Sudan sparks concerns of public health disaster, with drone strikes on water purification stations reducing access to clean water; more than 150,000 people have been killed in the two-year civil war (More)

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