Kyle Nowak

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great."

–Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924)

🌏 Around the world: Chinese President Xi Jinping held a surprise meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Intel announced a pair of record-setting investments in Israel and Germany, and more.

❓ Our question to you: Have you personally chosen to avoid Bud Light products due to the recent controversy?

What you can look forward to this upcoming (shortened) week...

💥✈️ This year has been marked by an increase in collision/near-collision incidents between airplanes. The latest occurred on Friday, when a slow-taxiing United jet collided with a parked Delta plane on the ground at Boston’s Logan Int’l Airport.

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🔥 It’s Tuesday, June 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

👑🍺 Bud Light, the top US beer seller since 2001, lost its sales crown last month amidst a conservative-led boycott that also grew to include some progressives, per a new WSJ report.

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

–Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

🌏 Around the world: The head of India’s wrestling federation was charged with sexual harassment following months of protests by Olympic wrestlers, Russia is in the midst of its worst labor shortage in decades, & more.

✈️⏱ As of Wednesday, Australian airline Qantas provides three of the world’s longest flights – but not the longest (18 hrs 50 mins😳). Though that crown could soon change hands.

⚾️🎰 The Oakland Athletics are one step closer to becoming the Las Vegas Athletics. Earlier this week, Nevada’s legislature passed a bill approving public funding for the team’s new stadium on the Strip, sending it to Governor Joe Lombardo’s desk to sign it into law.

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🔥 It’s Friday, June 16th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌕🌊 A salty ocean beneath the surface of Enceladus, a small moon orbiting Saturn, is the only body of water beyond Earth known to contain all six elements needed to create life, per a new peer-reviewed study published in Nature.

🌍 GeoGuessr, DONUT Style... Which country, pictured above, has the highest human life expectancy in the world?

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"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

–W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)

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.

🌏 Around the world: The European Parliament approved a draft of the first Western laws governing AI, global economic inequality is currently at its lowest point in 150 years, and more.