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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1804, President Thomas Jefferson received a giant loaf of bread, called the mammoth loaf, to accompany the remnants of a 1,200-pound block of cheese sent by women from Massachusetts.

In our Throwback Thursday section today, we're looking back at 15 things that got banned from American schools in the 1980s. Rubik's Cubes, Walkmans, chain wallets... the list might bring back some memories. What got confiscated at your school? Reply to this email and let us know.

Planning a summer getaway just got more complicated. In today’s Flyover Podcast, host Amy Hess shares details from a new report on how changing conditions are rewriting the rules for booking flights. Should you book now or hold off? Tune in to hear what industry insiders are saying. Watch Now!

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Jury Rules Social Media Liable for Teen's Addiction

A Los Angeles jury ruled Wednesday that Meta and YouTube must pay a combined $6 million in damages to a 20-year-old woman who said the platforms hooked her as a child through design features like infinite scroll, autoplay, and algorithmically timed notifications.

The plaintiff, known as K.G.M., testified she began using YouTube at 6 and Instagram at 9, eventually spending 16 hours in a single day on Instagram, spiraling into depression, anxiety, and body dysmorphia.

Jurors targeted platform design itself as a defective product, a legal theory one tech policy professor compared to the tobacco lawsuits.

More than 1,500 similar suits against Meta, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok are pending in California courts alone.

Iran Rejects Ceasefire, Issues Counterproposal

Iran on Wednesday rejected Trump's ceasefire proposal and issued a five-point counterproposal demanding war reparations, guarantees against future attacks, and full sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's foreign minister told state media the country doesn't want a ceasefire, saying it'll end the war on its own terms.

The White House insisted talks remain "productive," even as the U.S. deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to supplement roughly 50,000 troops already in the region.

An Iranian drone attack Wednesday ignited a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, while Israel continued striking targets in Tehran.

Baseball Season Opens Today

The 2026 MLB season officially opens today with 11 games across the country, following Wednesday night's streaming opener on Netflix between the Yankees and the Giants. See today's schedule here.

All eyes are on the Los Angeles Dodgers, who enter the season as back-to-back World Series champions with a league-leading $398 million payroll. Tickets to tonight's home opener in LA are averaging $392 on the resale market, making it the most expensive Opening Day game in MLB history.

This season brings the sport's biggest rule change in years: the automated ball-strike challenge system. Players can now challenge an umpire's ball-or-strike call by tapping their helmet, triggering an instant review using Hawk-Eye camera technology.

The Dodgers are +230 favorites to win the World Series, well ahead of the Yankees (10-1), Mariners (12-1), and Mets (13-1). The longest odds sit at 500-1 for the Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals.

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➤ Should you book your summer flights now or risk waiting? (Hear Details)

➤ More than 480 TSA officers have quit since the DHS shutdown began. (Hear Episode)

➤ Is it better to take a walk in the morning or at night? Science has answers. (Listen Now)

➤ A GOP-backed deal to end the 40-day DHS shutdown has stalled under criticism from both Democrats demanding ICE reforms and conservative Republicans uneasy about splitting off ICE funding, as wait times at airports continue to grow. (More)

➤ The White House said President Trump will travel to Beijing on May 14-15 for a rescheduled summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, delayed from late March due to the Iran war. (More)

➤ Democrat Emily Gregory flipped a Florida state House seat in the district that includes Mar-a-Lago, defeating Trump-endorsed Republican Jon Maples by about 2.4 points. (More)

➤ The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that internet providers can't be held liable for copyright infringement by subscribers, reversing a $1 billion verdict against Cox Communications. (See Details)

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➤ U.S. Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin won the women's overall World Cup skiing title this week for the sixth time in her career, tying her with Annemarie Moser-Pröll for the sport’s all-time record. (More)

➤ Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker and potential Hall of Famer Lavonte David announced his retirement from football after 14 seasons in the NFL. (More)

➤ LA Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua denied recent accusations that he violently bit a woman and shouted an antisemitic remark at a party late last year. He’s now pursuing a defamation lawsuit related to the matter. (More)

➤ A Texas town with less than 1,400 residents is spending $21 million to build a state-of-the-art football and athletics complex for the city’s high school. (More)

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➤ The Sweet Sixteen tips off today with matchups between Texas vs. Purdue, Iowa vs. Nebraska, Arkansas vs. Arizona, and Houston vs. Illinois. (See Schedule)

➤ UNC fired men’s basketball coach Hubert Davis, the school announced Tuesday night, after his team was upset by No. 11 seed VCU in the tournament’s first round. (More)

➤ Butler named Ronald Nored, who played on the team's iconic 2010 and 2011 March Madness teams, as its next head coach. Nored was a teammate of Gordon Hayward on the 2010 squad that famously came within a half-court shot of the national title. (More)

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Daily Market Report 03/25/2026

▲	NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	21,929.83	0.77%
▲	SPX S&P 500	6,591.90	0.54%
▲	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	46,429.49	0.66%
▲	BTC Bitcoin	$71,021.00	0.71%
▲	GOLD Per Ounce	$4,502.80	2.35%
▲	SILVER Per Ounce	$71.26	2.87%
▼	OIL West Texas Intermediate Crude	$91.35	-1.08%
▲	SRPT Sarepta Therapeutics	$23.77	+34.98%

Bitcoin, gold, silver, and oil are traded 24 hours a day.

➤ Big Stock Move: Sarepta Therapeutics stock jumped 35% on Wednesday after the company posted initial trial data for experimental drugs targeted at two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. (More)

➤ The EPA temporarily waived summer air-pollution rules on gasoline, allowing higher-ethanol fuel blends starting May 1 to help ease pump prices that have surged more than 30% since the Iran war began. (More)

➤ Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly targeting as much as $75 billion in its upcoming IPO, more than double the largest public offering ever, with a June debut still planned. (More)

➤ United Airlines is introducing a Relax Row option on long-haul flights, letting passengers book three economy seats in a row that transform into a lie-flat couch after takeoff. (See Photo)

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➤ Archaeologists believe they've found the skeleton of the famous French musketeer d'Artagnan beneath a Dutch church, with a musket ball at chest level matching accounts of the legendary musketeer's death in 1673. (See Discovery)

➤ NASA is one week away from launching the Artemis 2 mission, which will send four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the Moon. It will be the first crewed lunar voyage since Apollo 17 in 1972. (More)

➤ A photograph of a young Iberian lynx playfully tossing a rodent into the air won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award with nearly 86,000 votes. (See Photos)

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Throwback Thursday is brought to you by:

➤ From playground toys to fashion statements, American schools banned a surprising list of 15 everyday items in the 1980s. (See List)

➤ Fifty old-school photographs capture everyday coolness from decades past, from old parking lots to celebrity candids that feel like time capsules. (See Photos)

➤ Vintage watch collecting comes with a language all its own, from "tropical" dials to "ghost" bezels, and the details that separate a treasure from a trinket may surprise newcomers. (See Guide)

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➤ First Lady Melania Trump made White House history Wednesday by entering a tech summit alongside an American-made humanoid robot that greeted guests in 11 languages. (Watch Video)

➤ Seven dogs stolen for China's illegal dog meat trade chewed through their cage, escaped a moving truck, and trekked 10 miles home led by a corgi named Big Fatty. (See Details)

➤ Dame Sarah Mullally became the first woman to lead the Church of England in its nearly 1,400-year history, enthroned on Wednesday at Canterbury Cathedral before 2,000 guests. (More)

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