Tuesday, August 5

In The News


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> US track and field star Sha'Carri Richardson arrested for allegedly assaulting boyfriend and fellow Olympian Christian Coleman (More) | USA Track and Field Championships wrap up; see full results (More)

> Flaco Jiménez, six-time Grammy-winning Tejano music legend, dies at age 86 (More) | Jeannie Seely, Grammy-winning country musician, dies at age 85 (More)

> The 2025 World Swimming Championships wrap with Team USA leading all countries with 29 medals (More) | WNBA's Connecticut Sun reportedly to be sold for $325M; would be highest price ever for a professional women's sports franchise (More)


Science & Technology
> Google unveils Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning platform the company says can process multiple ideas at once (More) | Anthropic revokes OpenAI's license to the Claude large language model, claiming OpenAI engineers were using its coding tools to develop its next product (More)

> Sugar molecules used by cancer cells to evade the immune system may provide new treatment for type 1 diabetes; coating helps insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells evade autoimmune responses (More) | Type 1 diabetes explained (1440 Topics)

> Scientists build digital library of pollen from more than 18,000 plant species; archive will allow quick identification of pollen species, a task that typically takes hundreds of hours (More) | The evolution of flowers and bees (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower Friday (S&P 500 -1.6%, Dow -1.2%, Nasdaq -2.2%) amid weaker-than-expected jobs report and downward revisions to past months' data, new tariff announcements (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> OPEC+ countries agree to raise oil production by over 547,000 barrels per day next month (More) | Berkshire Hathaway's operating earnings drop 4% in Q2 to $11.2B; holds $344B in cash (More) | Warren Buffett 101 (More)

> Delta tells lawmakers it will not use AI and customers' personalized data to set custom airfare (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Special counsel's office launches investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith over alleged violations of the Hatch Act, which restricts federal employees' political activity; Smith led investigations into President Donald Trump's handling of the 2020 election, classified documents (More) | Hatch Act 101 (More, w/video)

> Dozens of Texas Democrats leave the state to block Republican-led redistricting effort (More) | Search continues for 45-year-old suspected gunman who killed four people at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, Montana, Friday (More)

> Israel's national security minister prays on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, on Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av, violating decades-old arrangement with Jordanian religious foundation (More) | Hamas releases video of hostage Evyatar David saying he is digging his own grave (More)


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