• ☝️ Americans across the country gathered yesterday to commemorate Juneteenth, a federal holiday marking the date in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation. (Dive deeper: The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth)

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board on Tuesday (S&P: +0.3%; Dow: +0.1%; Nasdaq: +0.03%); markets were closed yesterday for Juneteenth. | 📈 Nvidia ended Tuesday’s trading session as the world’s most valuable company for the first time ($3.335 trillion).
• ✈️🏛️ Boeing CEO David Calhoun testified before a Senate investigative panel on Tuesday, answering questions from lawmakers about safety lapses in Boeing’s production line as well as the company’s handling of whistleblowers.
• 🚗 EV maker Fisker, which went public in 2020 at a $2.9 billion valuation, filed for bankruptcy after reportedly failing to secure investment from Nissan. (Background: Fisker is in an Ocean of trouble)

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🙏 Willie Mays, a Hall-of-Fame MLB outfielder widely regarded as one of the best baseball players of all time, passed away at 93.
• 🚨 Justin Timberlake was arrested for driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons early Tuesday morning; Timberlake pleaded not guilty to the charge.
• 🏀 The Detroit Pistons fired head coach Monty Williams one season after he signed the largest coaching contract in NBA history (six years, $78.5 million fully guaranteed).

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🚀 Starliner delays keep on coming: The crewed return of Boeing’s Starliner space capsule has been delayed a second time, with officials now targeting June 26 at the earliest; Starliner’s first crewed mission was initially supposed to run from June 5-12.
• ⭐🛰️ NASA is planning to launch a toaster-sized “artificial star” satellite into space by early 2029.
• ⚛️⚡ The US Senate passed a bipartisan bill to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy capacity, including a faster permitting process and new economic incentives; President Biden is expected to sign the measure into law shortly.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🏫📵 The Los Angeles Unified School District voted to ban cellphones and social media in schools for the entire day, becoming the largest US school district to do so. | 🏫📜 Louisiana enacted a first-of-its-kind law requiring every public-school classroom to display the Ten Commandments (including state-funded universities); the measure is expected to face legal challenges.
• 🌀 Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, officially formed in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday; Alberto is projected to make landfall in northern Mexico later today.
• 🌐🚗 A cyber incident at data provider CDK Global, whose software is used at ~15,000 auto dealers, hampered operations yesterday at US and Canada dealerships.

CLICKBAIT

• 🪐 Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?