Peter Nowak

Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party won a record third consecutive presidential term; Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked another US-owned container ship; and more.

🌿🇺🇸 Marijuana is less harmful and has a lower potential for abuse than initially thought, and should be removed from America’s most restrictive category of drugs, per a new FDA review.

🏦📝 Earnings season kicked off on Wall Street last Friday, with 4 of the top 6 US banks reporting their results for Q4 of last year.

🚘🔌 Yesterday, the Biden admin announced $623 million in new federal grants to help build an EV charging network across the country.

🤖 OpenAI’s GPT Store, where users will be able to share and monetize customized versions of ChatGPT (similar to Apple’s App Store), officially launched this week. And it’s causing some to think AI development is moving too fast.

🌏 Iran seized an oil tanker that was at the center of a standoff with the US; the UN’s top court began hearing a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians; and more.

🛣️ Federal regulators are cracking down on the dad jokes in traffic-safety messages shown on billboards across the country.

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🔥 It’s Friday, January 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🔍 US regulators are currently investigating the health effects of ultra-processed foods, which can be found on a majority of grocery shelves across the country.

🌏 Violence has broken out across Ecuador after two gang leaders escaped from prison on Monday; Norway became the first country to allow commercial-scale deep-sea mining; and more.

🏞️ The US reduced its greenhouse gas emissions last year as the overall economy grew, signaling that America is slowly heading toward a more sustainable future, per a new report.

💼 Amazon yesterday announced a round of layoffs across its Prime Videos and MGM studios divisions, as well as at Twitch, its livestreaming platform. And it’s not the only company to announce job cuts over the past week and a half.

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🔥 It’s Thursday, January 11th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📱💏 Elliott Investment Management has built a $1 billion stake in Match Group, the parent company of Hinge, Tinder, and other dating platforms, and plans to push for unnamed changes to turn the company’s performance around, according to a new report.

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🚗🏘️ Many US home and auto insurers are hiking their rates in certain states or refusing to write and renew policies in an attempt to recover from some of their worst years in history.

💧🥤 A typical 33-ounce bottle of water – or 1 liter for Europeans – contains an average of 240,000 plastic fragments, or ~100x more than previously thought, per a new study.

France’s president appointed the country’s youngest PM modern history, South Korea officially banned the consumption of dog meat, & more.