• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from this year’s World Sports Photography Awards, which featured 13,000+ entries from nearly 100 countries.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets closed mixed (S&P: +0.2%; Dow: +0.9%; Nasdaq: -0.4%).
• 💰 Robinhood agreed to pay $45 million to settle SEC charges over record keeping, trade reporting, and other rule violations.
• 📉 Moderna lowered its 2025 sales forecast by $1 billion; shares fell ~17% on the day. | 📉 The quantum computing selloff continued following comments from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Why did quantum computing stocks start dropping?)

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏈 NFL playoffs: Vikings Rams result. | 👋 The Dallas Cowboys are parting ways with head coach Mike McCarthy after five seasons.
• 🏆 The Grammy Awards and Sundance Film Festival are among the major events continuing as scheduled amid the ongoing LA fires; this year’s Oscar nominations were delayed once again to January 23.
• 📲 RedNote, a Chinese social media app, has become the top-downloaded on Apple’s app store. (Dive deeper: The TikTok ban reaches SCOTUS.)

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🧠 ~1 million Americans/year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s total, per a new study published in Nature Medicine.
• 🚀🍽️ Celebrity chef José Andrés' restaurant group is teaming up with an aerospace engineer to create a first-of-its-kind cooking device for astronauts in space.
• 🦗 Periodical cicadas are set to return across the eastern US this spring, though in lesser numbers than last year when multiple broods emerged simultaneously.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🔥 Los Angeles fires update: As of yesterday afternoon, the larger Palisades and Eaton Fires were 14% and 33% contained, respectively; the official death toll remained at 24, though it’s expected to rise; forecasters say more powerful winds are expected to trigger new wildfires in the area through Wednesday.
• 🎓💰 President Biden announced plans to forgive student-loan debt for another 150,000+ qualified borrowers; it brings his administration’s total student debt relief above $183 billion. | 🏛️ The Senate is slated to hold more than a dozen hearings this week for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, starting with three this morning.
• 💥🤝 Israel and Hamas are reportedly finalizing the terms of a combined ceasefire and hostage release deal, according to multiple sources.

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