Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> WNBA regular season wraps up tonight with the playoffs set to begin Sunday; see complete postseason bracket and schedule (More) | WNBA history (1440 Topics)
> Eight Detroit Tigers employees accused of sexual misconduct in the past two years, report reveals (More) | NCAA permanently bans three men's basketball players for betting on their own games (More)
> Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Ava DuVernay among 3,900 people from the film and TV industry to sign pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions they deem complicit in alleged war crimes (More)
Science & Technology
> Amazon launches electric robotaxi Zoox with free rides in Las Vegas; the Waymo and Tesla rival plans to enter the Austin and Miami markets next (More)
> Advanced instruments enable clearest-ever detection of gravitational waves emitted by black hole merger, confirming Stephen Hawking's black hole area theorem (More) | How Hawking shaped our understanding of black holes (1440 Topics)
> Neuroscientists link rare gene variant to the development of Alzheimer's and find treating mutated neurons with choline—an essential nutrient found in foods like eggs, meat, and legumes—reduces disease risk (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow -0.5%, Nasdaq +0.0%) (More) | Oracle, OpenAI sign $300B, five-year cloud computing deal; Oracle shares rise nearly 36% in best day since 1992, founder Larry Ellison tops Elon Musk as world's richest person (More)
> Fintech startup Klarna shares close up over 14% after debuting at $52 per share on the New York Stock Exchange, valuing the Swedish firm at roughly $17B (More)
> Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk to cut 9,000 jobs, or about 11% of global workforce, as part of restructuring (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Former FBI leaders sue Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleging their firings were motivated by their involvement in investigations into President Donald Trump (More)
> NATO holds talks after Poland and allies shoot down suspected Russian drones that entered Polish airspace; incident marks first time NATO planes have engaged potential threats in allied airspace (More)
> Cuba's electrical grid collapses for the fourth time in less than a year, leading to second nationwide blackout this year; outages reportedly caused by aging infrastructure and fuel shortages (More)
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