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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Fox to air all 2026 FIFA World Cup games (June 11-July 19), more than doubling 2022 coverage (More) | NHL signs first-of-its-kind multiyear licensing deal with prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket (More)

> San Francisco Giants hire University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello as manager, marking first MLB manager hire directly from college program (More) | NFL reaffirms Bad Bunny Super Bowl show after conservative backlash (More)

> Misty Copeland gives farewell performance at American Ballet Theatre after five-year hiatus; Copeland became the elite company's first Black principal dancer in 2015 (More)


Science & Technology
> General Motors to integrate Google's Gemini AI into cars next year as part of push to transform vehicles from modes of transportation into intelligent assistants (More)

> Physicians discover link between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and survival of patients with late-stage lung cancer and melanoma, suggesting mRNA vaccines train the immune system to kill tumors (More)

> Researchers find female mice can become more aggressive toward their pups when deprived of food, revealing interaction between the hunger and parenting circuits in the brain (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow -0.8%, Nasdaq -0.9%) (More) | Tesla shares fall in after-hours trading after Q3 earnings miss analyst estimates; company reports 12% Q3 revenue growth following two quarters of declines (More)

> Meta to cut 600 jobs in AI unit (More) | Amazon planning to expand robots to meet rising demands, equivalent to replacing 600,000 workers by 2033, per report (More)

> Influencer platform ShopMy raises $70M at a $1.5B valuation; founded in 2020, ShopMy connects brands to consumers via content creators (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Treasury Department sanctions Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, each valued at over $50B; announcement comes after President Donald Trump cancels Budapest summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin (More)

> White House will reportedly demolish the entire East Wing as part of its project to construct a new 90,000-square-foot ballroom; White House pledges to submit blueprints to federal agency for review (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> US military kills two people in eighth strike on an alleged narcotrafficking boat, this time in the Pacific Ocean (More)

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