• 👆 Egyptian wrestler Ashraf Mahrous, known as Kabonga, pulled a train for ~33 feet using a rope held by his teeth to set a new Guinness World Record yesterday.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 US markets closed down (S&P: -1.4%; Dow: -1.3%; Nasdaq: -2.0%); the S&P is in correction territory (down 10% from a recent high).
• ✈️ Spirit Airlines emerged from bankruptcy protection following a restructuring; the budget airline filed Chapter 11 in November.
• 🥚 White large shell eggs cost $6.85/dozen, on average, last week, per data from the US Department of Agriculture; that’s down 15% from the USDA’s prior update on February 28.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🤝🏅 Comcast agreed to a new $3 billion deal with the International Olympic Committee that extends its media rights for the Olympic Games through 2036. | ⚾🏟️ The Tampa Bay Rays are formally backing out of plans for a new stadium and surrounding mixed-use development in St. Petersburg, FL.
• 🏌️🍿 A Tiger Woods biopic is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios, with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground in talks to produce.
• 🎮 Niantic, the video game developer behind Pokémon Go and other titles, sold its game division to Saudi-owned mobile gaming giant Scopely; the reported $3.5 billion sale marks one of the 10 largest deals in industry history.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ⚛️⚡ Amazon, Google, and Meta signed a pledge to at least triple their nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
• 🏥🐷 A Chinese hospital successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig’s kidney into a human patient; it marks Asia’s first cross-species kidney transplant.
• 🦑☀️ How squids’ amazing color shifting could be key to hyper-efficient solar technology.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected an immediate 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine proposed this week by the US, but said he’s open to a peace deal in principle.
• 🙏 Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) died due to complications from cancer treatment; he was 77 years old.
• 🏛️✅ Senate Democrats say they will vote to advance a GOP-proposed stopgap funding bill and avoid a government shutdown deadline of midnight tonight. | 🏛️ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laid off 1,000+ people (~10% of its workforce), as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction plan. | 🏛️🧑‍⚖️ A federal judge ordered six US agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were fired last month. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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CLICKBAIT

• 🏀🥽 Buffalo Wild Wings to offer multi-vision goggles in advance of March Madness