• ☝️ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently found the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed; the JADES-GS-z14-0 galaxy formed an estimated 290 million years after the big bang.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed down across the board (S&P: -0.6%; Dow: -0.9%; Nasdaq: -1.1%). | 👕 Shares of Gap rose 20+% in after-hours trading following a better-than-expected earnings report.
• 🚙 Jeep unveiled its first EV for the American market; the Wagoneer S will start at ~$72,000 when it becomes available this fall. | 🛒 Amazon Prime now includes a Grubhub food delivery subscription as a permanent fixture, instead of just for one year.
• ✈️ Boeing executives presented sweeping changes to its production process and safety systems in a three-hour meeting with the FAA.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 The Dallas Mavericks beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-103 to win the Western Conference Finals (4-1); the Mavs will advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2011. | 🏀 Unrivaled, a new 3v3 pro women’s basketball league that hopes to attract top WNBA players in their offseason, will debut in January; Unrivaled says its players will earn the highest average salary in pro women’s sports history. | 🐝 Florida 12-year-old Bruhat Soma won the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
• 🎸 John Lennon’s acoustic guitar that was used to record the Beatles albums Help! and Rubber Soul sold at auction for $2.9 million; it’s the most expensive Beatles instrument ever auctioned off.
• 📺🏈 HBO’s Hard Knocks will be centered around the Chicago Bears during the upcoming NFL preseason.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🩹 Scientists are developing a new generation of smart bandages that could allow doctors to remotely monitor wounds, decrease scarring, and speed up healing with a zap of light or electricity.
• 🐟 Anglerfish, strange deep-sea creatures that live in the ocean’s lightless zone, began to flourish ~50 million years ago after developing a reproductive strategy in which some males permanently attach themselves to females, per a new study.
• 🔎 Google confirmed that a collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents – which detail some of the data collected by Google Search – are authentic. | 🚁 Amazon received FAA approval to expand its Prime Air delivery drone service. (2024 is poised to be the year of drone delivery services)

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🧾 The IRS is making its free online tax filing program permanent for the 2025 tax season, with all 50 states and Washington, DC, invited to participate.
• 🤖 OpenAI said it stopped groups in Russia, China, Iran, and Israel from using its generative AI tools for foreign influence operations.
• 🗳️🗣️ X and NewsNation will reportedly host a live town hall with former President Trump ahead of the November election, as well as a separate live town hall with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

CLICKBAIT

• 🦠 The medieval disease that killed thousands of people, then vanished from history.