Fed's Kashkari said economic growth has been fairly strong.

Pentagon investigators found that intelligence gaps, outdated imagery and excessive reliance on AI contributed to the Feb. 28 strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, that killed many children. The site had been labeled a military facility years earlier, but commercial satellite images as early as 2018 showed it had been repurposed — including colorful walls and a soccer field; U.S. analysts recorded those changes in 2019 in a system not linked to the main military intelligence database. Investigators also found parts of U.S. Central Command over-relied on Palantir’s Maven battlefield-intelligence platform and expected it to flag outdated or inconsistent foundational intelligence on potential targets.

China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the Public Cultural Service System Construction "15th Five‑Year" Plan, calling for cross‑administrative‑region coordination mechanisms to enable resource co‑construction and sharing, mutual recognition of standards and interoperable services. The plan promotes innovations such as "same‑city treatment" and "service one‑card", strengthens counterpart support, east‑west cooperation and targeted assistance, and encourages cross‑regional cultural cooperation projects to extend quality cultural resources to revolutionary old areas, ethnic regions and border areas.