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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" six-part docuseries coming to Disney+ on Dec. 12 (More) | ... and "The Life of a Showgirl" album becomes Swift's 15th No. 1 album, with all 12 songs topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart (More)

> Purdue tops men's basketball preseason AP Top 25 poll for first time with Houston and reigning champs Florida rounding out the top three (More)

> Comedian Marc Maron's pioneering "WTF" podcast ends after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes with former President Barack Obama as Maron's final guest (More)


Science & Technology
> California passes first-in-the-nation safety protocols for AI chatbots; follows the death of a teenager who had suicidal conversations with ChatGPT (More) | Hear an interview with the parents (More, w/video)

> New AI-powered model predicts which children are most at risk of developing sepsis—when the immune system overreacts to an infection—within 48 hours of an emergency room visit (More)

> Scientists grow embryo-like structures that produce human blood cells; discovery may eventually produce a source for personalized blood transfusion (More) | How new blood cells are created (1440 Topics, w/video)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.6%, Dow +1.3%, Nasdaq +2.2%) after President Donald Trump softens stance on China (More) | Silver prices hit first all-time high since 1980 (More)

> JPMorgan Chase to invest up to $10B in companies tied to US national security, including defense and aerospace, energy independence, quantum computing, and AI (More) | Goldman Sachs to acquire $7B venture capital firm Industry Ventures (More)

> Amazon to hire 250,000 full-time, part-time, and seasonal holiday workers nationwide, matching hiring levels from 2023 and 2024 (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US Senate returns today, is expected to vote on measures to reopen the federal government as shutdown enters third week; see live updates (More)

> Venezuela closes its embassy in Norway days after the Nobel Committee reveals it will award the peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado (More) | Madagascar's president leaves the country amid protests (More)

> India and Canada agree to reset relations roughly two years after Canada accused India of complicity in the killing of a Sikh activist on its soil (More) | See previous write-up (More)

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