• ☝️ A Texas highway was shut down for 14 hours on Tuesday after millions of dimes (~$800,000 worth) burst free from an overturned semi-truck; the bulk of the cash was ultimately retrieved using heavy machinery.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets, led by Meta and Microsoft, rose across the board (S&P: +0.6%; Dow: +0.2%; Nasdaq: +1.5%). | Weekly jobless claims increased week-over-week, came in above estimates; figure is at its highest level since Feb. 22.
• 📝 McDonald’s reported its largest US same-store sales decline since Q2 2020. | Apple earnings | Amazon earnings.
• 🚫 The de minimis exception, which allowed goods valued under $800 to enter the US duty-free, officially ends today. | Chinese companies Shein and Temu recently raised prices, sometimes as much as 100%+; Bloomberg ($) found Shein jacked up the cost of thick kitchen cleaning towels by 377% .

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🎭 The 2025 Tony Award Nominees were released; Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending received the most nods.
• 🎮 The Nintendo Switch 2 launch has been delayed until 2026 in multiple countries across Central America and the Caribbean.
• 🐎 Time to don a fancy hat and start horsing around: The 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, the longest continuously held sporting event in the US, takes place tomorrow.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 📉 Diabetes deaths fell to their lowest levels in years in late 2024, per new preliminary CDC data; in 2021, the condition was the eighth leading cause of death in the US.
• 🤖 Visa is partnering with AI chatbot-makers to make your credit card work with AI agents. | BBC Studios worked with Agatha Christie Limited to create a writing course led by an AI version of the famed detective story author.
• 💃 Dance battle needed: Ronan, a trained sea lion, can keep a beat better than humans, a new study suggests.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• 🏛️ President Trump removed Mike Waltz as national security adviser and instead nominated him as US ambassador to the UN; it comes a month after Waltz accidentally included a journalist in a Signal group chat discussing a sensitive military operation.
• 🧑‍⚖️ A federal judge ruled the Trump admin’s use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport alleged members of a foreign gang is unlawful.
• 🙏 Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person, died this week at the age of 116 years, 326 days.

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CLICKBAIT

• 🏢 Professors staffed a fake company entirely with AI agents—and you'll never guess what happened