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  • ☝️ You’re looking at what’s believed to be a 4 billion-year-old meteorite that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home on Monday afternoon; authorities say it’s likely related to the ongoing Eta Aquarid meteor shower (active between April 15 and May 27).

BUSINESS & MARKETS

  • 💰 US markets closed mixed yesterday (S&P: +0.5%; Dow: -0.1%; Nasdaq: +1.0%).
  • 🐭📊 Disney released its Q2 earnings yesterday; revenue and profit was mostly in-line with Wall Street projections, though Disney+ reported a loss of ~4 million subscribers.
  • 🤑 Robinhood announced plans to offer 24-hour weekday trading for certain stocks and EFTs, instead of only allowing trades when markets are open.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

  • 🎤 Beyoncé kicked off her first major tour since 2018 yesterday in Sweden.
  • 🔀👩‍👧 Freaky Friday sequel?! Disney is currently working on a sequel, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsey Lohan in talks to reprise their roles, per a NY Times report.
  • 🎥 The Director’s Guild of America began contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers yesterday; it’s the second active negotiation for the AMPTP, which is currently deadlocked with the on-strike Writer’s Guild of America. (Background)

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

  • 💊 An FDA advisory panel yesterday unanimously recommended making daily birth control pills available over-the-counter for the first time.
  • 👶🧬 In a UK first, a local baby was born using DNA from three different people in an effort to prevent the child from inheriting a rare genetic disease; fewer than five such babies have ever been born.
  • 🧼🦟 Washing with certain brands of popular soaps made some people more attractive to a species of mosquito that spreads yellow fever, Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses; that’s per a study published yesterday in iScience, which also found one brand of soap – Native Coconut & Vanilla Body Wash – made people less attractive to mosquitoes.

MISCELLANEOUS

  • 📝 Audits of foreign companies listed on US stock exchanges are highly deficient, per a new report from a US government watchdog that found significant issues in seven of eight audits previously approved by foreign affiliates of KPMG and PwC.
  • 🤖🏛️ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify before Congress for the first time next Tuesday.
  • 🎤 Former President Trump participated in a live CNN town hall discussion last night. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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