Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor and director best known for starring role in "The Cosby Show," dies at age 54 of an accidental drowning while on vacation in Costa Rica (More) | Tom Troupe, actor whose career spanned more than 60 years, dies at age 97 (More)
> "Superman" hauls in more than $400M at global box office and helps Warner Bros. pass Disney as top-grossing studio at US domestic box office for 2025 (More)
> President Donald Trump threatens to restrict stadium deal for the NFL's Washington Commanders unless they restore former Redskins name; Trump also urges the MLB's Cleveland Guardians to bring back Indians moniker (More)
Science & Technology
> Security researchers say weekend hack via Microsoft's SharePoint likely affected about 100 organizations, including government agencies in the US, the UK, and Germany; attack likely carried out by a single actor (More) | The 1440 Science & Technology weekly newsletter comes out this morning at 8:30 am ET, sign up here (More)
> Supernovae study suggests dark energy—the mysterious force driving universal expansion—may be weakening over time; if confirmed, results would point to not-yet-discovered physics governing the universe (More) | The astronomer behind the invisible universe (1440 Topics)
> Researchers sequence genes of y-larvae, an enigmatic species of parasitic crustacean; despite being identified in the late 1800s, the adult form of the creatures has never been observed (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq +0.4%) (More) | Opendoor Technologies shares surge 42.7% after investor Eric Jackson predicts a turnaround; online real estate company dubbed the latest meme stock and trading briefly halted due to volatility concerns (More) | The impact of meme stocks (More)
> Southwest Airlines announces assigned seating will begin Jan. 27 (More) | Auto giant Stellantis warns of $2.7B net loss for the first half of 2025, citing early effects of tariffs (More)
> Sandwich chain Subway hires former Burger King executive as CEO (More) | Trump Media shares rise 3.1% after the company buys $2B in bitcoin and related securities (More) | Citigroup joins Goldman in asking junior bankers to disclose other offers in effort to combat competitive recruiting by private equity firms (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Federal appeals court overturns 2017 conviction of Pedro Hernandez, a former bodega stock clerk who confessed to kidnapping and killing six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 (More) | Former Kentucky police officer Brett Hankison sentenced to 33 months in prison for role in 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor; Hankison fired 10 shots into Taylor's apartment, but didn't hit anyone (More)
> Bangladeshi Air Force training jet crashes into two-story building at a school in Dhaka, killing at least 20 people, injuring 171 others; cause of the accident is under investigation (More) | Alaska Airlines grounds all flights for three hours due to hardware-related electrical outage (More)
> Trump administration releases over 240,000 pages related to FBI surveillance of the late Martin Luther King Jr. before his 1968 assassination (More) | Explore the documents (More)
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