• ☝️ Americans across the country held Memorial Day services and celebrations in honor of fallen US service members; the Memorial Day weekend also set a new daily air travel record in the US, with the TSA screening 2.95 million passengers on Friday.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board on Friday (S&P: +0.7%; Dow: +0.01%; Nasdaq: +1.1%); the Nasdaq closed at a record high for the 11th time this year.
• 🤖 Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, raised $6 billion at a $24 billion post-money valuation.
• 🍔 Burger King is launching a new $5 meal deal that will run “for several months,” following a similar move from McDonald’s. (Fast food vs. fast casual: a battle is brewing)

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 NBA Playoffs: The Boston Celtics clinched a spot in the NBA Finals last night after sweeping the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, while the Dallas Mavericks are a game away from sweeping the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals.
• 🎾 Rafael Nadal lost to Alexander Zverev in the first round of the French Open; it likely marks Nadal’s last appearance at the tournament, which he’s won a record 14 times.
• 🙏 Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame college/pro basketball player and commentator, passed away yesterday at the age of 71 following a battle with cancer. | 🙏 Morgan Spurlock, who directed and starred in the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, died at the age of 53. | 🙏 PGA golfer Grayson Murray, 30, died by suicide after withdrawing from a tournament on Friday, per a statement from his family.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💉 Semaglutide, the active ingredient in diabetes/weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, significantly reduces the risk of kidney failure and death in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, per new clinical trial results.
• 🪐 A potentially habitable Earth-sized planet was discovered in a system 40 light-years away, boasting a surface temperature of ~107°F, per a new study.
• ✈️☢️ Rolls-Royce was awarded a contract to build the next generation of the US Air Force’s nuclear-blast-resistant aircraft, dubbed the “doomsday planes.”

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌪️ At least 21 people were killed after tornadoes and storms swept across Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky over the weekend. (Read more)
• 🗳️ The Libertarian Party selected party activist Chase Oliver as its 2024 presidential nominee; independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was eliminated in the first of seven voting rounds. (Read more)
• 💊 Louisiana enacted a new law making it the first state to classify the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled and dangerous substances. (Read more)

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