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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Sundance Film Festival to relocate to Boulder, Colorado, beginning in 2027 after 40 years in Park City, Utah (More)

> Netflix's "Baby Reindeer" leads all series with eight nominations for the 2025 BAFTAs, or British Academy of Film and Television Arts (More)

> NCAA women's basketball tournament Sweet 16 round kicks off today; see full schedule and preview (More) | ... and see latest men's bracket (More)


Science & Technology
> Researchers discover new class of antibiotic that targets drug-resistant bacteria; molecule, known as lariocidin, interrupts bacteria protein production in a previously unknown way (More) | What are superbugs? (1440 Topics)

> OpenAI to limit rate of requests for its new image generator within ChatGPT, saying the viral uptake has overloaded servers (More)

> New findings link neural cell death with the growth of glioblastoma, one of the most lethal types of brain cancer; the five-year survival rate for the disease is under 10% (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.5%) as US tariffs on imported vehicles, effective April 2, weigh on stocks (More)

> French video game maker Ubisoft spins out new unit for popular game brands, including Assassin’s Creed; Chinese tech giant Tencent to take $1.25B stake (More) | GameStop shares slide 22% after retailer says it plans to raise $1.3B in debt to buy bitcoin (More)

> The US economy grew at an annual rate of 2.4% in Q4 of 2024, per revised data; full-year US gross domestic product—the total value of goods and services produced—grew at 2.8% rate (More)

Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump withdraws Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R, NY-1) nomination as US ambassador to the UN, cites narrow Republican majority in the US House (More)

> Tufts University student, a Turkish national on a valid visa, detained and transferred to ICE center in Louisiana; Rümeysa Öztürk is the latest international student to be arrested amid a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian sentiment in universities (More, w/video) | At least 300 students have had visas revoked, state secretary says (More)

> New York county clerk blocks Texas from filing legal action against New York doctor who sent abortion pills to a Texas woman; dispute likely to reach Supreme Court, highlights conflict between states with differing abortion laws (More)

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