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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Thirteen novels tapped for prestigious 2025 Booker Prize for fiction longlist, featuring authors from across nine nations (More)

> Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" tour hauls in over $400M in ticket sales, with Beyoncé becoming the first American artist to top $400M in two separate tours, including her 2023 "Renaissance Tour" (More)

> American Katie Ledecky wins 1,500-meter freestyle at 2025 World Aquatics Championships to extend her record for most world championship individual gold medals with 17 (More)


Science & Technology
> OpenAI unveils Study Mode, using ChatGPT with instructions tailored by educators to provide information structured in a way similar to classroom teaching (More) | Everything you need to know about OpenAI (1440 Topics)

> Jewel wasps are capable of slowing down their rate of aging as larvae, significantly extending their life span and decelerating their biological clocks (More) | Can aging be reversed? (1440 Topics)

> Scientists capture first image of the sugar coating surrounding individual cells with atomic-scale resolution; results may lead to new drug delivery techniques (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.5%, Nasdaq -0.4%) as US-China tariff talks stall and investors await today's Federal Reserve interest rate decision (More) | Securities and Exchange Commission allows in-kind creations and redemptions by authorized participants for crypto exchange-traded products (More)

> Spotify shares drop 11.6% after the company’s second quarter revenue falls short of projections (More) | Sony sues Chinese gaming company Tencent for allegedly knocking off its "Horizon" franchise (More) | JPMorgan Chase in advanced talks to replace Goldman Sachs as Apple’s credit card program partner (More)

> Boeing delivers most planes since 2018; cuts quarterly losses to $176M, compared to $1.1B a year prior (More) | UPS shares drop 10.6% after package volume and earnings decline in second quarter (More) | Novo Nordisk shares fall 21.8% after company names new CEO and slashes Wegovy forecasts (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> United Kingdom says it will recognize a Palestinian state in September, barring a ceasefire deal and the resumption of UN aid in Gaza (More) | UCLA reaches $6M settlement over allegations it discriminated against Jewish students (More)

> Former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell agrees to testify before the House Oversight Committee on the condition she is granted immunity, clemency (More) | President Donald Trump tells reporters Epstein poached employees from his Mar-a-Lago club (More) | Senate confirms Emil Bove as a federal appeals court judge amid whistleblower complaints about his conduct (More)

> The US and China continue trade negotiations, with uncertainty over whether President Donald Trump will extend tariff truce (More) | See tariff tracker (More)

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