Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Young, and The 1975 tapped to headline the UK's Glastonbury Festival (June 25-29) (More) | South by Southwest 2025 kicks off today in Austin, Texas; see preview of the SXSW film and television festival (More)
> Pamela Bach, actress known for "Baywatch" and ex-wife of David Hasselhoff, dies by suicide at age 62 (More) | Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer known for "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," dies at age 84 (More)
> Netflix sets all-women's boxing card for its second live boxing event, headlined by a rematch of last year's Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano fight (More)
Science & Technology
> Y Combinator adviser says a quarter of current startup cohort has businesses almost entirely based on AI-written code; organization is the country's most well-known incubator, having spawned Airbnb, DoorDash, and more (More)
> Astronomers discover the closest supermassive black hole to Earth, roughly 160,000 light-years away (More) | How do black holes work? (1440 Topics)
> Materials scientists develop super sapphire, resistant to dust, scratches, glare, and more (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -1.8%, Dow -1.0%, Nasdaq -2.6%) as latest tariff concessions fail to quell investor concerns; Nasdaq enters correction territory, down over 10% from record high in December (More) | European Central Bank cuts interest rates for sixth time in nine months (More)
> Walgreens to be taken private by Sycamore Partners in $10B deal, considered one of the largest leveraged buyouts globally in the past decade; Walgreens shares rise 6% in after-hours trading (More)
> Broadcom shares rise 13% in after-hours trading after earnings top etimates on demand for custom AI chips (More) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares fall 20% in after-hours trading on weak earnings forecast, will lay off 2,500 employees (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Adnan Syed to remain free after being resentenced for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, judge rules; Syed already served more than 20 years in prison and has been free since 2022 after his original conviction was vacated (More)
> US House censures Rep. Al Green (D, TX-9) for disrupting President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress; Green becomes 28th member of the House to receive the congressional rebuke (More) | What is censure? (More)
> At least 15 people wounded in South Korea after two of the country's fighter jets accidentally dropped bombs on a civilian area during a joint live-fire exercise with the US military (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS

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