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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Musician Raul Malo, best known as the frontman of Grammy-winning, multicultural Americana band The Mavericks, dies at age 60 (More)

> Federal judge postpones Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's civil trial from March 9 to May 1, citing the need to prioritize two criminal trials (More)

> Inter Miami's Lionel Messi named Major League Soccer's MVP, becoming the first player to earn the title in back-to-back seasons (More) | LA Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani selected as AP's Male Athlete of the Year for fourth time, tying for most nods (More)


Science & Technology
> European Commission launches antitrust probe into Google's use of web content and YouTube videos to create the search engine's AI-generated overviews (More)

> Microsoft to fund $17.5B in new data centers, AI infrastructure, and skills programming in India from 2026 to 2029, building on $3B committed in January and marking the company's largest investment in Asia (More)

> Researchers record winds blasting from a black hole at more than 134 million miles per hour—about 20% the speed of light and the fastest ever observed (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq +0.1%); investors await today's Federal Reserve interest rate decision (More) | Silver rises above $60 per ounce for first time (More)

> Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly to pursue initial public offering in 2026, seeking to raise more than $30B at a valuation of about $1.5T (More)

> US job openings rise slightly to 7.67 million in October, from 7.66 million in September; layoffs rose to nearly 1.9 million—the most since January 2023 (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Clashes between Cambodia and Thailand kill at least seven civilians, wound 20 others, and displace more than 20,000, per Cambodia (More)

> French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu passes a proposed 2026 spending plan through the National Assembly, sending bill to Senate; Lecornu previously resigned over his failure to pass a budget (More)

> European Union's climate observatory projects 2025 will rank as the second-hottest year on record (More)

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