• ☝️ The 2025 Westminster Dog Show, the second-oldest continuously running sporting event in America (behind the Kentucky Derby), concluded last night; Best in Show was awarded to Monty the giant schnauzer (top-left).

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets closed mixed (S&P: +0.03%; Dow: +0.3%; Nasdaq: -0.4%). | 🏦 Fed Chair Jerome Powell testified before Congress yesterday; it was his first congressional appearance of the new Trump administration.
• ✈️ Connecticut has become one of the hottest aviation markets in the US.
• 🥤 Coca-Cola reported Q4 results that topped expectations on revenue and earnings; shares rose 4.7%.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏈 The New Orleans Saints hired Eagles OC Kellen Moore as their new head coach.
• 👕 Shopify deactivated Yeezy.com, which had been selling shirts featuring a swastika, saying the site violated its terms of use.
• 🏆👀 The Super Bowl drew a record 127.7 million average viewers, peaking at 135.7 million in the second quarter. | 🎤 Kendrick Lamar broke the record for the most-watched Superbowl halftime show of all time with 133.5 million viewers, dethroning Michael Jackson's 133.4 million in 1993.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ☄️🛰️ NASA has enlisted its James Webb Space Telescope to study a recently identified “city-killer” asteroid that astronomers currently estimate has a ~2% chance to impact Earth in December 2032.
• ⚛️💻 A new quantum computing breakthrough has increased the possibility of scaling such technology across an “internet” of connected quantum systems.
• 🚀 Last year set spaceflight records with an average of one launch attempt every ~34 hours, per a new report; 2025 is projected to exceed that pace.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🌨️ A major storm system dumped snow, ice, and rain over a ~1,500-mile stretch of the eastern US yesterday; it’s the first of projected back-to-back-to-back major storms to hit the US this week.
• 🏛️🗣️ President Trump appeared before reporters alongside Elon Musk in the Oval Office yesterday, where the two participated in a lengthy question-and-answer session. | 🗽 The Justice Department directed federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D), saying the case was hindering Adams’s ability to do his job.
• 💥 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu called for Hamas to release three Israeli hostages by noon Saturday, as planned under their ceasefire deal, or face a return to war; it came a day after Hamas said it will postpone the hostages’ release to protest alleged Israeli ceasefire violations.

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• 🏥🎶 These Songs By Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, and Chappell Roan Can Literally Help Save Lives.