• ☝️ Millions of Americans gathered from Texas to Maine to view yesterday’s total solar eclipse, with the path of totality engulfing 44+ million Americans in complete darkness for a roughly four-minute period.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.04%; Dow: -0.03%; Nasdaq: +0.03%). | 🤔 Markets are currently pricing in more than two quarter-point interest rate cuts from the Fed in 2024, compared with more than six expected at the start of the year.
• 🏦 Chase Bank is allowing advertisers to target its customers based on spending data.
• 🤖🚗 Tesla settled a lawsuit over the 2018 death of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash involving its semi-autonomous driving software; the case was set to go to trial today.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 John Calipari is reportedly leaving Kentucky to become the head men’s basketball coach at Arkansas.
• 🍿📅 Disney unveiled a new theatrical release schedule that includes a film based on The Mandalorian, a fifth Toy Story, and another installment in the Tron franchise.
• 🎶 Country star Morgan Wallen was arrested on reckless endangerment charges after allegedly throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in Nashville. | ⚖️ Former Marvel actor Jonathan Majors was sentenced to participate in a domestic violence treatment program, avoiding jail time on reckless assault and harassment charges.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🌐📲 Google launched its long-awaited Find My Device network yesterday, with a basic functionality in line with similar offerings from Apple and Tile.
• 🧠 Synchron Inc, a rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant startup, is starting to recruit patients for a large-scale clinical trial that’s required to seek commercial approval for its device.
• 🫗 Harvard researchers recently created a programmable “intelligent liquid” that displays properties never before seen in natural liquids, per a new Nature study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ✈️ A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 safely returned to Denver International Airport on Sunday after the plane’s engine cover fell off during takeoff.
• 🚫📚 More than half of the top-10 most challenged library books last year have LGBTQ+ themes or characters, per a new American Library Association report.
• 🏥 Former President Trump said abortion laws should be left to the states and declined to endorse a nationwide ban in a video posted to social media yesterday. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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