• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners and honorees from the 2024 Nature’s Best Photography International Awards, which fielded 25,000+ entries from 62 countries.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose slightly (S&P: +0.02%; Dow: +0.1%; Nasdaq: +0.3%). | ⚒️🏘️ M&A activity in the single-family homebuilder space is having a record year in terms of dollar volume, and is close to a record in the number of deals, per CNBC. | ✈️ Spirit Airlines shares fell 59% yesterday; the company is reportedly prepping a bankruptcy filing.
• 📝 BNPL provider Klarna filed for US IPO; analysts recently valued the company at ~$15 billion. | 🍕 Grubhub is being purchased by the Wonder Group for $650 million; Grubhub was valued at $7.3 billion in 2020.
• 🤖💼 AMD is laying off 4% of its workforce, or ~1,000 employees.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 📺 Freevee, Amazon’s free ad-supported streaming service, will be shut down over the following weeks; Freevee’s content has already been migrated onto Prime Video, where it will remain. | 📺 Diamond Sports reached a deal with Amazon’s Prime Video that will see its 16 regional sports networks offered on the streaming platform.
• 📖 The 2024 Booker Prize – considered the most prestigious literary award for English fiction published in the UK and Ireland – was awarded to Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel Orbital.
• 🏆 John Krasinski was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2024.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🐦🧠 A newly discovered fossil provides the most complete glimpse to date of the brains of ancient birds who lived alongside the dinosaurs.
• 🌕 The last supermoon of 2024 will grace the night sky tomorrow evening.
• 💡🏄 Attaching LED lights to the bottom of surfboards could help deter great white shark attacks, per a new study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🚫🏫 Lunchables will no longer be in school lunches nationwide, with Kraft Heinz attributing the move to weak demand.
• 🏛️ Republicans have won a majority in the House after winning their 218th seat, per the AP, clinching their hold on both chambers of Congress and the presidency. | 🏛️ Sen. John Thune (R-SD) was elected Senate majority leader for the next term; he’ll replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the head of Senate GOP leadership.
• ⚖️📝 Jack Teixeira, the former Massachusetts Air National Guard member who was arrested last year for leaking classified US military documents via Discord, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. | ⚖️ A US jury ordered American defense contractor CACI Premier Technology to pay $42 million to three former Iraqi detainees for the company’s role in torture at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. | 📲 President-elect Trump is expected to stop a potential TikTok ban before it goes into effect next year, per a Washington Post report.

CLICKBAIT

• ☝️💰 Nasdaq CEO: Here’s the No. 1 piece of investing advice I’ve given my own son.