• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets fell last week (S&P: -0.5%; Dow: -0.2%; Nasdaq: -0.3%). | US-China trade talks were “productive,” per Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; more deets are expected this morning. | ~30% of renters are choosing to move when their lease is up, per data from some of the largest US landlords; the typical number is ~50%.
• 🩸 Elizabeth Holmes' partner, Billy Evans, has reportedly raised millions for a new AI blood-testing startup.
• ⚖️ Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle two privacy lawsuits brought by the state of Texas. | The remedy phase of Google's search antitrust trial is complete; a decision is expected in August.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🍿Marvel’s Thunderbolts* led the domestic box office in its second weekend with $33 million; Sinners earned $21.1 million in its fourth weekend.
• 🎮 The World Video Game Hall of Fame welcomed its 2025 inductees this weekend, including GoldenEye 007, Quake, and Tamagotchi.
• 🐎 Junior Alvarado, last week’s Kentucky Derby’s winning jockey, was suspended and fined $62,000 for striking his horse Sovereignty too many times during the race.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🏥 The FDA approved the first at-home alternative to the Pap smear, which tests for cervical cancer.
• 📝 A Soviet Union spacecraft crashed into Earth on Saturday, 53 years after its failed launch to Venus. | America’s biggest cities are slowly sinking a few fractions of an inch per year, primarily due to “massive ongoing groundwater extraction,” per new research.
• 🤖 Walgreens is expanding the number of retail stores served by its micro-fulfillment centers, which use robots to fill prescriptions. | Semi-related: Amazon’s new warehouse bot is first to have a sense of touch.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• ✈️ Newark’s airport experienced a ~90-second air traffic control radar and radio outage on Friday; it follows a similar incident in Newark on April 28.
• ✝️ Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday address as pontiff; echoed his predecessor Francis’ call to world leaders for “no more war.”
• 🏛️ A federal judge temporarily blocked the White House from firing hundreds of thousands of government employees from various federal agencies for two weeks. | President Trump is reportedly preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing jumbo jet from Qatar's royal family to use as Air Force One; the jet will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation once he leaves office.

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