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1 Casino tycoon dies: Casino tycoon Stanley Ho, whose business empire dominated the Portuguese gambling enclave of Macao for decades, has died in Hong Kong at age 98. Considered the father of modern gambling in China, Ho’s long and eventful life tracked the ebb and flow of southern China’s fortunes. After a swashbuckling start as a kerosene trader, he ended up as Macau’s richest person, a lavish spender and debonair ballroom dancer.

2 Drummer dies: Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album, which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday. He died in his New York City home from lung cancer. He was 91.

Guilty plea: Robert Repella, 3 61, of Ambler, Pennsylvania, has agreed to plead guilty to bribing Georgetown University’s former tennis coach $50,000 to get his daughter admitted as a fake athletic recruit, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Prosecutors are recommending a sentence of 10 months in prison and a $40,000 fine.

Oil ruling: AU.S. judge has dealt 4 another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to increase domestic oil and gas output from public lands, saying officials failed to protect habitat for a declining bird species when it issued energy leases on hundreds of square miles.

Prisoners released: The Afghan 5 government said they would release 900 Taliban prisoners Tuesday, its single largest prisoner release since the U.S. and the Taliban signed a peace deal earlier this year that spells out an exchange of detainees between the warring sides. The release marks the end of a three-day cease-fire with the insurgents.