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4:20 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Books on homelessness, the U.S. Census and ancient India are among this year’s winners of prizes handed out by the J

3:40 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died

12:12 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Atlanta is on a 10-game winning streak, its best stretch in more than 11 years

10:25 PM on Monday, March 16

Italy’s remarkable 2026 World Baseball Classic run is over after losing to Venezuela in the semifinals

9:04 PM on Monday, March 16

Can you scream your way to happiness

8:23 PM on Monday, March 16

Two Iranian women soccer players have been seen training with the Brisbane Roar after Australia granted them asylum, and they stayed behind as teammates headed home

7:57 PM on Monday, March 16

Ronald Acuña Jr., Maikel Garcia and Luis Arraez hit run-scoring, two-out singles in a seventh-inning rally that led Venezuela over Italy 4-2 and into its first World Baseball Classic championship game

5:43 PM on Monday, March 16

March Madness tips off with the First Four, featuring one of this season’s best stories in Miami (Ohio) and a matchup of formerly embattled head coaches in Texas’ Sean Miller and NC State’s Will Wade

4:00 PM on Monday, March 16

Has tax time become a frustrating paper chase

2:55 PM on Monday, March 16

Alabama guard Aden Holloway has been arrested on a felony drug charge just days before the start of the NCAA Tournament

2:50 PM on Monday, March 16

A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released

2:34 PM on Monday, March 16

Sen. Lindsey Graham is tying his reelection pitch to President Donald Trump and the war with Iran, a conflict for which he's long advocated

2:28 PM on Monday, March 16

Criticized for their cool, American players head into the World Baseball Classic championship also appreciating opponents’ flamboyant flair

11:13 AM on Monday, March 16

Officials in Cuba report an islandwide blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen

9:04 AM on Monday, March 16

The NBA may move a step closer to adding teams in Seattle and Las Vegas next week when expansion will be again discussed by the league’s board of governors, two people with knowledge of the matter tell The Associated Press

6:46 AM on Monday, March 16

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital with an airstrike

10:32 PM on Sunday, March 15

Explosions are sounding in Dubai after the United Arab Emirates reopened its airspace following a brief closure amid incoming attacks from Iran

9:34 PM on Sunday, March 15

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has pressured around seven countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open as fears of a global energy crisis persist and Iranian attacks and threats have choked off shipping in the vital waterway

9:24 PM on Sunday, March 15

A Utah woman has been convicted of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and then self-publishing a children’s book about coping with grief

9:03 PM on Tuesday, March 10

A Texas man has been executed for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago