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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> College basketball returns today, with women's reigning NCAA champion UConn Huskies favored to win again, Florida Gators aiming for a back-to-back men's title; see live updates (More) | See men's schedule (More) | See women's schedule (More)

> Kenya’s Hellen Obiri sets a new record for women in the New York City Marathon, winning in 2 hours, 19 minutes, 51 seconds; Kenyan Benson Kipruto wins men's competition with the closest-ever finish (More) | Marathon 101 (More)

> Xania Monet becomes the first AI-based artist to chart on the Billboard radio charts with "How Was I Supposed to Know?" reaching No. 30 on Adult R&B Airplay (More)


Science & Technology
> AI startup Perplexity launches tool to speed up patent research, letting users search databases using natural language queries instead of keywords (More)

> Researchers to launch personalized gene-editing clinical trial aimed at curing ultra-rare diseases; approach modeled after successful treatment of "Baby KJ," who suffered from a one-in-a-million disorder, revealed in May (More) | The best resources we've found on CRISPR (1440 Topics)

> NASA carries out first test flight of the X-59, designed to fly at speeds greater than the sound barrier while reducing the sound of a sonic boom (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up Friday (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.6%); Amazon shares jump 9.6% after company reports 20% increase in quarterly cloud computing revenue (More)

> OPEC+ countries agree to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels a day in December, won't increase output through the first quarter of 2026 (More) | Everything we've learned about OPEC (1440 Topics)

> Berkshire Hathaway reports a record high in cash and equivalent holdings of nearly $382B; Warren Buffett-owned company has sold more stocks than purchased for 12 straight quarters (More) | Who is Warren Buffett? (1440 Topics)


Politics & World Affairs
> Tens of thousands of people feared killed by UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces over the past week in el-Fasher, capital city of Sudan's North Darfur state (More)

> Assailant wounds 11 people in a mass stabbing attack on a train in Cambridge, England; UK police rule out terrorism as a motive, with a suspect in custody (More)

> Two more suspects are charged in connection with last month's Louvre heist, in addition to two men already charged; see details about the suspects (More)

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