• 👆 You’re looking at some of the finalists from the 2025 SkyPixel Photo & Video Contest, which has celebrated aerial drone photography for the past 10 years.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +0.8%; Dow: +0.8%; Nasdaq: +0.6%).
• 💊 Pfizer is scrapping its experimental daily weight loss pill; the move comes after a patient experienced a liver injury that was potentially caused by the drug in a trial.
• 📱 Meta’s antitrust trial regarding its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp kicked off yesterday; CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave four hours of testimony. | 📝 A group of US small businesses sued to block Trump’s tariffs, saying trade deficits don’t constitute an emergency.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 📺 India-based streaming platform JioHotstar passed 200 million paid subscribers; it’s the world's third-largest streaming service, behind Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
• 🎭 HBO confirmed the first cast members for its new Harry Potter series. | Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. will reprise his role of Aaron Burr in Broadway’s Hamilton this fall.
• 🏀 WNBA Draft: UConn’s Paige Bueckers was selected #1 overall by the Dallas Wings; see the rest of the picks and their grades here.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🔥 A newly published analysis of three fireplaces at a prehistoric site in Ukraine sheds light on how humans used fire 10,000+ years ago.
• 🔍 Astrophysicists discovered half of the universe's hydrogen; the previously undetected, diffuse ionized gas partially accounts for the universe's "missing" normal matter.
• 🚀 Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, and three other women successfully ventured past the Kármán line; the group is the first all-female crew to travel to space since 1963. | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 27 Starlink internet satellites successfully blasted into orbit yesterday; it was the 27th launch for the rocket's first stage, breaking a reflight record this same booster set two months ago.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• ⚖️ The man accused of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion was charged with terrorism, arson, and attempted murder; Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and his family were in the house asleep when the fires were set.
• 🏛️ President Trump’s top advisers and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele—who visited the White House yesterday—both said they have no basis for El Salvador to return the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a high-security prison there by the Trump admin last month; the Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump admin must “facilitate” the man’s return to the US.
• 📅 It’s Tax Day…except in these 13 states.

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