Kyle Nowak

🧾 While the opportunity is ever-present, Americans are currently leaving fewer tips than in previous years, according to a newly-published report from financial services firm Bankrate →

🌏 Around the world: El Niño has officially begun after a four-year hiatus, a pair of Chinese climbers abandoned their Mount Everest summit attempt to rescue an unconscious climber, & more →

🔥 It’s Friday, June 9th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌎 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, scientists in Costa Rica have recorded the first known “virgin birth” in a crocodile, and more.

🛸 David Grusch, a former US military and intelligence official, is claiming the federal government has possession of “intact and partially intact vehicles” of non-human origin, per a pair of interviews published this week.

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

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”

–Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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.

❓ Our question to you: In general, do you agree with the Human Rights Campaign’s declaration that the recent spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation represents a state of emergency for all LGBTQ+ Americans?

📝🏳️‍🌈 The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest gay rights organization, declared a state of emergency for all LGBTQ+ people living in the US.

🌎 Five new countries were elected to the UN Security Council, English think tank Autonomy unveiled the country’s first universal basic income pilot program, and more.

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🍩 Doughnut-styled history...

“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”

–Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

☀️🛰🌏 In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists at the California Institute of Technology have successfully transmitted solar energy collected by a satellite down to a receiver on Earth.

🌎 Prince Harry will take the witness stand in a tabloid trial later today, Ukrainian troops launched a counterattack against Russia at multiple points along the front lines, and more.

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

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."

–Zig Ziglar (1926-2012)

❓ Our question to you: Calling all 15,000+ classrooms reading the DONUT: What policies or changes would you enact to combat the recent increase in student violence against school staff?

🌎 One of India’s worst rail disasters in decades occurred on Friday night, Global spy chiefs held a secret meeting in Singapore, and more.