• ☝️ NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured these views of the October 7-8 aurora while orbiting Earth onboard the ISS; the aurora was created by a massive solar flare last week that was the largest since 2017.

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +1.0%; Dow: +0.3%; Nasdaq: +1.5%). | 📝 Hindenburg Research disclosed a short position in Roblox and accused the gaming platform of inflating user numbers and engagement; Roblox shares fell 2% on the day.
• 📱 Google was ordered by a federal judge to allow the creation of independent app stores on Android.
• 🚗 GM is ditching the Ultium name amid other EV changes.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 The WNBA Finals are set. The Minnesota Lynx won a deciding Game 5 against the Connecticut Sun last night, earning the right to face the New York Liberty in Game 1 of the Finals tomorrow night. | 🏈 The New York Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh after a 2-3 start to the NFL season (and 20-36 record overall). | 🏀📲 NBA reporter Shams Charania is leaving The Athletic for ESPN, where he'll replace Adrian Wojnarowski as Senior NBA Insider.
• 🎶💰 Taylor Swift is the world’s richest female musician with a net worth of $1.6 billion, according to Forbes; Swift surpassed Rihanna ($1.4 billion) to claim the top spot.
• 🇧🇷📲 X was allowed by Brazil’s Supreme Court to resume operations in the country following certain concessions by the company.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🏆🤖 The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
• 💊 Danco Laboratories is preparing to ask the FDA to approve use of its abortion pill regimen Mifeprex (the brand-name version of mifepristone) for management of miscarriages, per the Wall Street Journal.
• 🌌 Astronomers discovered a distant galaxy that appears similar in complexity to our Milky Way – but existed just 700 million years after the Big Bang, contrary to current scientific belief that such a galaxy would require billions of years of evolution.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🧑‍⚖️ Georgia’s Supreme Court restored the state's six-week abortion ban while justices consider an appeal to a lower court decision that had briefly struck down the 2022 law.
• 🇺🇸💰 The US federal deficit hit $1.8 trillion in the latest fiscal year, slightly lower than in 2023, per the Congressional Budget Office; the US spent $950 billion on interest, up 34% from 2023 (mostly because of higher rates) and surpassing military spending. | 🎰 Mega Millions lottery tickets will jump from $2 apiece to $5 starting in April; Mega Millions says players will get "improved odds to win the jackpot," "bigger jackpots more frequently," and faster-growing prizes.
• 🗽 Mohamed Bahi, Mayor Eric Adams’s former chief liaison to the Muslim community who stepped down this week, was arrested on federal witness tampering and destruction of evidence charges related to Adams’ indictment last month. | 🚨🗳️ An Afghan national living in Oklahoma City was arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiring to conduct a terrorist attack on Election Day in the US on behalf of ISIS.

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