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The Jackson State Tigers will face the Florida Gators in the opening round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Tigers' head coach Tevester Anderson says his team will come to play.

Barbara Bodine, the U.S. official assigned to govern central Iraq, will leave her post and return to the United States to take a position at the State Department. The move comes just days after the top civilian administrator in Iraq, retired Gen. Jay Garner, is replaced by L. Paul Bremer, a longtime State Department official. Bodine and Garner have been criticized for being slow to restore services and form an interim government. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

From Tyler, the Creator's lovesick turn to Jamila Wood's funky second album, May had a ridiculous amount of stellar music to offer just before summer arrives.

In its 12th week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters finally hits No. 1. Elsewhere on the charts, Justin Bieber zooms back into the top 10 thanks to a deluxe edition and sombr's debut makes a move

The largest number of deaths have come in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, India and the United Kingdom. The pandemic death toll reached 1 million in September 2020 and 2 million in January.

President Bush meets with Brazil's leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the White House. Market reform talks are on the table with the key South American trading partner. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

The list of nominees for the 80th Academy Awards are announced. No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood both earn eight nominations, leading the field.

Recent polls show that health care concerns and associated economic anxiety are approaching the war in terms of importance as a campaign issue. What positions are the presidential candidates staking out?

Also: Search for more murder victims ends in Cleveland; earthquakes kill dozens in China; torrential rains flood Phoenix; Pope Francis heads to Brazil; Phil Mickelson wins the British Open.

Also: Immigration bill to be unveiled soon; Dish bids $25.5 billion for Sprint; a nice guy finishes first at the Masters; and it's tax day.