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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 NBA Draft kicks off tonight (8 pm ET, ABC/ESPN) with Round 1 from Brooklyn, New York; see full preview and mock draft (More) | NBA Finals Game 7 hauled in 16 million viewers, the most for a finals game since 2019 (More)

> Bobby Sherman, singer, TV actor, and 1960s and 1970s teen idol, dies of cancer at age 81 (More) | Mick Ralphs, founding member of influential rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, dies at age 81 (More)

> R&B stars Brandy and Monica announce coheadlining "The Boy Is Mine" tour, a 24-city arena tour named after their 1998 chart-topping hit (More)


Science & Technology
> Federal judge rules AI startup Anthropic may train its large language models on published books without authors' permission; marks first legal ruling supporting AI companies' use of copyrighted material (More) | Large language models explained (1440 Topics)

> Problems with cholesterol metabolism implicated in the development of macular degeneration; discovery may lead to a treatment for the age-related vision disease that affects around 20 million Americans (More)

> Scientists capture the structure of explosive molecules in the moments after detonation; technique simulates explosions by using X-rays to excite molecules under cryogenic conditions (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.1%, Dow +1.2%, Nasdaq +1.4%); oil prices fall over 5% amid shaky Israel-Iran truce (More) | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says interest rate cuts can wait in congressional testimony (More)

> CareerBuilder + Monster, a merger of two pioneers in online job recruiting, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to facilitate the sale of its operations (More) | Amazon to expand same- or next-day delivery to over 4,000 smaller US communities (More) | Tesla shares fall over 2% as robotaxis appear to violate traffic laws (More)

> Chipmaker Nano Labs shares close up 36% amid plans to purchase $1B of Binance Coin (More) | Stablecoin company Circle shares drop more than 15% as Wall Street flags risk of increasing competition (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> New York City mayoral primary heads to ranked-choice count after no Democratic candidate earns more than 50% of the vote; Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani leads with nearly 44% of the votes, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo concedes after receiving 36% of the votes (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Florida's Operation Dragon Eye rescues 60 missing children ages 9 to 17, leads to eight arrests; operation is the largest rescue of missing children in US history (More)

> Sudan's army accused of attack on hospital in West Kordofan state killing more than 40 people; army has not commented on the allegation as of this writing (More) | The US authorizes $30M to Israeli-backed group distributing food in Gaza (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS