Tuesday, March 25

In The NEWS


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> Sweet 16 set for NCAA men's basketball tournament; see complete bracket (More) | ... and women's Round of 32 wraps today; see latest schedule (More)

> George Foreman, two-time world heavyweight boxing champion, Olympic gold medalist, and entrepreneur, dies at 76 (More) | Sports world reacts to Foreman's death (More)

> Conan O'Brien, comedian and five-time Emmy winner, becomes 26th recipient of prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (More)


Science & Technology
> Joint studies from OpenAI and MIT Media Lab find higher use of ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and higher emotional dependence on the chatbot (More) | Everything you need to know about OpenAI (1440 Topics)

> Archaeologists discover over 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb believed to belong to a pharaoh during the less-known Abydos Dynasty; discovery is second of its kind this year (More) | Learn more about ancient Egypt (1440 Topics)

> Study finds carbon absorbed by the land—about one-third of all carbon emissions—is mainly stored in nonliving pools like soils and sediments, allowing the carbon to remain sequestered 10 to 100 times longer than in living plants (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Friday (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.5%); S&P 500 and Nasdaq snap four consecutive weeks of declines (More)

> Ticket reseller StubHub files for initial public offering; reports net loss of $2.8M on revenue of roughly $1.8B for 2024, compared with a $405M profit on $1.4B in revenue for 2023 (More) | What are IPOs? (1440 Topics)

> Tesla vehicles from model year 2017 or newer accounted for record 1.4% of all vehicles traded in this month through March 15, up from 0.4% in the same period last year, per analysis from national car shopping site Edmunds (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> South Korean court overturns impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as acting president (More) | Turkish court formally arrests and orders jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu—President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival—pending outcome of corruption trial (More)

> Department of Defense personnel may be subjected to polygraph tests amid new investigation into alleged leaks at the Pentagon, according to internal memo (More) | President Donald Trump announces $20B contract with Boeing for new F-47 fighter jet (More) | IRS reportedly nearing agreement to verify whether ICE officials have correct address for people expected to be deported (More)

> Israeli airstrike in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis kills Hamas political leader Salah Bardawil; Gaza death toll passes 50,000, per Hamas-run Health Ministry (More) | Israel strikes Lebanon after Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel; exchange considered worst violence since November (More)


SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

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