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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Rob Reiner's son faces two first-degree murder charges in the deaths of the Hollywood director and his wife; charges carry possibility of the death penalty (More) | Second doctor convicted of selling Matthew Perry ketamine is sentenced to eight months of home supervision (More)

> New York Knicks beat San Antonio Spurs to win NBA Cup Finals (More) | Paris Saint-Germain Football Club ordered to pay former player Kylian Mbappé $70.6M in unpaid income (More) | FIFA adds $60 World Cup tickets amid price backlash (More)

> Queen of Disco Donna Summer is posthumously inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame; Summer died in 2012 at age 63 (More)


Science & Technology
> Trump administration pauses $40B technology trade deal with the UK over London's digital regulations and food standards (More) | Meta launches app that allows users to watch Instagram Reels via Amazon Fire TV (More)

> Astronomers report evidence of the first observed superkilonova, a double explosion of stars that may have produced gravitational waves, light, and heavy elements that serve as building blocks for stars and planets (More)

> Italian brown bears evolved to be smaller and less aggressive due to close contact with humans, per genetic analysis (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow -0.6%, Nasdaq +0.2%) (More) | US unemployment rises to four-year high of 4.6% in November; employers added 64,000 jobs in November, while 105,000 jobs were lost in October (More)

> AI coding startup Lovable reportedly valued at $6.6B after latest funding round, more than triple the Swedish company's valuation in July (More) | Jared Kushner's firm withdraws from Paramount's takeover battle of Warner Bros. Discovery (More)

> Gas prices fall to $2.89 per gallon—lowest level since April 2021—amid higher supply and lower demand, partly due to improved vehicle fuel efficiency (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump widens travel ban to nationals from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, and the Palestinian territories (More) | Trump to deliver prime-time address to the nation at 9 pm ET tonight (More) | Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering Venezuela (More)

> Police release new photos of unidentified Brown University gunman as search enters fifth day; see live updates (More)

> Annual Arctic report finds last season was the hottest in the past 125 years; rivers are turning bright orange as warm temperatures release iron from the ground (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS