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10:19 PM on Sunday, March 29

Kosovo is one of the Europe's poorest countries and struggles with a steep rise in fuel prices caused by the Iran war

10:15 PM on Sunday, March 29

St. John’s says Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino has signed a new agreement that will keep him under contract with the school through the end of this decade

9:52 PM on Sunday, March 29

China’s flag carrier has resumed direct flights between Beijing and North Korea’s capital of Pyongyang not long after the restoration of passenger train services between the capitals

6:41 PM on Sunday, March 29

Emerson Hancock pitched six hitless innings for the Seattle Mariners in his season debut against the Cleveland Guardians before being removed from the game by manager Dan Wilson

5:57 PM on Sunday, March 29

Dawn Staley says conversations with recruits have changed over the past few years, with finances becoming a top point of discussion, especially with players in the transfer portal

5:14 PM on Sunday, March 29

Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri Lehecka to capture the Miami Open title and complete the “Sunshine Double’’ a day after Aryna Sabalenka accomplished the same feat in a win over Coco Gauff

4:37 PM on Sunday, March 29

Braylon Mullins sank a desperation 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to give UConn an astonishing 73-72 victory over top-seeded Duke, earning the Huskies a spot in the Final Four after they rallied from a 19-point first-half deficit

3:42 PM on Sunday, March 29

Chase Elliott has outdueled Denny Hamlin at Martinsville Speedway to earn his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season

3:41 PM on Sunday, March 29

Gary Woodland is a winner again just 30 months after brain surgery

2:58 PM on Sunday, March 29

Andrew McCutchen and Brandon Nimmo each hit their first home runs with the Texas Rangers

2:55 PM on Sunday, March 29

A young man who moved from Connecticut to Israel last year to join the military was killed Saturday during a combat operation in southern Lebanon

2:28 PM on Sunday, March 29

Lauren Betts had 23 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks to help UCLA rally from a rare halftime deficit and beat Duke 70-58, advancing to the women’s Final Four for the second straight season

2:05 PM on Sunday, March 29

Bruce Cassidy is out as coach of the Vegas Golden Knights, who fired him Sunday and replaced him with John Tortorella

1:46 PM on Sunday, March 29

Yaxel Lendeborg scored 27 points, Elliot Cadeau had 10 assists and Michigan rolled into the Final Four by overwhelming Tennessee for a 95-62 victory in the NCAA Tournament

1:35 PM on Sunday, March 29

Chesney the kangaroo jumped an eight-foot fence to escape his petting zoo in Wisconsin, spending three days on the lam

12:05 PM on Sunday, March 29

Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox and Chase DeLauter of the Cleveland Guardians have accomplished something in the last week that had been done only twice before

8:48 AM on Sunday, March 29

Actor Antonio Banderas has joined the crowds in dozens of Palm Sunday processions, marking the official start of Holy Week in Spain

7:55 AM on Sunday, March 29

Israeli police have blocked top Catholic leaders from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Palm Sunday Mass

9:08 PM on Saturday, March 28

Regional powers met in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East after about 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war

9:08 PM on Saturday, March 28

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran