• ☝️ Construction recently finished on the last home famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed prior to his death in 1959; the three-bedroom, two-bathroom house, dubbed RiverRock, sits ~20 miles outside Cleveland – and is now available for overnight rentals.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +1.1%; Dow: +1.1%; Nasdaq: +1.5%).
• 💉 Novo Nordisk cut Wegovy prices; the weight-loss drug now costs $499/month for people without insurance, down from $650.
• 🏡 The average 30-year mortgage rate was 6.19% yesterday morning, according to Zillow, its lowest point since October.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 📺 YouTube announced a new “Premium Lite” subscription tier; it allows subscribers to watch most videos ad-free for $7.99/month.
• 🦹 Daredevil: Born Again premiered on Disney+ seven years after the show was canceled on Netflix; the reboot features the same cast of characters and picks up where season 3 left off.
• 🦅 Saquon Barkley signed a two-year, $41.2 million extension with the Philadelphia Eagles; the deal makes him the highest-paid running back in NFL history. | 🏀 LeBron James became the first player in NBA history to score 50,000 career points across both the regular season and playoffs.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🤖 OpenAI announced support for a new consortium called NextGenAI that focuses on supporting AI-assisted research at top universities, including Harvard, MIT, and Oxford; OpenAI is providing $50 million in research grants, compute funding, and API access.
• 💻 Apple unveiled new MacBook Air models with a faster processor and $100 price cut.
• 🦴 Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago, or ~1 million years earlier than scientists previously thought, per a new discovery.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• ⛈️ A large storm system brought powerful winds, blizzard conditions, and severe thunderstorms across the eastern half of the US for a second straight day; at least six deaths have been attributed to the storms.
• 🙏 Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-TX), the former mayor of Houston, passed away due to a medical emergency shortly after attending President Trump’s congressional address Tuesday night. | 🇺🇦🇺🇸 President Trump ordered a pause to US intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
• 🧑‍⚖️ The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reject the Trump administration’s emergency request to pause ~$2 billion in foreign-aid funding distributed via USAID. | 🧑‍⚖️ A federal judge extended a freeze on the Trump administration’s changes to NIH research funding. | 🧑‍⚖️ An appeals court allowed the Trump admin to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, a top federal ethics watchdog.

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