• ☝️ Lady Gaga put on a free concert Saturday night at Brazil’s Copacabana Beach; organizers said ~2.1 million fans attended the show, which would make it the 5th most-attended concert on record.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets rose across the board last week (S&P: +2.9%; Dow: +3.0%; Nasdaq: +3.4%). | US crude oil prices fell more than 4% yesterday after OPEC+ agreed to surge production in June.
• ✈️ American Airlines is debuting long-haul first-class suites with sliding “privacy” doors.
• 🪙 French police are investigating a string of crypto millionaire kidnappings.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 📸 The 2025 Met Gala takes place tonight in New York City.
• 🏅 Kentucky Derby: Sovereignty won the the 151st Run for the Roses, turning in a time of 2 minutes, 2.31 seconds on a wet track. | Gregg Popovich, legendary coach of the San Antonio Spurs, is stepping down after 29 years with the team; the winningest coach in NBA history will transition to team president full-time.
• 🎮 The release of GTA VI was delayed (again) from fall of this year until May 2026.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ☄️ The ETA Aquarids, one of the best annual meteor showers for viewing, are projected to peak in the night sky today and tomorrow.
• 🚀 Introducing Starbase, TX: A small South Texas town almost exclusively made up of people connected to SpaceX voted to incorporate into a new city called Starbase.
• 🌌 The science of Star Wars: An assistant chemistry professor shows that some iconic elements of the saga have a scientific basis, including lightsabers and carbonite freezing.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• 🗳️ ~65% of voting-age Americans cast a ballot in last November's elections, down from ~67% in 2020, per new Census Bureau estimates.
• 🏛️ An appeals court blocked a ruling that had ordered the Trump admin to reinstate Voice of America (VOA) employees and contractors.
• 🌏 Australian election: PM Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party defeated an alliance of conservative parties; he’s the first PM to win back-to-back three-year terms since 2004. | Ireland fined TikTok ~$600 million for transferring EU user data to China in violation of GDPR. | Ukraine said it shot down two Russian fighter jets with naval drones, marking the "first time in history" that drones have destroyed a crewed combat aircraft.

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