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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The Dallas Mavericks take Duke's Cooper Flagg with the top pick of the 2025 NBA Draft; Round 2 is set for tonight (8pm ET, ESPN) (More)

> Closing arguments begin today in Sean "Diddy" Combs' wide-ranging sex crimes trial (More) | Brian Johnson, social media influencer who was the subject of a Netflix documentary, arrested after making "terroristic" threats against Joe Rogan (More)

> Concacaf Gold Cup group stage complete with quarterfinals set for this weekend; see complete schedule and bracket (More) | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup group stage is ongoing; see latest schedule and results (More)


Science & Technology
> Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome, an AI-powered platform to predict how variants and mutations in genetic code lead to different diseases, impact biological processes, and more (More)

> Solar-powered sea slugs eat algae and incorporate the photosynthetic components into their own cells, allowing them to capture energy from sunlight (More)

> James Webb Space Telescope captures its first image of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system; around 111 light-years away, is the lightest exoplanet ever directly observed (More) | JWST explained (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq +0.3%) (More) | Nvidia shares notch record high for the first time since January (More)

> Federal Reserve proposes loosening key rule regulating the quantity and quality of capital banks should keep against their investments; original rule stems from 2008 financial crisis to ensure stability of big US banks (More)

> Bumble to lay off about 30% of its workforce, or roughly 240 employees, as the dating app seeks to return to growth; shares close up 25% on the news (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> NATO leaders agree to increase defense spending to 5% of countries' gross domestic product by 2035 (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Antigovernment protests in Kenya leave at least eight people dead, over 80 injured; demonstrations coincide with one-year anniversary of antitax protests (More)

> Centers for Disease Control advisory committee announces plan to reexamine childhood vaccine schedule; meeting is the first since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced the panel earlier this month (More)

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