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๐Ÿˆ The US sports-betting boom has given rise to a robust startup community that's innovating on everything from the bets gamblers can place in a game to the way they cash out their winnings.

๐Ÿˆ Companies like the fantasy-sports platform Underdog Fantasy, microbetting startup Simplebet, and gaming platform Players' Lounge have scored splashy investments from the likes of entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, influencer and boxer Jake Paul, and rapper Drake, respectively.

๐Ÿˆ Other prominent VCs have backed "picks-and-shovel companies" that supply the technology and infrastructure underpinning the betting experience.

๐Ÿˆ Insider built a database of startups innovating in the space that have raised at least $1 million. It includes online gambling, fantasy sports, data, media, tech, and more types of companies.

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โšช๏ธ The earthquake was recorded 28.6 miles southwest of the city of Khลst, in southeastern Afghanistan, the US Geological Survey said. One official said the affected villages are in the mountains, so it will take time to "collect details."

โšช๏ธ Robb Elementary School will be demolished, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin announced yesterday. โ€œYou can never ask a child to go back or teacher to go back in that school ever," he said.

โšช๏ธ US health officials are set to ban Juul e-cigarettes, according to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal. The FDA could announce the order for Juul Labs to take its e-cigarettes off the market as soon as today.

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๐Ÿ’ต Big banks and Big Tech want to eliminate cash, but that would be terrible for our economy, our small businesses, and our privacy. Brett Scott, monetary anthropologist, explains why the campaign to protect cash is in everybodyโ€™s interest.

๐ŸŒ‡ The upheaval of the Great Resignation and work-from-home shift will allow real estate developers to lure adventurous Americans into totally new cities with cheaper housing, more responsive services, and better schools, writes Matthew Kahn. He explains what these "remotevilles" could look like.

๐Ÿ’Š About 100 clinical trials are underway worldwide, examining the potential of psychedelics as treatments for health conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression, and anorexia. Insider identified 18 key trials that could make or break the psychedelics industry's future.

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๐Ÿšฌ The FDA announced today that Juul Labs will no longer be able to sell its e-cigarettes and must remove all of its products from the US market. The brand gained popularity in 2017 following a large social-media campaign. It became known for its fruity flavors and faced FDA scrutiny over concerns its marketing campaign was targeting minors.

โš–๏ธ Lawyers for Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are meeting in court one more time tomorrow, giving them one last chance to settle their case before the verdict is final.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ The European Union accepted Ukraine as a candidate to join the 27-nation bloc today, in a historic move prompted by Russia's invasion.

๐Ÿ“œ Today, the Supreme Court struck down a century-old New York law and declared that the US Constitution protected a person's right to carry a gun outside the home for self-defense purposes. It was a 6-3 decision that dramatically expanded Second Amendment rights.

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๐Ÿšจ Breaking: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

โš–๏ธ The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a decision that guts the nearly 50-year-old landmark ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

โŒ The court eliminated the standard set in Roe, which allowed abortion until about 24 weeks of pregnancy.

โž—The ruling was split along ideological lines, with the decision split 6-3.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ At least 23 states are expected to move to enact restrictions on abortion, and 13 states with so-called trigger laws will ban all or nearly all abortions.

๐Ÿ“‰ The decision throws the Supreme Court's public standing into jeopardy amid an era of record-low approval ratings and intense political polarization, according to court watchers.

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๐ŸŸข Hundreds of people are gathering outside the Supreme Court to protest โ€” for and against โ€” its ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that had stood for nearly 50 years that legalized abortion across the US. Watch protestors' emotions run high outside the Supreme Court on Friday.

๐ŸŸข The House has passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, sending it to President Joe Biden's desk. The bill โ€” which would enact the toughest new gun restrictions since the 1990s โ€” passed by a 234-193 margin, with 14 House Republicans voting in favor. It comes after 15 Senate Republicans broke ranks and voted for the bill late last night.

