Business
Disney's Q2 prints revenue +7%, streaming OI +88% to $582M, and an 8.7% rally — while the 8-K still does not say the words ABC license.
Business
Lisa Su's tens-of-billions line, a 57% data-center gain, and Meta's 1 GW MI450 ramp confirmed — AMD becomes the second chip beneficiary of the AI-capex cohort split.
Culture
Two days before his first anniversary as pope, Leo XIV uses the Wednesday Audience to answer Trump in the only register the White House cannot revoke.
Business
Novo Nordisk Q1 — pill sales beat consensus by 95%, 1.3M scripts, 65% of new U.S. obesity starts, stock +6.7% in Copenhagen, full-year guidance raised.
World
Iran's president told colleagues the IRGC's missile strike on the UAE was carried out without his government's knowledge — on the same day the MOU lands in Witkoff's hands.
Politics
Twelve days after Trump fired the entire National Science Board, NSF has no director, no deputy, and no board — and the meeting that should have happened today did not.
Economy
Brent crashed 9.5% to $99.60 on a 14-point memo no one has signed, while ING's Patterson warns inventories are absorbing 13 mb/d of disrupted supply — a loaded spring, not relief.
Business
The headline cut from $40B to $26.6B is the easy story; the part underwriters now have to explain is a single page where OpenAI is customer, lender, and warrant-holding shareholder at once.
Culture
Last May produced a same-day Truth Social broadside; this Pulitzer week produced silence — and the Florida Fourth DCA's discovery production schedule is the most plausible reason.
Life
The Georgia fire has held at 32,575 acres for five days, but the Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab that would have produced the smoke-transport model is closed — and that's not local color.
Technology
Australia stood up an AI Biosecurity Office in four days while the U.S. sits at Day 7 with no agency response and the National Science Board, disbanded twelve days ago, no longer there to ask.
Life
A Cochrane meta-analysis says anti-amyloid drugs do not work, but UKDRI calls it weakened by lumping five failed drugs with two approved ones the same week Health Canada cleared Kisunla.
Economy
The 6E invocation moved water from one Wyoming reservoir to keep an Arizona dam producing electricity past August; Hoover Dam will produce 40 percent less power as a result.
Sports
OKC won Game 1 by eighteen with neither team's number-two on the floor; the bench outscored the Lakers' bench by 19, and that is the Western Conference power balance, not the Doncic injury.
Culture
Five outlets converged Tuesday on the same critical register — that Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos overshadowed the 'Fashion is Art' theme, and the convergence is itself the data point.
