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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 NHL Draft kicks off tonight (7 pm ET, ESPN); see complete first round mock draft (More) | ... and NBA Draft wraps up; see complete draft results (More)

> Ariana Grande, Kieran Culkin, and Mikey Madison among 534 invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, organizers of the Oscars (More) | Denis Villeneuve tapped to become director of latest James Bond film (More)

> Kenya's Faith Kipyegon runs fastest-ever mile for a woman but fails to break the four-minute mile barrier (More) | PayPal signs multiyear deal with Big Ten and Big 12 to facilitate payments to student-athletes (More)


Science & Technology
> Meta hires top OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to help lead new "superintelligence" unit; poaching is the latest in a reported multi-hundred-million-dollar hiring spree by Meta to jump-start lagging AI program (More) | Meta explained (1440 Topics)

> World's oldest rocks confirmed to be almost 4.2 billion years old; region along Canada's Hudson Bay shore is the only known formation to remain from Earth's Hadean Eon (More) | What was the Hadean Eon? (More, w/video)

> New study suggests babies born prematurely may feel pain before developing the brain circuitry needed to understand and react to the experience (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.9%, Nasdaq +1.0%); S&P 500, Nasdaq briefly trade above all-time closing highs as White House signals July 8-9 tariff deadlines could be extended (More)

> The US economy shrank at 0.5% annual rate during the first three months of 2025, faster than previous estimate of 0.2%, per final report; decline was driven partly by slowdown in consumer spending and a surge in imports ahead of tariffs (More)

> Core Scientific shares close up 33% following report AI infrastructure provider CoreWeave is in talks to buy the bitcoin mining firm (More) | Nike beats Q4 estimates, but reports 12% year-over-year drop in sales (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei downplays US strikes and warns against further attacks in first public remarks since ceasefire (More) | Iran's centrifuges at Fordo are no longer operational, per UN watchdog's head, citing their susceptibility to vibrations (More)

> Ukrainian forces stop Russian advance in the northern region of Sumy, per top general (More) | At least 29 students dead, more than 250 injured in stampede following electric transformer explosion in the Central African Republic (More)

> Ecuador's most wanted man—drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar—captured in underground bunker beneath luxury home in 10-hour operation; Villamar, also known as "Fito," was the leader of cocaine-trafficking Los Choneros (More)

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