Kyle Nowak

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🔥 It’s Monday, January 8th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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“The world only exists in your eyes – your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to."

–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

✌️🍪 Google started phasing out the use of cookies on its Chrome browser yesterday, a move that significantly impacts the ~$600 billion/year online advertising industry.

🌏 Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest prisoner exchange of the ongoing war; El Salvador said its murder rate fell by 70% last year following a crackdown on gang violence; and more.

⚖️🗳️ Former President Trump is facing lawsuits across the country seeking to disqualify him from the 2024 presidential ballot due to the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding office.

✍️💰 The NCAA and ESPN have agreed to a new eight-year, $920 million media rights agreement. The deal’s big driver? Women’s basketball.

🔥 It’s Friday, January 5th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.”

–Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

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.

🍿📺 In 2023, streaming services not named Netflix lost a collective $5 billion, per a recent report. And this is causing many streamers to put at the top of their New Year’s Resolutions: “reevaluate our strategy for 2024.”

📝 On Tuesday, Harvard President Claudine Gay announced her resignation amid controversy.

🌏 Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a key part of the government’s controversial judicial reform law; two bombs exploded at a memorial for former Iranian General Qassem Soleimani; and more.

🤖⚖️ In a legal complaint filed last week, the NY Times became the first major US media organization to sue both Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement.

🔥 It’s Thursday, January 4th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📈 The number of unauthorized migrant crossings at the US southern border has grown to record-high levels in recent days.

🥽 Production of Apple’s new Vision Pro mixed-reality headset is reportedly running at full speed in China and has been for several weeks.

🏈🏡 In Southern college towns across the country, real estate investors are buying and building homes for fans who spend thousands of dollars on a weekend of housing to attend a game.