Kyle Nowak

💰 A slew of retailers in recent weeks have run over the telegraph to tap out “S-O-S.”

🏀 The four-time NBA champion and current Golden State Warriors superstar has accepted an assistant general manager position at his alma mater Davidson College, the school announced this week.

🏛️🏫 The Education Department cut its workforce roughly in half this week, in a move Education Secretary Linda McMahon said represents the first step toward shuttering the department entirely.

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

🌎 President Trump’s 25% tariff on all global steel and aluminum imports went into effect yesterday, in a move that prompted immediate trade retaliation by Canada and the EU. Or in other words, the global trade war is going pedal to the metal.

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"It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes."

–Theodor Reik (1888-1969)

❓ Our question to you: Do you agree with the Trump admin’s decision to revoke Columbia protest leader Mahmoud Khalil’s green card?

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

🏘️ Lennar, the nation’s second-largest homebuilder, and 3D tech company Icon recently completed the world’s largest 3D-printed community, CNBC reports.

📱 From “cottagecore” to “mob wife aesthetic,” the fashion trend cycle in recent years has been a whirlwind to keep up with. And many younger Americans are getting tired of it, according to a new NY Times report.

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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

–Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

🍿 Win Or Lose, Pixar’s first original TV series, hit Disney+ last month. And one particular character has drawn attention for its outward religiosity.

✈️👝 The struggle bus airplane-riding Southwest Airlines said it will start charging passengers to check bags for the first time in its history, in a bid to open up another line of revenue.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, March 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎓 Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia student who helped lead pro-Palestinian protests, was arrested and had his green card revoked this weekend, in what President Trump pledged is the first of many such actions.

🚘 Automakers should pump the brakes and stop feeding their vehicles Limitless pills, according to a growing number of US consumers. The share of Americans with positive feelings about the intuitiveness of their car’s overall controls has fallen from 79% to 56% between 2015-2024, per new data

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

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