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  1. Pakistan’s prime minister says a US-Iran agreement is taking shape, raising hopes for a broader de-escalation.
  2. SpaceX’s historic IPO helped make its founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
  3. Olivia Rodrigo is back with a new album that trades breakup songs for love songs.
  4. One part of the Atlantic Ocean has been cooling instead of warming. Scientists think they know why.
  5. How bananas Foster went from a last-minute restaurant experiment to one of New Orleans’s signature dishes.
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