MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2023

Good morning! Today marks the anniversary of the very first baseball game played under recognizably modern rules. On June 19, 1846, the New York Nine beat the Hoboken Baseball Club 23-1 in Hoboken. Mercifully, the game ended after four innings.

Today, we’re talking about President Biden excusing the Chinese for sending a spy balloon over the U.S., a new Texas law banning DEI offices in state-funded universities, and the hunt to find a collectible ‘Lord of the Rings’ card worth $2 million.

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Majority Feels Trump Charges are Political

Donald Trump leads Joe Biden 45% to 39% in the latest Harvard CAP-Harris monthly poll, taken in the week after Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury over his handling of classified documents.

The survey also shows that 55 percent of Americans believe the indictment is politically motivated ,and 56 percent view it as election interference.

One reason: 65 percent believe President Biden also mishandled classified documents, while 72 percent take that view with Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

Controversial 2024 Primary Dates Set

Democrats selected Feb. 24 for their first primary in South Carolina, setting up a battle with New Hampshire and other states that historically have gone earlier.

The party agreed to give New Hampshire until Sept. 1 to comply with the new primary calendar, but N.H. politicians have refused to budge on voting first. Iowa and Georgia are also considering their options.

If New Hampshire does go first, President Biden won’t be on the ballot, but longshot candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson are and could win the first Democratic primary.

Wyndham Clark Wins US Open

Wyndham Clark, a golfer who had never finished better than 75th in a major tournament, held off the best golfers in the world to win the US Open Sunday at Los Angeles Country Club.

Though challenged at various times by Rickie Fowler, Rory McIlroy (who finished second) and Scottie Scheffler (the top player in World Golf rankings), Clark held on to win by one stroke.

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➤ President Biden told reporters Saturday that China never meant to send a spy balloon over U.S. military bases earlier this year. GOP leaders reacted angrily to Biden’s comment that China’s government likely knew nothing about the spying incident. (More)

➤ Texas’ universities and colleges will lose public funding if they do not close on-campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices. A law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott bans all DEI offices in state-funded schools, and it comes ahead of a Supreme Court decision that may ban universities from considering ethnicity during admissions. (More )

➤ Meanwhile, in Burlington, Mass., local middle-school students organized a counter-protest to their school’s Pride Spirit Day, chanting slogans such as “U.S.A. are my pronouns.” The local Select Board promised to add a DEI program to fix the problem. (More)

➤ Harvard political scientists cited computer simulations to show that politically motivated gerrymandering tends to cancel out nationally as Democrats and Republicans change voting borders to their advantage. (More)

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➤WNBA star Brittney Griner will fly charter for the rest of the 2023 season after being harassed while waiting for a commercial flight. The WNBA approved the rules change to allow Griner and, most likely, the whole Phoenix Mercury team to use a charter jet service. (More)

➤The Dodgers suffered their worst home shutout loss in team history, losing to the rival Giants 15-0. The loss came on the same weekend the team angered many by honoring a group of anti-Catholic “drag nuns.” (More)

➤Memphis Grizzly star guard Ja Morant was suspended for the first 25 games next season for wielding a gun on social media. It was Morant’s second suspension: He did the same thing in March and received an 8-game suspension. (More)

Market Report Previous Week

▼	Nasdaq Natl. Assoc. of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	13,689.57	–0.68%
▼	SPX S&P 500	4,409.59	–0.37%
▼	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	34,300.76	–0.32%
▲	BTC Bitcoin	26,444.0	+0.33%
▲	NCNO nCino, Inc.	31.69	+24.47%

➤Stocks slipped lower Friday, ending six straight days of gains, but the week was still the best the three major exchanges have had since March. The S&P 500, the Dow, and Nasdaq are all at their highest levels since at least 2022. (More)

➤Netflix gained over 200,000 new subscribers thanks to their new password-sharing crackdown. Data shows that Netflix had the four single biggest days of user acquisition when the service banned password sharing last month. (More)

➤ Several big movies struggled to hit box office projections this weekend. Warner Bros. “The Flash” took in $55 million, less than the $75 million expected, and Disney’s animated “Elemental” had the second-lowest opening of a Pixar film. (More)

➤ A Portland radio station has added an AI-voiced DJ as a midday host. The Top 40 station created “AI Ashley” from the voice of its traditional human DJ “Ashley Z.” The AI clones Ashley’s voice to introduce songs and commercials. (More)

➤ Robot waiters are spreading quickly across America, with Bear Robotics saying it’ll have 10,000 deployed by the end of this year. The robots are waist-high machines that greet guests, deliver food, and remove dirty dishes. (More)

➤ A bronze sword made more than 3,000 years ago is so well-preserved that it “almost still shines,” archaeologists say. The sword was discovered last week in Noerdlingen, Germany. (More)

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➤A collectible “Lord of the Rings” card due for release this week already has a bid of $2 million and a paella dinner from a restaurant in Spain waiting for whoever finds it. The odds of pulling the one-of-a-kind “Magic: The Gathering” specialty card is 1 out of 3 million. (More)

➤ A Juneteenth celebration in Chicago ended with one killed and 22 injured after gunfire broke out at 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning at a party for hundreds in the Willowbrook community. (More)

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