Kyle Nowak

Apple is allowing third-party apps on iPhones for the first time (in the EU only); global lithium prices fell 80% over the past year; & more.

🏥💊 Tyson Foods, one of the 50 largest US employers, is switching up the way it buys prescription drugs in a sign of increased competition in the healthcare industry.

💰🔄 Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later firm, is launching a monthly subscription aimed at boosting its IPO prospects. It’s the first subscription to launch in the BNPL industry.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Thursday, January 25th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎓📈 US undergraduate enrollment rose last fall for the first time in over a decade, with an increasing number of students opting for shorter-term programs instead of four-year degrees →

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

–Plato (427 BC – 347 BC)

This weekly section delivers the most outlandish, off-the-wall, and occasionally laugh-out-loud news stories of the week, as well as some hilarious or… curious synchronicities crowdsourced from around the world.

A Russian military plane allegedly carrying Ukrainian prisoners crashed with no survivors; Turkey approved Sweden’s NATO membership bid after a 20-month delay; and more.

❓ Our question to you: If November’s presidential election were held today, who would you vote for?

🤼📺 Wrestling is coming to Netflix. The streamer and WWE signed a deal, reportedly worth $5 billion over 10 years, that will bring “Raw” to the streaming platform’s US audience beginning in 2025.

🌏 Israel proposed a two-month ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for the release of all remaining hostages; Canada is limiting the number of international student visas; and more.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, January 24th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🗳️ Former President Trump and President Biden – who ran as a write-in candidate – both cruised to victory in their respective New Hampshire primaries yesterday.

“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”

–Richard Bach (b.1936)

🤔 The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and the #4-ranked cancer hospital in the world – is seeking retractions or corrections to dozens of scientific papers over allegations that four of its senior researchers falsified data.

🌏 Cameroon kicked off the world’s first mass rollout of a malaria vaccine; tobacco use is declining globally; and more.

🛢️📝 Exxon Mobil is suing two activist investors over a shareholder proposal that pushes for the oil giant to set more aggressive emissions targets, in a highly unusual lawsuit that could impact activist investing across corporate America.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.