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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Hermès appoints Grace Wales Bonner as menswear division creative director, making her the first Black woman to lead design at major fashion house (More) | All US women's gymnasts advance to World Gymnastics Championships finals (More)

> California earmarks $342M in tax credits to boost big-budget film production, with record $43.9M for "Jumanji" franchise (More) | Netflix secures rights to "Catan" board game universe, developing film and TV adaptations (More)

> Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, a former child prodigy credited with helping to popularize the game, dies at age 29; cause of death undisclosed as of this writing (More)


Science & Technology
> OpenAI launches Atlas web browser built around its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT; product puts OpenAI in direct competition with Google Chrome and Perplexity AI's Comet browser (More)

> Dust samples from the moon’s far side reveal debris from rare, water-rich meteorites, offering new clues into how the moon and Earth were first seeded with water (More)

> Study of ultramarathon runners suggests biological limit to how many calories humans can burn over an extended period of time (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.0%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq -0.2%); Dow rises to new record (More) | Gold prices fall in biggest daily drop in more than a decade (More)

> Netflix shares fall in after-hours trading after missing revenue and earnings estimates, partly due to Brazilian tax dispute; company still records best-ever quarter for ad sales (More)

> Beyond Meat shares soar 146% after plant-based meat producer is added to meme exchange-traded fund, announces plans to expand distribution into Walmart stores (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump shelves planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary following phone call between US and Russian diplomats (More) | Trump nominee to lead federal watchdog agency withdraws from consideration after offensive text messages are leaked, Republican senators pull support (More)

> North Carolina's state Senate advances a new congressional map expected to provide Republicans with one additional House seat in the 2026 midterms; Republican-led state House is expected to approve the map this week (More)

> Louvre heist loot is valued at $102M, per French public prosecutor; four unnamed suspects are under investigation (More) | See previous write-up (More)

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