Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Novak Djokovic reaches French Open quarterfinals for a record-breaking 19th time (More) | ... and American Coco Gauff reaches French Open quarters for fifth consecutive year (More)
> Comedian Marc Maron's pioneering podcast "WTF" to end this fall after 16 years and nearly 2,000 episodes (More)
> Harvey Weinstein won't testify at his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges as closing arguments begin today (More) | John Brenkus, longtime host of Emmy-winning show "Sport Science," dies at age 54 after battle with depression (More)
Science & Technology
> Brain implant startup Paradromics completes its first human demonstration, inserting and removing the device into an epileptic patient; company is viewed as a potential competitor to Neuralink (More) | Neuralink raises $650M, investment round includes Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital (More)
> New simulation suggests the Milky Way has only a 50% chance of eventually colliding with the Andromeda Galaxy in roughly 10 billion years, potentially prevented by the pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud (More)
> Undergraduate student discovers fungus that produces compounds with effects similar to synthetic LSD (More) | LSD explained (1440 Topics)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.7%); steel stocks, including Cleveland-Cliffs (+23%) and Steel Dynamics (+10%), rally after President Donald Trump announces doubling of tariffs on steel imports (More)
> Google to spend $500M over next decade to overhaul its compliance systems to settle shareholder antitrust lawsuit (More) | French drugmaker Sanofi to buy US-based Blueprint Medicines for up to $9.5B to boost position in rare immunology diseases (More)
> Office demolitions and conversions this year exceed new construction for first time in 25 years, per new data (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Russia and Ukraine meet for hourlong peace talks in Istanbul, agree to exchange more prisoners of war and return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers; no progress reached in proposed ceasefire (More)
> Italy's Mount Etna (Europe's tallest volcano) erupts, with the pyroclastic flow—made up of ash, rock, and gas—likely caused by the collapse of material from the side of a southeast crater (More, w/video)
> Populist-nationalist Karol Nawrocki wins Poland's presidential election, narrowly defeating pro-EU Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski; will take office Aug. 6 (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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