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  • ☝️ Law enforcement agencies are searching for inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday; 10 men fled through a hole in the wall behind a toilet, while seven inmates are still at large.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

  • 💉 Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen is stepping down; it comes as the drugmaker’s market cap has been taking some of its own medicine (Ozempic) and declined ~50% over the past year.
  • 📺 Charter agreed to buy Cox for ~$34 billion; the combined company would leapfrog Comcast to become America's largest cable TV and broadband provider.
  • 🛢️ US oil production is expected to decline in 2026, according to S&P Global; it would mark the first YoY decrease in roughly a decade outside of the pandemic.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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  • 🇦🇹 Austria won Eurovision 2025, narrowly beating out runner-up Israel.
  • 🍿 Final Destination Bloodlines exceeded expectations with $102 million at the global box office this weekend. Marvel/Disney’s Thunderbolts* exceeded $300 million. worldwide. | 🎥 The Cannes film festival officially wrapped up its first week.
  • 🏌️ Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Championship by five strokes yesterday, earning his third career major win. | 🏇 Journalism staged a last-minute comeback to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

  • 🦠 Chinese scientists discovered a new bacterial strain aboard the Tiangong space station; it’s a new variant of a known Earth bacteria.
  • 🌋 An undersea volcano near Oregon is expected to erupt sometime this year.
  • 🚽 Using a phone on the toilet increases people’s risk of developing hemorrhoids by ~46%, according to a new study (in other words: stop scrolling and just wipe already).

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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  • 🏛️ Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
  • 🙏 A Mexican navy sailing ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC on Saturday, snapping its three masts, killing two crew members, and injuring 20 others onboard. | Major storms across the US Midwest and South killed at least 27 people, including 18 in Kentucky.
  • 🌏 Russia yesterday launched its largest drone attack against Ukraine since the war started in early 2022; it came ahead of a phone call today between President Trump and Russian President Putin. | Israeli officials said Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar is likely dead following a targeted strike last week; Israel’s military also began activating troops in Gaza on Sunday as part of a larger ground operation in the region.

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