• 👆 National Geographic is currently hosting its Earth Month photo challenge to celebrate our planet’s diversity ahead of Earth Day on April 22; check out some of the top submissions.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -2.2%; Dow: -1.7%; Nasdaq: -3.1%). | Retail sales rose 1.4% in March as consumers boosted spending ahead of tariffs; the figure was in-line with analysts' forecasts and the highest monthly increase since January 2023.
• 🏦 JPMorgan Chase sued more customers who allegedly used an “infinite money glitch” to steal cash from ATMs. | Big banks are benefitting from market volatility; the six largest US banks generated $16.3 billion in stock trading revenue in Q1, up 33% from a year earlier.
• 📈 Temu and Shein are planning to raise prices following President Trump's move to close the "de minimis" exemption.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏆 Comedian Nate Bargatze will host the 2025 Emmy Awards.
• 📰 Time published its annual list of the world’s 100 Most Influential People.
• 🏥 Harvey Winstein’s lawyers have requested he be moved to a New York City hospital instead of prison for the duration of his #MeToo rape retrial.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🏥 Radiation from CT scans could eventually account for ~5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually, per a new study from UC San Francisco.
• 🐷 A first-of-its-kind clinical trial to test whether livers from a gene-edited pig can treat humans with sudden liver failure was approved by the FDA.
• 🌎 Early Earth (~4.55 billion years ago) had the right conditions to form water without relying on outside asteroids, per a new study; the results challenge existing theories about water’s origin on Earth.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• 🏳️‍🌈 The UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex at birth under a 2010 equalities law; the ruling excludes transgender women from the legal definition of a woman under the 2010 law. | The Trump admin sued Maine for not complying with the federal government’s push to ban trans athletes from women’s sports.
• 🎓 The Trump admin has reportedly asked the IRS to start the process of revoking Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
• 🧑‍⚖️ A federal judge said he found probable cause to hold Trump admin officials in criminal contempt for willfully disregarding an order barring the removal of Venezuelan migrants from the US.

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