Peter Nowak

⚖️🗳️ SCOTUS heard oral arguments in a case seeking to disqualify former President Trump from the ballot due to the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding public office.

🌏 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the country’s top military general; 100+ websites posing as local news outlets across the world are spreading pro-China content; and more.

🏈🏆 Around 110 million people are expected to tune in to watch the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday in Las Vegas. Click to see more numbers surrounding arguably the biggest event of the year.

🚫 Clean energy projects across America are being banned faster than they’re being built, according to a new nationwide analysis.

🔥 It’s Friday, February 9th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎓💰 A federal regulator ruled that Dartmouth men’s basketball players are employees of the school, potentially clearing the way for the first labor union among NCAA athletes.

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

The US imported more goods from Mexico than China for the first time in two decades; the EU launched legal action against Hungary’s new national security law; and more.

🍺➡️🍸 In 2023, for only the second time in history, US spirit sales surpassed beer sales in terms of market share, per a new report from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.

🔥 It’s Thursday, February 8th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📺👀 ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery are launching a jointly owned sports streaming platform that includes all the companies’ broadcast and cable networks for an unspecified price.

⚛️💥 CERN unveiled plans for the “Future Circular Collider” – a new $17B particle accelerator that could help answer some of the deepest mysteries of the universe →

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💰 Americans are increasingly finding themselves overextended financially, per a new Fed report that found a sharp increase in the amount of US consumer debt in serious delinquency.

Researchers used AI to decipher an Ancient Greek scroll burnt by Mount Vesuvius; Israel announced a ground offensive in a Gaza city on the Egyptian border; and more.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, February 7th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Iran-backed militants killed six US-backed troops at an American military base in Syria; a startup backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos found a major copper deposit in Zambia; and more.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, February 6th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎓📝 Dartmouth will start requiring SAT or ACT scores for next yr’s class of applicants, going against the recent trend of US universities opting for test-optional admissions policies.

📲 Social media platforms rn are like an ex around the holidays – showing up in notifications more often. According to new data, nearly every major social-media app has increased the number of its notifications since July 2023.