Dancers rehearse at Abbey Road's Studio One in London on Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)2025-04-03T14:36:01Z LONDON (AP) In Abbey Roads Studio One, even a lick of paint could ruin everything.Famous for hosting Adele, Harry Styles and U2, its where the scores of Star Wars, Harry Potter and Wicked were recorded, as well as the soundtracks of blockbuster games like Call of Duty, Halo and Final Fantasy. Its also where Ryan Gosling delivered his memorable Im Just Ken for Barbie.Nearly a century after its opening, Studio One underwent a six-month, multimillion-pound refurbishment, with the main priority being the preservation of one very important thing: the sound.What we dont want to do is change the acoustics, so every minute detail in the room has been conserved and preserved, so the sound doesnt shift, said Sally Davies, managing director of Abbey Road Studios.The reverb of the 4,844-square-foot (450-square-meter) room has been maintained at 2.3 seconds, the same as it was in the 1970s. Theres been no redecorating or style makeover, leaving the original Art Deco wall panels untouched.We have simply washed down the walls to preserve that sound, said Davies, adding that the floor was re-sanded and oiled, but not varnished. Most of the upgrades, she explained, are technological upgrades in the control room. This room is just about preserving that magic. A pilgrimage for music fansOpened in 1931, this hallowed hall once a nine-bedroom house on a grand suburban street in Londons St. Johns Wood neighborhood became the worlds first recording studio. Its where stereo was invented and its visited every day by music fans from around the world, who are happy just to stand on the street outside.Davies says that more than a million people a year make a pilgrimage to the crossing outside, many to recreate the cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album and that number could increase after Sam Mendes upcoming biopics starring Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson and Joseph Quinn as the Fab Four. And while John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are famously known for using Studio Two, they also made history in the larger Studio One, which they used for the worlds first global live performance, a rendition of All You Need Is Love beamed to television sets around the world in 1967.Before The Beatles, Studio One had already cemented its place in music history, when it was opened by British composer Sir Edward Elgar, who recorded his Land of Hope and Glory with the London Symphony Orchestra. Its also hosted other music greats like Maria Callas, Igor Stravinsky, Daniel Barenboim, Fats Waller and Glenn Miller.Due to its huge size, more than double Studio Two, it can fit a 100-piece orchestra and 100-member choir at the same time which is perfect for recording film soundtracks, and explains why six to seven out of every 10 Hollywood films are scored at Abbey Road, according to the studio. History being madeStanding on the balcony, overlooking the 40-foot-high (12-meter-high) room, Davies points out the original screen that was used to show Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) while musicians played along to record the soundtrack.Since then, everything from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Marvels Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy to Barbie were scored in Studio One. For the last, all the musicians came in with something pink, whether a pink instrument or piece of clothing.Oscar-nominated composer Daniel Pemberton has been recording in Studio One since 2009 and calls his creative home a spectacular space.Outside, it just looks like a normal house. And then you come in and you find this space in it thats like almost the size of a football pitch. In fact, I have played football in there once, he laughs.Pemberton is known for scoring Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse, Ferrari, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and creating the Slow Horses theme song and Strange Game, with Mick Jagger.Whats so exciting about a room like Studio One is what happens on the day is what happens for the rest of time, he says. Its like history is being made, whether its good history or bad history or whatever, youre making a moment then. Pemberton notes the stories, whether personal or musical, that have unfolded within the walls of Studio One. The ghosts are insane in there, he said.Davies agrees that the history adds to the enchantment.You walk into this room and you can feel it. There is a magic in the sound. It sounds phenomenal. There is a spirituality in who has been here, who has performed here, she says. So when we see artists come through, you know that immediate reaction of, Oh my gosh. Im in Studio One.To celebrate the reopening this week, Abbey Road Studios showcased an unusual art form for the space: dance, which incorporated Pembertons scores, remixed by resident artist Jordan Rakei and choreographed by Joseph Toonga. It kind of like threw me back a bit like, wow, it really is big, said Toonga of the first time he saw the studio. He then incorporated that feeling into a dance which spanned hip-hop, krumping and ballet.Up next, the first client to record in Studio One since the refurbishment is a hush-hush Hollywood franchise. But there are lots of secrets at Abbey Road. One of them is Pembertons plan to record the unique rattling sound of the new railings for a movie soundtrack.There was concern that the hollow, Art Deco-style bars would upset the acoustics of the room, and a backup plan was made to fill them with sand if they messed with the reverb.Luckily, the empty bars were allowed to stay because Pemberton is delighted by the noise they make when you run past them with keys its another dramatic sound that can only be created in Studio One and will make its way into theaters around the world, via a film score.___This story has been corrected to show that Studio One can fit a 100-piece orchestra and 100-member choir at the same time, not 110 each, and that the managing director is named Sally Davies, not Sally Davis.

