• ☝️ Concert for Carolina, a benefit concert in western North Carolina to support the recent hurricane victims, drew a crowd of 82,193 people on Saturday en route to raising $24.5 million; the concert was headlined by Luke Combs, Eric Church, Billy Strings, and James Taylor.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +0.3%; Dow: +0.7%; Nasdaq: +0.3%). | 🛢️ US crude oil prices fell 6%, their biggest daily drop in more than two years.
• 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The Biden administration finalized rules restricting US investment into advanced tech in China, including semiconductors, quantum computing, and AI. | 🇨🇳 The Chinese government has taken several major steps in recent weeks to make it harder for foreign companies (especially chipmakers) to purchase rare earth metals and other minerals mined and refined mainly in China.
• 🔵🔴 Robinhood now provides users with the ability to wager on the outcome of the upcoming election, joining Kalshi and others in the politics prediction field.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ MLB World Series: The LA Dodgers beat the NY Yankees 4-2 last night; the Dodgers are up 3-0 in the best-of-seven series.
• 📺 Jon Stewart will remain a once-a-week host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central through December 2025, after signing a contract extension.
• ⚽🏆 Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, aka Rodri, won the men’s 2024 Ballon d'Or award as the world’s best male soccer player; Aitana Bonmatí won the women’s Ballon d'Or for a second straight year.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

in partnership with Commons

• 🧠 Chinese scientists managed to revive pig brains up to 50 minutes after death by keeping their livers functionally alive; in current human revival practices, many vital organs like the brain are damaged beyond repair a few minutes after death. | 👁️ Science Corporation, a California-based startup, said its Prima retinal implant successfully restored vision to blind people in a clinical trial.
• 💋 The practice of humans kissing may have originated from our ape ancestors cleaning each other, per a new study.
• 🌌 Black holes may contain dark energy, a proposed form of energy that causes the universe to expand faster over time, per a new study. | 🌕 NASA identified nine potential landing sites for its Artemis III mission, which represents the first crewed Moon landing in 50+ years.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🍔 McDonald’s is resuming the sale of Quarter Pounders without slivered onions after testing ruled out the beef patties as the source of a recent E. coli outbreak. | 🍦 The US Copyright Office granted an exemption allowing for third parties to repair soft-serve ice cream machines like those available at McDonald's.
• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 England and Wales’ fertility rate fell to 1.44 children per woman last year, the lowest level since records began in 1938.
• ⚖️🗳️ Philadelphia’s DA filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Elon Musk’s America PAC from awarding $1 million/day to registered voters in swing states who sign a petition. | 📰 Washington Post-owner Jeff Bezos published an op/ed defending the newspaper’s recent decision not to publish a presidential endorsement for the 2024 election. (Dive deeper: Should newspapers endorse presidential candidates?)

CLICKBAIT

• 🍿😱 Scientific study proves which horror movie is the scariest of all time.