• ☝️ The Hubble Space Telescope spotted a “bulls-eye” galaxy with a record-high nine surrounding rings of stars, smashing the previous record of three rings.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets closed mixed (S&P: +0.4%; Dow: -0.3%; Nasdaq: +0.5%).
• 📦 Amazon reported better-than-expected Q4 revenue and earnings; gave weak guidance for Q1 due to foreign exchange headwinds.
• 🏡 The US average 30-year mortgage rate fell to 6.89% this week (from 6.95% last week), per Freddie Mac; it marks the third straight weekly decline.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏀🤝 The NBA trade deadline has come and gone; check out grades for all the major deals, including Jimmy Butler to the Warriors. | 📝 The NCAA updated its student-athlete policy to bar transgender women from competing in women’s sports; the move follows an executive order from President Trump that also banned trans women from women’s sports.
• 🎟️ Super Bowl ticket prices are down (but still cost a pretty penny); the average resale ticket price at SeatGeek is $9,257 – 18% lower compared to this time last year; prices have also fallen over the last week at multiple resale sites. | ⚖️ Ippei Mizuhara, the ex-interpreter for LA Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, was sentenced to 57 months in prison and ordered to repay Ohtani the ~$17 million he stole to fund illicit sports gambling.
• 🍏 Apple unveiled Partiful Invites, a new app that allows users to create and share invitations on their iPhone, RSVP to events, contribute to Shared Albums, and curate event soundtracks.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🏥🐷 The FDA approved clinical trials to study transplants of genetically modified pig kidneys into humans.
• 🏙️🌊 The Palos Verdes Peninsula, a coastal community in Southern California, is shifting closer to the Pacific Ocean at a rate of ~5 inches/month as part of a slow-moving landslide, according to NASA.
• 🌌🔭 Astronomers recently discovered the largest black hole-launched jet ever seen in the early universe, which measures twice as long as the Milky Way (200,000+ light-years).

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🏛️⏲️ The deadline for federal workers to accept the Trump administration’s buyout offer was delayed by a federal judge before it took effect yesterday; the delay extends at least through Monday, when another legal hearing is scheduled.
• 🏛️ A 25-year-old DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department’s central-payments system resigned yesterday after being linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics in recent months.
• 🏛️✍️ President Trump signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court, accusing it of improperly targeting the US and Israel.

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