El presidente Donald Trump en el evento en que anunci nuevos aranceles en la Casa Blanca el 2 de abril del 2025. (AP foto/Mark Schiefelbein)2025-04-03T22:21:41Z WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trumps attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states clear authority to run their own elections.The lawsuit is the fourth against the executive order issued just a week ago. It seeks to block key aspects of it, including new requirements that people provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote and a demand that all mail ballots be received by Election Day.The President has no power to do any of this, the state attorneys general wrote in court documents. The Elections EO is unconstitutional, antidemocratic, and un-American.Trumps order said the U.S. has failed to enforce basic and necessary election protection. Election officials have said recent elections have been among the most secure in U.S. history. There has been no indication of any widespread fraud, including when Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. The order is the culmination of Trumps longstanding complaints about how U.S. elections are run. After his first win in 2016, Trump falsely claimed his popular vote total would have been much higher if not for millions of people who voted illegally. In 2020, Trump blamed a rigged election for his loss and falsely claimed widespread voter fraud and manipulation of voting machines. Trump has argued his order secures the vote against illegal voting by noncitizens, though multiple studies and investigations in the states have shown that its rare. It has received praise from the top election officials in some Republican states who say it could inhibit instances of voter fraud and will give them access to federal data to better maintain their voter rolls.The order also requires states to exclude any mail-in or absentee ballots received after Election Day, and puts states federal funding at risk if election officials dont comply. Some states count ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day or allow voters to correct minor errors on their ballots. Forcing states to change, the suit says, would violate the broad authority the Constitution gives states to set their own election rules. It says they decide the times, places and manner of how elections are run.Congress has the power to make or alter election regulations, at least for federal office, but the Constitution doesnt mention any presidential authority over election administration.We are a democracy not a monarchy and this executive order is an authoritarian power grab, said New York Attorney General Letitia James.A request sent to the White House was not immediately returned.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts by the Democratic attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.Other lawsuits filed over the order argue it could disenfranchise voters because millions of eligible voting-age Americans do not have the proper documents readily available. People are already required to attest to being citizens, under penalty of perjury, in order to vote. Under the order, documents acceptable to prove citizenship would be a U.S. passport, a REAL ID-compliant drivers license that indicates the applicant is a citizen, and a valid photo ID as long as it is presented with proof of citizenship.Democrats argue that millions of Americans do not have easy access to their birth certificates, about half dont have a U.S. passport, and married women would need multiple documents if they had changed their name. That was a complication for some women during recent town elections in New Hampshire, the first ones held under a new state law requiring proof of citizenship to register.Not all REAL ID-compliant drivers licenses designate U.S. citizenship.___Cassidy reported from Atlanta. LINDSAY WHITEHURST Whitehurst covers the Supreme Court, legal affairs and criminal justice for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Past stops include Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Indiana. twitter mailto

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)2025-04-03T23:28:40Z WASHINGTON (AP) After a long wait, the Senate is launching action on President Donald Trumps big, beautiful bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at a risky moment for the U.S. and global economy. More than a month after House Republicans surprised Washington by advancing their framework for Trumps tax breaks and spending cuts package, Senate Republicans voted Thursday to start working on their version. The 52-48 vote sets the stage for back-to-back Senate all-nighters spilling into Friday and the weekend. But work on the multitrillion-dollar package is coming as markets at home and abroad are on edge in the aftermath Trumps vast tariffs scheme, complicating an already difficult political and procedural undertaking.Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., opened the chamber Thursday saying they were expected to begin as soon as today embarking on what they hope will become the GOPs signature domestic policy package. Trump says hes on board and Republicans, in control of Congress, are eager to show the party is making progress toward delivering on their campaign promises. After that, its still long weeks, if not months, to go toward a final product. Democrats, as the minority party, dont have the votes to stop the GOP plan. But they intend to use the procedural tools available to prolong the process. Democrats argue that Republicans are focusing on tax breaks for the wealthy at the expense of the programs and services millions of Americans rely on for help with health care, child care, school lunches and other everyday needs. Theyre mean, theyre nasty, theyre uncaring, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said about the Republicans.Senate Democrats are ready to spend the night and day ahead with floor debates over potential GOP cuts to Medicaid, veterans programs, DOGE cuts and the impact of Trumps tariffs. We, tonight and tomorrow, are going to show just who they are, Schumer said. Fundamental to the Senate package is making sure Trumps first-term tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of the year, are continued and made a permanent fixture of the tax code. The senators also will consider adding Trumps proposed tax cuts on tipped wages, Social Security income and others.The Senate package also would bolster border security funds by some $175 billion to carry out Trumps mass deportation campaign, which is running short of cash, and it would add national security funds for the Pentagon all priorities the Senate GOP tucked into an earlier version that was panned by House Republicans. Whats unclear is how it will all be paid for, since Republican deficit hawks typically require spending offsets to help defray the lost tax revenue and avoid piling onto the nations $36 trillion debt load.While House Republicans approved their package with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and up to $2 trillion in spending cuts, the Senate Republicans are taking a different tack.Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is making the case that since the existing Trump tax breaks are the current policy, they are not considered new, and do not need to be offset with reductions in spending an approach Democrats compare to going nuclear with the normal rules. Democrats are vowing to put the strategy to the test before the Senate parliamentarian. Instead, Senate Republicans are considering offsets mostly for any new Trump tax breaks. Raising alarms from the most conservative budget hawks, the senators have set a floor of about $4 billion in budget reductions to health and other programs a fraction of the packages expected $4 trillion-plus price tag for tax breaks. GOP leaders are assuring the deficit hawks within their own ranks that the legislation says the cuts can rise to as much as $2 trillion.After an expected Friday night vote-a-rama, with dozens of amendments being offered to the package, the senators are planning to stay into Saturday if needed to take a final vote to approve it, sending it to the House for action. The House and Senate will ultimately need to merge their frameworks into a final product, expected in May, but House Speaker Mike Johnsons intention to have it all wrapped up by Memorial Day could prove optimistic.The political environment is uncertain, and the publics appetite for steep budget cuts is being tested in real time, with Trumps Department of Government Efficiency headed by billionaire Elon Musk blazing through federal offices, firing thousands of workers and shuttering long-running government mainstays from scientific research projects on diseases to educational services for schoolchildren to offices that help with Social Security, tax filing and the weather.At the same time, the staunchest fiscal conservatives in both the House and Senate, many aligned with the Freedom Caucus, are pushing for even more cuts. Trump told senators publicly and privately this week he would have their backs, particularly when it comes to standing up for the spending reductions. At a White House announcing the tariffs Wednesday, Trump said the Senate plan had his complete and total support.The presidents steep tariffs threw the global economy into a tailspin Thursday, with stocks down around the world, the U.S. markets leading the way.__Associated Press writers Leah Askarinam and Kevin Freking contributed to this report.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP, File)2025-04-03T20:34:17Z WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration may have acted in bad faith by trying to rush Venezuelan migrants out of the country before a court could block their deportations to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James Jeb Boasberg in Washington pressed a Justice Department lawyer to explain the governments actions in a high-stakes court hearing to determine whether the administration ignored his orders to turn around planes that were carrying deportees to El Salvador. The judge said he could issue a ruling as soon as next week on whether there are grounds to find anyone in contempt of court for defying the court order. The case has become a flashpoint in a battle between the judiciary and the Trump administration amid mounting White House frustrations over court orders blocking key parts