• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the 10th Annual 35 Photography Awards, which showcases some of the most captivating and thought-provoking images in the world of contemporary photography.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 Inflation rose 2.3% YoY in April, down from 2.4% in March and the lowest reading since February 2021. | Fintech company Chime filed for Nasdaq IPO.
• ✌️UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is stepping down; the company also suspended its 2025 forecast. | Microsoft will lay off ~3% of its workforce, or ~6,800 employees. | $100 million deli scheme: Peter Coker Jr. and his father were sentenced to prison; Vanderbilt and Duke universities invested in the fraudulently manipulated company.
• 🔋 GM unveils new EV battery tech set to debut in 2028; it’s expected to offer more range at a lower cost.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 💼 The Paper, NBCUniversal’s spinoff of The Office, will premiere in September. | 🫧 A live one-night-only Wicked concert featuring the cast of the movie will premiere on NBC ahead of the film’s part two release in November.
• 📺 Disney’s stand-alone ESPN streaming service will cost $29.99/month and include everything the sports media giant has to offer. | YouTube will stream the NFL’s Week 1 Friday game in Brazil for free.
• ⚾ Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, and 15 other deceased players are now eligible for consideration for the Baseball Hall of Fame, per Commissioner Rob Manfred.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 💉 Zepbound outperformed Wegovy in the first head-to-head clinical trial comparing the two popular weight-loss drugs; Zepbound (aka Mounjaro) averaged a ~20% drop in weight over 72 weeks, versus ~14% for Wegovy (aka Ozempic).
• 🍎 Apple unveiled a series of new accessibility features coming later this year; they include a feature allowing brain implants to control the tech giant’s devices.
• 💊 Migraine drug ubrogepant doesn't just ease associated headaches, but is also the first drug to reduce non-headache symptoms in the hours prior to a migraine, per a new Phase III clinical trial.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

in partnership with Beam

• 🏛️ House Republicans unveiled the details of a new Trump-backed tax plan that aims to extend his 2017 cuts alongside further tax cuts; the tax breaks are expected to decrease government revenue by $3.7 trillion over the next decade, partially offset by cuts to Medicaid and other programs.
• ✈️ New Jersey’s Newark airport was forced to delay flights by up to seven hours on Monday due to a severe lack of air traffic controllers (three instead of the required 14); it’s the latest in a series of recent air traffic control issues at Newark.
• 🎓 The Trump admin cut an additional $450 million in grants to Harvard University; that’s on top of the $2.2 billion it froze last week.

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CLICKBAIT

• 💒 Couple has wedding guests vote to decide their new last name