• ☝️ Anant Ambani, the son of Asia's richest person (Mukesh Ambani), officially tied the knot with Radhika Merchant, the daughter of a billionaire pharmaceutical tycoon, in a lavish four-day wedding celebration that cost an estimated ~$150 million.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose on Friday (S&P: +0.6%; Dow: +0.6%; Nasdaq: +0.6%). | 🏦 JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo all reported earnings. Here's what we learned.
• 📝 The Society for Human Resource Management, a top HR lobbying and advocacy group with 340,000 members, is dropping the “E” in DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion); moving forward, it’ll be adopting the acronym “I&D” (inclusion and diversity).
• 📱 AT&T revealed on Friday that hackers stole call and text message records of nearly all its cell customers; the leaked data covers between approximately May 1 and October 31, 2022, and on January 2, 2023. | A Wired report (soft paywall) published yesterday claims AT&T paid a hacker $370,000 to delete all of this data.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🎾 Wimbledon: On the men’s side, Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, 21, defeated Novak Djokovic to win his second consecutive Wimbledon (and fourth Grand Slam); on the women’s side, Czechia's Barbora Krejčíková defeated Jasmine Paolini to earn her second career Grand Slam. | ⚾ The 2024 MLB Draft kicked off last night, with the Guardians selecting Oregon State second-baseman Travis Bazzana at No. 1 overall; rounds 3-10 are today, while rounds 11-20 are tomorrow.
• 🙏 Celebrity deaths: Richard Simmons, the fitness guru known for his unrelenting positivity, passed away at 76; Shannen Doherty, the actress best known for starring roles in Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed, died at 53; Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the famous sex therapist and media personality, passed away at 96.
• ⚖️ Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case related to the October 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was dismissed with prejudice by a New Mexico judge on Friday; the judge’s ruling, which found prosecutors withheld evidence, means Baldwin can’t be retried.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🦠 The first living organism on Earth emerged as early as 4.2 billion years ago, or ~300 million years after Earth first formed, per a new study.
• 🚀 A SpaceX rocket carrying 20 Starlink satellites failed while in orbit, ending the company’s streak of 300+ consecutive successful launches dating back to 2016.
• 🐔 Three poultry workers at a Colorado farm tested positive for bird flu, with specimens sent to the CDC for confirmation; four other confirmed human cases of bird flu have been reported in the US since March.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🚢 An expedition team set sail for the Titanic wreckage on Friday in a quest to capture the most detailed photos of the underwater site to date (via remotely operated vehicles).
• 💰 The IRS says it has collected $1+ billion in past-due taxes from millionaires since launching a new initiative to collect such taxes last year.
• 🇺🇸 How attacks on Presidents and candidates have shaped US history.

CLICKBAIT

• 😬 These are America’s 10 worst states for quality of life in 2024.