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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> D'Angelo, four-time Grammy-winning R&B artist who helped pioneer neo-soul music, dies of cancer at age 51 (More) | Music world reacts to D'Angelo's death (More)

> Defending champs UConn top women's basketball preseason AP Top 25 poll with South Carolina and UCLA rounding out the top three (More)

> Spotify and Netflix announce partnership that will see select Spotify video podcasts streamed on Netflix beginning in early 2026 (More)


Science & Technology
> Instagram to limit content shown to teenage users by applying PG-13 movie rating standards to accounts of individuals under 18 years old; feature expected to be fully rolled out in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia by end of year (More)

> Researchers excavate three Iron Age shipwrecks off the coast of Israel using advanced 3D modeling and digital mapping; discovery offers rare maritime evidence of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to sixth century BCE (More)

> MRI brain scans show premature babies who regularly listen to recordings of their mothers' voices develop stronger language pathways; intervention could be used to mitigate risk of language delays often associated with premature birth (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow +0.4%, Nasdaq -0.8%) as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hints at interest rate cuts and US-China trade tensions escalate (More)

> Stellantis to invest $13B in US manufacturing over the next four years; plans to create five new vehicles, increase domestic production by 50%, and create 5,000 jobs at Midwestern plants (More)

> Walmart enters partnership with OpenAI to let customers search for and purchase products directly from ChatGPT; retail giant's shares closed up 5% (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Man who set fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) home sentenced to at least 25 years in prison (More) | Supreme Court rejects Infowars founder Alex Jones' appeal of nearly $1.5B Sandy Hook defamation penalty (More)

> President Donald Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom (More) | Congress remains at an impasse over spending proposals after House-passed measure fails to advance in the Senate for the eighth time (More)

> Hamas returns the bodies of four more hostages after an Israeli military agency warned it would halve the number of aid trucks entering Gaza over concerns Hamas is returning bodies more slowly than agreed (More)

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