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> NBA regular season wraps with the play-in tournament set to begin tomorrow night; see playoff bracket (More) | WNBA Draft is tonight (7:30 pm ET, ESPN) with Iowa's Caitlin Clark widely projected to be the top pick (More)
> "Sunset Boulevard" is big winner with seven awards at the 2024 Olivier Awards, the British equivalent of the Tonys; "Operation Mincemeat" wins best new musical (More)
> Denver tops Boston College to win 10th NCAA men's hockey national championship (More) | NHL regular season wraps this week; see latest playoff picture (More)
Science & Technology
> SpaceX reaches milestone for reusable rockets, successfully launching satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on its 20th liftoff (More)
> Scientists discover cell structure in algae that naturally converts atmospheric nitrogen into useful chemicals; may one day allow crops to produce their own fertilizer from the air (More)
> New study challenges view of bonobos as a largely peaceful primate species, finds they can be more aggressive than chimpanzees; conflicts play out mostly through individual fights between males (More)
Business & Markets
> IRS says it received more than 100 million tax returns ahead of today's deadline to file returns or extensions for 2023 (More) | See the top 10 fraud cases from last year (More)
> Stocks fall Friday on slow start to earnings season (Dow -1.2%, S&P 500 -1.5%, Nasdaq -1.6%); S&P 500 closes worst week since October (More) | JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report a drop on income from net interest in first quarter (More)
> US Steel shareholders approve $14.9B sale to Japan's Nippon Steel at $55 per share, a roughly 33% premium over the stock's Friday price at close; deal for the second-largest US steelmaker still faces political opposition (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> A 40-year-old man stabs and kills seven people Saturday at the Westfield Bondi shopping mall in Sydney, Australia, injuring at least a dozen more; police attribute the cause to mental illness (More)
> Somali pirates release a Bangladeshi ship captured last month and its 23-person crew in exchange for a $5M ransom from ship owner KSRM Group (More) | More piracy attacks occurred in early 2024 than any other time in the last six years (More)
> Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoes bill that would have banned transgender medical treatments for minors, including surgery and hormone replacement therapy (More) | See list of states that have enacted bans (More)
> SpaceX reaches milestone for reusable rockets, successfully launching satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on its 20th liftoff (More)
> Scientists discover cell structure in algae that naturally converts atmospheric nitrogen into useful chemicals; may one day allow crops to produce their own fertilizer from the air (More)
> New study challenges view of bonobos as a largely peaceful primate species, finds they can be more aggressive than chimpanzees; conflicts play out mostly through individual fights between males (More)
Business & Markets
> IRS says it received more than 100 million tax returns ahead of today's deadline to file returns or extensions for 2023 (More) | See the top 10 fraud cases from last year (More)
> Stocks fall Friday on slow start to earnings season (Dow -1.2%, S&P 500 -1.5%, Nasdaq -1.6%); S&P 500 closes worst week since October (More) | JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report a drop on income from net interest in first quarter (More)
> US Steel shareholders approve $14.9B sale to Japan's Nippon Steel at $55 per share, a roughly 33% premium over the stock's Friday price at close; deal for the second-largest US steelmaker still faces political opposition (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> A 40-year-old man stabs and kills seven people Saturday at the Westfield Bondi shopping mall in Sydney, Australia, injuring at least a dozen more; police attribute the cause to mental illness (More)
> Somali pirates release a Bangladeshi ship captured last month and its 23-person crew in exchange for a $5M ransom from ship owner KSRM Group (More) | More piracy attacks occurred in early 2024 than any other time in the last six years (More)
> Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoes bill that would have banned transgender medical treatments for minors, including surgery and hormone replacement therapy (More) | See list of states that have enacted bans (More)
SOURCE: 1440 News
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