Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in New York City; includes 118 feature films from filmmakers across 36 countries (More) | Will Ferrell to adapt his 2020 film "Eurovision" into a Broadway musical (More)
> Edmund White, pioneering novelist and essayist known for chronicling gay life in America, dies at age 85 (More)
> American Coco Gauff, 21, reaches her third French Open semifinal; see latest women's bracket (More) | ... and see latest men's bracket and schedule (More)
Science & Technology
> Male mice can grow ovaries in the womb if their mothers have iron deficiency; marks the first time dietary minerals have been linked to sexual development in offspring (More)
> Astronomers discover the smallest star orbited by a giant planet found to date; roughly 241 light-years from Earth, the pair contradict current planet formation theory (More)
> AI-assisted analysis allows estimates of individual manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls; a number may be older than believed, dating to 2,000-2,400 years ago (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.0%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.3%) as steel and aluminum tariff hikes kick in and latest data show slowdown in US private-sector job growth (More) | Private payrolls increase by 37,000 in May, the lowest monthly job total since March 2023 (More)
> Amazon to invest $10B in North Carolina to build cloud computing data center and artificial intelligence campus (More) | Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly using the site's data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement (More) | OpenAI tops 3 million paying business users, up from 2 million in February (More)
> Federal Reserve lifts asset cap on Wells Fargo, which restricted its size for more than seven years, after the bank showed improvement in its corporate governance and risk management practices (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> White House bars foreign students from attending Harvard University (More) | Department of Education threatens Columbia University's accreditation; says the university violated federal antidiscrimination laws by tolerating harassment of Jewish students (More)
> President Donald Trump's megabill will cut taxes by $3.7T and add $2.4T to the national debt through 2034, new analysis finds; tariffs as of May 13 to reduce primary deficits over the next decade by $2.5T (More) | Read tariffs analysis (More)
> FBI arrests alleged co-conspirator in last month's Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing; latest suspect is accused of sending 180 pounds of bomb-making materials to the lead suspect, who died in the attack (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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