• ☝️ Before Japanese startup ispace’s lunar lander apparently crashed into the Moon’s surface on Tuesday, it snapped this pic of an “Earthrise” that depicts a total lunar eclipse occurring over Australia.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 💰📈 US markets closed up across the board yesterday (S&P: +2.0%; Dow: +1.6%; Nasdaq: +2.4%). | US GDP grew at a 1.1% annual rate in Q1 of this year, down from 2.6% the previous quarter, the Commerce Department reported yesterday.
• 🚗 Lyft will lay off 1,072 employees, the company revealed in an SEC filing yesterday; that’s about 26% of its workforce. | 👕 Gap announced plans to lay off 1,800 employees mostly from its headquarter locations and other leadership roles.
• 📦📊 Amazon reported first quarter earnings yesterday that beat industry expectations across the board, but warned of a growth slowdown in its highly-profitable cloud unit; the company’s stock initially spiked ~10% in after-hours trading but later fell below its closing value.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🔵 Rihanna will play Smurfette in Paramount’s 2025 Untitled Smurfs Animated Film, the singer announced yesterday; Rihanna will also write and perform music for the film.
• 🙏 Jerry Springer, the host of the The Jerry Springer Show and one-time mayor of Cincinnati, died yesterday at 79 years old.
• 🏈1️⃣ The 2023 NFL Draft kicked off yesterday with the Carolina Panthers selecting Alabama QB Bryce Young with the No. 1 overall pick. | Ravens QB Lamar Jackson signed a new 5-year, $260 million contract extension, making him the highest-paid player in league history on an annual basis.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🧬 Certain regions of genomes – aka the DNA instructions organisms need to develop and grow – have stayed the same across all mammal species over millions of years of evolution, per a series of 11 peer-reviewed studies published yesterday in Science.
• 🚀🪐 The European Space Agency’s Jupiter icy moons explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, which has a mission of searching for alien life on Jupiter’s moons, switched on its science instruments for the first time yesterday. (Background)
• 🪱 Scientists have figured out how California blackworms are able to quickly disentangle from an intertwined group of up to 50,000 individual specimens, per a study published yesterday in Science.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🗽🤝 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul reached a tentative agreement with state lawmakers on a new $229 billion state budget for next fiscal year; among other things, the budget would change the state’s bail laws and increase the statewide minimum wage starting in 2024.
• ⚖️ E. Jean Carroll, the writer suing former President Donald Trump in civil court over allegations that he raped her in the mid-1990s, took the stand for a second day of testimony yesterday.
• 🗳️ West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) announced plans to run for the Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Joe Manchin in 2024. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

CLICKBAIT

• 🐋 Humpbacks spotted having a whale of a time at underwater ‘day spa.’

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