Peter Nowak

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🔥 It’s Monday, December 23rd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🏫 Fewer US adolescents are using drugs like alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine than ever before, per an annual survey funded by the US government. Puff-puff? Pass.

🏛️ The House rejected a Trump-endorsed plan to fund the US government and suspend the debt ceiling, in a vote held hours before the Fri. midnight deadline for a partial gov’t shutdown.

⛷️ In the coming years, snow-skiing in swim trunks may be less of a viral social media post and more of a reality.

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🔥 It’s Friday, December 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

⚛️⚡ A new fusion joint is coming to Virginia. Startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems plans to build the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant outside Richmond by the early 2030s.

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📲 The link-in-bio phenomenon is expanding from social media. Gaming emulator Delta is the first major app to receive Apple’s approval for an external payment link in its App Store profile.

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

🎶🧠 You know when your favorite song comes on, and you instantly feel a little better? Startup LUCID aims to harness that phenomenon for whenever you may need a mental boost.

🇸🇾 The decades-long regime in Syria led by President Bashar al-Assad was toppled last week, ushering in a period of transition – and major uncertainty – following ~14 years of civil war.

🚘👌 A Denver Fiat dealership is offering a 27-month lease on a 2024 Fiat 500e for $0/month and $0 down, as the automaker’s parent seeks to accumulate zero-emission credits.

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🏛️🎟️ The days of playing hide-and-seek with Ticketmaster fees are at an end. The FTC approved a new rule preventing hotels and ticket sellers from hiding extra fees for purchases

🔥 It’s Wednesday, December 17th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Kyiv said it used a scooter bomb to assassinate a top Russian general in Moscow, who’s the highest-ranking military official to be killed inside Russia since the Ukraine war began.

🪙 An Austin-area man received two years in prison for underreporting his bitcoin earnings to the IRS, in the first-ever criminal prosecution solely for crypto-related tax evasion.

🛰️ The EU yesterday signed contracts with a group of companies to build a constellation of satellites designed to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink network.