Peter Nowak

🇺🇸🇨🇳 In response to the US imposing a 10% tariff on all imports from China, Beijing announced a series of retaliatory trade measures set to take effect on Monday.

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🎶 Chappell Roan used her Grammys acceptance speech to draw attention to the struggles young artists face when trying to break into the industry.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, February 5th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🏛️ The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing an uncertain future, after recently becoming a target for reformation by the Trump administration.

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🏛️ The new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has officially kicked off its campaign to make significant changes to the federal government on an agency-by-agency basis.

🤖 OpenAI on Sunday unveiled Deep Research, a new AI agent that’s capable of conducting complex, multi-step online research into a variety of topics (a DeepSeek, if you will).

🔥 It’s Tuesday, February 4th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎮 On February 4, 2000, The Sims was released. It subsequently grew to become one of the best-selling videogame franchises of all time. But it wasn’t supposed to be a hit.

🏀 Over the weekend, the Dallas Mavericks traded 25-year-old superstar Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers for 31-year-old big Anthony Davis and a 2029 first-round pick, in a multi-team trade that has NBA fans and players more surprised than at the end of a Knives Out movie.

🔵 Yesterday – after 17,000+ shows and 82,000+ gallons of paint – the Blue Man Group played its final show in the Big Apple, where it’s been celebrating weirdness and inspiring sitcom writers with its antic-filled performances since 1991.

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🔥 It’s Monday, February 3rd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌎 On Saturday, President Trump announced the first major tariffs of his second administration, in a move that sparked retaliatory measures and laid the groundwork for a global trade conflict.

📝 The results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka “America’s Report Card,” were published this week by an Education Department agency.

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🏢 This week, the country’s biggest office-to-residential space conversion – a 1,300 apartment remodel of a million-square-foot brick building in NYC’s Financial District originally constructed to house computers – hit the market.

🔥 It’s Friday, January 31st – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

✈️💥 America likely experienced its worst aviation disaster in almost a quarter century on Wednesday night, when an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet above D.C.