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Alysa Liu at the 2025 World Championships

The 2025 World Figure Skating Championships were held from March 26 to 30, 2025, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union, the World Figure Skating Championships are considered the most prestigious event in figure skating. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The competition determined the entry quotas for each skating federation to the 2026 Winter Olympics. Ilia Malinin of the United States won the men's event for the second time, while Alysa Liu (pictured), also of the United States, won the women's event while accomplishing a personal-best score in the short program and free skating routines. Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan won the pairs event, earning their second title, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States won the ice dance event for the third consecutive year. (Full article...)

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... that a purported "Clinton plan" cited by Trump officials came from Russian intelligence material later described as likely disinformation?
... that the album Duetos, despite receiving mixed reviews, sold more than 100,000 copies within three weeks of release?
... that Jade Jones, Great Britain's first Olympic gold medallist in taekwondo, now competes as a boxer?
... that a reviewer called a Justin Timberlake song a "clunky jungle-as-sex metaphor"?
... that designs for the 1932 Broadway production of Alice in Wonderland mirrored the original novel's illustrations "down to the smallest prop"?
... that winter snows were so deep in Castelluccio di Norcia that residents dug tunnels to reach the church?
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The Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured), remain the largest party after the Danish general election, with no political bloc winning a majority of seats.
In Italy, voters reject a reform of the judicial system in a constitutional referendum.
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In mathematics, Gerd Faltings is awarded the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry.

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March 30: Land Day in Palestinian communities (1976)

George I of Greece

1730 – The Author's Farce, by Henry Fielding, premiered at the Little Theatre in London.
1861 – British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using flame spectroscopy.
1863 – George I (pictured) became King of the Hellenes.
1921 – The Australian Air Corps was disbanded, to be replaced the following day by the Australian Air Force.
1950 – Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.
2009 – The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries.

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Disturbed

The discography of Disturbed, an American heavy-metal band, includes eight studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and one extended play. Disturbed formed when guitarist Dan Donegan, drummer Mike Wengren and bassist Steve "Fuzz" Kmak hired vocalist David Draiman in 1996. Giant Records released their debut album, The Sickness, in March 2000. The album reached the top 30 on the United States' Billboard 200, and the Australian ARIA Charts. Since its release, The Sickness was certified five-times platinum in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Disturbed released their second studio album, Believe, in September 2002. It peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200. The album Immortalized (2015) featured a cover of "The Sound of Silence", which became their highest-peaking song on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 42 and was certified nine-times platinum by the RIAA. (Full list...)

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St. Louis Woman is a 1946 American musical by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It is based on the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. The musical opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on March 30, 1946, and ran for 113 performances. The original cast included Robert Pope (Badfoot), Harold Nicholas (Little Augie), Fayard Nicholas (Barney), June Hawkins (Lilli), Pearl Bailey (Butterfly), Ruby Hill (Della Green), Rex Ingram (Biglow Brown), and Milton J. Williams (Mississippi). The production's scenic designer and costume designer was Lemuel Ayers. This photographic portrait, taken in 1946 by Carl Van Vechten, shows Pearl Bailey posing in costume as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman.

Photograph credit: Carl Van Vechten; restored by Adam Cuerden

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