• ☝️ The death toll from a historic snowstorm that dropped nearly 4.5 feet of snow on Buffalo, NY, last week has climbed to at least 37, per local officials.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 All three major US stock indexes finished 2022 with their biggest annual losses since 2008. (Dow: -8.8% | S&P: -19.4% | Nasdaq: -33.1%)
• 🚀 SpaceX is raising a new $750 million round of funding that values the Elon Musk-led company at $137 billion, sources told CNBC.
• 💻 Meta agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing Facebook of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏈 No 16. Tulane scored 16 points in the final 4 minutes to win yesterday’s Cotton Bowl against No. 10 USC. | No 9. Penn State beat No 7. Utah 35–21 to win yesterday’s Rose Bowl. (See the full bowl season schedule and results here.)
• 🏆 NY Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge was named the 2022 AP male athlete of the year; Team USA swimmer Katie Ledecky won the 2022 AP female athlete of the year award.
• 🏥 Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is currently hospitalized in critical condition; he collapsed shortly after making a tackle in last night’s game against the Bengals, which was postponed to a later date after Hamlin stayed down for 15+ minutes upon collapsing; it was later reported that he suffered a cardiac arrest on the field. | Actor Jeremy Renner is in “critical but stable condition” following a snow-plow accident on Sunday.
• 🍿 Avatar: The Way of Water hit $1.4 billion in worldwide box office sales yesterday; the film will enter the top-10 highest-grossing films of all time once it crosses $1.5 billion.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ☄️ The annual Quadrantid meteor shower will peak tonight and tomorrow night, though a full moon means fewer visible meteors this year.
• 💧 Adults who don’t sufficiently hydrate are more likely to die younger than those who stay well-hydrated, per a new NIH study based on data collected from 11,000+ adults over 25 years.
• 🛰️ NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite successfully unfolded its solar panel and antenna arrays in orbit. (Background)

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 🙏 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who in 2013 became the first pope to retire in over six centuries, passed away on Friday at the age of 95. | Soccer legend Pele, the only player ever to win three World Cups, died last Thursday at 82 years old. | Barbara Walters, a pioneer of broadcasting and the first female anchor on evening network news, passed away on Friday at age 93.
• ⚖️ A 28-year-old male suspected of killing four University of Idaho students in November was arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday and charged with four counts of first-degree murder. | Online influencer Andrew Tate was arrested in Romania last week on charges of rape and human trafficking.
• 🏛️ The House Ways and Means Committee published a redacted version of former President Trump’s tax returns last week. (The returns | From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

CLICKBAIT

• 🤑 Here's how much money it takes to be considered middle class in 20 major US cities.