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๐Ÿ—ฃHuge protests have erupted across the US in defense of abortion rights, following the Supreme Courtโ€™s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

๐Ÿ†˜Staff at an abortion clinic in Texas said they had to turn away people away just minutes after the decision was made, describing people screaming and crying after being denied abortions.

The Tulsa Women's Clinic has mostly sat empty since abortion was outlawed here in May 2022. Now, the clinic is packing up for good. ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ Take a look inside.

๐ŸŽคCelebrities have been reacting to the Supreme Court's decision. Rapper Kendrick Lamar and pop singer Olivia Rodrigo made statements during their performances at UKโ€™s Glastonbury Festival. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said he plans to renounce his US citizenship following the Roe V. Wade reversal.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆMeanwhile, while Western leaders met at a G7 summit in Germany, Russia launched missile strikes on Kyiv in the first such attack on the city in weeks.

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๐Ÿ”ด An abruptly scheduled hearing of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol delivered bombshell after bombshell yesterday as Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to the White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, provided some of the most damning testimony to date. Many Trump insiders had previously brushed off the hearings, but former Trump aides said they were stunned by Hutchinson's testimony.

๐Ÿ”ด Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced Ghislaine Maxwell to 20 years in prison for trafficking girls to have sex with Jeffrey Epstein and sexually abusing them herself. Maxwell was also fined $750,000, the judge announced, and would be on probation for five years following her time in prison.

๐Ÿ”ด NATO has formally invited Sweden and Finland to join the military bloc, in a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, there are more steps that need to happen before they can be members.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ President Joe Biden said for the first time that he's in favor of removing the Senate filibuster to enshrine abortion rights into federal law. An immediate challenge to Biden's proposal comes not from Republicans, but from moderate Democrats. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, for example, has said she does not support lowering the filibuster threshold for voting rights legislation.

๐Ÿ’จ Meanwhile, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the federal government's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants โ€” a major environmental ruling that hinders the Biden administration's climate change goals.

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ But the Supreme Court also ruled in favor of the Biden administration's bid to end a controversial Trump-era immigration policy, commonly known as "Remain in Mexico."

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Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s happening.๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ด A former GOP House aide says Trump is likely to announce his 2024 presidential run soon because he "has the impulse control of a freaking toddler."

๐Ÿ‘จโ€โš–๏ธHowever, Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks said charging Trump with rebellion or insurrection would prevent him from holding political office again.

โœ Amber Heard's lawyers want her defamation trial verdict dropped. They claim a juror hadn't been vetted properly and that the sum awarded to Johnny Depp was 'excessive.'

๐ŸšDrones were hailed as Ukraine's wonder weapon in the early stages of Russia's invasion. But Ukraine's drones are becoming increasingly ineffective as Russia has improved its defense systems. Here's why.

โ—After a police pursuit over a traffic violation, Jayland Walker was shot 60 times by police in Ohio, bodycam footage shows. It was also revealed that the police handcuffed him before attempting to provide him with first aid, a lawyer said.

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๐Ÿ”ด The death toll from the mass shooting in Highland Park has risen to seven. The shooting suspect was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, and the Lake County state attorney added that they would pursue โ€œdozens moreโ€ charges.

๐Ÿ’Š Insider talked to three men who joined clinical trials to try male birth control pills. Read their experiences of the trial and its side effects, from weight gain to โ€œmild euphoria.โ€

๐Ÿฉบ A 31-year-old mom says doctors dismissed her severe pain as a gallbladder issue. Later, tests showed she had stage 4 cancer.

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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Boris Johnson agreed to stand down as UK Prime Minister today after the mass resignation of his ministers in the wake of a string of scandals. In a televised speech on the steps of 10 Downing Street, Johnson said he will stay in post until a successor is identified.

๐Ÿ€ WNBA star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges during a Russian court appearance today, according to Reuters. But, in a bit of a twist, that move may just help her come home sooner, experts say.

