Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Indiana Pacers top Oklahoma City Thunder 108-91 to even NBA Finals series at 3-3 with decisive Game 7 set for Sunday (8 pm ET, ABC) (More) | Men's College World Series finals set; LSU to take on Coastal Carolina in best-of-three series for NCAA baseball title (More)
> Los Angeles Dodgers deny ICE agents entry to Dodger Stadium parking lot ahead of tonight's game; Department of Homeland Security denies ICE presence, says federal agents were parked at the stadium for reasons unrelated to operations (More)
> Justin Baldoni's legal team granted access to private text messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift amid legal battle over Lively's allegations Baldoni sexually harassed her on "It Ends With Us" set (More)
Science & Technology
> SpaceX Starship explodes on launch pad ahead of 10th test flight; official cause of blast under investigation, company cites "major anomaly" (More) | See video here (More)
> Engineers develop method to double the tensile strength of carbon fiber-reinforced composites; materials are lighter than aluminum but stronger than steel, have applications in aerospace and vehicles (More)
> Study suggests life persisted during "Snowball Earth"—a period around 700 million years ago when the planet was covered in ice—by living in shallow pools of near-freezing water (More) | "Snowball Earth" 101 (More)
Business & Markets
> Oil prices rise nearly 3% as Israel vows to intensify attacks on Iran while the US response to the conflict remains uncertain (More)
> America’s millionaire population grew by 379,000 last year to a total of 23.8 million, the most of any country, per new UBS report (More)
> Switzerland's central bank slashes key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 0% amid deflationary pressures (More) | What is deflation? (More) | See interest rates around the world (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Federal appeals court allows President Donald Trump to retain control of National Guard in Los Angeles while Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) lawsuit proceeds (More) | Trump extends cutoff for ByteDance to sell TikTok by 90 days; third extension brings new deadline to Sept. 17 (More)
> Hurricane Erick makes landfall in Oaxaca, Mexico, as a Category 3 storm, with winds of up to 125 miles per hour—the first major hurricane of the 2025 Eastern Pacific season (More) | Heat wave estimated to affect 255 million people across the US (More)
> South Africa opens investigation into the 1985 kidnapping and killing of anti-apartheid activists known as the Cradock Four (More)
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