• ☝️ The annual SantaCon pub crawl was held in Manhattan this past weekend, featuring thousands of Santa Clauses, elves, and a few Grinches.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 📊 US markets closed mixed (S&P: +0.4%; Dow: -0.3%; Nasdaq: +1.2%); the Nasdaq closed at a new record; the Dow registered its eighth straight day of declines for the first time since June 2018. | 📈 Broadcom shares rose another 11% on Monday, following their best day on record on Friday. | 🪙 Bitcoin surpassed $107,000 to hit a new record high.
• 💰 Japanese investment giant SoftBank plans to invest at least $100 billion in US projects over the next four years, per a joint announcement from CEO Masayoshi Son and President-elect Trump.
• 📦 Amazon manipulated injury data to make its warehouses appear safer, according to a Senate probe; the investigation also alleges the company rejected many safety recommendations out of concern they might reduce productivity.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏛️📲 President-elect Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago yesterday; the meeting came hours after TikTok asked the Supreme Court to block a law that would effectively ban the app by January 19 if its US operations aren’t sold.
• ☝️ Some new firsts: Taylor Swift became the first artist to rank No. 1 on Billboard's year-end Top Artist chart four separate times; US golfers will be paid to play in the Ryder Cup for the first time; NFL RedZone aired commercials this weekend for the first time ever in a new test.
• 📺 Malcolm in the Middle is getting a four-episode revival on Disney+. | ⚖️ Former Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🪐 Saturn’s rings may be ~4.5 billion years old – the same age as the planet itself – rather than 400 million years old as commonly thought, per a new study.
• 💎🔋 The first nuclear-powered diamond battery, which uses a radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond, could power small devices for thousands of years, per scientists at the UK’s University of Bristol.
• 🚗 Many digital license plates, which are legal in several states, can be jailbroken to change their display on the fly to evade tolls and traffic tickets, per a Wired report.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🙏 A teacher and a student were killed, and several others injured, yesterday after a teenage student opened fire at a Christian K-12 school in Madison, Wisconsin, per authorities; the suspected shooter was found dead at the scene; authorities identified the suspect as a 15-year-old female.
• ⚖️ Luigi Mangione, the suspected shooter in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, hired prominent attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo; New York prosecutors are working to extradite him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge.
• ⚖️ A New York judge ruled President-elect Trump’s hush-money conviction in May remains valid, despite a later Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad legal immunity. | 🗣️ President-elect Trump held his first press conference since winning last month’s election. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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