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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> NFL preseason kicks off in earnest, with all 32 teams playing through the weekend; see complete preseason Week 1 preview (More)

> Eddie Palmieri, eight-time Grammy-winning Latin music legend, dies at 88; his 1965 hit "Azúcar Pa’ Ti" was inducted into the US Library of Congress (More)

> Paramount and Skydance close on $8.4B merger, more than a year after initial announcement; new company is named "Paramount, a Skydance Corporation" (More)


Science & Technology
> OpenAI releases GPT-5, the latest version of its flagship large language model, to free and paying subscribers; new model is heavily focused on advanced reasoning and carrying out tasks for users (More) | LLM explained quickly (1440 Topics)

> Astronomers find evidence for a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A; at about 4.4 light years away, the Alpha Centauri system is the closet sun-like star to Earth (More) | How we capture images from space (More, w/video)

> Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is losing thickness via melting at about 18 feet per year, up from about a foot per year between 2000 and 2019, and may be in irreversible decline; site draws 700,000 visitors per year (More) | Climatology 101 (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow -0.5%, Nasdaq +0.4%) (More) | President Donald Trump to nominate top economic aide Stephen Miran to Federal Reserve board to temporarily fill vacancy (More)

> President Donald Trump signs executive order allowing alternative assets like cryptocurrencies, private equity, and real estate into 401(k) plans and other defined-contribution retirement savings plans (More) | Primer on 401(k) plans (1440 Topics)

> US continuing jobless claims rise to 1.97 million in the week ending July 26, the highest level since November 2021 (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> New US import tariffs kick in for more than 60 countries and the EU, ranging from 10% to 50%, as trading partners attempt to negotiate better deals (More) | See full list of imposed tariffs (More)

> Texas Senate committee votes 6-1 to advance Republican-friendly House map; Republicans say the FBI has agreed to help locate Texas Democrats who left the state to block the quorum needed to pass legislation (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Federal judge temporarily blocks further construction at "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in Florida (More) | See previous write-up (More)

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