of the presidents sweeping agenda. Trump has called for the judges impeachment, while the Justice Department has argued the judge is overstepping his authority. Boasberg ordered the administration last month not to deport anyone in its custody under the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime law Trump invoked over what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The judge also ordered that any planes with Venezuelan immigrants that were already in the air be returned to the United States. That did not happen. Boasberg, who was appointed to the federal bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, said it appeared the administration had tried to get the deportees out of the country as quickly as possible before a court could step in. He told a Justice Department lawyer he suspects the government may have acted in bad faith throughout that day. If you really believed anything you did that day could survive a court challenge, I cannot believe you would have operated the way you did, Boasberg said. The Justice Department has said the administration didnt violate the judges order, arguing it didnt apply to planes that had already left U.S. airspace by the time his command came down. The Justice Department has noted that the judges written order said nothing about flights that had already left the U.S. and that the judge had no power to compel the president to return the planes anyway. The Trump administration has refused to answer the judges questions about when the planes landed and who was on board, contending they are considered state secrets. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign told the judge that details about the flights could be diplomatically sensitive, since the migrants were being sent to a third country that had agreed with the U.S. to hold them in their prison. Ensign also repeatedly said he didnt know any operational details of those March 15 deportation flights. I had no knowledge from my client that was the case, Ensign replied when asked if he knew during the court hearing that day that planes were already in the air or were about to take off.The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act. The Justice Department says federal courts shouldnt interfere with sensitive diplomatic negotiations. It also claimed that migrants should make their case in a federal court in Texas, where they are being detained. LINDSAY WHITEHURST Whitehurst covers the Supreme Court, legal affairs and criminal justice for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Past stops include Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Indiana. twitter mailto

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Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)2025-04-03T20:11:33Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Koreas Constitutional Court is set to rule Friday on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after the conservative leader threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.The court was scheduled to issue its verdict in a nationally televised session to begin at 11 a.m. A ruling to uphold parliaments impeachment and remove Yoon from office requires the support of at least six of the courts eight justices.If the court orders Yoon removed, South Korea must hold a new presidential election within two months. If the court overturns his impeachment, Yoon will immediately return to presidential duties.Facing worries of potential violence after the ruling, police deployed crowd-control measures to their fullest extent. By Friday morning, they created an airtight maze of portable walls, folding fences, fiberglass barricades, and hundreds of buses and vans some of their wheels were tied together with ropes to prevent protesters from moving them to seal off nearly every road and alley leading to the court. Officers guarded the narrow gaps between vehicles and barricades, directing pedestrians through designated channels, checking IDs, and instructing them to walk only in a straight direction. Thousands of Yoon opponents rallied in nearby streets overnight, waving banners and sitting on the road with plastic cushions as they awaited the court ruling. The military said it plans to heighten its own surveillance posture. Yoons declaration of martial law on Dec. 3 lasted only six hours before he was forced to lift it after the liberal opposition-controlled legislature quickly managed to vote it down. Later in December, the assembly impeached Yoon, suspending his powers and sending his case to the Constitutional Court. Yoon is facing a separate criminal trial for alleged rebellion. Whatever Fridays verdict is, experts predict it will further deepen domestic divides. In the past four months, millions have taken to the streets to denounce or support Yoon, deepening South Koreas already severe conservative-liberal division. The most contentious issue at Yoons impeachment trial was why he sent hundreds of troops and police officers to the National Assembly, election offices and other places after declaring martial law.Yoon has said he dispatched soldiers to the assembly to maintain order and that his declaration of martial law was a desperate attempt to bring attention to the wickedness of the main liberal opposition Democratic Party. But senior military and police officials who were sent to the assembly have testified Yoon ordered them to detain rival politicians and prevent the assembly from voting to lift his order.Although the period of martial law ended without violence, the impeachment motion accuses Yoon of violating the constitution and other laws by suppressing assembly activities, attempting to detain politicians and undermining peace.Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the countrys acting leader, has repeatedly urged the rival sides to accept whatever ruling the court makes. HYUNG-JIN KIM Hyung-jin is an Associated Press reporter in Seoul, South Korea. He reports on security, political and other general news on the Korean Peninsula. twitter mailto KIM TONG-HYUNG Kim has been covering the Koreas for the AP since 2014. He has published widely read stories on North Koreas nuclear ambitions, the dark side of South Koreas economic rise and international adoptions of Korean children. twitter mailto

Passersby walk past Sayles Hall on Brown University's campus in Providence, R.I., May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)2025-04-04T00:26:27Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University, adding to a list of Ivy League colleges that have had their federal money threatened as a result of their responses to antisemitism, a White House official said Thursday. Nearly $510 million in federal contracts and grants are on the line, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the plan and spoke on condition of anonymity. In an email Thursday to campus leaders, Brown Provost Frank Doyle said the university was aware of troubling rumors about government action on its research money. At this moment, we have no information to substantiate any of these rumors, Doyle said. Brown would be the fifth Ivy League college targeted by President Donald Trumps administration, which is using federal money to enforce its agenda at colleges. Dozens of universities including every Ivy League school except Penn and Dartmouth are facing federal investigations into antisemitism following a wave of pro-Palestinian protests last year. Columbia University was the first one targeted, losing $400 million in federal money with threats to terminate more if it didnt make the campus safer for Jewish students. The school agreed to several demands from the government last month, including an overhaul of student discipline rules and a review of the schools Middle East studies department. The government later suspended about $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer who previously competed for the school. On Monday, a federal antisemitism task force said it was reviewing almost $9 billion in federal grants and contracts at Harvard University amid an investigation into campus antisemitism. And on Tuesday, Princeton University said the administration had halted dozens of its research grants. The pressure has created a dilemma for U.S. colleges, which rely on federal research funding as a major source of revenue.Trumps administration has promised a more aggressive approach against campus antisemitism, accusing former President Joe Biden of letting schools off the hook. It has opened new investigations at colleges and detained and deported several foreign students with ties to pro-Palestinian protests. An incoming assistant professor of medicine at Brown was deported to Lebanon last month for having openly admitted to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral, the Department of Homeland Security said. During last school years campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war, Brown stood out for a deal it struck with student activists. In exchange for the students dismantling an encampment, the university committed to having its governing board vote on whether to divest from companies that protesters said were facilitating Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.The Corporation of Brown rejected the divestment proposal.___AP Education Writer Collin Binkley contributed. Mumphrey reported from Phoenix.___The Associated Press education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Mumphrey is a national writer who covers higher education. twitter mailto SEUNG MIN KIM Seung Min is a White House reporter. twitter mailto

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A screen displays financial news as traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)2025-04-04T03:29:20Z HONG KONG (AP) Asian markets retreated Friday after Wall Street shuddered with a level of shock unseen since the COVID-19 impact tore on Trumps latest set of tariffs damage on the worlds economy.Futures for U.S. stocks and the oil prices declined.Tokyos Nikkei 225 lost 2.6% to 33,818.18, and Koreas Kospi fell 0.8% to 2,467.14 after the two countries pivoted to negotiating lower tariffs with Trumps administration.Australias S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.9% to 7,713.60. Chinese markets were closed for a holiday.Trump announced a minimum tariff of 10% on imports, with the tax rate running much higher on products from certain countries like China