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January 26th, 2023

Good morning, and happy Thursday! When you think of pancakes, you probably think of breakfast…but have you ever heard of a spinning ice pancake? That’s exactly what a hiker in Scotland spotted this week, and he captured it on camera. Apparently, as the ice melts, the colder water sinks and creates a vortex that causes the disk to spin. Less tasty than an actual pancake, but interesting nonetheless!

In Today’s Brief

Spain: Letter bomb suspect arrested
Australian Open: Paul vs Djokovic
Tesla: Record quarterly profit
Paris Hilton: Welcomes first child

...and more

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Abrams tanks for Ukraine

President Joe Biden announced that the United States will send Ukraine 31 M1 Abrams tanks to aid in the country’s ongoing conflict with Russia.

Yesterday’s decision was announced after Germany said it would send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and marks a reversal of the Biden administration’s prior stance that the tanks would be difficult to deliver and challenging for Ukrainian troops to operate. While the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, said that the tanks would help determine the outcome of the war, President Biden said the Abrams tanks pose “no offensive threat to Russia.”

Ukraine has lobbied for months for western countries to send tanks, and experts say it may take months for the Abrams tanks to reach the front lines. The tanks will reportedly be procured through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the U.S. government to buy weapons from industry rather than taking them from existing stockpiles.

Meta lifts Trump ban

Meta yesterday announced that it would reinstate former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts after a suspension that lasted more than two years.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, detailed the ban of Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in a statement announcing the decision. Clegg said Meta “took action in what were extreme and highly unusual circumstances” after the former president violated the company’s content rules in his posts around events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Clegg added that if Trump posts further violating content, “the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years.”

Trump announced last November that he will run for president in 2024. Before his suspension, Meta had never blocked the account of a sitting head of state for violating its content policies. The former president has 34M followers on Facebook and 23M on Instagram.

Russian & Belarusian Olympians

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday said that it will explore options for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

In a statement, the IOC said that “no athlete should be prevented from competing just because of their passport,” though reaffirmed that sanctions placed on Russia and Belarus following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine will remain in place. Such sanctions include bans on IOC-recognized events from being organized or supported in Russia or Belarus; prohibiting the countries’ flags, anthems, or identifications from being displayed at any event, meeting, or venue; and banning government or state officials from Russia or Belarus from attending IOC-recognized events.

Regarding athletes, the IOC didn’t name Russia or Belarus explicitly. Instead, it said that all athletes could participate as “neutral athletes” and “in no way represent their state or any other organization in their country” during qualification events and the 2024 Paris games.

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Around the Globe

A man suspected of sending six letter bombs to Spain’s prime minister and the U.S. and Ukrainian embassies in the country was arrested by Spanish police, according to Spain’s interior ministry (More)
Ukraine seeks Western fourth-gen fighter jets such as the American F-16 after receiving commitments for battle tanks from the U.S. and Germany yesterday, per an adviser to the country’s defense secretary (More)
At least a half dozen Indian students were detained at New Delhi’s Jamia Millia University, where a group said it planned to screen a banned documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his role in riots in 2002 (More)

On the Homefront

A maker of abortion pills and a doctor filed lawsuits in West Virginia and North Carolina, respectively, challenging state-imposed restrictions on the medication (More)
Baton Rouge police arrested four men in connection with the alleged sexual assault of 19-year-old Louisiana State University student Madison Brooks, who lost her life when a car struck her in a roadway earlier this month (More)
An attorney for Abigail Zwerner–the teacher allegedly shot by a six-year-old student in Newport News, Virginia–said that school administrators failed to act after being warned three times that the child had a gun (More)

Glitz & Games

Tommy Paul of the U.S. will face Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semifinals after defeating Ben Shelton during the tournament’s quarterfinals; the appearance marks Paul’s first grand slam semifinal of his career (More)
Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter announces first solo album since the group’s 2021 breakup, an orchestral project titled Mythologies due out in April (More)
‘Rick & Morty’ co-creator Justin Roiland will not be working with Adult Swim, Squanch Games, and Hulu going forward following recent charges of domestic battery and false imprisonment (More)

Business & Markets

Major indexes in the stock market ended mixed, with the Dow gaining for the fourth consecutive day (Dow +0.03%, Nasdaq -0.18%, S&P 500 -0.02%)
Electric vehicle maker Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported record profit and revenue for Q4 2022, with a net income of $3.69B and revenue of $24.3B (More)
Juul is reportedly in early-stage talks with Philip Morris International Inc., Japan Tobacco Group, and Altria Group Inc, to explore a potential sale, strategic investment, licensing, or distribution deal with one of the companies, according to familiar sources (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Read about the Loose Ends project, an organization that bands knitters around the world together to finish projects left behind by people who passed away
Sneak Peek: Prime Video just dropped the official trailer for the upcoming series Daisy Jones & the Six and we’re so ready to be taken back to Laurel Canyon in the ‘70s
Bump This: Remember Macklemore? The Seattle-based rapper is back with the new horn-laden single “HEROES” off his upcoming album BEN - listen on Apple Music and Spotify
Chow Down: Learn how to recreate each element of the simple-yet-scrumptious classic double cheeseburger featured in HBO’s The Menu from scratch (heads up: don’t watch this video while hungry…because it’s just mouth-watering torture)
Go Green: Meet the startup whose tech aims to achieve net-zero emission aviation through engines that use hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity for airplanes
Hot Goss: Hotel heiress and television personality Paris Hilton, 41, has welcomed her first child with her husband Carter Reum
Life Hack: When we look at highly successful people, we often find them to be ever-curious with an always-learning mindset - here are some tips to get into the growth mindset, aka the belief that abilities can be developed over time

Tip-Offs

Ticketmaster’s business from a musician’s perspective.

An architect breaks down New York City subway stations.

Drinking too much milk and more of baseball’s strangest rules.

2022’s most listened-to songs mapped out by country.

Morning light streaming through trees in New Brunswick.

…and Joshua trees in Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon.

How the modern workplace leads to lower engagement.

A grueling journey to the world’s most remote flower.

Looking Back…

On January 26th: India becomes a sovereign state when the Constitution of India comes into effect (1950); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera opens in New York City (1988); American basketball player Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter crash at age 41 (2020); Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky is born (1961).

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