Friday, March 22

In The NEWS


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
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> NCAA men's basketball tournament first round tips off today with the women's first round beginning tomorrow (More) | See latest men's bracket (More) | ... and women's bracket (More)

> Superstar Shohei Ohtani leads his new team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, to victory over the San Diego Padres to open the MLB regular season from Seoul; the season begins in earnest March 28 (More) | Dodgers fire Ohtani's interpreter amid allegations he stole millions from Ohtani to cover gambling debt (More)

> "The Crown" and "Black Mirror" lead all nominees for the 2024 BAFTAs, or British Academy Television Awards (More)


Science & Technology
> Princeton math professor Michel Talagrand wins 2024 Abel Prize, one of the field's most prestigious awards, for his work on analyzing random processes (More)

> Archaeologists discover oldest-known arrowheads, dating to roughly 74,000 years ago in what is now northern Ethiopia; time period coincided with the Toba super-eruption, which spread ash and gas worldwide (More)

> First-ever "quantum tornado" created by scientists in superfluid helium, which experiences near zero friction; phenomenon is meant to mimic and shed light on the dynamics of black holes (More)



Business & Markets
> US stock markets close at record highs (S&P 500 +0.9%, Dow +1.0%, Nasdaq +1.3%) after Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged, signals three rate cuts this year (More) | Reddit expected to start trading today at $34 per share (More)

> Chipmaker Intel secures $19.5B in federal funding ($8.5B) and loans ($11B) to build and expand facilities across Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon (More) | Memory chipmaker Micron Technology shares rise over 14% in after-hours trading after it announces better-than-expected quarterly results (More)

> Chipotle Mexican Grill shares briefly surpass $3,000 for first time after board approves 50-for-1 stock split (More) | Paramount Global shares close up 12% on report of Apollo Global's $11B offer to buy Paramount's Hollywood studios (More)



Politics & World Affairs
> Four of six former Mississippi law enforcement officers sentenced for charges related to their roles in the January 2023 beating and torturing of two men during a warrantless home search; sentences so far range from 17.5 years to 40 years in prison, with two remaining officers to be sentenced today (More)

> Former Marine Daniel Penny to stand trial beginning Oct. 8 for charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for fatally subduing Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last May (More)

> Vietnam President Vo Van Thuong resigns one year after taking office after reported unspecified violations of the governing Communist Party's rules (More) | Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to step down after successor is chosen, citing personal and political reasons (More)


SOURCE:  1440 News

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