• ☝️ The five-bedroom house in which Kevin McCallister was abandoned by his family in Home Alone recently hit the market with a list price of $5.25 million; located ~20 miles north of Chicago, the 5,700-square-foot house features a home theater and indoor basketball court.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: +0.03%; Dow: -0.6%; Nasdaq: +0.6%); shares of chipmaker Nvidia rose 7%, boosting the Nasdaq to a record close. | 📆 All US stock trades now settle in one business day rather than two, a system last used in the 1920s, per new SEC rules. | 📈 US consumer confidence increased in May; this follows three straight months of declines.
• 🌐📲 T-Mobile agreed to buy UScellular's wireless operations and select spectrum assets for $4.4 billion. | 🏢🚫 WeWork founder Adam Neumann dropped his bid to buy back the bankrupt co-working company.
• 🇨🇳📱 Apple’s iPhone sales in China rose by 52% in April, per new government data; that’s up from a 12% increase in March, and a combined 37% drop in January and February.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ MLB umpire Angel Hernandez, one of the league’s most maligned officials, is retiring effective immediately; his departure reportedly follows a settlement with the league. | ⚾ Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr., last year’s National League MVP, is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL.
• 🏀 NBA Playoffs: The Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Dallas Mavericks last night to force a Game 5; the Mavs lead the series 3-1.
• 🔪 Netflix announced the main cast for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025), the third installment in the film series featuring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🤖 OpenAI announced a new safety and security committee led by senior executives; the AI company also revealed it recently began training its next cutting-edge model.
• 🥜 Introducing peanut butter to the diets of infants and small children helps prevent them from developing an allergy in adolescence, per a new study.
• 🥶 US government scientists built a prototype refrigerator that can generate temperatures close to absolute zero – a process used in quantum computing and astronomy – far quicker and more efficiently than current methods.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 💸 Melinda French Gates is donating $1 billion through 2026 to advance women's rights and health around the world; it’s her first major commitment since departing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation earlier this month.
• 🎓 Harvard announced a new policy of no longer weighing in on public matters that don’t immediately affect the university’s “core function.”
• 🇬🇪 Lawmakers in Georgia (the country) overruled the president’s recent veto of a controversial "foreign agent" law that has sparked weeks of mass protests.

CLICKBAIT

• 🏜️ Mad scientists build Dune-inspired stillsuit that can recycle sweat.