Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Jury reaches partial verdict in Sean "Diddy" Combs' wide-ranging sex crimes trial, agreeing on four of five counts; jury resumes deliberations today on racketeering conspiracy charge (More) | Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist and gospel singer who was defrocked amid prostitution scandals, dies at age 90 (More)
> University of Pennsylvania agrees to ban transgender women from competing in women's sports, resolving the federal civil rights case (More)
> NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander signs four-year, $285M contract extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder, the highest annual salary in NBA history (More) | FIFA Club World Cup quarterfinal is set; see latest bracket (More)
Science & Technology
> Web infrastructure firm Cloudflare announces it will block bots and AI crawlers by default, provide an option for per-page-crawl payment; company services about 20% of the open internet (More)
> New imaging analysis reveals how quickly the human brain is aging from a single MRI scan; tool can assess risk of dementia and chronic disease, motivate lifestyle changes to improve brain health (More) | Aging explained (1440 Topics)
> Engineers develop technique to reconstruct 3D images of hidden objects using reflections from millimeter radiation (the same frequency as Wi-Fi); approach achieved 96% accuracy with common household objects (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow +1.0%, Nasdaq -0.8%) (More) | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the Fed would have likely cut interest rates by now if it weren't for tariffs (More) | US job openings rose to 7.8 million in May, up from 7.4 million in April and the highest level since November (More)
> Design-software maker Figma files for initial public offering, with plans to trade on the NYSE; comes after Adobe scrapped a $20B deal to buy the company in 2023 following regulatory hurdles in the UK (More) | IPOs explained (1440 Topics)
> Grammarly, maker of AI-powered writing assistant, acquires email client Superhuman (More) | Lululemon sues Costco, accusing the retail wholesaler of selling bargain knockoff versions of its popular activewear (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani officially secures Democratic nomination for New York City’s mayoral race, with final tally showing he beat former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 12 points (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> Thailand court suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra amid ethics probe over leaked phone call with Cambodia's leader; court suggests Shinawatra may have been too deferential when discussing border incident that left one Cambodian soldier dead (More)
> President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire plan for Gaza, urges Hamas to accept deal (More) | German authorities summon Iran's ambassador after Danish citizen was arrested and accused of spying for Iran, scouting Jewish targets in Berlin for possible attacks (More)
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