MARKETS

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🏦 ECONOMY

  • Editor’s Pick: Trump Is Days Away From Decisive Victory in Iran (WAPO)

  • Iran's president and parliament speaker are seeking Foreign Minister Araghchi’s removal over “subservience” conduct during U.S. negotiations (IRN)

  • U.S. weekly jobless claims plunged to 189,000, the lowest level since 1969. (BN)

  • The weirdest aspect of the Iran war that has befuddled oil experts. (CNN)

  • “I just pray to God”: California gas prices are pushing "miserable" drivers to use buses. (FBN)

  • The funny and ingenious trick to convince Jerome Powell to leave the Fed. (NYP)

  • Seattle's Socialist mayor mocks millionaires fleeing Washington state over new taxes by waving "bye" to them. (NYP)

  • The real reason why April was the best month for stocks in five years. (BN)

🏢 INDUSTRY

  • Editor’s Pick: Glam JPMorgan Exec Cleared as Bombshell Sex Slave Lawsuit Exposed as Fabrication, John Doe Unmasked (NYP)

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s possible suicide note hidden from public view. (NYT)

  • Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation last year reached an eye-watering sum. (WSJ)

  • Political heir, 25, who was left $5 million in Jeffrey Epstein's will kills himself just days after investigation into parents was launched. (DM)

  • Looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular was sued for allegedly injecting underage female influencer with an "unapproved drug." (RS)

  • How the Lively-Baldoni feud exposed a secret Hollywood smear machine. (THR)

  • Tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are among rumored bidders for an NFL team. (FOS)

  • Investors are suddenly piling into this dilapidated Midwest housing market. (WSJ)

  • Is Floyd 'Money' Mayweather broke? (DM)

  • More major companies bankrolling the SPLC will cut off grants following the Justice Department's bombshell indictment. (DS)

  • Inside the elite Manhattan club where Hollywood actress ordered members to have sex and sick humiliation rituals are common. (DM)

  • Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s secretive life with MAGA influencer after ditching California. (NYP)

  • “World’s busiest” Trader Joe’s will close its doors indefinitely—and fans are devastated. (NYP)

  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp is assembling a massive waterfront compound in Miami, photos show. (NYP)

  • The secretive world of “pawn shops” for the ultra-rich, offering rare Rolexes, Birkin bags and multimillion-dollar art collections. (FOR)

  • Exploding popular kitchen item was recalled after reports of sudden, dangerous failures. (MAS)

  • Wendy’s brings back discontinued menu favorite after customer uproar. (NYP)

  • Pizza Hut launched a generous new effort to win back customers. (TS)

💰 PERSONAL FINANCE & DEALS

  • Editor’s Pick: Trump Makes Major Change to Retirement Plans That Could Impact You In a Huge Way (NYP)

  • A shopper compared 32 grocery items at Walmart and Costco—and one store was nearly 26% cheaper overall. (MW)

  • 11 secret ways Americans build wealth. (MTN)

  • 3 credit card and travel deals that are too good to last. (CNBC)

  • 60+ TikTok-viral deals to score at Amazon, curated by chronically online editors. (COS)

📈 HOT STOCKS

  • Editor’s Pick: SpaceX IPO Aims to Raise $75 Billion—This AI Stock Should Be a Big Winner From It (MF)

  • Here’s how billionaire Philippe Laffont’s top 10 stock picks crushed the market. (IM)

  • Top 25 high-yield dividend stocks for May 2026, according to Seeking Alpha. (SA)

  • The 10 best companies to invest in now, according to Morningstar. (MS)

TECH

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🧠 AI

  • Editor’s Pick: Inside the Well-Funded AI Doom Machine—And Who is Benefiting From It (NYP)

  • Elon Musk seemingly admitted that xAI has used OpenAI’s models to train its own. (WIR)

  • The AI revolution that Hollywood feared is already happening. (THR)

  • Paging Dr. AI to the ER? Artificial intelligence shows promise in emergency room diagnosis. (CBC)

  • Why is ChatGPT weirdly obsessed with goblins? (CNET)

🤖 ROBOTS & DRONES

  • Editor’s Pick: A Flying Taxi Just Took Its First Trip Through the Skies of New York (X)

  • Humanoid robot maker 1X opened a new U.S. factory and plans to produce 10,000 home robots in its first year. (BBG)

  • Inside the cheap foreign labor regime blocking America’s robot agriculture revolution. (AMIN)

  • How CVS uses robots to keep your deodorant in stock. (WSJ)

  • The Unitree G1 humanoid robot glides on wheels, rollerblades and ice skates in a video that shows how far this tech has come. (FOX)

🚀 SPACE & DEFENSE

  • Editor’s Pick: Hegseth Rips Woke AI CEO: "Ideological Lunatic" (X)

  • Top AI companies including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and xAI have reached deals with the Pentagon to provide their models for classified work. (WSJ)

  • Trump said his administration plans to release government UFO files, citing pilot accounts of phenomena “you wouldn’t believe.” (NW)

  • The U.S. Air Force has for the first time publicly shown a B-1B bomber carrying the AGM-183 ARRW hypersonic missile. (TWZ)

  • IDF troops improvise solutions as Hezbollah’s new drone threat grows: "The writing was on the wall. We should have prepared long ago." (JNS)

FREEDOM

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Freedom Roundup

🏛️ POLICY & CULTURE

  • Editor’s Pick: “We Know You Live Right Here”: No Secrets in America’s New Surveillance Dragnet (WSJ)

  • The Justice Department is pursuing a separate investigation into former FBI Director James Comey over alleged classified leaks. (BBG)

  • Alex Jones made a defiant vow in his final InfoWars broadcast. (MED)

  • Candace Owens was sued for defamation over claims of conspiracy to assassinate Charlie Kirk. (NW)

  • A saxophonist dozed off onstage during Kamala Harris’s anti-Trump remarks at a Beverly Hills awards dinner. (TMZ)

  • The internal “joke” that kicked off the Biden-era FBI targeting of Catholics. (DW)

  • A Canadian Education Minister brazenly suggested that parents have no rights over their children. (ZH)

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