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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> 2025 FIFA Club World Cup semifinals kick off with Fluminense taking on Chelsea tonight (3 pm ET, DAZN) and Paris Saint-Germain pitted against Real Madrid tomorrow (3 pm ET, DAZN) (More)

> Brad Pitt's "F1" nears $300M at global box office, becoming highest-grossing Apple-produced theatrical film ever (More)

> 2025 Wimbledon quarterfinals begin today; see updated scores, schedule, and brackets for women's and men's tournaments (More)


Science & Technology
> Twitter and Block founder Jack Dorsey launches Bitchat, a WhatsApp-style messaging service that works entirely over Bluetooth; application doesn't use centralized servers or require personal information (More)

> Researchers enhance a key molecule involved in photosynthesis in plants, boosting its chemical reaction efficiency by up to 25%; results may lead to improved crop yields in certain species (More) | 1440 Science & Technology: Today's deep dive on memory comes out at 8:30 am ET (Join here)

> Oldest known pterosaur in North America discovered; the reptiles coexisted with dinosaurs, current specimen pushes their timeline back to about 209 million years ago (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -0.9%, Nasdaq -0.9%) after President Donald Trump announces a slew of new tariffs taking effect Aug. 1 (More) | Tesla shares drop 6.8% after Elon Musk announces plans to form a new political party (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Amazon Prime Day begins today and runs through Friday, July 11, extending to four days for the first time; shoppers expected to spend nearly $24B (More) | Amazon explained (1440 Topics)

> AI company CoreWeave to acquire data center infrastructure provider Core Scientific for about $9B; shares subsequently drop 3.3% and 17.6%, respectively (More) | ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy find new natural gas deposit off the coast of Cyprus, bolstering the region's energy exporting potential (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Death toll from Texas floods rises to at least 104 people, including at least 28 children (More) | See previous write-up (More) | Twenty-seven-year-old gunman killed after opening fire at US Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, injuring police officer (More)

> Justice Department finds no evidence the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a so-called "client list" or blackmailed high-profile associates; department confirms he died by suicide, citing video footage near Epstein's prison cell (More) | Read the memo (More)

> President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss potential ceasefire in Gaza (More) | Lebanon signals openness to disarming Hezbollah in exchange for Israeli withdrawal (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS