Kyle Nowak

🤝 On Saturday, President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement on legislation that would raise the federal debt ceiling to avoid an impending default on US government debt.

🃏⚫️🔴 Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have been shifting the odds further in their favor in recent years for two widely-popular games: blackjack and roulette, per a newly-published report by the WSJ.

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🔥 It’s Tuesday, May 30th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

"I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it."

–Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

❓ Our question to you: Would you be in favor of your state passing a law that mandates later start times for middle and high schools?

📝⚾ Prior to this season, Major League Baseball implemented a series of new rules aimed at quickening the pace of play, encouraging more base stealing, and increasing the number of balls put in play.

🌎 Germany’s economy has entered a technical recession, Chinese state-sponsored hackers have infiltrated a wide range of critical infrastructure organizations in the US, and more.

🏫⏰ These days, it’s hard for Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything – except when it comes to pushing back start times for middle and high school students.

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🔥 It’s Friday, May 26th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“A person is but the product of their thoughts. What they think, they become.”

–Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

🌎 China is on a path to securing access to one-third of the world’s lithium-mine production capacity, ~400 new species were recently discovered in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region, and more.

🗳 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed paperwork to run in the 2024 Republican presidential primary yesterday afternoon.

🧠👁 A research team in Singapore has developed a new mind-reading technique that uses AI to recreate "high-quality" video of what humans are seeing in real-time, per a new study published on the arXiv preprint server.

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

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

–Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

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: Which political party’s stance on gender-affirming healthcare for minors do you most agree with?