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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Bad Bunny tapped to headline the Super Bowl LX (Feb. 8) halftime show; the Puerto Rican artist is a three-time Grammy winner with multiple Billboard No. 1 albums (More)

> President Donald Trump announces a 100% tariff on films produced outside the US (More) | "The Simpsons" theatrical film set for 2027 release (More)

> WNBA semifinal between the Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces (9:30 pm ET, ESPN2) to decide who faces the Phoenix Mercury in the finals (More) | MLB playoffs wild card series kicks off tonight; see complete schedule (More)


Science & Technology
> OpenAI introduces parental controls to ChatGPT following lawsuit linking teenager's death by suicide to the chatbot (More) | Anthropic releases latest Claude Sonnet 4.5 model designed to excel at coding and meet business needs (More)

> High-resolution images and biochemical experiments show for the first time how polymyxin antibiotics infiltrate E. coli cells to treat deadly bacterial infections; finding reveals why antibiotics are ineffective against dormant E. coli (More, w/photos)

> Geochemists unearth over 541-million-year-old chemical fossils suggesting ancestors of modern-day sea sponges were among the first animals on Earth (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.5%) (More) | YouTube to pay $24.5M to settle President Donald Trump's lawsuit over his account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the US Capitol (More)

> Charlie Javice sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, which bought her financial aid startup, Frank, for $175M in 2021 after she inflated user numbers by millions (More)

> German airline Lufthansa to cut 4,000 jobs—nearly 4% of workforce—by 2030 amid declining profits; cites plans to automate administrative work with AI (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorses President Donald Trump's 20-point postwar Gaza plan, requiring Hamas to surrender, and for Israel to eventually cede control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority under certain conditions (More) | Read proposal (More)

> Taliban severs fiber optic connections across Afghanistan in its first nationwide internet shutdown amid morality crackdown (More)

> Supreme Court considers whether to take up an appeal by convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, former partner of Jeffrey Epstein; the high court's next term begins Oct. 6 (More)

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