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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> NFL preseason kicks off tonight (8 pm ET, NBC) with the Los Angeles Chargers taking on the Detroit Lions in the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game (More) | How does the NFL make money? (More)

> Laura Dahlmeier, two-time Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete, dies at age 31 following a climbing accident in northern Pakistan (More)

> NBA sets up 2026 regular season matchups in Berlin (Jan. 15) and London (Jan. 18) featuring the Orlando Magic and Memphis Grizzlies (More) | USA Track and Field championships begin today from Eugene, Oregon; see complete schedule (More)

Science & Technology
> Joint US-India mission to deploy satellite capable of capturing changes on the Earth's surface with resolution of a single centimeter; NISAR mission can image the same spot on Earth every 12 days (More) | The history of NASA (1440 Topics)

> Chronic disrupted sleep modifies blood vessels in the brain known as pericytes, can lead to impaired cognitive function and higher dementia risk (More)

> Dormant cancer cells can be reawakened by viral respiratory infections, including the flu or COVID-19; study suggests acute inflammation in the lungs may trigger cells to reactivate (More) | How alcohol leads to cancer (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq +0.2%) (More)

Federal Reserve keeps interest rates steady for fifth consecutive meeting, faces dissents from two officials seeking rate cuts (More) | The US economy grew at an annual rate of 3% in Q2, a better-than-expected pace (More)

> Microsoft tops $4T in market cap in after-hours trading after beating Q4 earnings and revenue; reports revenue from Azure and cloud services for first time, with sales exceeding $75B for fiscal 2025 (More) | Meta shares rise over 10% in after-hours trading after topping Wall Street estimates, raises full-year forecast (More)

> Ford says Q2 results took $800M hit from tariffs (More) | Robinhood beats Q2 earnings and revenue, saw revenue rise 45% year over year to $989M (More) | What is retail trading? (1440 Topics)


Politics & World Affairs
> Evacuations in Hawaii downgraded, with tsunami threat to US West Coast receding after 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula; earthquake is tied as sixth strongest ever recorded and biggest since 2011 quake that hit Japan (More) | See photos of the aftermath (More)

> Texas Republicans release proposed new congressional map aimed at flipping five Democratic seats by redrawing district lines in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and South Texas (More) | US Senate Democrats invoke rare "Rule of Five" to force Justice Department to release Jeffrey Epstein files (More)

> Canada to recognize a Palestinian state in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney says (More) | Brown University reaches deal with Trump administration to restore over $500M in funding, resolve nondiscrimination review findings (More)

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