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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> President Donald Trump to attend Sunday's FIFA Club World Cup final between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain (More) | Brazil national soccer coach Carlo Ancelotti gets one-year prison sentence in Spain for failure to pay taxes (More)

> “Ne Zha 2,” Chinese animated film that made $2.2B at global box office, sets Aug. 22 release date for English-language version, which will include Michelle Yeoh as part of the voice cast (More)

> Max officially reverts its name back to HBO Max just two years after initial switch (More) | "Big Bang Theory" spinoff series confirmed for HBO Max (More)


Science & Technology
> Researchers isolate the oldest proteins ever analyzed, recovered from the enamel of an extinct rhino species at least 18 million years old (More)

> New study estimates 27 million tons of nanoplastics—plastic particles smaller than the width of spider silk—exist in the North Atlantic Ocean; results raise concerns over the penetration of such particles into marine food chains (More)

> Significant weight loss triggers mechanisms in cells to begin recycling harmful lipids and the removal of senescent, or no longer dividing, cells; study is the most detailed to date on how weight loss impacts fat tissue (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +1.0%) (More) | President Donald Trump sends letters detailing new import tariffs to at least seven more countries (More) | Federal Reserve's meeting minutes from June show officials divided over tariff-driven inflation and number of interest rate cuts (More)

> X CEO Linda Yaccarino steps down after over two years in the role; shake-up comes after Elon Musk merged X with Grok chatbot maker xAI in March (More) | Retailers log $7.9B in online sales in first 24 hours of Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.9% year over year (More)

> Pharmaceutical giant Merck to buy UK-based Verona Pharma for roughly $10B; acquisition is Merck's largest since its nearly $11B purchase of Prometheus Biosciences in 2023 (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US Justice Department sues the California Department of Education for allowing transgender athletes to compete in school sports; alleges the state is violating antidiscrimination laws (More) | President Donald Trump hosts five African leaders through Friday, with a focus on the continent's economic potential (More)

> The US resumes sending some weapons to Ukraine after pausing deliveries earlier this month (More) | Russia launches record attack on Ukraine, per Ukrainian officials (More) | European Court of Human Rights rules Russia violated international humanitarian law in Ukraine, shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 (More)

> French police raid the headquarters of the far-right National Rally party as part of a probe into whether the party broke campaign finance laws (More) | Seoul repatriates six North Koreans who accidentally drifted into South Korean waters, the first such return under South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS