Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Mexico tops Team USA 2-1 to win their second straight Concacaf Gold Cup and 10th overall (More) | Liverpool and Portugal soccer star Diogo Jota dies at 28 along with his brother in single-car crash in Spain (More)
> Joey Chestnut eats 70.5 hot dogs and buns to win his 17th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest; Miki Sudo eats 33 to win her 11th women's title (More)
> "Jurassic World Rebirth" hauls in $318M at the global box office in its opening weekend as "Lilo & Stitch" crosses $972M in its seven-week run (More) | Julian McMahon, actor known for starring roles in "Nip/Tuck" and "Fantastic Four," dies of cancer at 56 (More)
Science & Technology
> Astronomers detect the third interstellar object ever observed; the roughly 20-mile-wide comet will pass around 150 million miles from Earth, travel past the sun, and eventually exit the solar system (More)
> Neanderthals crushed and boiled bones in "fat factories" to access bone marrow and other nutrients as early as 125,000 years ago, evidence suggests (More)
> Researchers discover microbe with one of the smallest genomes known to date; findings raise questions around what constitutes life in single-celled organisms (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Thursday (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +1.0%) after report showing the US added 147,000 nonfarm jobs last month, beating expectations; unemployment rate dropped from 4.2% in May to 4.1% in June (More)
> President Donald Trump says 12 countries will receive letters today notifying them of tariffs going into effect tomorrow unless they accept "take it or leave it" deals; will name countries today (More)
> Eight OPEC+ countries, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, agree to increase oil production next month by 548,000 barrels per day in virtual meeting Saturday (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Tropical Storm Chantal makes landfall in northeastern South Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of up to 50 miles per hour and warnings of potential flash flooding across the two Carolinas (More)
> Israel sends delegation to Qatar after Hamas says it is ready to negotiate US-proposed 60-day ceasefire; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Donald Trump today in Washington, DC (More) | Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance since 12-day war with Israel (More)
> US deports eight men convicted of violent crimes to South Sudan, most of whom are citizens of other countries in Asia and Latin America; the move ends weeks of a legal saga, which saw the men held at a US military base in Djibouti (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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