Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Americana folk singer-songwriter Todd Snider dies at age 59 after being hospitalized with pneumonia (More) | Seattle Seahawks safety and Pro Football Hall of Famer Kenny Easley dies at age 66 (More)
> Italy's Jannik Sinner tops Spain's Carlos Alcaraz to win ATP Finals title in Turin for second straight year, earning $5M prize (More)
> "Now You See Me 3" leads the box office, grossing $75.5M globally in its weekend debut, outpacing “The Running Man” (More)
Science & Technology
> NASA to launch Sentinel-6B, the next satellite in a multidecade effort to measure sea level rise across roughly 90% of Earth's oceans; launch window began around 12 am ET (More)
> Mouse study suggests hypertension can cause premature aging in certain brain cells much earlier than expected; may explain link between high blood pressure and increased risk of cognitive impairment (More)
> Researchers use world's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan" at Livermore National Lab, to create database of 41 million protein folding structures in record-breaking time (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed Friday (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq +0.1%), with the tech-heavy Nasdaq ending a three-day losing streak (More)
> Former Federal Reserve official Adriana Kugler stepped down in August following an ethics probe into trading violations, new report reveals; senior Fed officials are prohibited from trading individual stocks (More)
> Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reports building a $4.9B stake in Google parent company Alphabet (More) | Everything we've learned about Warren Buffett (1440 Topics)
Politics & World Affairs
> US designates Venezuela's Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization while its most advanced aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean Sea; US military strikes another alleged drug trafficking boat (More)
> Chilean presidential election heads to a Dec. 14 runoff as the two candidates—communist Jeannette Jara and conservative José Antonio Kast—fail to secure more than 50% of the vote (More)
> Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23 rebels sign new peace deal framework in Qatar after earlier deal collapses this year (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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