07.16.2018

Allez les Bleus!
France won the 2018 World Cup yesterday beating Croatia by a score of 4-2. The scoring began with Croatian forward Mario Mandzukic becoming the first player to ever score an own goal in a World Cup final after accidentally heading a free kick into his own goal, giving France a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute. France took advantage of opportunities, scoring twice in each half, despite Croatia controlling the ball over 60% of the time (summary here). The win is France's second World Cup in its history and its first since 1998 - watch the team's jubilant celebration here. While US viewership plummeted with the Men's National Team not making the field, the Cup dominated on streaming - early returns show fans streamed over 23 million hours through the quarterfinals, nearly double the numbers through the entire 2014 tournament. 

The next World Cup will be held in 2022 in Qatar - the first ever in the Arab world - with Brazil as the way-too-early favorites.

Amazon Prime Day Kicks Off.
Amazon Prime Day begins today, with the online retail giant planning to place a steep discount on over 1 million items. The sale - which will last for 36 hours, beginning at 3pm ET this afternoon - has become symbolic of Amazon's weight in the retail market as well as the shift in consumer preferences toward e-commerce. Online shopping has grown to $120B annually in the US (see data), up from essentially zero in the late 90's, and Amazon's share of that market is close to 50% - or 5% of all retail sales in the country each year. Amazon has leaned into the event, which began in 2015, doubling the number of items on sale from 2017's Prime Day. Analysts think the company may make up to $3.6B on the sale, a haul that has forced brick-and-mortar stores like Target and Macy's to offer their own deals. 

Plan on taking advantage? Here are some of the best offers. 

Trump-Putin Summit.
President Trump meets this morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a highly anticipated summit in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. Analysts believe Putin will press Trump to ease sanctions imposed in 2014 after Russia annexed part of Ukraine, while Trump will push Moscow for increased cooperation in Syria, where Russia has become a central player in propping up the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The meeting comes just as Special Counsel Robert Mueller released the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the 2016 hack of the Clinton campaign, and follows a series of brash meetings with European leaders. The meeting takes places at 7am eastern time. 

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By 2040, half the US population will be concentrated in just eight states (paywall).

Photos of the devastating Japanese floods that killed over 200 people. 

The 20 US cities with the fastest cost of living increases in 2018. 

See the celebs that took in Wimbledon over the weekend. 

Here's the average age that individuals become millionaires. 

Paradox: Open offices actually reduce face-to-face time by 70%, study finds. 

Coworking giant WeWork will no longer let employees expense meals that contain meat. 

Florida beach reopens after a rare double shark attack. 

One final Blockbuster remains in America - in Bend, Oregon. 

Clickbait: Jaguar escapes from enclosure, stalks the rest of the zoo. 

Historybook: District of Columbia established as capital of US (1790); RIP Mary Todd Lincoln (1882); 1st successful atom bomb test (1945); Apollo 11 launches with first astronauts who will walk on the moon (1969); John F. Kennedy, Jr dies in plane crash (1999).
 

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
- Neil Armstrong
 

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