Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Charli XCX wins top prizes of artist and album of the year at 2025 Brit Awards, the UK's highest-profile music awards show (More)
> The 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicks off from Fairbanks, Alaska (More) | MLB commissioner to review bid by Pete Rose's family to have Rose posthumously removed from baseball's ineligible list (More)
> David Johansen, frontman of the New York Dolls and actor, dies at age 75 of cancer (More) | Angie Stone, Grammy-nominated R&B singer, dies in a car crash at age 63 (More)
Science & Technology
> White House eliminates 18F program, which provided federal engineers and IT staff for agencies requiring digital services (More)
> Firefly Aerospace becomes the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon without crashing or falling over; Blue Ghost rover will collect rock samples, measure heat flow on the moon, and more (More)
> New study dates the Los Chocoyos supereruption, which deposited ash across 2.3 million square miles, to 79,500 years ago; ice cores suggest global climate recovered within decades (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets jump Friday (S&P 500 +1.6%, Dow +1.4%, Nasdaq +1.6%); S&P ends February down 1.4% overall (More)
> US government to launch reserve cryptocurrency fund, calling out three—Cardano (ADA), Ripple (XRP), and Solana (SOL); all three see double-digit gains (More) | Everything you need to know about cryptocurrency and how it works (1440 Topics)
> President Donald Trump orders Commerce Department to probe international lumber markets, says he is considering 25% global tariff on lumber and wood imports (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Israel blocks humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, calls on Hamas to accept US-brokered extension of ceasefire; first phase of plan ended Saturday (More)
> Defense Department deploys roughly 3,000 additional troops, fleet of armored vehicles to US-Mexico border to support migration enforcement measures (More) | Federal judge blocks Trump administration's firing of head of independent watchdog agency; case expected to head to Supreme Court (More)
> Kurdish militants declare a ceasefire following four decades of fighting between the Kurdistan Workers' Party and Turkish government (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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