and those from the European Union. Its plausible the tariffs altogether, which would rival levels unseen in roughly a century, could knock down U.S. economic growth by 2 percentage points this year and raise inflation close to 5%, according to UBS. Such a hit would be so big that it makes ones rational mind regard the possibility of them sticking as low, according to Bhanu Baweja and other strategists at UBS.Trump has previously said tariffs could cause a little disturbance in the economy and markets, and on Thursday he again downplayed the impact as he left the White House to fly to Florida. The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom and the country is going to boom, Trump said.The S&P 500 sank 4.8% to 5,396.52 Thursday, more than in major markets across Asia and Europe, for its worst day since the pandemic crashed the economy in 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 4% to 40,545.93, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 6% to 16,550.61. Little was spared in financial markets as fear flared about the potentially toxic mix of weakening economic growth and higher inflation that tariffs can create. Everything from crude oil to Big Tech stocks to the value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies fell. Even gold, which hit records recently as investors sought something safer to own, pulled lower. Some of the worst hits walloped smaller U.S. companies, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks dropped 6.6% to pull more than 20% below its record. Investors knew Trump was going to announce sweeping new tariffs, and fears surrounding it had already pulled Wall Streets main measure of health, the S&P 500 index, 10% below its all-time high. But Trump still managed to surprise them with the worst case scenario for tariffs, according to Mary Ann Bartels, chief investment officer at Sanctuary Wealth. Wall Street had long assumed Trump would use tariffs merely as a tool for negotiations, rather than as a long-term policy. But Wednesdays announcement may suggest Trump sees tariffs more as helping to solve an ideological goal than as an opening bet in a poker game. Trump talked about wresting manufacturing jobs back to the United States, which could take years. If Trump follows through on his tariffs, stock prices may need to fall much more than 10% from their all-time high in order to reflect the recession that could follow, along with the hit to profits that U.S. companies could take. The S&P 500 is now down 11.8% from its record set in February. Markets may actually be underreacting, especially if these rates turn out to be final, given the potential knock-on effects to global consumption and trade, said Sean Sun, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management, though he sees Trumps announcement as more of an opening move than an endpoint for policy.Trump offered an upbeat reaction after he was asked about the markets drop as he left the White House to fly to his Florida golf club on Thursday.I think its going very well, he said. We have an operation, like when a patient gets operated on and its a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is.One wild card is that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates in order to support the economy. Thats what it had been doing late last year before pausing in 2025. Lower interest rates help by making it easier for U.S. companies and households to borrow and spend. Yields on Treasurys tumbled in part on rising expectations for coming cuts to rates, along with general fear about the health of the U.S. economy. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.04% from 4.20% late Wednesday and from roughly 4.80% in January. Thats a huge move for the bond market.The Fed may have less freedom to move than it would like, though. While lower rates can goose the economy, they can also push up inflation. And worries are worsening about that because of tariffs, with U.S. households in particular bracing for sharp increases to their bills.The U.S. economy at the moment is still growing, of course. A report Thursday said fewer U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week. Economist had been expecting to see an uptick in joblessness, and a relatively solid job market has been the linchpin keeping the economy out of recession. A separate report said activity for U.S. transportation, finance and other businesses in the services industry grew last month. But the growth was weaker than expected, and businesses gave a mixed picture of how they see conditions.Worries about a potentially stagnating economy and high inflation knocked down all kinds of stocks, leading to drops for four out of every five that make up the S&P 500. Best Buy fell 17.8% because the electronics that it sells are made all over the world. United Airlines lost 15.6% because customers worried about the global economy may not fly as much for business or feel comfortable enough to take vacations. Target tumbled 10.9% amid worries that its customers, already squeezed by still-high inflation, may be under even more stress. In other trading early Friday, the U.S. dollar rose to 146.05 from 145.93 Japanese yen. The euro gained to $1.1068 from $1.1052.

Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson celebrates his team's victory over Tennessee in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)2025-04-03T21:19:35Z Follow APs full coverage of March Madness.Get the AP Top 25 mens college basketball poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. SAN ANTONIO (AP) A decade ago, Bruce Pearl of Auburn and Kelvin Sampson of Houston were emerging from exile two coaches who had been handed the harshest sanction imaginable by the NCAA and were looking to resurrect their once-successful careers. This week, theyre both coaching at the Final Four, the show-cause penalties that once stood as a scarlet letter in college sports now barely visible in their rearview mirrors. Their ascension from pariahs to the cusp of a championship Auburn plays Florida in one semifinal Saturday, while Houston faces Duke in the other look different, but no less impressive when viewed through the lens of the shifting priorities that have overtaken college sports over the last four years. The recruiting misdeeds that nearly submarined their careers seem almost quaint now in a cash-saturated world of name, image, likeness endorsement deals for players who can move around as freely as the coaches while the coaches worry as much about what the schools can pay them as the players they recruit. I can make a case that its easier if you have the funds to compete at the NIL level, Tennessee coach Rick Barnes told The Associated Press recently. If you dont, it makes it really difficult. I think thats where administrators have to realize: Are we giving coaches what they need to be at the level we want to? Coaching carousel brings questions about players, tooTheres nothing new about the college coaching carousel kicking into full swing this time of year. Whats unusual about 2025 is the nature of some of the moves. Five high-profile changes were made by coaches who won at least a game in March Madness. That was two more than last year, four more than in 2023 and two more than 2019, two years before NIL started.But while virtually all those moves were seen as steps up for the coaches taking new jobs nobody blinked when, say, Dusty May went from Florida Atlantic to Michigan or Nate Oats left Buffalo for Alabama this year seems different. In a move dripping with recriminations, bad feelings and a departing athletic director, Kevin Willard left a Power Four school at Maryland to coach a non-P4 school, albeit one with a better hoops resume, at Villanova. The next domino had Buzz Williams departing the SEC and the Texas A&M program he built to fill the opening at Maryland. One of the more traditional moves involved Will Wade, also a show-cause casualty from a now seemingly bygone era, parlaying success at McNeese to return to the big time, at North Carolina State of the ACC.Wades involvement in paying for recruits cost him his job at LSU and wrapped him in an FBI investigation that sent coaches to jail and, he said, ruined a lot of peoples lives for very little reason. That none of what he did would be considered wrong in todays world of above-the-table NIL payments to players is no excuse for him, he said. It wasnt right to do then and, you know, I paid for it, Wade told the AP after his hiring at NC State. Pearl, Sampson had recruiting tussles that would barely register todayThe stumbling blocks for both Sampson and Pearl also had to do with recruiting. Sampson made too many phone calls to a player who had already given verbal commitments to another school. Pearl invited a recruit to a barbecue at his house, then lied about it. Decades before that, Pearl was an assistant at Iowa when he recorded a call in which he asked a player, Deon Thomas, if an Illinois assistant had offered him a car as a recruiting enticement. Pearl didnt get in trouble for that one, though his reputation suffered and it took him nearly 15 years before hed get another chance in the big time.All that feels antiquated these days, when headlines about Dukes Cooper Flagg making $4.8 million or BYU star recruit AJ Dybantsa making $7 million in NIL raise eyebrows not because its against the rules, but simply because it lays out the vastly different stakes involved in college sports. A resource grab at schools that need footballPearl and Sampson are creatures of basketball at schools and conferences that need football to succeed. Neither of their athletic departments could be blamed for pushing their NIL resources heavily in the direction of the sport that produces the most revenue.Pearl remains confident that the Southeastern Conference, which placed a record 14 teams in March Madness this year, is on solid footing.Im sure in the SEC were going to be committed to being excellent in everything across the board men, women, all sports, Pearl said, while acknowledging the reality that the rulebook for this new era is still being written. Even with the Big 12s perennial success in basketball the conference has had a Final Four team in seven of the past 10 seasons Houston still has strides to make with a football program that went 4-8 last year. The question there, and many other places, is whether the Cougars have the resources to rebuild football while staying great at hoops. If one school decides to give 70% of its money to football, another school decides to give 75% to football, that 5% is a big number, UMass coach Frank Martin said of the calculations driving athletic department, coaches and players these days. We all want to be in a fair game. Itd be like asking one team to play in the NCAA Tournament with four players, instead of five.___AP Sports Writers Teresa Walker and Aaron Beard contributed. ___AP March Madness bracket: https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-mens-bracket and coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here.

The Reds lost 1-0 to the Brewers on Thursday to become only the second team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to lose three consecutive 1-0 games.

Chattanooga became the first team from the Southern Conference to win the NIT championship after beating UC Irvine 85-84.

Aaron Judge on Thursday became the third-fastest Yankees player to reach 500 extra-base hits, trailing only Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig.