• ☝️ A new, wide-reaching storm is forecast to develop over the central US tomorrow night into Thursday, with frigid weather projected for 20+ states through Saturday.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -1.1%; Dow: -0.4%; Nasdaq: -1.9%).
• 🏦 JPMorgan Chase is reportedly planning to mandate staff return to the office five days/week. | 🚗 Honda revealed its two new 0 Series EVs will be produced in Ohio.
• 👖 Jeans brand True Religion was acquired by two private equity firms, one of which owns a stake in American Eagle. | 📸 Picture this: Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging to form a company worth ~$3.7 billion. | 🤖 AI startup Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise money at a $60 billion valuation; the Amazon-backed OpenAI rival was valued at $18 billion last year.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 📲 Meta is ending fact-checking on its social media platforms and adopting a user-run Community Notes system similar to X, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced.
• 🏈 North Dakota State University’s football team won their record-high 10th FCS national championship. | ⚖️ Former Fox Sports host Skip Bayless is accused of harassing a company hairstylist and offering her $1.5 million for sex, in a new civil lawsuit.
• 🤔 Adrian Dittmann may actually be Adrian Dittmann.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🌋 Scientists have found the volcano they believe was responsible for a mysterious 1831 eruption so powerful it temporarily made the sun look blue.
• 🪐 NASA proposed a pair of cheaper and quicker alternative options to retrieve rock and soil samples from Mars; costs associated with its original plan have ballooned to $11 billion.
• 🌊 Scientists confirmed the most extreme rogue wave ever detected – a freak swell off Canada’s Pacific coast that raised a buoy 58 feet into the air.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🔥 A fast-moving wildfire has forced 30,000+ residents to evacuate from the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.
• ⚖️ A federal judge temporarily blocked the DOJ from releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigations into President-elect Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
• 🇺🇸🇦🇪 Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment from Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani to build new data centers across the US. | 🗣️ Trump also held an hour-plus-long press conference, during which he floated renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” and didn’t rule out using the US military to reclaim the Panama Canal or acquire Greenland. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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