Peter Nowak

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🐶 It was a cold, stormy day in North Carolina. Employees at the Fayetteville Animal Protection Society came into work to find a broken dog crate secured with zip ties on their porch.

🏛️ House Republicans are pushing for a bill granting $17.6B in aid to Israel, while Senate Dems are seeking a broader spending package covering Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and the US southern border.

🌐📱 Sunday marked exactly two decades since 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched a digitized Harvard student directory called “The Facebook.”

🌏 Global cancer rates are projected to increase 77% by 2050, per the WHO; a lawsuit challenging an Australian man who claims he invented bitcoin kicks off today; and more.

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

👓 Will Apple’s Vision Pro succeed like the iPhone, or fail like Google Glass? We’ll soon find out. Because starting today, Apple’s new mixed-reality headset is available to US consumers.

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🏎️ Ferrari, the luxury sports car manufacturer featured on bedroom-wall posters galore, reported earnings yesterday. And to quote Larry David, they were: “pretty, pretty, pretty good."

🌏 President Biden announced sanctions against Israeli settlers involved in attacks against Palestinians; Peru reopened Machu Picchu after a week-long protest over a new ticketing system; and more.

🔥 It’s Friday, February 2nd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🛒 Food packaging plays a key role in which products consumers buy at the grocery store, as well as how much money they spend, per recent research from US marketing experts.

🌏 Egypt is renovating one of the ancient pyramids at Giza; South Korea’s fertility rate fell to the lowest level of any country in history; and more.

🎶📱 Universal Music, the biggest record label in the world, is severing ties with TikTok, the company revealed in an open letter published yesterday.

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🔥 It’s Thursday, February 1st – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌏 Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan was sentenced to 10 additional years in prison; Hungary accused the EU of political blackmail over a $54 billion aid package to Ukraine; & more.

🧠 Neuralink recently implanted its brain chip in a human patient for the first time, while rival brain-computer interface groups have also made significant strides in recent years.

📦 Yesterday, UPS reported Q4 earnings that came in below analysts’ revenue expectations. Here’s what this can tell us about the economy.