Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 Academy Awards haul in 19.69 million viewers across ABC and Hulu, the largest audience since 2020 (More)
> Philadelphia Eagles sign Saquon Barkley to two-year, $41.2M extension, making Barkley the highest-paid running back in NFL history (More) | UEFA Champions League knockout stage kicks off; see full bracket and schedule (More)
> Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize; see gallery of some of Liu's top designs (More)
Science & Technology
> OpenAI announces NextGenAI consortium with MIT, Harvard, and others to advance AI-assisted research at top universities; OpenAI to provide $50M and computational resources in support (More) | What is OpenAI? (1440 Topics)
> Uber expands driverless Waymo rideshares to Austin, Texas; marks the fourth market to receive the company's autonomous vehicles, behind Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (More) | Self-driving cars explained (1440 Topics)
> Protein derived from tardigrades shown to help shield DNA in mouse cells from radiation; also known as water bears, the microorganisms can withstand extreme environments from the Arctic to outer space (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -1.2%, Dow -1.6%, Nasdaq -0.4%); S&P 500 wipes out postelection gains as investors assess US tariffs (More) | China retaliates with tariffs of up to 15% on US farm imports, while Canada says it will apply tariffs on over $100B of US goods; Mexico to announce tariffs Sunday (More)
> Best Buy shares close down 13% after CEO warns price increases are highly likely due to US tariffs on Mexico, China, and Canada; Target CEO also warns of price hikes on fruits and vegetables (More)
> Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismisses fraud lawsuit against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Zelle's operator (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump delivers address to Congress over trade, Ukraine, the economy, and more, while setting the record for longest address to a joint session of Congress in modern history; see key takeaways (More) | Watch highlights of speech (More) | Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) delivers Democratic rebuttal (More)
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready to sign minerals deal with the US; offers to release Russian prisoners of war, halt long-range drone and missile strikes on Russia, and declare immediate maritime truce (More) | Office of Personnel Management revises guidance, says federal agencies have authority to decide whether to fire probationary employees (More)
> Powerful storms sweep across the US, with weather ranging from high winds and possible tornadoes in the South and East to blizzards in the Midwest (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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