Peter Nowak

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🔥 It’s Thursday, January 25th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎓📈 US undergraduate enrollment rose last fall for the first time in over a decade, with an increasing number of students opting for shorter-term programs instead of four-year degrees →

A Russian military plane allegedly carrying Ukrainian prisoners crashed with no survivors; Turkey approved Sweden’s NATO membership bid after a 20-month delay; and more.

🤼📺 Wrestling is coming to Netflix. The streamer and WWE signed a deal, reportedly worth $5 billion over 10 years, that will bring “Raw” to the streaming platform’s US audience beginning in 2025.

🌏 Israel proposed a two-month ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for the release of all remaining hostages; Canada is limiting the number of international student visas; and more.

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🔥 It’s Wednesday, January 24th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🗳️ Former President Trump and President Biden – who ran as a write-in candidate – both cruised to victory in their respective New Hampshire primaries yesterday.

🤔 The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and the #4-ranked cancer hospital in the world – is seeking retractions or corrections to dozens of scientific papers over allegations that four of its senior researchers falsified data.

🌏 Cameroon kicked off the world’s first mass rollout of a malaria vaccine; tobacco use is declining globally; and more.

🛢️📝 Exxon Mobil is suing two activist investors over a shareholder proposal that pushes for the oil giant to set more aggressive emissions targets, in a highly unusual lawsuit that could impact activist investing across corporate America.

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🔥 It’s Tuesday, January 23rd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

👑 When 22-year-old Madison Marsh won the Miss America contest last week, she became the first-ever active-duty Air Force officer to compete – let alone win the whole thing.

🤦 A group of economists recently published a working paper in which they studied ten major subscription services across entertainment, security, retail goods, and newspapers.

🌏 Japan became the fifth country to successfully land on the Moon; the US is campaigning for a new Middle East peace plan to take effect following the Israel-Hamas war; and more.

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🔥 It’s Monday, January 22nd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🏘️ In 2023, sales of existing US homes fell to the lowest level in nearly 30 yrs due to elevated interest rates and rising prices – but there are signs that home-buying activity is picking back up.