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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Richard Chamberlain, longtime stage, film, and TV actor who also charted as a singer, dies of a stroke at age 90 (More) | Rapper Young Scooter dies at age 39 after severely injuring leg while fleeing from police (More)

> "A Working Man" upsets "Snow White" to lead slow box office with $15M over the weekend; Disney's "Snow White" dropped 66% from its first to second weekend (More)

> "Beautiful Girls" singer Sean Kingston and his mother found guilty of federal wire fraud charges; each faces a maximum of 20 years in prison at July sentencing (More)


Science & Technology
> Top vaccine scientist resigns from Food and Drug Administration, accuses agency officials of misleading public on the topic; Peter Marks helped lead previous Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed during the pandemic (More)

> NASA's Curiosity rover discovers the longest-chain carbon molecules on Mars found to date; such molecules are key ingredients in organic life on Earth (More)

> AI startup Anthropic releases two papers investigating how large language models reason to produce answers; how the models arrive at realistic outputs using billions of parameters remains an open question (More) | Generative AI 101 (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets drop sharply Friday (S&P 500 -2.0%, Dow -1.7%, Nasdaq -2.7%), driven by increased core consumer prices and trade policy uncertainty (More) | Athleisure brand Lululemon falls 15% after lowering 2025 expectations (More)

> Frank founder Charlie Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175M; student loan assistance startup allegedly fabricated millions of user profiles to facilitate its acquisition by the bank (More)

> China to issue a reported $72B in capital injections to four of the country's largest banks in an effort to shore up their lending capacity (More)

Politics & World Affairs
> Federal judges block executive orders from President Donald Trump targeting two law firms, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, calling the directives retaliatory in nature (More) | Separate firm, Skadden, agrees to provide $100M in pro bono work to administration-aligned causes during Trump's term to avoid executive order (More)

> Columbia University's interim president resigns; move comes a week after the university agreed to a raft of policy changes over Trump administration's threat to pull $400M in federal funding (More)

> French court to deliver verdict against nationalist-populist opposition leader Marie Le Pen on embezzlement charges today; guilty verdict would bar Le Pen from elections for five years (More)

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