• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards, which drew thousands entries from 48 countries.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.5%; Dow: +0.1%; Nasdaq: -1.2%).
• 🪙 Robinhood said the SEC is dropping its investigation into the company's crypto unit; the news comes three days after Coinbase said the SEC would drop the suit against it.
• 🍏 Apple earmarked $500 billion over the next four years to expand its manufacturing footprint in the US; the company says its investment will create 20,000 jobs and build a factory in Houston to support its generative-AI system.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🎤 The Wu Tang Clan announced “the start of their final tour,” which kicks off in Baltimore on June 6.
• 🎭 Several stars are returning to the Broadway stage this year, including Nick Jonas, Sadie Sink, and Christian Slater; George Clooney is also making his Broadway debut.
• 📺 Lester Holt is stepping down as host of NBC Nightly News, but will remain in his role as Dateline anchor.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🪐🏖️ Mars once had an ocean with sandy beaches ~4 billion years ago, according to a new study.
• 🤖 Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, is its first to incorporate reasoning; Anthropic says the “hybrid reasoning” model can produce near-instant responses or extended step-by-step answers.
• ☄️ Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has just a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth in December 2032, down from a peak of 3.1% last week, per NASA. (Why the odds keep changing.)

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🇻🇦🏥 Pope Francis experienced a “prolonged asthmatic crisis” on Saturday while being hospitalized for double pneumonia, per the Vatican; Francis remained in critical condition yesterday but showed signs of improvement.
• ⚖️ Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes lost her bid to overturn her conviction for fraud, leaving few remaining legal options; Holmes is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence.
• 🏛️ President Trump selected Dan Bongino, an ex-Secret Service agent and popular conservative podcaster/media figure, as the FBI’s deputy director.

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CLICKBAIT

• 🤔🤔 Math couple spent two decades on one problem