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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Beyoncé will return to Met Gala (May 4) after 10-year absence, serving as co-chair alongside Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman, and Anna Wintour (More) | Charli XCX appears in three films debuting at Sundance Film Festival (Jan. 22-Feb. 1); see full lineup (More)

> Las Vegas Aces' A’ja Wilson named AP Female Athlete of the Year after winning unprecedented fourth WNBA MVP award and Time's Athlete of the Year title (More) |
University of Michigan fires head football coach Sherrone Moore after finding evidence of an inappropriate relationship with a staff member (More)

> Sophie Kinsella, bestselling author of "Shopaholic" series, dies at 55 following brain cancer diagnosis (More) | Jubilant Sykes, a Grammy-nominated opera singer, dies of stab wounds at 71; his son is in custody for suspected homicide (More)


Science & Technology
> Amazon to invest over $35B in India's AI and cloud infrastructure by 2030, building on nearly $40B already invested in the country; news comes one day after Microsoft announced a similar $17.5B investment in India over four years (More)

> Psychiatric geneticists find 14 major psychiatric disorders fall into five categories with distinct genetic profiles, offering an explanation for why some disorders often occur together and supporting a biology-based diagnostic approach (More)

> Archaeologists determine humans learned to make fires 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, following a four-year analysis of 400,000-year-old heat-damaged tools found in eastern England (More)


Business & Markets
> Oracle shares fall over 11% in after-hours trading after the database software maker reports 14% year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter that ended Nov. 30, missing projected 15% growth (More)

> Oil companies offer roughly $300M for Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) drilling rights in the first of 30 planned offshore lease sales and the first such sale since 2023 (More)

> Swiss officials say US tariff cut from 39% to 15% will apply retroactively to Nov. 14, the day the countries reached a preliminary deal that ties US duty reductions to a $200B Swiss investment in the US by the end of 2028 (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US military seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after President Donald Trump calls on President Nicolás Maduro to step down; Trump suggests strikes on Venezuelan territory could begin "very soon" (More)

> House votes 312-112 to pass $900B bill funding the Defense Department and national security programs (More) | Federal judge orders the Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in Los Angeles (More)

> Daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado accepts Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf (More)

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