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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Golf world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler cruises to victory by four strokes at British Open to win his fourth major championship (More)

> Alan Bergman, Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy-winning songwriter for performers including Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, dies at age 99 (More) | Eileen Fulton, actress who starred in "As the World Turns" for 50 years, dies at age 91 (More)

> Minnesota Lynx's Napheesa Collier leads Team Collier to 151-131 victory over Team Clark in WNBA All-Star Game (More) | Mario Barrios draws with Manny Pacquiao to retain WBC welterweight title; Pacquiao, 46, was attempting to become oldest boxer to win welterweight world championship (More)


Science & Technology
> Environmental Protection Agency to shutter research and development arm, carry out reduction in force targeting 23% of agency's overall staff (More)

> Engineers demonstrate 3D-printed stainless steel components that can withstand radiative environments found in nuclear reactors; milestone may help further innovative new reactor designs (More)

> British scientists begin study of Antarctic ice cores believed to be up to 1.5 million years old; analysis expected to shed light on temperature and climate conditions during the period (More) | What was the Mid-Pleistocene Transition? (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed Friday (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -.3%, Nasdaq +0.1%) amid report President Donald Trump is pushing for EU tariffs of at least 15% (More)

> President Donald Trump signs law on regulating dollar-pegged stablecoins, enabling banks and other entities to begin issuing the digital currencies (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Uber invests $300M in bid to compete with Waymo and Tesla; will secure 20,000 electric vehicles from startup Lucid, purchase self-driving software from tech startup Nuro (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Car rams into crowd outside Los Angeles Saturday, injuring at least 30 people; officials are investigating the action as an intentional attack, have not yet publicly identified a motive (More)

> Bedouin fighters withdraw from Druze-majority city of Sweida in southern Syria as truce to end weeklong fighting appears to hold, as of this writing (More)

> Tourist boat in Vietnam capsizes during sudden thunderstorm, killing at least 35 people with four others missing (More) | South Korea floods and landslides kill at least 17 people (More)

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