• ☝️💶💵 The euro officially fell below parity with the dollar yesterday for the first time in almost 20 years.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 🇬🇧 London’s Heathrow Airport is capping the number of departing passengers at 100,000 per day for the rest of the summer, amid struggles with staff shortages and surging demand.
• ✈️ Spirit Airlines postponed its shareholder vote over a potential merger with rival discount carrier Frontier for the fourth time yesterday; the vote is now set for July 27.
• 🪙📉 Crypto corner: Celsius filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, a month after halting customer withdrawals. | Embattled crypto fund Three Arrows Capital’s remaining assets were frozen by a NY judge; the whereabouts of both co-founders still remain a mystery.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 📝 Medium founder Evan Williams is stepping down as CEO after ten years.
• 🍿TV & movies: Season 6 of Black Mirror will include Aaron Paul, Zazie Beetz, Paapa Essiedu, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, and more. | Top Gun: Maverick became the 12th film ever to pass $600 million at the domestic box office.
• 🏈🚢 Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder has reportedly parked his yacht overseas to prevent being served with a subpoena to testify in front of the House regarding a workplace harassment investigation.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ​​🧬 Researchers from Verve Therapeutics successfully gene-edited a patient’s liver to produce less cholesterol.
• 🌕 An ongoing supermoon, the biggest and brightest of the year, will hang in the sky through tomorrow night.
• 🦠 The FDA granted emergency use authorization for Novavax’s two-dose Covid vaccine yesterday. | The omicron BA.5 subvariant is now the most dominant strain in the US, per the CDC.

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 🐶 4,000 beagles have been rescued from a Virginia breeding facility accused of animal welfare violations.
• 🇬🇧 Six Conservative Party candidates survived the first ballot to replace UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday.
• ⚖️ An ex-CIA software engineer was convicted yesterday on federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in agency history (which was later released by WikiLeaks in 2017).
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