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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> WWE's WrestleMania 41, which was broadcast on Peacock and Netflix over two nights, saw 114% increase in viewership over 2024's event (More) | Professional wrestling 101 (More)

> Mike Patrick, play-by-play commentator and voice of ESPN's "Sunday Night Football" for 18 seasons, dies at age 80 (More) | NCAA conditionally approves rule to allow direct payment to athletes, pending House of Representatives settlement (More)

> "60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens resigns after 37 years with CBS News, citing inability to make "independent decisions" about the show's programming (More) | Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) loses retrial of defamation lawsuit against The New York Times (More)


Science & Technology
> Astronomers discover rapidly disintegrating planet, producing a comet-like tail as it orbits; Mercury-sized planet loses amount of material equivalent to Mount Everest roughly every 30 hours (More)

> Genomic analysis reveals 60-million-year evolutionary history of domesticated and wild apples; results may lead to more resilient and flavorful varieties (More)

> Study of 2016 bird flu strain reveals the virus was a single mutation from being able to bind to receptors in human cells, becoming much more transmissible; variant is no longer in circulation (More) | How zoonotic diseases work (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +2.5%, Dow +2.7%, Nasdaq +2.7%) after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said trade talks with China will likely lead to de-escalation (More)

> Tesla reports 20% drop in auto revenue as Q1 results miss estimates; company reports $409M in net income on $19.3B in revenue, a 71% drop in profit from same period last year (More) | Everything you want to know about Tesla (More) | Elon Musk says he will scale back DOGE work starting in May (More)

> Boeing to sell parts of its digital aviation business to private equity firm Thoma Bravo in all-cash deal valued at over $10B (More) | RTX and GE Aerospace expect estimated $850M and $500M losses from US import tariffs, respectively (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Food and Drug Administration to phase out the use of eight petroleum-based artificial dyes from US food supplies and medications by end of 2026; comes three months after the FDA ordered a ban on Red Dye No. 3 by January 2027 (More)

> Three federal prosecutors who worked on now-dropped criminal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) resign, say they won't admit to any wrongdoing as a condition for their reinstatement from administrative leave (More)

> At least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed after gunmen open fire in region known for separatist violence; India and Pakistan divided control of the Kashmir region in 1947, but both claim the entire territory (More)

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