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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 MLB All-Star Game set for tonight (8 pm ET, FOX); see roster breakdown and preview (More) | 2025 MLB Draft wraps; see full tracker of all 615 picks (More) | The history of MLB (1440 Topics)

> John Elway won't face charges in the April death of his friend and agent Jeff Sperbeck, who died from injuries sustained after falling off a golf cart driven by Elway (More)

> Animated children's show "Bluey" is most streamed US show in first half of 2025 with 25 billion minutes viewed (More) | HBO's "Harry Potter" TV series begins production, sets 2027 release date (More) | "Superman" flies to $122M in its opening weekend to lead US domestic box office (More)


Science & Technology
> Defense Department awards contracts worth up to $200M to Google, Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI to develop AI systems for unspecified national security applications (More)

> Astronomers detect the largest merger of two black holes to date via measuring gravitational waves; collision produced a single black hole roughly 225 times the mass of the sun (More) | What happens if you fall into a black hole? (1440 Topics)

> Photonic quantum device—systems that use light to perform quantum computing tasks—integrated into a commercial electronic chip for the first time; marks a key step toward manufacturing light-based quantum computers (More) | Einstein's insight underlying quantum computing (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.3%) as investors continue to monitor trade talks and look ahead to second quarter earnings reports (More)

> Cognition AI to acquire coding startup Windsurf in deal with undisclosed financial terms; follows failed acquisition by OpenAI and $2.4B licensing deal between Google and Windsurf last week (More)

> Amazon’s Prime Day event drove over $24B in e-commerce sales—the equivalent of two Black Fridays—with traffic from generative AI products increasing 3,300% year over year (More) | Starbucks employees ordered to work in person four days a week by October or take payouts; some leaders must also relocate to headquarters within 12 months (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Supreme Court clears the Trump administration to lay off over 1,300 employees at the Department of Education, functionally eliminating the agency (More) | Two dozen states sue the federal government for withholding $6.8B in education funds (More)

> President Donald Trump announces plan to sell Patriot air defense systems, other weapons to Ukraine, paid for by European allies; Trump threatens tariffs on Russian goods if a peace deal is not reached within 50 days (More) | Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launches independent mayoral bid after Democratic primary loss to Zohran Mamdani (More)

> Food and Drug Administration approves blue color additive derived from gardenia fruit as part of larger push to remove synthetic dyes from American diets (More) | Dozens of ice cream makers, representing roughly 90% of the US market, pledge to stop using artificial dyes by 2028 (More)

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