Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "A Minecraft Movie" pulls in $80M at the box office in its second weekend to become 2025's biggest seller at the US domestic box office (More)
> WNBA Draft is tonight (7:30 pm ET, ESPN); see latest first-round mock draft (More) | Western Michigan tops Boston to win its first NCAA men's hockey national title (More)
> Don Mischer, 15-time Emmy-winning live events director, dies at age 85 (More) | Nicky Katt, actor best known for "Dazed and Confused" and "Boston Public," dies at age 54 (More)
Science & Technology
> Blue Origin to launch first all-female group spaceflight, with crew including pop star Katy Perry, TV host Gayle King, and others; launch window opens at 9:30 am ET, stream live here (More)
> Astrophysicists find half of the universe's hydrogen; the previously undetected, diffuse ionized gas partially accounts for the universe's "missing" normal matter (More)
> Scientists engineer bacteria capable of emitting signals that can be spotted almost a football field away; technique may aid in monitoring pollution, soil health, and more (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up Friday (S&P 500 +1.8%, Dow +1.6%, Nasdaq +2.1%), closing tumultuous week following tariff uncertainty (More) | Ten-year US Treasury yield nears 4.5%, notches the biggest weekly jump since 2001 as investors grow anxious over US assets (More)
> President Donald Trump to exempt some major electronics, including smartphones and computers, from 10% global tariffs and additional 125% Chinese tariff (More) | How tariffs work (1440 Topics)
> India's JioHotstar passes 200 million paid subscribers, becomes the world's third-largest streaming service behind Netflix and Amazon Prime Video (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Trump administration confirms Maryland man mistakenly deported to Salvadoran prison is alive in the facility, declines to say whether it is complying with order to facilitate his return (More) | See case overview (More)
> At least 34 people killed, 80 others wounded following Russian attack on Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday services (More) | Attack comes two days after US officials push Russian President Vladimir Putin to advance ceasefire process (More)
> Harvard faculty sue Trump administration over its effort to freeze and review nearly $9B in federal funding; federal officials previously ordered the school to end all DEI-related programs, among other demands (More) | Police investigating potential arson at Pennsylvania governor's mansion; no injuries reported (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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