Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Women's College World Series kicks off tonight (8 pm ET, ESPN) with Texas Tech taking on Texas in a best-of-three matchup for the NCAA softball national title (More) | Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball legend, dies at age 89 (More)
> Washington, DC's Kennedy Center denies report of seeing a 36% drop in subscription sales compared to 2024 (More)
> President Donald Trump threatens hefty fines against California after state allowed a transgender female athlete to compete in track and field championships (More) | New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau fired after five seasons despite team reaching Eastern Conference Finals for first time in 25 years (More)
Science & Technology
> China's DeepSeek may have trained its latest AI chatbot in part on Google's Gemini, new research suggests; the company made waves earlier this year for its low-cost model (More)
> Scientists make most precise measurement to date of the magnetic properties of the muon, a subatomic particle created by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere; results confirm anomalous properties not explained by theory (More)
> New simulation reveals second-by-second details of what happens when a black hole consumes a neutron star; results let astrophysicists know what signals to look for to identify the events (More) | 1440 Topics: Black Holes (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +0.8%); Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as world's most valuable company (More) | US tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to double starting today (More) | Ford reports 16% year-over-year US sales increase in May amid tariffs (More)
> US job openings rose to 7.4 million in April, up 191,000 from March and higher than expected, per Labor Department data (More) | Dollar General sets quarterly sales record of over $10B as Americans spend more at bargain stores (More)
> Walmart, Amazon, and UnitedHealth top Fortune 500 annual list of largest US companies by revenue (More) | Number of women CEOs leading Fortune 500 companies hits new record of 55 (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> White House proposes package to Congress to reclaim $9.4B in approved spending, mostly targeting foreign aid (More) | US immigration authorities detain family of suspect in Colorado attack (More) | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders removal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk's name from a Navy oil ship (More)
> Liberal Lee Jae-myung wins South Korean presidency, ending months of political instability after the ousting of former conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol (More) | Mexico's ruling Morena party appears likely to control the Supreme Court in the country's first judicial election (More)
> Crimea bridge reopens after Ukraine carried out underwater explosion; bridge connects the Russian-occupied peninsula to Russia (More) | Gunfire near Gaza aid site kills at least 27 people; Israeli military says it fired near people who strayed from a designated route to the site and who did not respond to warning shots (More)
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