• ☝️ A set of six Nike Air Jordans known as the Dynasty Collection were auctioned off for $8 million on Friday; the shoes, worn by Michael Jordan during each of the Chicago Bulls' six clinching NBA championship games in the ‘90s, set a global auction record for game-worn sneakers.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed up across the board on Friday (S&P: +1.1%; Dow: +0.4%; Nasdaq: +1.7%); the S&P ended the day at a record-high.
• 💼 The US economy added 353,000 nonfarm jobs in January, exceeding economist estimates of 185,000 jobs and up from December's upwardly revised 333,000 jobs.
• 🗣️ Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in a 60 Minutes interview aired on Sunday that the central bank will likely move to cut interest rates at a slower pace than what the market expects.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🙏 Carl Weathers, the NFL linebacker-turned-actor who starred in Rocky, Happy Gilmore, and The Mandalorian, died at 76. RIP Chubbs.
• 🎧 Spotify has reportedly agreed to a new multiyear deal with comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan worth up to $250 million. | 🏆 The 66th Grammy Awards took place last night; Taylor Swift made history by winning her fourth album of the year award for Midnights; she also announced the release of a new album, The Tortured Poets Department, out April 19. (More highlights from the night | See the full list of winners)
• ⚖️ Tennessee and Virginia sued the NCAA over the legality of its name, image, and likeness (NIL) guidelines. (Read more)

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🧠 Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison became the first to develop functional 3D-printed human brain tissue. (Read more)
• ❌❌ A Stanford Medicine-led study has identified why women are at much higher risk of autoimmune disorders than men; a process known as X chromosome inactivation, meant to throttle the activity of the second X chromosome, can trigger an immune system response. (Read more)
• ☂️☀️ Scientists are exploring a plan to cool the Earth by blocking the Sun’s rays with "space umbrellas." (Read more)

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌧️ Over half a million California residents were without power and ~37 million were under flood watches or warnings as of yesterday evening, as the state was hit with its second atmospheric river in less than a week. (What’s an atmospheric river?)
• 📰 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint 50 years ago yesterday by the Symbionese Liberation Army; she later joined her captors in a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery that earned her a prison sentence.
• 🗳️ President Joe Biden easily won the South Carolina Democratic primary, garnering 96% of the vote; the state’s Republican primary is scheduled for February 24. | ⚖️ Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who’s in charge of prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Trump, acknowledged that she had a romantic relationship with a lawyer whom she appointed to lead the Trump prosecution; Willis also denied any conflict of interest. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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