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BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -0.8%; Dow: -0.9%; Nasdaq: -0.9%).
• 📺 Comcast’s cable spinoff will be named Versant; it’ll include most of its NBCUniversal cable network portfolio, including USA, MSNBC, and CNBC.
• 🇨🇳 China's central bank is cutting key interest rates by 10 points and lowering its bank reserve requirement by 50 points in a bid to boost the economy.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🥇 The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced; winners include Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and ProPublica.
• 🏇 Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will miss the Preakness Stakes, forgoing the chance at a Triple Crown.
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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ⚛️ MIT physicists observed solo atoms floating freely and interacting in space for the first time, helping confirm some basic principles of quantum mechanics.
• 🐙 Cuttlefish appear to communicate with each other by waving their tentacles, according to new research—though what they’re saying remains a mystery.
• 🚀 A failed Soviet spacecraft that was inadvertently trapped in Earth’s orbit 50+ years ago is expected to finally crash back to our planet’s surface sometime this week.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• 🏛️ Canadian PM Mark Carney met with Trump at the White House yesterday; the two leaders clashed over Trump’s call for Canada to become the 51st state in an otherwise cordial meeting.
• ⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled the Trump admin’s ban on transgender people serving in the military can take effect while lawsuits against it play out in court.
• 🌍 India conducted military strikes against Pakistan yesterday in retaliation for a deadly April 22 attack on tourists in the Indian region of Kashmir; Pakistan said it responded by shooting down two Indian fighter jets. | Germany elections: Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament in a second round of voting after failing to win the first secret ballot. | President Trump said the US will suspend airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen after reaching a truce under which the Houthis will stop attacking non-Israeli ships in Middle Eastern waters.

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