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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 MacArthur Foundation's "genius grant" recipients announced; each of this year's 22 winners gets a no-strings-attached $800K award (More)

> Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first soccer player to top $1B net worth, combining his career salary, investments, and endorsements (More)

> Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" breaks Adele's record for most albums sold in one week with 3.5 million sold in just five days (More)


Science & Technology
> Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to US-, Australia-, and Japan-based scientists for developing porous molecular architecture used to extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide from air, and store hydrogen for energy (More)

> Scientists identify brain area linked to chronic pain, which affects one in five people worldwide; finding could lead to interventions that mute pain signals (More)

> SoftBank strikes $5.4B deal to buy robotics arm of Swiss engineering firm ABB; Japanese tech conglomerate seeks to merge artificial intelligence and robots (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq +1.1%), Nasdaq and S&P 500 close at record highs after Federal Reserve meeting minutes from September show officials see at least two more rate cuts this year (More)

> Elon Musk agrees to settle $128M lawsuit over unpaid severance with four former Twitter executives, who were fired after Musk took over the company in 2022 (More)

> Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966M in talc-based baby powder cancer case after jury finds company liable (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Internal Revenue Service furloughs over 34,000 employees—nearly half its staff—amid government shutdown; workers guaranteed back pay, despite President Donald Trump's earlier objections to the policy (More) | Read previous write-up (More)

> Supreme Court appears poised to revive Republican challenge to Illinois law accepting late-arriving mailed ballots; Illinois is among 18 states and the District of Columbia that accept ballots postmarked on or before Election Day (More)

> Myanmar military strike kills at least 24 people and wounds nearly 50 during Buddhist candlelight vigil opposing military rule, per government-in-exile (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS