• 👆 Women across the world participated in rallies marking International Women’s Day on Saturday; large celebrations and/or protests were seen in Istanbul, Warsaw, Madrid, Athens, Munich, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 US markets fell last week (S&P: -3.1%; Dow: -2.4%; Nasdaq: -3.5%) | 💼 The US economy added 151,000 jobs in February, better than the downwardly revised 125,000 in January but below analysts' expectations of 170,000; the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.1%.
• 🇨🇳 China's consumer inflation fell into negative territory last month for the first time since January 2024, per new data.
• 🥚 The DOJ has reportedly opened an investigation into whether the nation’s largest egg producers are conspiring to keep prices high.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏈 NFL DE Myles Garrett signed a four-year contract extension with the Cleveland Browns averaging $40 million/year; deal makes him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history.
• 😢 Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s deaths were concluded to both have occurred from natural causes: Hackman from heart disease/advanced Alzheimer's, and Arakawa a week before from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare disease spread by rodent droppings.
• 🎧 Lady Gaga dropped her newest album, Mayhem; it’s her first since 2020. | 🖼️ Christie’s controversial AI art auction brought in $700,000+. (Behind the controversy)

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🚫🌕 Intuitive Machines announced its Athena Moon mission is officially dead after the craft fell on its side while landing on the lunar surface Thursday.
• 🧠 Postpartum depression (PPD) is linked to size changes in certain brain regions, specifically those associated with processing and regulating emotions, per a new study; it’s some of the first neurological evidence associated with PPD, which affects ~1 in 7 women.
• 🌏☄️ Earth’s oldest known impact crater – from a meteorite ~3.5 billion years ago – was discovered in the Western Australian outback.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🚨 The Secret Service shot an armed man near the White House early Sunday following a confrontation with law enforcement; President Trump was in Florida at the time.
• 🏛️ House Republicans released a stopgap spending bill that would fund the US government through September at levels slightly below last year; Congress currently faces a government shutdown deadline of Friday night. | 🚫🎓 The Trump admin canceled ~$400 million in federal grants and contracts from Columbia University, citing last year's student protests over the war in Gaza; similar cuts to other schools will soon follow, per the Education Department.
• 🇨🇦🗳️ Mark Carney, the former central bank chief of both Canada and England, won the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party; it puts him in line to replace PM Justin Trudeau and call new national elections.

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