Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> President Donald Trump to sign executive order today creating an intergovernmental task force related to 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (More)
> The New York Post is set to launch new daily newspaper, The California Post, in early 2026 (More) | Sean "Diddy" Combs denied release on bail, will remain in jail ahead of Oct. 3 sentencing (More)
> South Korean star Son Heung-Min to join Los Angeles FC from the English Premier League's Tottenham Hotspur for an MLS record transfer fee of $26M (More) | Texas and Ohio State top preseason college football coaches poll (More)
Science & Technology
> AI startup Perplexity accused of using techniques similar to those of malicious hackers to evade instructions not to crawl and scrape webpages (More) | OpenAI's ChatGPT nears 700 million weekly users, up 400% from March (More)
> Paleontologists discover new species of long-necked plesiosaur dating to roughly 180 million years ago; creature lived during a mass extinction known as the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (More) | Climatology 101: Our next Science & Technology newsletter comes out at 8:30 am ET today (Sign up here)
> Researchers discover RNA virus responsible for a mass die-off of British Columbia oysters in 2020; strain is a "mega" virus, with one of the largest viral genomes on record (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +1.5%, Dow +1.3%, Nasdaq +2.0%) after losses Friday (More) | European Union delays countermeasures against US tariffs for six months as trade talks continue (More) | American Eagle shares surge 23.7% after President Donald Trump praises Sydney Sweeney ad campaign (More)
> Elon Musk conditionally awarded roughly $30B in Tesla shares by the company's board to keep him as CEO through 2030 as litigation continues over his 2018 compensation package (More)
> AI company Palantir tops $1B in second quarter earnings for first time and raises full-year revenue forecast after striking $10B, 10-year US Army deal last week (More) | About 3,200 Boeing defense workers in Missouri and Illinois strike after rejecting a contract offer; it's the aerospace company's second strike in less than a year (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Justice Department to launch grand jury probe into how Obama administration officials handled intelligence about Russian interference in 2016 election (More) | Rep. Nancy Mace (R, SC-1) launches campaign for South Carolina governor (More) | New Hampshire becomes first state in the Northeast to ban medical interventions for transgender minors; joins 27 other states (More)
> Israeli government votes to fire attorney general amid ongoing corruption trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; country's Supreme Court freezes the decision to consider legality (More)
> Canada wildfires prompt air quality alerts throughout the US Midwest and Northeast; see map of affected areas (More)
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