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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Nexstar, the media giant with 200 owned or partner TV stations, purchases rival Tegna in $6.2B deal; newly combined company's stations will cover 80% of TV households in the US (More)

> Dr. Phil's media company sued by their distribution partner for alleged fraud and breach of contract over 10-year, $500M deal (More)

> "Stranger Things" creators Matt and Ross Duffer will depart Netflix in April 2026 after signing four-year deal with Paramount for exclusive rights to their upcoming projects (More) | How Netflix became the dominant streaming service (1440 Topics)


Science & Technology
> Tech giant Nvidia reportedly developing China‑bound AI chip that is more powerful than the H20, which the Trump administration approved last week for sale on Chinese markets (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> James Webb Telescope discovers previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet's moon count to 29; the moon's relatively tiny 6-mile diameter rendered it invisible to less advanced telescopes (More) | The $10B telescope's tech and earlier discoveries (1440 Topics)

> Megalibrary of nanoparticles helps researchers quickly find abundant, cheap alternative to iridium, a rare metal critical to clean hydrogen energy production; could accelerate discovery of commercially viable materials for various applications (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.6%, Dow +0.0%, Nasdaq -1.5%) (More) | Wyoming becomes first state to issue a stablecoin—cryptocurrencies tied to the value of a traditional currency (More) | How stablecoins remove volatility (More)

> Trump administration expands 50% steel and aluminum tariffs to include more than 400 additional products, including items such as car parts, fire extinguishers, and specialty chemicals (More) | Tariff pros and cons (1440 Topics)

> Databricks reportedly raising funding round that values the data analytics company at over $100B; would make Databricks the fourth private company to surpass the $100B mark, following SpaceX, ByteDance, and OpenAI (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump rules out sending US troops to Ukraine to provide security guarantees to the country, will consider providing air support (More)

> Transportation Security Administration pilots biometric "eGates," aiming to skip podium where an agent verifies a passenger's identity before the security screening; system is being tested in DC, Georgia, and Washington airports (More)

> Food and Drug Administration issues recall for Great Value frozen shrimp products, sold at Walmart, after containers arriving at four US ports from Indonesia test positive for cesium-137, a radioactive isotope (More)

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