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2:58 AM on Friday, March 20

Belgium has unveiled a new men’s away soccer jersey that celebrates René Magritte and the country’s surrealist roots

11:30 PM on Thursday, March 19

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago

9:56 PM on Thursday, March 19

Graham Ike scored 19 points and third-seeded Gonzaga held off tenacious No. 14 seed Kennesaw State 73-64 in a defensive battle that ended with some drama in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

9:49 PM on Thursday, March 19

Kuwait said Friday its Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery again came under attack by Iranian drones, which sparked a fire at several of its units

9:34 PM on Thursday, March 19

Dion Brown scored 18 points on 9-of-10 shooting, all on layups and dunks, and Saint Louis blew out Georgia 102-77 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

9:23 PM on Thursday, March 19

North Carolina blew a 19-point lead to fall in overtime to VCU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

9:11 PM on Thursday, March 19

Luka Doncic stepped to the foul line in the final moments and couldn’t help but hear what the crowd was yelling, over and over and over again

9:09 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies

9:05 PM on Thursday, March 19

Democrats running for governor across the country are making tariffs a central element of their political message this year

9:03 PM on Thursday, March 19

Three teenagers in Tennessee have sued Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company’s image-generation tools were used to morph real photos of them into explicitly sexual images

7:53 PM on Thursday, March 19

Victor Wembanyama hit a 17-foot, pull-up jumper with a second left and the San Antonio Spurs wrapped up a playoff spot to end a six-season drought, beating the Phoenix Suns 101-100 on Thursday night

7:40 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Women’s Pro Baseball League was in Fort Myers for a two-day event hosted by the Red Sox and held an intrasquad scrimmage Thursday, marking its first chance since last summer’s open tryouts to bring players together and continue shaping the league’s on-field product ahead of the start of its inaugural season on Aug. 1

7:16 PM on Thursday, March 19

Matas Vokietaitis had 23 points and 16 rebounds, and No. 11 seed Texas knocked off sixth-seeded BYU 79-71 on Thursday in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, overcoming 35 points from Cougars forward AJ Dybantsa

6:46 PM on Thursday, March 19

Terrence Hill Jr. made a stepback 3-pointer with 15 seconds left in overtime and No. 11 VCU erased from a 19-point second-half deficit to stun sixth-seeded North Carolina 82-78 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

5:10 PM on Thursday, March 19

Members of Iran’s national women’s soccer team were greeted with a welcome ceremony upon their return to the Islamic Republic after several of the players sought asylum in Australia

1:46 PM on Thursday, March 19

The NCAA Tournament brackets have already been busted for millions of college basketball fans

10:09 AM on Thursday, March 19

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the merger of the Nexstar Media Group and its rival Tegna, creating a company that will control more than 250 television stations across the country, most of them local affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC

7:10 AM on Thursday, March 19

All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed lung and is expected to miss at least two weeks and possibly more

10:26 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year

9:07 PM on Wednesday, March 18

There appeared to be some tension as President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answered questions from White House reporters about Japan’s support for the Iran war