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August 16th, 2023

Good morning, and happy Wednesday! Harrison Ford's legendary Indiana Jones character may fear snakes, but a newfound species of snake in Peru has been named Tachymenoides Harrisonfordi to honor the actor's environmental advocacy. This is the third species to be named after Ford, whose name has also been given to a species of ant and spider. That’s quite the legacy, but we’re all wondering…snakes? Why’d it have to be snakes?

In Today’s Brief

Russia: Explosion kills 35 people
FBI: Former official pleads guilty
Disney: Facing lawsuits from TSG
X: Sunsetting promoted accounts

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Trump’s fourth indictment

Former President Donald Trump was indicted in Georgia yesterday over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

Trump was charged in the 41-count Fulton County indictment alongside 18 others, including his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. He was charged with 13 counts, including violation of Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, ACT (RICO). The indictment comes after an investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis into alleged efforts of the former president and his allies to pressure Georgia officials to change the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. Trump denies all charges against him.

This is the fourth indictment against Donald Trump since April. It comes just two weeks after the Justice Department special counsel charged him with conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Former president Trump is currently campaigning for the GOP 2024 nomination.

Dominican republic blast

The death toll from an explosion near the Dominican Republic’s capital rose to 11 yesterday, with more than 50 people injured and 11 still missing.

The explosion occurred in a commercial center in San Cristobal called the “Old Marketplace,” where people buy goods ranging from vegetables to clothes. According to Health Minister Daniel Rivera, authorities have still not been able to access “ground zero” where the explosion occurred because of fires that remained burning. The cause of the explosion has not been established. More than 24 rescue units responded to the blast, and the injured were taken to various hospitals. At least 36 of the injured remained hospitalized as of yesterday.

San Cristobal, the birthplace of dictator Rafael Trujillo, was the site of another explosion nearly 23 years ago. An arms depot exploded in October 2000, killing at least two people and injuring more than two dozen others, forcing authorities to evacuate thousands.

Sage Steele leaves ESPN

ESPN and host Sage Steele settled a lawsuit she filed after being disciplined for comments she made about the company’s Covid-19 policy.

In an announcement made yesterday, Steele shared that following the settlement, she is leaving the company. Steele was taken off the air for 10 days in October 2021 after she made comments criticizing ESPN and The Walt Disney Co.’s requirement that employees be vaccinated against Covid-19, per her lawsuit. ESPN, however, denied suspending her. In June, the company offered to settle the lawsuit for just over $500M plus attorneys fees and costs.

Steele joined ESPN in 2007 after starting out on Comcast SportsNet. She became one of the mainstays on SportsCenter and made appearances on NBA Countdown. ESPN has been working to cut costs as its parent company has seen declining viewership and advertising for its linear operations. The company has cut ties with a number of announcers and analysts, including Keyshawn Johnson, Jeff Van Gundy, and Jalen Rose.

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Around the Globe

An explosion at a petrol station in southern Russia has killed 35 people and injured 105 others; 260 emergency workers were deployed and the most seriously injured were evacuated to Moscow by air, according to the emergencies ministry (More)
The United Nations chief urged the international community to deploy a multinational force comprising “police special forces and military support units” to Haiti to combat gangs and restore security to the Caribbean nation (More)
A local party leader, Pedro Briones, has been killed in Ecuador, the second politician to be assassinated in the span of a week in the country; his death comes five days after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down in the capital, Quito (More)

On the Homefront

North Korea has confirmed for the first time that US Army Private Travis King crossed into its territory; a statement from the country’s government-controlled Korean Central News Agency claimed King had expressed “his willingness to seek refugee” in the country (More)
A former FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to violate sanctions on Russia by going to work, after he retired, for oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who he had once investigated (More)
Hunter Biden’s attorney has asked a federal judge to allow him to withdraw as Biden’s counsel, stating that he could become a witness to the case following the collapse of a plea agreement he had negotiated with prosecutors (More)

Glitz & Games

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Former NFL running back Alex Collins died at the age of 28 as the result of a motorcycle crash in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida; Collins played for the Seattle Seahawks and Baltimore Ravens during his NFL career, running for 1,997 yards and scoring 19 touchdowns in the league (More)
Hollywood financer TSG Entertainment is suing Disney, alleging that the company and its studio 20th Century Fox committed a number of transgressions, such as withholding profits and cutting deals to boost its streaming platforms and stock price (More)
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco is under investigation by authorities in the Dominican Republic for an alleged relationship with a minor, according to the office of the attorney general in his native country (More)

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Business & Markets

Major indexes in the stock market ended lower, with the S&P 500 leading losses (Dow -1.02%, Nasdaq -1.14%, S&P 500 -1.16%)
Bazooka Candy Brands is being sold for around $700M to private equity firm Apax Partners; the company is currently owned by Madison Dearborn Partners and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who announced the brand was up for sale in June (More)
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is ending promoted accounts on the platform, no longer allowing advertisers to promote their accounts to attract new followers; these accounts generate more than $100M annually in global revenue for X (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Meet Pepper, a seven-year-old baseball-playing Australian Cattle Dog who can make perfect contact with a wiffle ball bat and look adorable while doing it (sign her up to play in the MLB!)
Sneak Peek: See Bradley Cooper transformed into Leonard Bernstein in the first trailer for Maestro, an upcoming biopic he wrote and directed about the famed late composer hitting Netflix in December
Bump This: Newcomer pop singer-songwriter Haley Blais switches from chill to chaotic in her dreamy new single “The Cabin” - listen on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube
Chow Down: If you’re looking for an easy and delicious way to increase your vegetable intake, try out this recipe for cauliflower steaks with red pepper tahini that are savory and have just the right amount of kick
Go Deep: 25 years ago, Apple released the iMac, and it changed the landscape of personal computers forever - dive into one reporter’s take on how the iMac saved Apple and paved the way for it to become one of the most important tech companies in the world
Hot Goss: Sean Tuohy spoke out about former NFL player Michael Oher’s lawsuit against him and his wife, saying that the “allegations are insulting” - Oher’s suit alleges that the Tuohys did not lawfully adopt him but tricked him into making them his conservators before earning royalties from his falsified life story, which was depicted in the movie The Blind Side
Life Hack: If your iPhone battery life seems like it’s getting worse, that’s because it probably is - check out this easy way to check how much capacity your battery has lost, and see whether you may be eligible for a replacement battery without springing for a new phone

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Looking Back…

On August 16th: The first issue of Sports Illustrated is released (1954); Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack (1977); the soul singer Aretha Franklin dies at age 76 (2018); writer Charles Bukowski is born (1920).

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