Kyle Nowak

🔥 It’s Monday, May 22nd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

What you can look forward to this upcoming week...

💔🏈 ESPN’s planning to end its long term monogamous relationship with cable TV →

📱🤖 OpenAI launched a free ChatGPT app for US iPhone users yesterday, representing the first official mobile version of its revolutionary AI chatbot.

🌎 The earliest recorded kiss dates back ~4,500 years to Mesopotamia, Canada’s central bank said high levels of household debt pose a major risk to the country’s financial system, and more.

📝👩‍⚕️ Yesterday, Axios/Ipsos published the latest installment of its American Health Index, which every few months asks 1,000+ US adults what they think is the biggest threat to American public health.

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

🔥 It’s Friday, May 19th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”

–Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

🥬 This month, food-tech startup Pairwise is rolling out a new variant of kale-like mustard greens that are genetically engineered to be less bitter than the original plant, representing the first US food product created with CRISPR tech to hit the market.

📻🚗 More and more automakers are ditching AM radio in their new cars. But yesterday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate unveiled a new bill that would force automakers to keep AM radio in the vehicles they sell to Americans at no additional charge.

🌎 There’s a 98% chance at least one of the next five years will be the hottest on record, one of China’s leading comedy show companies was fined $2.1 million for a joke told by one of its comedians, and more.

🖱📰 Click to see all the bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Thursday, May 18th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”

–Chinese proverb (Unknown)

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: Do you think the US government should enact stricter reporting requirements for the business dealings of elected officials’ family members?

🌎 Individuals associated with the Chinese, Iranian, and Russian governments have been accused of stealing US tech, Russia unleashed one of its biggest airstrikes against Ukraine since the war began, and more.

🏤 ➡🏓 Across the US, businesses are converting shuttered department stores into locations where people can gather to play Pickleball, the fastest-growing sport in the country.

💰 Last week, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee published a report detailing previously-undisclosed evidence that Joe Biden’s family members, associates, and their related companies received over $10 million from foreign entities over a two-year period during and after Biden’s term as vice president.