• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the 2024 reFocus Awards, which aim to celebrate the enduring appeal of photography.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets closed mixed (S&P: +0.2%; Dow: +0.3%; Nasdaq: -0.1%). | 🏦 Fed minutes suggest officials will hold rates steady for now.
• ⚖️ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was accused of sexual abuse by his sister in a new lawsuit; Altman denies the claims.
• 📱 Meta is allowing some eBay listings to appear on Facebook Marketplace. | 🤝 Union dockworkers and port employers reached a tentative six-year labor agreement ahead of a January 15 deadline; it still needs to be ratified by union members. (How did we get here?)

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏈 Notre Dame and Penn State will face off tonight in the first game of the College Football Playoff semifinal.
• ⛳ TGL, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's indoor golf league, saw average viewership of 919,000 in its Tuesday night debut; that's ~2x the viewership of the PGA Tour's final round broadcast of The Sentry (461,000).
• 🏆 2025 SAG Award nominations were released: Wicked and Shōgun lead the film and TV races, with five nods apiece. See the full list.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🕷️👃 Spiders smell with their leg hairs: A new study found olfactory hairs along male spiders' legs act as a nose to detect pheromones from females.
• ♨️🌊 Scientists discovered a hidden “hotspot” that helped create the Great Lakes ~20,000 years ago.
• 🏥💊 Medicare drug plans can now cover Eli Lilly’s obesity drug Zepbound for obstructive sleep apnea, per federal officials.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🗽🚦 New York City has the slowest car travel among all US cities, followed by San Francisco and Honolulu, per a new TomTom analysis.
• 🙏 Today is a national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, whose official state funeral will be held this morning in Washington, D.C.
• 🏛️ The DOJ said it intends to release special counsel Jack Smith’s report into President-elect Trump’s alleged election interference, but will temporarily keep under wraps Smith’s report on Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. | ⚖️ Trump filed a last-ditch request asking the Supreme Court to block his New York hush-money sentencing set for tomorrow.

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