
Stocks slip, head for fourth-straight losing week as Iran war continues: Live updates - CNBC
Stocks fell Friday as traders kept monitoring the Iran war, with the major averages on pace to record another losing week.

James Gracey live updates: Catalan police say student found dead in waters off Barcelona beach - ABC7 Chicago
Catalan police say missing American student James Gracey has been found dead in waters off Barcelona beach.

Traders Lift Bets on a Fed Hike This Year to 50% as Yields Surge - Bloomberg.com
US Treasuries sank and bond traders increased their bets on a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike by October to 50% as concern mounts that a protracted war in the Middle East could stoke global inflation.
Iran War Live Updates: Iran Says Strikes Have Failed to Halt Its Weapons Production - WSJ

Iran Keeps Striking Gulf as Israel Pledges to Spare Energy Sites - Bloomberg.com
US President Donald Trump again lashed out at military allies for not joining the war on Iran or helping to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, expressing frustration as the Islamic Republic kept up attacks on Gulf energy assets.

Jill Duggar Dillard speaks out after brother's arrest - NBC News
Jill Duggar Dillard, who formerly starred in TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting," spoke out for the first time since the arrest of her younger brother saying in a family statement “Our hearts go out to the innocent juvenile victim of this unspeakable crim…

Chuck Norris, Action Icon and ‘Walker Texas Ranger’ Star, Dies at 86 - Variety
Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion who became an iconic action star and led the hit series "Walker, Texas Ranger," died March 19 at 86.
‘The Bachelorette’ Contestants Witnessed Taylor Frankie Paul’s ‘Temper’ ‘Firsthand’ While Filming - Yahoo
ABC pulled Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of The Bachelorette just days before its premiere — and now a new report claims her castmates had already warned the ...
U.S.-Israeli rift widens over potential end game in Iran - The Washington Post
Israel’s assault on the world’s largest natural gas deposit has renewed tensions between the two allies’ end goals in Iran.

Too early to say if meningitis outbreak has peaked, health officials say - BBC
Meanwhile, scientists believe the vaccine is effective against the strain of Meningitis B seen in Kent, but say more research is needed on why it spread so rapidly.

What Cesar Chavez’s biographer says now - Politico
Miriam Pawel, the journalist and historian of the farmworker movement, spoke with POLITICO about Chavez’s influence on California history — and where the movement he led stands now.

FCC green-lights Nexstar's $6.2B merger with rival TV station owner Tegna - NBC News
The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on broadcast station owner Nexstar’s $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival company Tegna, a merger that would create the largest operator of local television stations in the country

Ryan Gosling and a cute alien team up to save humanity in 'Project Hail Mary' - NPR
The story is fundamentally hopeful, just like Andy Weir's The Martian.

UFC London weigh-in results: Repeat offender misses again by 8 pounds, bout cancelled - MMA Fighting
Luana Carolina had weight issues for the fourth time in her UFC career and is now off UFC London.

Iran developing a ‘vetting system’ for Strait of Hormuz transit: Report - Al Jazeera
Lloyd’s List reports that ships could be allowed to pass through ‘safe corridor’ once they are approved by IRGC.

Trump mulls risky Kharg Island takeover to force Iran to open strait - Axios
Such a ground operation would put U.S. troops more directly in harm's way.

An immigration court few have heard of is quietly shaping policy behind the scenes - NPR
President Trump has slashed the number of people on the Board of Immigration Appeals and stacked it with his appointees, tightening the due process available for immigrants, an NPR analysis shows.

Trump stretches ‘America First’ on Iran. His voters are going along with it. - Politico
Still, his hold could grow more tenuous if the number of U.S. casualties rises and the war stretches into the summer.