Peter Nowak

🐼 A pair of giant pandas arrived in Washington, DC; Universal’s new Epic Universe theme park will reportedly open early next summer; and more.

🇺🇸🗳️ The 2024 election is just under three weeks away, with early voting continuing across the US, and both presidential candidates remaining hot on the campaign trail.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, October 16th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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

🏆 The Nobel Prizes for Peace and Economics were unveiled; NASA is searching for signs of life on Jupiter's moon Europa; and more.

🥢🚀 ​​SpaceX successfully caught a rocket shortly after launch with a set of mechanical arms, in a first-ever feat aimed at making its Starship craft fully and rapidly reusable.

✈️📉 Boeing is taking a $5B charge this quarter and plans to layoff 10% of workers (~17K people), in a bid to cut costs amid increasing company-wide woes.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, October 15th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌀🚨 After two major hurricanes battered the Southeast US, many are turning their attention to FEMA, whose mission is to help Americans before, during, and after natural disasters.

💰📉 The US Consumer Price Index (2.4% in Sept.) fell for a 6th consecutive month to reach its lowest level since early 2021, though last month’s reading topped economists’ forecasts.

🎾 Tennis legend Rafael Nadal is retiring at the end of this year; Tesla unveiled its “Cybercab” robotaxi last night; & more →

🔥 It’s Friday, October 11th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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

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

🌀 Hurricane Milton made landfall last night as a Category 3 storm; the Tropicana, one of the last remaining casinos from Vegas’ mob era, was demolished; and more.

🏬🛒 Sam’s Club is opening a new, tech-forward location without cashiers in Texas, which it hopes will serve as a testing ground for new ideas.

🔥 It’s Thursday, October 10th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤖🏫 European communities are increasingly employing the services of AV1, a high-tech robot developed to help students with high absence rates keep up with their studies.

🏡 The US is becoming a nation of homebodies, with Americans spending more time at home than ever before, per a recent analysis of data from the annual American Time Use survey.

🌀 Hurricane Milton re-intensified to a Category 5 storm ahead of landfall; a species of deep sea jellyfish fuse their bodies together when injured, in a first-of-its-kind behavior; and more.