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April 15th, 2023

Good morning, and happy Saturday! Somewhere out there, thieves are on the run after stealing roughly 2M dimes from a trailer in a Walmart parking lot this week (approximately $200K worth). Reportedly, the coins were en route to Florida after being picked up at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia before they were taken. Talk about a dime-and-dash!

In Today’s Brief

Bakhmut: Russia gaining ground
Texas: 18K cows perish in explosion
Super Mario Bros: New box office milestone
Spotify: Shuts down music guessing game

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Intel leak suspect charged

Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old suspect who was arrested for allegedly leaking classified files on a gaming chat server, was charged in federal court yesterday.

Teixeira’s court appearance came less than 24 hours after he was taken into custody by the FBI in Massachusetts. Per a court filing, he was charged with unlawfully copying and possessing classified defense records, along with another offense that makes it a crime for a U.S. employee to knowingly remove classified records to an unauthorized location. The charges against Teixeira fall under the 1917 Espionage Act, and each offense can carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

Due to his position as a Cyber Transport Systems journeyman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, defense officials claimed Teixeria would have been working on a network that carried highly classified information, and thus required him to have security clearance. His detention hearing is set for April 19th.

French pension reform

France’s highest constitutional court yesterday approved President Emmanuel Macron’s proposals to raise the minimum pension age in the country from 62 to 64.

The plans sparked widespread protests after Macron’s government invoked Article 49.3 of the country’s constitution last month, which pushed the changes through without a vote by members of parliament in France’s national assembly. In its ruling yesterday, the court said the actions by Macron’s government were in line with the constitution. Speaking to reporters, Macron said he would sign the bill into law within 48 hours of the court’s approval.

French citizens have engaged in widespread protests for the past three months over the reform. Even with the change, France will have one of the lowest minimum pension age thresholds in Europe. Spain’s retirement age to receive pension benefits is 65; in the U.K. it’s 66; in Germany and Italy, it’s 67.

Cave experiment concludes

A 50-year-old Spanish athlete emerged yesterday from spending 500 days living in a cave with no contact with the outside world.

Beatriz Flamini opted to live 70 meters below ground in the Los Gauchos cave near the Spanish town of Motril as part of an experiment on the effects of isolation on the human mind and body. Scientists monitored Flamini to study the impact of social isolation and extreme temporary disorientation on people’s perception of time, the possible neuropsychological and cognitive changes humans undergo underground, and the impact on circadian rhythms and sleep. After emerging yesterday, Flamini called her experience “excellent, unbeatable.”

While Flamini’s team said her time in isolation underground is a new world record, the Guinness Book of World Records hasn’t confirmed the claim. The “longest time survived trapped underground” record currently belongs to 33 miners who spent 69 days underground after the 2010 collapse of a copper-gold mine in Chile.

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Around the Globe

Ukrainian troops were forced to withdraw from some territory in Bakhmut amid a renewed Russian assault over the past two days, according to an update from British intelligence agencies (More)
Four people in Kenya are suspected to have starved to death on the orders of a cult leader in the town of Kilifi, according to Kenyan police; 11 others found at the scene are hospitalized, with three in critical condition (More)
Brazil and China pledged to boost cooperation between the two countries when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing yesterday (More)

On the Homefront

At least 18K cows perished in an explosion at a Texas dairy farm this week; it was the biggest single-incident death of cattle in the U.S. since the Animal Welfare Institute began tracking barn and farm fires in 2013 (More)
DOJ charges three sons of the drug kingpin “El Chapo” among other members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel with running an operation that trafficks fentanyl to the U.S. (More)
A lower court’s ruling to place restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone was blocked by the Supreme Court, with Justice Samuel Alito ordering to keep the status quo in place until at least midnight Wednesday (More)

Glitz & Games

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‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ crosses $500M at the global box office, becoming the highest-grossing video game adaptation ever (More)
The NBA fined the Dallas Mavericks for “conduct detrimental to the league” after investigating the franchise’s decision to sit several starting players during the team’s April 7th loss that eliminated them from play-in contention (More)
Guitarist Mark Sheehan for the pop band The Script passed away at age 46 following a “brief illness,” according to a statement from the band (More)

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Business & Markets

Stocks closed lower yesterday, paring some gains made the day before in the major indexes (Dow -0.42%, Nasdaq -0.35%, S&P 500 -0.31%)
Spotify is shutting down Heardle on May 5th: the feature is the Wordle-inspired music guessing game the company acquired last July for an undisclosed sum (More)
Walmart’s Chief Merchandising Officer Charles Redfield is stepping down on May 1st but will remain an advisor to the company, per a memo CEO John Furner sent to employees (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Learn about CLEO–short for Computer Literacy Education Outreach–a program from Canterbury School in Fort Myers, Florida, in which teens travel to assisted living facilities to help seniors learn how to use technology
Sneak Peek: Check out the first teaser trailer that Peacock just released for The Continental: From the World of John Wick, a prequel series that explores the history of the titular hotel and takes place in the 1970s
Bump This: Dominic Fike proves why he’s one of the most-talked-about singers and lyricists of Gen Z in his new single “Dancing in the Courthouse” - listen on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube
Chow Down: Our world is officially in bloom and beginning to get much greener–here in the Northern Hemisphere, at least–which makes this weekend the perfect opportunity to try any one of these 21 springtime asparagus recipes
Nerd Out: Read up on how nanomedicine researchers in Houston created a device smaller than a grain of rice that has been shown to successfully shrink pancreatic cancer tumors by delivering drugs directly to them…and therefore using a much lower dosage compared to traditional systemic immunotherapy treatment
Hot Goss: Ex-Department of Energy official Samuel Brinton was given a 180-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay victim restitution over stealing someone else’s luggage from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas
Life Hack: A new study has shown that increased hypertension (or high blood pressure) in early adulthood may be correlated to developing dementia later on - here are five tips to keep your blood pressure low and promote better brain health as you age

Tip-Offs

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…and an 18th-century sculpture vandalized with blue crayon.

10 sunscreen myths that may be hurting your skin.

Remembering convicted murderer-turned-writer Anne Perry.

A shot from the Hubble Telescope of a galaxy with tendrils.

…and a video from yesterday’s JUICE launch to Jupiter.

Some techniques to try inducing lucid dreaming.

Looking Back…

On April 15th: Jackie Robinson plays in his first major league game for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field (1947); Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois (1955); the Notre-Dame de Paris catches fire during a restoration campaign (2019); artist, engineer, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci is born (1452).

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