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May 19th, 2023

Good morning, and happy Friday! To start your day off with some incredible news: earlier this month, a 13-year-old boy in Michigan used a slingshot to save his 8-year-old sister from an attempted kidnapping, striking the assailant in the head and the chest and allowing his sister to get away. Talk about a real-life David vs. Goliath story!

In Today’s Brief

Assad: Syrian President in Saudi Arabia
McCarthy: Hints at debt ceiling progress
The Diplomat: Tops charts in its debut
OpenAI: Launches ChatGPT app for iOS

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Ukraine advances in Bakhmut

The Ukrainian military reported further advancements on the outskirts of Bakhmut yesterday.

Per Ukrainian military officials, its troops had advanced in certain places by over a kilometer. Meanwhile, the head of the Wagner mercenary group–which is spearheading the Russian assault on Bakhmut–said his forces advanced up to 400 meters. With the war in its 64th week, Ukrainian forces had been on the defensive in Bakhmut for over half a year, weathering winter and spring offensives by Moscow. Kyiv is now in the midst of carrying out its biggest advance in six months before a planned counteroffensive.

The reports came the same day the Pentagon said that an accounting error overvalued weapon shipments that the U.S. has sent to Ukraine since the war started by $3B. Per the DOD, this accounting discrepancy may ultimately provide more of a budget for additional weapons to be sent to Kyiv for its defense against Russian forces.

Disney scraps Florida campus

Amid its continued feud with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Disney is closing a hotel and abandoning plans to build a corporate campus in Florida that would have housed 2K employees.

The planned move was already previously delayed last summer to 2026. In a memo sent to employees, Josh D’Amaro, who runs Disney’s theme parks and consumer products, said: “This was not an easy decision to make, but I believe it is the right one.” D’Amaro also wrote that the company has plans to invest around $17B in Florida and create 13K jobs over the next decade.

The news came on the same day that multiple sources reported that DeSantis will officially enter the 2024 U.S. presidential race next week. According to a recent Reuters poll, former President Trump has 49% of registered Republicans’ picks for the Republican primary, while DeSantis sits at 21%.

G7 summit kicks off

The Group of 7, otherwise known as the “G7,” kicks off its annual summit today in the southern Japanese city of Hiroshima.

This year, the countries are expected to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China, North Korean weapons testing, and more. They also reportedly plan to announce more than 300 new sanctions on Russia intended to further isolate the country’s economy. According to a senior Biden administration official, the targets of these sanctions will include “individuals, entities, vessels, and aircraft” across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

The G7 is an informal grouping of industrialized democracies that meets annually to discuss issues like global economic governance, international security, and energy policy. It consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. Russia belonged to the bloc from 1998 through 2014–when it was known as the G8–but was suspended following its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.

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Around the Globe

At least one person lost their life and two were wounded in Odesa from a new wave of cruise missiles Russia launched at Ukraine; Ukraine claims it shot down 29 of 30 missiles that Russia fired (More)
The death toll from floods in Italy due to recent rainfall rose to 13 people; more than 20 rivers have burst their banks in the country and around 280 landslides have taken place, per Italian officials (More)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Saudi Arabia to attend the Arab League summit today after Syria was reinstated to the regional organization this month, more than 11 years after its suspension (More)

On the Homefront

California Senator Dianne Feinstein reportedly suffered more medical complications while recovering from the shingles during her two-month absence from the Senate than the public was previously made aware of (More)
Former senior Department of Energy official Samuel Brinton was arrested as a "fugitive from justice" by Maryland police in connection to airport luggage theft, the third such criminal case involving Brinton (More)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said a deal on the debt ceiling could be reached in time for a vote on the House floor as soon as next week (More)

Glitz & Games

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Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat’ topped the streaming charts during its opening week, drawing 1.3B minutes of viewing in the U.S. for the week of April 17th-23rd (More)
The Denver Nuggets are now 2-0 in the NBA Conference Finals after beating the Los Angeles Lakers yesterday with a final score of 108-103 (More)
Atlantic Records’ president of promotion Andrea Ganis is leaving the company after 43 years, she announced in a message to staff (More)

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Business & Markets

Major indexes in the stock market closed higher, with the Nasdaq hitting a 9-month high (Dow -0.34%, Nasdaq +1.51%, S&P 500 +0.94%)
Bud Light sales are down for a fifth straight week amid Anheuser-Busch’s partnership with social media personality Dylan Mulvaney (More)
OpenAI launched its official iOS app that allows users to access ChatGPT on their iPhones and iPads (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Meet Kjartan Bergqvist and Loni Philbrick-Linzmeyer, a Dane and an American who both took a break from their lives to hike the 500-mile-long Camino de Santiago, met randomly on the route, and wound up getting married days later; they’ve now been together for 10 years and share three children
Speak Peek: Director Steven Soderbergh returns with the official teaser trailer for Full Circle, a new thriller series on Max starring Clare Danes, Dennis Quaid, and Zazie Beetz
Bump This: Indie electro-pop artist Christine and the Queens evokes David Bowie vibes in the new spacey single “Tears can be so soft” - listen on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube
Game On: A new installment in the legendary fighting game franchise Mortal Kombat is headed for PS5 and Xbox - watch the official cinematic announcement trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 and marvel at the graphics quality (warning: like all Mortal Kombat games, it gets a bit violent)
Nerd Out: Read up on how astronomers recently discovered a planet called LP 791-18d, which is the size of Earth but not like our planet at all - it is apparently covered with active volcanoes that constantly erupt and lies 90 light years away from a small red dwarf star in the southern constellation Crater
Hot Goss: Photo agency Backgrid claimed that–according to the photos taken and accounts from the photographers who were present–Prince Harry and Meghan Markle weren’t in immediate danger at any point and there were no near-collisions during what the couple described as a “near-catastrophic” car chase in New York
Life Hack: Our butts are made for more than just sitting, and they are one of the most neglected parts of our bodies when we go for a workout - check out this 10-minute glute workout that you can do either by itself or with some resistance bands for extra sculpting

Tip-Offs

The cheapest and priciest U.S. cities for raising children.

Ranking the world’s cities with the most skyscrapers.

….speaking of, are skyscrapers making New York sink?

See if you can spot this camouflaged mountain lion.

An ultra slow-mo video of a Kingfisher diving for fish.

Customs inspectors find live larvae inside plastic flowers.

Examining whether it helps the ocean to eat jellyfish.

Stanford scientists claim to have invented electronic skin.

Looking Back…

On May 19th: The Ringling brothers open their first circus in Baraboo, Wisconsin (1884); the French army defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Rocroi during the Thirty Years’ War (1643); Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle (2018); human rights activist Malcolm X is born (1925).

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