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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Seventeen-year-old Olympic gold medalist Hezly Rivera wins US women's gymnastics all-around championship (More) | ... and Asher Hong wins his second US men's title by a record margin (More)

> Bobby Whitlock, keyboardist and cofounder of Derek and the Dominos, dies of cancer at age 77 (More) | Two Japanese boxers die of brain injuries at same boxing event, but separate fights, in Tokyo (More)

> Pennsylvania tops Indiana 1-0 to win the 2025 Little League Softball World Series (More)


Science & Technology
> Health official Vinay Prasad reinstated as top vaccine regulator for the Food and Drug Administration; reversal comes two weeks after being dismissed from the role following criticism from right-wing activist Laura Loomer (More)

> SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts return to Earth after five months aboard the International Space Station; mission was NASA's first Pacific Ocean splashdown in 50 years (More) | The evolution of SpaceX rockets (1440 Topics)

> Scientists develop platform allowing proteins to evolve thousands of times faster than in nature; approach expected to accelerate new drug discovery for a wide variety of diseases (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Friday (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +1.0%), with Nasdaq closing at a record high (More) | How stock markets work (1440 Topics)

> Trump administration weighs public offering of government-controlled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac later this year; aims to sell 5% to 15% of shares, raising upward of $30B (More) | A history of US homeownership (1440 Topics)

> HeartFlow, AI-driven company focused on diagnosing coronary artery disease, closes first day of trading up 51.3% Friday, raising $316.7M (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> California's Gifford Fire along the central coast becomes state's largest wildfire in 2025, consuming over 114,000 acres; is roughly 20% contained as of this writing (More)

> President Donald Trump nominates State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce as deputy representative of the United States to the United Nations (More)

> William H. Webster, former head of the CIA and FBI, dies at age 101; Webster is the only person to spearhead both US agencies, leading the FBI for most of the 1980s before heading to the CIA for four years (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS