• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the 2023 Drone Photo Awards, a worldwide competition about aerial photography that’s sponsored by the Siena Project.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 💰 US markets closed up across the board yesterday (S&P: +1.1%; Dow: +0.6%; Nasdaq: +1.7%).
• 🚘⚖️ Lordstown Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday; the EV startup also sued Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn alleging it breached a deal that would have provided Lordstown with up to $170 million in funding. | 🚫 Ford is reportedly planning to lay off at least 1,000 salaried employees and contract workers in North America, per the WSJ.
• 🏛️🛒 The Inform Act, a bipartisan federal law requiring online marketplaces like eBay and Amazon to share information on nearly all third-party sellers, officially came into effect yesterday; the law is aimed at preventing the sale of stolen or counterfeit goods, especially by organized retail theft groups.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🦸📰 David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan were cast as Superman and Lois Lane in James Gunn’s forthcoming film Superman: Legacy, which will officially launch DC’s new universe.
• 🙏 Actor Julian Sands, 65, was confirmed dead yesterday after going missing in January while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains outside of Los Angeles.
• 🏆 Oilers center Connor McDavid won the Hart Trophy, aka NHL MVP, for a third time on Monday. | 🏒 The 2023 NHL Draft starts tonight at 7 pm ET.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🦈 The ancient megalodon, a huge shark up to 65 feet long that lived between 3.6 million and 23 million years ago, was warm-blooded similar to the great white sharks of today; that’s per a peer-reviewed study published Monday in PNAS.
• 🪐 NASA locked a team of four volunteer researchers inside a 378-day virtual Mars mission on Sunday; their 1,700-square-foot habitat is designed to simulate the challenges humans will face on a real mission to the red planet.
• 💊🤖 A new experimental drug fully discovered and designed by AI has entered Phase 2 human clinical trials for the first time; the drug is intended to treat a chronic lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🦠 More than $200 billion may have been stolen from the pandemic-era Payment Protection Program and the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, per a new US Inspector General report.
• 🎙️ CNN on Monday night published an audio recording of former President Trump discussing "highly confidential" papers in his possession; the document in question, a DoD memo on Iran, reportedly wasn’t part of the 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information filed this month against Trump. (The audio | From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)
• ⚖️🗳️ In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that state legislatures drawing congressional voting maps are bound by laws found in state constitutions; the ruling deals a blow to Republicans seeking to prevent state courts from overseeing federal elections after several GOP maps were struck down for violating state constitutions. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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