• ☝️ Citadel CEO Ken Griffin unveiled plans for the hedge fund’s new 1.7 million-square-foot headquarters in downtown Miami; it’ll take the form of a 54-story glass tower with two restaurants, a rooftop hotel, and a public waterfront terrace.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed up across the board (S&P: +0.2%; Dow: +0.02%; Nasdaq: +0.2%) | 📈 US consumer confidence rose to a six-month high in August, per new data from the Conference Board.
• 🚫💰 Edgar Bronfman Jr. withdrew his $6 billion bid for Paramount Global, paving the way for the entertainment giant to merge with Skydance as planned. | 🤖📝 Super Micro Computer is the target of a new report from short seller Hindenburg Research, which accuses the AI server maker of "accounting manipulation."
• 🏘️ Average US home prices rose 5.4% over the year-long period ending in June to reach a new record high, per the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🎙️🏈 Travis and Jason Kelce signed a three-year deal with Amazon’s Wondery worth ~$100 million for the distribution rights to their New Heights podcast.
• 🏜️ Paramount is in active negotiations for a sixth season of Yellowstone that won’t feature Kevin Costner, per multiple reports.
• 🎶 Martin Shkreli, aka “Pharma Bro,” was ordered by a federal judge to turn over all copies of Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album; the order is part of a lawsuit from crypto collective PleasrDAO, which previously purchased the album’s “only” known copy from Shkreli for $4.75 million.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🐋🫧 Humpback whales can skillfully blow bubbles that confuse and snare their tiny prey, per a new study; this method allows the whales to capture up to 7x more prey in a single feeding dive without using extra energy.
• 🦟🦠 A New Hampshire resident recently died after being infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, according to state health authorities.
• 🚀 The estimated cost to build a launch tower for a larger version of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket – which will bring humans back to the Moon – is now $2.7 billion, or 50% larger than previous estimates, per a new inspector general report.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ⚖️ A federal judge in Texas paused a Biden administration policy that would grant legal status to unauthorized immigrants who are spouses of US citizens without them having to first leave the country.
• 🏛️📲 In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was “wrong” for the Biden administration to pressure the social media company to censor Covid-related content in 2021; Zuckerberg also said he doesn’t plan to repeat efforts to fund nonprofits that help states conduct elections like he did in 2020 (to the tune of $400+ million). (The letter)
• 📝 Former President Trump is facing a new criminal indictment filed yesterday by special counsel Jack Smith related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election; Smith says the case was refashioned to conform to the Supreme Court’s July ruling granting sweeping immunity to former presidents; Trump faces the same four federal offenses he was originally charged with. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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