Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> NCAA basketball conference tournaments to wrap this weekend with March Madness selection shows slated for Sunday; see projected men's bracket (More) | ... and projected women's bracket (More)
> Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Shania Twain, and SZA tapped as headliners for UK's Glastonbury Festival (June 26-30); see full lineup of performers (More)
> Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, returns to Instagram for first time since 2018 to launch new lifestyle brand (More)
Science & Technology
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> Scientists identify brain circuitry and chemistry responsible for translating stress into the sense of fear; findings may lead to treatments for conditions like PTSD (More)
> Three-decade-long study reveals link between teen pregnancy and increased risk of early death; Canadian teen mothers were twice as likely to die before the age of 31 (More)
> Undersea cable damage knocks out internet access to a number of countries across Africa; Ivory Coast reported as little as 4% connectivity throughout yesterday (More) | See map of the world's undersea internet cables (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.3%) following report showing higher-than-expected inflation (0.6%) in February for wholesale goods (More)
> Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin working to form an investor group to buy TikTok from Chinese-based ByteDance (More) | See previous write-up on House vote to ban the app (More)
> Morgan Stanley names first head of artificial intelligence; company was previously the first Wall Street firm to implement OpenAI's ChatGPT into financial advisers' workflow (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Biden administration sanctions Israeli settlers in the West Bank and outposts for ties to violence against Palestinians (More) | Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calls for Israeli elections to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (More) | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appoints adviser as prime minister amid calls for reform (More)
> Trump administration reportedly authorized CIA effort on Chinese social media to drive antigovernment sentiment, according to new report (More) | Manhattan district attorney calls for up to 30-day delay in Trump hush money trial following receipt of 100,000 new documents from investigators (More)
> James Crumbley, father of 2021 Oxford High School shooter in Michigan who killed four students, convicted of involuntary manslaughter; Crumbley had purchased the gun used in the shooting and failed to properly secure it (More)
SOURCE: 1440 News
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