Bridge collapse investigation reveals ship called for help - Five stories you need to know | Reuters

Freighter pilot called for tugboat help before Baltimore bridge collision - Five stories you need to know | Reuters

1. The pilot of the cargo freighter that knocked down a highway bridge into Baltimore Harbor had radioed for tugboat help and reported a power loss minutes earlier, federal safety officials said on Wednesday, citing audio from the ship's "black box" data recorder.

2. Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing hearing got underway on Thursday, meaning the former billionaire cryptocurrency wunderkind will soon learn his punishment over his conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange he founded.

3. Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late.

4. President Joe Biden will get a boost from Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday at a fundraiser in New York slated to raise more than $25 million and add some oomph to Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.

5. Pope Francis looked well as he began four intense days of events leading to Easter on Thursday, and renewed his own ordination vow on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks Jesus's founding of the priesthood the night before the crucifixion.

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