Keeping up with America

• Travelers looking to fly out of a modern, attractive airport with efficient security, tasteful restaurants and top-notch shopping should bypass the U.S. According to aviation ranking website Skytrax, only one U.S. airport ranks among the top 20 in the world — Seattle-Tacoma Airport in Washington state, at No. 18.

• It would be easy to mistake Detroit artist Richard Phillips for a highly-trained master of his field. But the 75-year-old man only had his first exhibit in 2019 and might be America's unlikeliest art phenom. Phillips was arrested for murder in 1971. He was exonerated in 2018, but for 46 years, he was wrongfully incarcerated. To pass the time and temper the injustice, he painted.

• The Army has launched an investigation after a member of its Golden Knights parachute team died from injuries he sustained during a training jump. Army officials identified the parachutist as Sgt. 1st Class Michael Ty Kettenhofen, who joined the U.S. Army Golden Knights in 2020. He had jumped more than 1,000 times with the Army.

• Officials are monitoring the clean-up of a leak of 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) of radioactive water from a local nuclear power plant in Minnesota. Xcel Energy, the utility company that runs the plant, said the spillage was "fully contained on-site and has not been detected beyond the facility".

• Thousands of people are believed to have lost their savings after investing in a cryptocurrency trading app called iEarn Bot. Experts who have investigated the company say it could be one of the largest crypto scandals to date.

Daily World News

• A former police commander was found guilty of criminal negligence for his role managing crowd control at a packed Indonesian soccer stadium last year, while two other police officials were acquitted on charges related to the sporting disaster that killed more than 130 people.

• China's President Xi Jinping will travel to Moscow next week to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials say. The Kremlin said they would discuss a "comprehensive partnership and strategic co-operation".

• When French President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected last year he vowed to turn the page on his tendency to exercise power in a style he once described as “Jupiterian,” a reference to the king of the gods in ancient Roman mythology. (More)

Business & Tech

• Ideas for finding ET are getting more inventive (More)

• UK ministers banned from using Chinese-owned app on government phones (More)

• Virgin Orbit to pause all operations from Thursday (More)

Wealthy Wise

• Here's who made money amid the Silicon Valley Bank turmoil (More) | More Americans say they can't pay their bills. Here are the states where it's worst. (More)

• Elon Musk Sends Cryptic Message About the Banking Crisis | Luc Olinga, Yahoo Finance. The crisis of confidence in the banking system continues to intensify, despite rescue plans for banks that are showing signs of weakness. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on March 10 after a run by depositors who were worried about losing all their funds in the event of a bankruptcy. The billionaire CEO of Tesla said that the current financial system is inefficient.

• Here's how far a $100K salary goes in the most — and least — affordable U.S. cities (More)

Sports and Entertainment

• Iowa State points out crooked rim but still can't shoot straight in blowout loss to Pitt (More) | Jimmy G sends 49ers parting message in first Raiders presser (More)

• Denzel Washington in Talks to Join Paul Mescal in ‘Gladiator’ Sequel (More) | ‘SNL’ Strike Threat Lifted for Now as Postproduction Workers Reach Tentative Deal With Management (More)

• Drew Barrymore has hilarious reaction to Hugh Grant dissing her singing ability (More) | Why Freddie Prinze Jr. says he nearly left acting after 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (More)

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