Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Green Day, Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, and Post Malone tapped to headline 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (April 11-13, 18-20) (More)
> "Rust" film debuts in Poland just over three years after on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (More)
> Detroit Tigers' Tarik Skubal and Atlanta Braves' Chris Sale win AL and NL Cy Young Awards for MLB's best pitchers; MVP announced tonight (6 pm ET, MLB Network) (More) | LPGA announces $131M in prize money for 2025 season, a 90% increase from 2021 (More)
Science & Technology
> The gut microbiome is shaped in part by social networks in localized areas, study finds, suggesting such microbes can be passed from person to person (More) | What is the gut microbiome (More, w/video)
> Researchers release updated Human Cell Atlas, cataloging 62 million cells across 18 biological networks; dubbed the "Wikipedia of cells," project seeks to map 37 trillion cells from birth to old age (More)
> Squid-inspired device allows doctors to deliver drugs orally that would otherwise require needles; design uses tiny jets to shoot drugs into tissue lining once in the digestive tract (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.0%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq -0.1%) (More) | Target shares close down 21% after retailer posts weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings, lowers forecast for holiday quarter (More) | Nvidia beats Q3 revenue and earnings expectations (More)
> Billionaire Gautam Adani indicted in US on federal charges of securities fraud, including for allegedly lying to US investors over $250M in bribe payments to Indian government officials (More) | Archegos Capital founder Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud, market manipulation tied to his firm's 2021 collapse (More)
> Vertical farming startup Oishii raises $150M in funding; company is best known for growing strawberries in its New Jersey vertical farm (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, LA-4) announces policy requiring people to use Capitol bathrooms aligned with their biological sex; decision follows election of first openly transgender Congress member (More) | Senate Judiciary Committee requests FBI files on since-dropped investigation into attorney general pick Matt Gaetz (R); House Ethics Committee defers decision on releasing their report (More)
> President-elect Donald Trump selects former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to serve as ambassador to NATO (More) | See running list of Trump appointments (More)
> Board denies parole to Susan Smith, convicted in the 1994 murders of her children; case gained worldwide attention alongside OJ Simpson trial, with Smith originally pinning the murders on a Black gunman (More)
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