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7:14 AM on Friday, March 20

Manchester City and Norway striker Erling Haaland wants to bring new audiences to chess after becoming a strategic investor in a world championship tour scheduled to launch next year

7:10 AM on Friday, March 20

Norway’s crown princess says she was manipulated and deceived by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and felt unsafe during a 2013 encounter with the American financier at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion

7:08 AM on Friday, March 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran

7:05 AM on Friday, March 20

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right

5:58 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

2:30 AM on Friday, March 20

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

1:11 AM on Friday, March 20

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns

12:56 AM on Friday, March 20

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

12:49 AM on Friday, March 20

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

12:34 AM on Friday, March 20

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

12:23 AM on Friday, March 20

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

12:11 AM on Friday, March 20

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

12:09 AM on Friday, March 20

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

12:05 AM on Friday, March 20

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

10:16 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

9:46 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

4:46 PM on Thursday, March 19

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

1:38 PM on Thursday, March 19

LeBron James started for the Los Angeles Lakers against the Miami Heat, making it the 1,611th regular-season game of his career and tying Robert Parish’s all-time NBA mark

10:10 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

1:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

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