• ☝️ A waterfront Lake Tahoe home with its own small golf course recently hit the market with an asking price of $65 million; if achieved, it would set a new Nevada state record for most expensive home sale.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.5%; Dow: +0.4%; Nasdaq: -1.4%). | 💪 US consumer confidence fell 7% in February, the largest monthly drop since August 2021.
• 📝 Super Micro filed its past financials just ahead of the Nasdaq’s deadline, says it’s “regained compliance” and won’t be delisted. | 🏘️ Home Depot reported positive same-store sales last quarter (+0.8%), ending eight consecutive quarters of declines.
• 📉 Tesla sales fell 45% last month in Europe; EV sales in the region rose 37% over the same period. | 📉 Tesla shares fell 8% yesterday, pushing the company's market cap below $1 trillion.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🎿 Skier Mikaela Shiffrin claimed her 100th World Cup victory; she’s the first and only member of skiing’s century club; no other skier in history – male or female – has achieved more than 86 career wins.
• 🎙️ Al Trautwig, a legendary New York sports broadcaster on MSG Network, passed away at 68 from cancer complications. | ⚾️ Larry Dolan, owner of MLB's Cleveland Guardians, died at 94.
• 💿 1,000+ musicians, including Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn, and Kate Bush, released a silent album in protest of the UK government's planned changes to copyright law, which they say further enables AI companies to train models using copyrighted work without a license.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🥜🍇 An antioxidant widely found in nuts, fruits, and vegetables may help combat the negative effects of microplastics on the human body, per a new study.
• 🛰️🌐 The FAA has reportedly agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink to help accelerate its upgrade of IT networks. | 📲 Apple says it will fix a “bug” on some iPhones’ text-to-speech transcription that replaces certain words starting with “r” – including racist, rampant, and rampage – with “Trump.”
• 💉 Eli Lilly is expanding its offerings of weight-loss drug Zepbound and reducing prices for certain dosages; the moves are aimed at consumers who want to pay cash instead of using their health plans.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🧑‍⚖️ The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to abortion clinic buffer zones, or laws that prevent anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics. | 🧑‍⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled that an Oklahoma court can’t order the execution of an inmate over the objections of the state’s attorney general, who determined the inmate’s initial conviction had flaws.
• 📧 More than 1 million federal workers – less than half of the workforce – responded to Elon Musk’s recent email asking them to document what they did last week, per the White House; it’s currently unclear if failure to respond will carry consequences, as Musk promises.
• 🏛️ The Trump administration faced a trio of legal setbacks yesterday in separate court cases involving federal spending, refugees, and foreign aid. | 🏛️ DOGE’s acting administrator is Amy Gleason, according to CNBC.

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CLICKBAIT

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