• UN secretary-general António Guterres has called for PR agencies to stop working with fossil fuel clients, saying that agencies are “‘acting as enablers to planetary destruction.”
• A knee injury forced world No. 1 men’s tennis player Novak Djokovich to retire from the French Open. He is expected to also miss Wimbledon in July.
• Meanwhile, German tennis player Alexander Zverev agreed to a $220,000 payment to settle charges that he physically abused his former girlfriend who is the mother of his child. The agreement was announced just hours before Zverev was scheduled to play in the French Open semifinals.
• If your commute takes you through the intersection of East 56th Avenue and North Tower Road in Green Valley Ranch, good luck. It is the most dangerous intersection in Denver.
• A giraffe at a drive-through safari park in Texas plucked a toddler from the bed of her family’s pick-up truck. Fortunately, her mom was able to grab the toddler before she got more than a couple of feet in the air.
• Russia, which is banned from the Paris Olympics because of its invasion of Ukraine, is “running a secret influence campaign to discredit the games and spark fears of terror attacks.”
• The Colorado cities of Platteville and Fort Lupton, or more specifically their insurance companies, will pay $8.5 million to the woman who was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car that was parked on railroad tracks. As you might expect from the size of the payment, a train then hit the police car, seriously injuring the woman.
• The dreaded summer “Heat Dome” is pushing temperatures in the southwest to the 110s, with Death Valley expected to reach more than 120 degrees.
• So, The Washington Post is a dumpster fire right now. Editor Sally Buzbee‘s recent resignation has put a spotlight on a story that the newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, tried repeatedly to have Buzbee kill stories about his alleged involvement in the British tabloid hacking scandal. NPR also now alleges on the record that a representative of Lewis offered an exclusive on another story if NPR would drop its coverage of Lewis’ involvement in covering up the hacking scandal.
• A Muck Rake survey finds that PR professionals are leaving X in droves, headed to more stable platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.
• A golf reporter covering the BMW Charity Pro-Am in South Carolina interviewed a Black man she thought was former University of Texas star QB and Heisman Trophy winner Vince Young. She was actually interviewing Citadel assistant football coach Everette Sands. Was it awkward? Yes, it was. Did Sands handle it incredibly well? Yes, he did.

Who won the week?

• If you haven’t been able to snag a reservation via Casa Bonita‘s lottery system, good news. The iconic restaurant plans to migrate to a traditional reservation system by late summer.
• Chipotle shareholders approved a 50-1 stock split that would lower the cost of a single share of the restaurant chain’s stock from $3,200 to $64.
• 9News anchor Kyle Clark made national headlines for his no-nonsense approach to moderating the recent Republican debate for CD-4 that included Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. My first thought was that I’m shocked that Republicans would allow a journalist like Clark anywhere near their debate. My second thought was that all the Democrats calling for Clark to moderate a presidential debate are underestimating the extent to which Clark challenges candidates of both political parties. It would be no free ride.