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Here is your Pro Recap of four head-turning deal dispatches you may have missed this week: Cronos attracts interest; Brookfield buys American Equity Investment Life, Thermo Fisher merges with CorEvitas, and Monster Beverage buys Bang Energy.

Another registered investment advisor (RIA) firm has been acquired by the growing nationwide Wealth Enhancement Group.

Northern Lights will be visible from as many as 17 states across the US. This comes after storms created by gigantic storms were visible from more than 30 states in the US, including Iowa, Kansas, and North Dakota.Northern lights, which is also known as aurora borealis, is a luminous astronomical phenomenon. This is visible in the night sky. Northern lights can be viewed while looking in the direction of pole which is the closest. In the Northern hemisphere, it is the north, and in Southern hemisphere, it is the south. Northern lights is caused by solar winds from the Sun and magnetic field of the Earth. People residing in 17 states in the US will be able to view the Northern lights next week. These 17 states are — 1. North Dakota, 2. South Dakota, 3. Alaska, 4. Indiana, 5. Montana, 6. Wisconsin 7. Minnesota 8. Michigan 9. Maryland 10. Maine 11. New Hampshire 12. New York 13. Vermont 14. Oregon 15. Washington 16. Idaho 17. Wyoming. Northern Lights will be visible on July 12 and July 13. However, weather needs to be clear in order to view Northern Lights, as per reports.

Taylor Swift's Rhode Island home was arrested this week for trespassing on the beachfront property, as reported by the police. The arrest took place on Monday after the woman was discovered in front of the singer's residence, located in Westerly. Westerly Police Chief Paul Gingerella confirmed the arrest, highlighting the ongoing issue of overzealous fans disregarding boundaries. The incident serves as another reminder of the challenges Swift has faced over the years in maintaining her privacy and security. It remains unclear whether Taylor Swift was present at her Rhode Island home during the trespassing incident on Monday. Currently, the artist is in the midst of her «Eras» stadium tour, which includes 52 shows. As the tour continues, Swift released a re-recorded version of her third album titled «Speak Now (Taylor's Version)» on Friday.

Foster, head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford in Britain. In a telephone survey published in 1997, for instance, researchers from Iowa and Minnesota randomly interviewed 269 adults. About three-fourths of those interviewed said they sometimes woke up before their alarms, and just under one-fourth said they woke up so reliably that they never had to use an alarm.

Canadian investment giant Brookfield is nearing a deal to acquire insurance firm American Equity Investment Life Holding Co., people with knowledge of the matter said.

Attorneys for the Biden administration and states challenging the president’s student-debt cancellation plan squared off at a federal court hearing Wednesday that left the fate of the loan forgiveness in limbo.

According to the European parliament member and rapporteur for the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation Stefan Berger, the deal on landmark pan-European Union regulation had been finally struck amid the Tripartite negotiations. It “will put an end to the crypto wild west,” as French Minister for the Economy Bruno Le Maire hopes. Still, while raising a modest optimism among some stakeholders, MiCa’s final draft will surely make life harder for others. 

Just two weeks after being fined by Iowa’s regulators for offering and selling unregistered securities, crypto lending platform BlockFi announced on June 28 thait has received a Money Services License in the state.

The Iowa Insurance Division, or IID, a regulator responsible for many securities sales in the state, has fined crypto lending firm BlockFi more than $943,000 after allegedly offering and selling unregistered securities.

WASHINGTON—Congressional Republicans are beginning to detail their plans to combat inflation and soften its impact on households, indicating some tax, trade and regulatory policies they might pursue if they take control of the House and Senate in this fall’s midterm elections.

President Joe Biden said Russia's war in Ukraine amounted to "genocide", accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to "wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian".

Some states are making it easier for Americans to collect unemployment benefits if they're fired for being unvaccinated against Covid-19.

U.S. inflation rose at the fastest pace in three decades in October, with prices increasing more in some parts of the country than in others. Consumer prices were up 7.3% last month in the region that encompasses Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Mid-Atlantic states, however, saw prices rise less, by 5.4% from a year ago.