๐Ÿผ Court documents obtained by Insider show that Elon Musk quietly had twins last November with one of his top executives, Shivon Zilis. Today, Musk tweeted that he's doing his โ€œbestโ€ to help the โ€œunderpopulation crisis.โ€

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๐ŸšจFormer Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being fatally shot on Friday while giving a campaign speech outside a train station in Nara.

๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ตAbe, 67, was Japan's longest-serving prime minister and was in office from 2006 to 2007, and again from 2012 to 2020.

Japanese police said they arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder. The suspect used to work for Japan's navy and has told police was "dissatisfied" with Abe, NHK reported.

Images of the gun purportedly used in the attack show a rudimentary, seemingly homemade device that nonetheless was able to kill.

Abe's campaign visit on Friday morning was only confirmed late the night before, the BBC reported. That detail raises questions about how his killer was able to act so quickly.

Japan is known to have almost completely eliminated gun deaths. It has a population of 127 million people and annual gun deaths rarely total more than 10.

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๐Ÿฆ  How worried should we be about the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron, on a scale of 1 to 10? Insider asked four leading COVID experts for their rating. Their answers ranged depending on who and where you are, but if you're up to date on shots and know where to get treatment, there's no need to be off-the-charts panicked.

๐Ÿ”ด In newly released security footage, police can be seen loitering in a hallway of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, for more than 77 minutes and running away from the gunman who killed 21 people. Read more about the video.

๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™‚๏ธ Madolline Gourley, an Australian woman traveling through the US, was detained and interrogated by a US border official about whether she had recently had an abortion. Gourley said she was treated like a criminal during her stop in LA.

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๐Ÿฆ  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been tracking infections associated with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba and states where people have been exposed since 1962. Look at the map here.

โœˆ๏ธ Thereโ€™s been a lot of chaos with plane travel recently. A passenger with an $11,000 ticket to Europe says Air Canada โ€œbeggedโ€ 25 people to get off the plane because it was too heavy to take off โ€” then lost his bag. Another flier lost $10,000 worth of luggage, including a wedding dress. Her maid of honor only found her own bag thanks to an Apple AirTag.

๐Ÿ—ฃ So little has changed on gun control in 25 years that top Democrats like President Joe Biden and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer could restate exactly what they said in 1997 and almost no one would notice.

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๐ŸŒŽ Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has blown up the Democrats' economic agenda for the second time in a year. Manchin told top Democrats yesterday that he would not support an economic package that includes new climate change spending or tax increases to finance the legislation.

โš–๏ธ Texas is suing the Biden administration for requiring hospitals to perform abortions in medical emergencies, the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton announced yesterday.

๐Ÿ”ด Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, died yesterday at age 73. Ivana Trump shared three children with Donald Trump: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump.

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๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan in spite of warnings and threats of a possible military response from China, which considers Taiwan as Chinese territory and stands firmly opposed to its independence, as well as support and engagement from other countries.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 3 US states have declared states of emergency over monkeypox outbreaks to expand resources to slow the spread.

โ€ผ๏ธ And an Insider exclusive: Cassidy Hutchinson kept working for Donald Trump for nine weeks after he left the White House, government records show.

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๐ŸŽ A global food crisis is unfoldingโ€ฆ

โ€ผ๏ธ Amid the horror of war, the missile attacks, and brutal occupation, a slower-moving crisis picked up speed: a shortage of food staples, grains, and fertilizer. The invasion, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, has put the world's food supply under unprecedented strain.

๐ŸŒŽ We explored 13 locations around the world to learn how they're being affected. Click the stories below for more, and see all of the stories in this package here.

๐ŸŒฆ Climate change is disrupting our food system, which makes it vulnerable to new crises.

๐Ÿค The world can turn around the climate crisis this decade, UN report confirms, but governments need to step up.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The White House didn't declare a climate emergency but it's still considering doing so because of inaction by Congress.

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