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• The Associated Press offers buyouts to an unspecified number of US-based journalists as it shifts focus from newspaper journalism to visual journalism and artificial intelligence
• The world's wildest company retreat involves 120 employees meeting in Honduras for a Survivor-style experience that included eating a dead tarantula, sitting on a fire ant hill, and a rogue porcupine
• On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz after peace negotiations with Iranian officials failed to produce a breakthrough
• Former US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutions
• Former US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutions

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• Gen Z Catholic influencers make church look cooler than ever — snapping up hundreds of thousands of social media followers
• Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than ever before
• Eight Scientists Missing or Dead: Full List of Baffling Disappearances in the U.S.
• AOC hit with ethics complaint over $19K in campaign cash spent on ketamine specialist

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1. Kash Patel Reveals That The FBI Purchases Americans' Location Data After Questioning By Wyden
2. Netflix Documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’ Exposes a Digital Pipeline to Misogyny
3. Chuck Norris, martial artist, actor, and cultural icon, died March 19 in Hawaii. He was 86. Just nine days earlier, he posted a video sparring, captioning it: "I don't age. I level up."
4. Larry Fink’s Warning: Invest or Risk Getting Left Behind by AI

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- Newt Gingrich’s Nuclear ‘Detonations’ proposal in Response to Straight of Hormuz Blockade Raises Eyebrows

- Protesters in Cuba attack Communist Party office amid blackout fury

- Washington Square Park, once a hub for counterculture and political protests in the city, has now been overrun with social media influencers.

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- Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first tele- phone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room.

- Harvard researchers say AI is giving workers "brain fry."

- Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group. (Gothamist)

- Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's next supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli strike last month. Israel and the US have indicated they would not accept Khamenei as leader. (The Dick Cheney of Iran)

- A Georgia teacher died after a good-natured prank by his students resulted in a fatal car accident.

- Colombian nationals with running a sham immigration court scheme in which they allegedly duped an untold number of "vulnerable" immigrants into handing over more than $100,000 to defendants posing as lawyers, judges and other federal officials.

- Trump says Iran operations likely to last 4 to 5 weeks, but he’s prepared ‘to go far longer’

- Shia LaBeouf says he's 'scared' of gay people in post-arrest comments

Welcome to the dating recession: Why young Americans are giving up on love - Fox News

Armed man shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago last weekend (NPR, AP)

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…

- Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas last Wednesday, in response to U.S. Customs and Border Protection using an anti-drone laser last week to combat drug cartel manned drones.

- OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister fired in January for alleged sexual discrimination after opposing ChatGPT adult mode

- Instagram Head Denies Social Media Is ‘Clinically Addictive’

- Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, ended its partnership with a surveillance technology firm after a Super Bowl commercial generated backlash.