• ☝️ Judy Garland’s iconic ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939) are up for auction by Heritage Auctions, with the current bid set at $1.02 million (buyer’s fee included); the slippers were stolen from a museum in 2005 by a mobster looking to make “one last score,” and were recovered by the FBI 13 years later.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board, each ending the day at a new record high (S&P: +2.5%; Dow: +3.6%; Nasdaq: +3.0%); the small-cap Russell 2000 increased 5.8%.
• 📈 Tesla shares rose 15% yesterday following Trump’s victory; Elon Musk is ~$20 billion richer as a result.
• 💄 E.l.f. Beauty, the cosmetics retailer popular with Gen Z, posted strong quarterly results, raised its full-year guidance; revenue increased 40% over the same period a year earlier. | 🏥 CVS Health reported Q3 results that beat revenue expectations but missed on earnings.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🙏 Chauncy Glover, three-time Emmy-winning journalist and LA TV news anchor, died unexpectedly at 39.
• 📱🥊 Altercations: Jason Kelce apologized for spiking a heckler's phone over a slur aimed at his brother, Travis. | Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid was suspended three games by the NBA for shoving a reporter who wrote a column referencing Embiid's son and late brother.
• 🎶 "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a 16th straight week, tying the second-longest run in the chart’s 66-year history.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🤖🚕 Waymo’s self-driving taxi rides are more expensive and take twice as long compared to ride-hailing services like Uber or Lyft, per a new study.
• 🪐🛰️ NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its seventh and final swing past Venus en route to coming within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface (closer than any other human-made object).
• 🧪 Scientists have successfully stirred an exotic state of matter called a "supersolid" – which is both rigid and fluid – for the first time. |🦠 New research reveals how mitochondria function under stress.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌀🇨🇺 Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba last night as a Category 3 storm, causing power outages across the country; Rafael is projected to make landfall as a much weaker storm this weekend anywhere from the US Gulf Coast to northeastern Mexico.
• 🇨🇳 Hackers linked to Chinese intelligence quietly compromised the cellphone lines of senior US national security and policy officials, in addition to American politicians, per a new Wall Street Journal report. | 🇩🇪 The German government’s three-way governing coalition is on the brink of collapse after Chancellor Olaf Scholz unexpectedly sacked his finance minister.
• 🗳️ State ballot measures to establish a right to abortion were approved in seven states, and failed to pass in three other states. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

CLICKBAIT

• 👽 Ranked: The countries that believe in aliens the most.