Alex Dobrenko

💰🎰 There's still no winner for the now $900 million Powerball jackpot, but one thing is certain: no matter who wins, the IRS wins too. Big time. 

🔥 It’s Tuesday, July 18th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎮 Since 2021, Netflix has acquired or started six gaming studios, one of which released its latest game, Oxenfree II, on Playstation, Nintendo Switch, PC and Netflix.

🌏 India launched a historic unmanned mission to the Moon’s south pole, Canada is offering open work permits to any immigrants in America on an H-1B work visa, and more

📝 This month, a new Virginia law requiring hospitals to make costs for their procedures publicly available or face a minimum six-figure fine officially took effect. Or as Jerry Maguire said: “Show me the money-related costs!”

🔥 It’s Monday, July 17th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🐭📺 Disney CEO Bob Iger believes the studio has been making too much Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar content. 

⚖️👙 A group of independent designers has filed a RICO lawsuit against Shein, alleging the fast-fashion giant used sophisticated algorithms and AI to steal and sell almost identical replicas of their original designs.

🌏 Around the world: Two different arms of the World Health Organization released conflicting reports on whether common artificial sweetener aspartame causes cancer, foreign direct investment in China fell 80% in Q1 2023 compared to the same period last year, and more.

Alex Mahinsky, founder and ex-CEO of failed crypto firm Celsius Network, was arrested yesterday on federal charges of securities, commodities, and wire fraud.

🔥 It’s Friday, July 14th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎭❌ Hollywood's actors union, SAG-AFTRA, has gone on strike. Its ~160k members join ~11k Hollywood writers who have been on strike since May 2. 

💜🍔 Grimace’s bday month is over. And McDonald’s is pretty happy with its performance, per a LinkedIn post published yesterday by the company’s marketing director.

🌏 Around the world: A Chinese hacking group recently gained access to US government email accounts, EU lawmakers approved the bloc’s first major law protecting biodiversity in three decades, and more.

💰📈 The CPI, America’s most widely-used measure of inflation, stood at 3.0% over the year-long period ending in June, down from 4.0% in May; it’s the index’s lowest annual figure in 2+ years.

🔥 It’s Thursday, July 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎀💣Over 20,000 people have bought tickets to see Barbie and Oppenheimer on their shared July 21st opening weekend, all thanks to the memes.

⚖️ Supreme Court justices like Sonia Sotomayor routinely use taxpayer-funded employees to perform tasks for their private book ventures, which have collectively earned them millions, per an AP investigation published yesterday.

🌏 Around the world: A group of scientists say Earth has entered a new geological time period, Hong Kong is threatening to ban Japanese seafood, and more.

💉 By now you’ve probably heard of Ozempic, which is part of a new class of weight loss drugs that everyone and their mother seem to be taking. But not much has been written about their downsides – or potential side effects.