• ☝️ South Africa celebrated 30 years since the end of apartheid and the start of its democracy with a ceremony in its capital of Pretoria; the celebration was presided over by President Cyril Ramaphosa, whose African National Congress party is widely credited with liberating South Africa’s Black majority from 46 years of institutionalized racial segregation under apartheid.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed up across the board (S&P: +1.0%; Dow: +0.4%; Nasdaq: +2.0%). | 📈 Alphabet, Google’s parent company, closed above a $2 trillion market cap for the first time.
• ⚒️ Anglo American, one of the world’s top miners of copper, diamonds, and platinum, rejected a ~$39 billion acquisition offer from BHP, the world’s largest listed miner.
• 🌐 The FCC voted 3-2 to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules designed to block internet service providers from speeding up or slowing down internet speeds for online services.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏈 NFL Draft recap: Check out all the picks for each team, along with how well analysts think they drafted.
• 🧅📰 The Onion was purchased by Jeff Lawson, co-founder and former CEO of Twilio, in a deal with undisclosed terms.
• 🎥 Paramount Global’s board of directors is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as this morning, per multiple reports; the media giant is currently in exclusive merger talks with Skydance Media.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🤔🐈 A group of theoretical physicists proposed modifications to the Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects apparently can’t.
• 🤖🚁 EHang, an autonomous flying-taxi company, received approval from the Chinese government for mass production, which Beijing says is a world first.
• 💉 At least three women were infected with HIV after receiving “vampire facials” from an unlicensed spa in New Mexico, per the CDC.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🚫🎓 The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony scheduled for next week, citing security concerns related to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. | 📣🇵🇸 Pro-Palestinian student protests spread to dozens of universities across the country over the weekend, including Arizona State, Maryland, Michigan, NYU, New Mexico, and UPenn.
• ⛈🌪 Two separate storm systems traveled across several states over the weekend, bringing tornadoes to Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri.
• 🏛️ The White House Correspondents Dinner took place on Saturday night.

CLICKBAIT

• 🏆✈️ There's a new No. 1 U.S. airline – and it's not Delta