• ☝️ NASA unveiled its 100 best photos of 2023, which include a SpaceX Crew-7 launch and the recovery of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour from the Atlantic Ocean.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed up across the board (S&P: +0.3%; Dow: +0.4%; Nasdaq: +0.4%).
• 📉 The Japanese yen briefly fell to its weakest value against the dollar since 1990 yesterday, trading at 160 yen for $1 before recovering slightly.
• 🤖🚘 Autopilot isn’t the only driver-assistance system under regulatory scrutiny: Federal regulators opened an investigation into two fatal crashes involving Ford’s Blue Cruise partially automated driving system. | 📝 The Biden administration announced a new rule requiring all new cars and trucks include automatic emergency braking technology by 2029.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏆🎶 Taylor Swift earned her 14th Billboard No. 1 album with The Tortured Poets Department, tying Jay-Z for the most ever by a solo act. | 🎤 Billie Eilish announced a three-continent tour following the release of her upcoming album Hit Me Hard and Soft; North American dates run from September-December, followed by shows in Australia and Europe.
• 🏈 Detroit broke the NFL Draft's attendance record with more than 775,000 people over three days.
• 🎥 Paramount Global officially parted ways with CEO Bob Bakish, who will be replaced by a coalition of three division heads.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

in partnership with BestBodiesforLife

• 🗣️ A new mouth-spray UTI vaccine successfully prevented infection in more than 50% of patients for up to nine years, per a new study presented at a conference this month.
• 🩸 Swedish and Danish scientists discovered a new method that can change a donor’s blood group into the universal type O, which is consistently in short supply at hospitals and emergency rooms.
• 🦖 Tyrannosaurus rex was roughly as smart as modern crocodiles and other reptiles, per a team of researchers that investigated – and ended up challenging – recent claims that T. rex may have been as smart as monkeys.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🎓 Columbia University began suspending student protesters who defied orders to vacate a pro-Palestinian protest by yesterday afternoon; the school’s president said Columbia declined to divest from Israel, but offered to raise students’ proposals to its committee in charge of divestment. | 🎓 Police at UT Austin arrested 43 people yesterday in an attempt to break up a pro-Palestinian student protest.
• 🏘️🏛️ Lawmakers across the US, including some Democrats in Congress, have introduced legislation that would set a maximum limit on how many single-family homes can be owned by a single entity.
• 🇮🇱 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly asked President Biden to help prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials over the war in Gaza.

CLICKBAIT

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