• ☝️ The German Society for Nature Photography announced the winners of its annual GDT Nature Photographer of the Year competition, which featured 8,000 entries from 13 countries.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +0.5%; Dow: +0.3%; Nasdaq: +0.8%); the Nasdaq closed at a new record high. | 📈 Meme stocks are back: GameStop (+74% on Monday; +60% on Tuesday) and AMC (+78%; +32%) continued to climb.
• 👷 Home Depot posted revenue below Wall Street's expectations; the favorite haunt of DIY dads everywhere also indicated it's seeing signs of a consumer pullback.
• 💳 An increasing share of Americans are falling behind on credit card payments, per new data. (Read more)

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 📺 Comcast is launching a streaming bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+; pricing has not yet been announced.
• 🐉 HBO released the official House of the Dragon Season 2 trailer. | 🌋💍 Amazon Prime Video unveiled a teaser trailer for Rings of Power Season 2 along with its release date (August 2). | 🥊 A sequel to Road House is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios, with Jake Gyllenhaal reprising his leading role.
• 🏀 The WNBA has a new expansion team for the first time since 2008: The Golden State Valkyries.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💉 Patients taking Wegovy maintained an average of 10% weight loss after four years, per long-term data presented yesterday by drugmaker Novo Nordisk.
• 🤖 Google unveiled Gemini 1.5 Flash, the latest addition to its AI model series, at the company’s annual developer conference yesterday. | 🤖 Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, announced his departure from the Microsoft-backed startup.
• 📅🚀 Boeing’s first crewed spaceflight using its Starliner spacecraft has been delayed again, this time due to a small helium leak; instead of this Friday, the new launch will be no earlier than May 21.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🎓 The interest rate on federal undergraduate student loans for the 2024-2025 academic year is 6.53%, up from 5.5% last year and the highest rate in over a decade.
• 🏥 Arizona’s Supreme Court agreed to delay the enforcement of a Civil War-era abortion ban for another 90 days, pushing the date back to September 26.
• ⚖️ The bribery and corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) began this week. (Read more)

CLICKBAIT

• 🧇👟 Eggo’s waffle-inspired sneakers have landed.