Good morning. In this edition:

• ⚾ MLB opens its season in Japan
• 📞 Trump and Putin call
• 🥼 Julius Caesar: The first recorded autopsy in history

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“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”

–Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

The Executive and Judicial Branches are currently locked in a power struggle related to last weekend’s deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members by the Trump administration, which occurred despite a court order halting the move.

Catch up quick: On Saturday, President Trump invoked a little-used wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to quickly deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who are alleged gang members. Trump’s move was temporarily blocked hours later by District Judge James Boasberg, who ordered a two-week halt so he could consider arguments that the law was improperly invoked.

Boasberg also orally instructed the DOJ’s lawyers to return any planes carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members for deportation that had already taken off.

• Two such planes, which were en route to El Salvador as the judge issued his order, didn’t turn around.
• A third plane carrying alleged gang members to El Salvador took off from Texas minutes after the judge’s order, and also didn’t turn around.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump admin “did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order” – which she described as having “no lawful basis” – since the judge’s decision was issued after the planes had left US territory.

The conflict escalates further

In a social media post yesterday, Trump said “this judge [Boasberg], like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” It marks the first time since taking office that Trump has asked Congress to seek a judge’s removal, Politico reports.

Trump’s comments prompted responses from the Legislative and Executive Branches:

• Six Republican House lawmakers sponsored a measure introducing articles of impeachment against Judge Boasberg, claiming he overstepped his authority.
• Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare public statement saying the impeachment of federal judges is "not an appropriate response" to disagreeing with their rulings.

Looking ahead…The legal battle over the Trump admin’s recent deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members is expected to reach the Supreme Court.

📊 Flash poll: In your opinion, which phrase best describes the current dispute between the Executive and Judicial Branches?

• A normal back-and-forth between government branches
• A worrying development, but no signs of crisis yet
• A constitutional crisis
• Unsure/other

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The LA Dodgers topped the Chicago Cubs 4-1 yesterday in the first matchup of a two-game series in Tokyo, Japan, kicking off the MLB regular season and also tossing a nod to a tradition that’s tied the US and island nation in the Pacific together for 150+ years.

Not just America’s national pastime

Baseball has been in Japan for nearly as long as it's been in the states thanks to American teacher Horace Wilson, who moved to Tokyo in 1872 and taught the game to his students. Decades of cross-nation collaboration and friendly competition followed.

• Japanese teams traveled to play in the US dating back to the early 1900s, while 100+ US college and pro teams have embarked on baseball tours of Japan.
• Possibly the most famous of these tours occurred in 1934, when The Sultan of Swat The King of Crash The Colossus of Clout The Colossus of Clout Babe Ruth and other future Hall of Famers played a 19-game barnstorming tour against a Japanese all-star team.

Speaking of Japanese star power…The Dodgers-Cubs series features five Japanese players, including the newly signed Rōki Sasaki, who takes the mound for LA in his MLB debut today, and the kind-of-good-at-baseball Shohei Ohtani.

As for Opening Day stateside: It’s not quite time to be scarfing down a hot dog in an MLB stadium while simultaneously chirping the opposing team’s left fielder and talking about how “this is the year, guys, I swear” – but it will be soon. March 27, to be exact.

It’s no secret that boys and girls face different challenges as they grow and mature into adults. A new Pew Research survey of ~1,400 US teens aged 13-17 attempts to quantify those differences.

Key findings: Girls report more pressure to look good (55% vs. 39% for boys) and to fit in socially (45% vs. 37%), while boys report more pressure to be physically strong (43% vs. 23%) and to be good at sports (36% vs. 27%).

US teens are also:

• ~8x more likely to say girls more commonly experience anxiety and depression compared to boys (39% vs. 5%).
• ~14x more likely to say girls at their school get better grades compared to boys than the opposite (42% vs. 3%).
• ~16x more likely to say boys are more disruptive in class compared to girls (63% vs. 4%).

Bottom line: Despite their different experiences, teen boys and girls ultimately want many of the same things out of life, according to Pew. Majorities from both genders say it’s important to have a job or career they enjoy (86%), have close friends (69%), and have a lot of money as an adult (58%).

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Second time’s the charm? Following a failed purchase attempt last summer, Google yesterday announced it is acquiring cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion. It marks the tech giant’s largest-ever acquisition, and the biggest number paid for a private, venture-backed company in history.

Gee, Wiz: The startup, which offers cybersecurity software for cloud computing, including prevention, active detection, and response, is considered one of the fastest-growing of all time. It hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue 18 months after being launched by four friends in 2020, and sold shares at a $16 billion valuation last summer.

Looking ahead…Google is hoping Wiz’s enhanced security features will help it win more cloud customers in a competitive and fast-growing industry where it has fallen behind Amazon and Microsoft. But first it’ll need to get the deal past regulators, in what analysts are calling the first major test of the Trump admin’s M&A approach.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 US markets fell yesterday (S&P: -1.1%; Dow: -0.6%; Nasdaq: -1.7%)
• 🤝 GM and Nvidia agreed to a deal that will see the automaker use the tech giant’s chips and software to develop next-gen autonomous cars, robots, and manufacturing processes.
• ✈️ Bags fly free…at Frontier? The discount airline is offering a free checked bags promotion; the move comes after Southwest announced the end of its trademark free checked bags policy.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏆The iHeartRadio Awards took place Monday night in Los Angeles; Billie Eilish and Finneas took home album of the year.
• 🏀 Men’s March Madness officially began yesterday with First Four action (16-seed Alabama St. beat 16-seed Saint Francis U, while 11-seed UNC beat 11-seed San Diego State); the Women’s First Four tips off today. | 🎾 The Professional Tennis Players Association and 22 players filed lawsuits in several countries against the ATP, WTA, ITF, and ITIA; they allege “tennis is broken” and that the aforementioned groups operate together like a “cartel” to fix prize money.
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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🌐 Alphabet is spinning off laser-based internet startup Taara into an independent company; Taara is expected to eventually compete directly with SpaceX's Starlink as a way to provide high-speed internet to remote areas. | 🤖📸 Google's new Gemini AI model is effective at removing watermarks from copyrighted images, according to user reports.
• ⏱️💎 WashU in St. Louis physicists created a new type of “time crystal,” or a unique phase of matter that challenges common perceptions of motion and time.
• 🪵 Chewing on wood leads to an increase in a brain antioxidant associated with improved memory, per a new study.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a series of steps toward an eventual ceasefire in Ukraine following a two-hour call today; Putin agreed to pause attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, but remained resistant to a longer-lasting peace plan proposed by the US.
• 🏥 A Texas midwife was arrested and accused of providing illegal abortions; she’s the first person to be charged under the state’s near-total abortion ban enacted in 2022. | 🧑‍⚖️ Court rulings: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service; a separate federal judge ruled that dismantling USAID likely violates the Constitution and ordered DOGE to halt further cuts.
• 🏛️📝 The National Archives released thousands of files related to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy last night following an order from Trump; it wasn’t immediately clear which, if any, documents are entirely new to the public.

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👆 NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams safely returned to Earth yesterday, ending their unexpected nine-month stay in space; in addition to rescuers, their splashdown off the coast of Florida was attended by several curious dolphins.

🤔 Did You Know? The first recorded autopsy in history was performed on the body of Julius Caesar following his assassination in the Roman Senate. The autopsy by a physician named Antistius found 23 stab wounds, only one of which would have been fatal.

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🪶 Wisdom, a wild Laysan albatross, officially claimed the record for the world’s oldest wild bird. She was tagged by US ornithologists in 1956, meaning she's lived at least 74 years.

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