Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Ari Emanuel steps down as CEO of Endeavor, the talent agency he founded in 1995, as part of deal to take the company private; Emanuel will remain as CEO of TKO Group, which owns WWE and UFC (More)
> NCAA women's basketball tournament Sweet 16 field set; see latest bracket (More) | University of Virginia women win record-tying fifth straight NCAA swimming and diving championship (More)
> French actor Gérard Depardieu's sexual assault trial begins; Depardieu is accused of sexually assaulting two crew members on a movie set in 2021 (More)
Science & Technology
> UK officials report world's first known case of H5N1, also known as the bird flu, in sheep; risk to general public remains low, health officials express concern the strain could mutate into more dangerous strain (More) | Zoonotic diseases 101 (1440 Topics)
> Marathon runners metabolize brain-cell insulation known as myelin as fuel during races; MRI study shows brain recovers over the course of around two months (More)
> Mathematicians decode patterns of how people walk in large crowds; model allows predictions of when crowd movement transitions from orderly to chaotic (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.8%, Dow +1.4%, Nasdaq +2.3%) as President Donald Trump signals he might exempt some countries from reciprocal tariffs expected April 2 (More)
> South Korean conglomerate Hyundai announces $21B US investment, which includes $5.8B steel plant in Louisiana (More)
> Georgia jury orders Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1B in damages to man who says Roundup weed killer caused his cancer; Bayer faces more than 177,000 lawsuits involving the weed killer (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg says US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly included him in Signal group chat where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of military plans against Yemen's Houthi rebels (More) | See original report (More) | US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns after five years in the role (More)
> Turkey detains more than 1,100 people following mass protests after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested over corruption charges; İmamoğlu had emerged as a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (More)
> Oscar-winning Palestinian director of "No Other Land" documentary reportedly attacked by Jewish settlers in the West Bank and detained by Israeli military (More)
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