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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> NCAA women's basketball tournament kicks off in earnest today; see full preview (More) | ... and see latest men's tourney bracket (More)

> Mariah Carey wins lawsuit against songwriter who alleged copyright infringement on Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" (More) | "Coco" sequel in the works at Disney with a 2029 release date (More)

> Kirsty Coventry, two-time swimming gold medalist and current Zimbabwe Minister of Sport, elected as the first woman and first African president of the International Olympic Committee (More)


Science & Technology
> AI startup Anthropic adds web search in preview to Claude 3.7 Sonnet for paid US users, enabling the chatbot to automatically search for information across the internet (More) | Everything you need to know about generative AI (1440 Topics)

> Babies form episodic memories in hippocampus, study finds, challenging long-held belief that infantile amnesia is due to inability to store memories; finding suggests issue may instead be an inability to access those memories (More)

> Scientists successfully replace defective gene in mice to alleviate symptoms of Dravet syndrome—a rare form of epilepsy—without adverse side effects or death (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq -0.3%) (More) | Fintech startup Klarna inks deal with DoorDash to offer US customers deferred and installment food delivery payments; comes ahead of initial public offering (More)

> Tesla recalls 46,000 Cybertrucks manufactured from November 2023 to February 2025 due to an exterior trim panel that can detach from the vehicle (More) | US charges three people accused of using Molotov cocktails to set fire to Tesla cars, dealerships, or charging stations (More)

> US existing home sales rose 4.2% month over month in February, beating estimates of 3.2%; median home price of $398,400 is up 3.8% from a year ago and is the highest median home price for any February (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> At least 85 dead from expanded Israeli strikes in Gaza, while Hamas fires rockets back at Tel Aviv, with no casualties reported; Israeli military says Palestinians will no longer be allowed to enter northern Gaza from the south (More)

> European Union delays implementing first retaliatory tariffs on US goods, including a 50% levy on whiskey, to mid-April for more time to negotiate (More)

> Delta plane that crashed and overturned upon landing at Toronto's international airport last month descended too quickly, preliminary report finds (More)

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