• ☝️ Apex, the largest stegosaurus fossil ever discovered at 11 feet tall and 20+ feet long, will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s in July; its value is estimated between $4 million–$6 million.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed down (S&P: -0.7%; Dow: -1.1%; Nasdaq: -0.6%). | ✌️ Activist investor Nelson Peltz has sold his entire stake in Disney; the move follows a proxy-battle loss.
• 🛢️ ConocoPhillips is acquiring Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal valued at $17.1 billion.
• ✈️ American Airlines said it lost business travel after a strategic shift backfired; shares fell 13%, their biggest percentage drop in nearly four years. | ☁️ Salesforce reported weaker-than-expected revenue; it also said sales growth in the current quarter will stall to the slowest in its history; shares fell as much as 17% in extended trading. | 👕 Abercrombie & Fitch shares closed at an all-time high following strong earnings and forward guidance.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏌️⚖️ Kentucky prosecutors dropped all charges against No. 1-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler, who was arrested while driving to compete in the PGA Championship on May 17.
• 🤖📰 The Atlantic and Vox Media both signed separate licensing and product deals with OpenAI.
• 📺🎶 Netflix is reportedly developing a series of new music-competition shows, with one series described as “Love is Blind meets The Voice.” | 📖 Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell will release Revenge Of the Tipping Point, a sequel to his debut book, on October 1.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🩸 The average age at which US girls had their first period was 11.9 years between 2000-2005, down from 12.5 years between 1950-1969, per a new study.
• 💉🐦 An experimental mRNA bird flu vaccine was shown to be effective in preventing lab animal deaths, per new preclinical results.
• 🧬 NIH-funded scientists have successfully generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🎓 Yale University named school trustee and current Stony Brook President Maurie McInnis as its next president; she’ll become the school’s first permanent female leader upon taking the helm in July.
• 🗽 The jurors in former President Trump’s New York criminal hush-money trial ended their first day of deliberations without a verdict, after asking to rehear testimony from several witnesses. (Read more)
• 🏛️ SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito told congressional Democrats that he won’t heed their calls to recuse himself from pending cases involving former President Trump; Alito said he had nothing to do with MAGA-associated flags flown at his homes on two occasions since 2021, and denied that he or his wife knew the flags’ associations with Trump. (Read more)

CLICKBAIT

• 🛍️ How retailers quietly target 'problem' returners.