Cowboys Won’t Tender Brock Hoffman, Report Says

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According to a report by Jordan Schultz cited on NBC Sports, the Dallas Cowboys do not plan to place a restricted free agent tender on offensive lineman Brock Hoffman, which would make the 26-year-old an unrestricted free agent. Coach Brian Schottenheimer had publicly said the team wanted both Hoffman and T.J. Bass back for 2026, … Read more

The Bear to End With Season 5 on FX

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Lead Sources tell Deadline that The Bear, the Jeremy Allen White–led comedy-drama, will conclude with its forthcoming fifth season on FX. The decision follows story developments at the close of Season 4, in which Carmy Berzatto appears to leave the restaurant and transfer his stake. FX greenlit a fifth season in July, and that installment … Read more

Justice Department, Pressured by Trump, Drops Effort to Build Autopen Case Against Biden

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Lead: In March 2026, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington examined whether President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign documents, including late-term pardons, violated federal law, but concluded they could not make a prosecutable case. The inquiry, pursued amid public pressure from President Donald J. Trump, was quietly shelved after career … Read more

Poll: Who Will Win the 2026 World Baseball Classic?

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Lead The 2026 World Baseball Classic begins tonight in Japan, with opening game Australia facing Chinese Taipei in a local Thursday start that will be late Wednesday for many viewers in the Western Hemisphere. The tournament follows the dramatic 2023 edition that ended with Japan defeating the United States 3-2 in the final, a game … Read more

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 – Nature

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Lead Evo 2 is a genome-scale foundation model introduced in March 2026 that learns DNA sequence patterns across bacteria, archaea, eukarya and phage to enable prediction and design at multiple biological scales. The team trained two model sizes, a 7 billion parameter variant on 2.4 trillion tokens and a 40 billion parameter variant on 9.3 … Read more

US Senate rejects war-powers bid as Iran strikes continue

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Lead: The US Senate on Wednesday voted 53-47 to block a bipartisan resolution that would have constrained President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military strikes against Iran without explicit congressional authorization. The vote came as US and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets — and Iranian attacks on Israel and Gulf partners — continued after the … Read more

Iranian drone strikes on Amazon data centers highlight tech’s exposure – The Seattle Times

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Lead Since a U.S. attack on Iran on Friday, at least three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East have been damaged by drone strikes attributed to Iran, disrupting cloud services across the region and prompting recovery work that continued into Tuesday. Two availability zones in the United Arab Emirates were directly struck and … Read more

‘SNL’ Promo: Ryan Gosling Thinks He’s Joining the Five-Timers Club, But There’s Just One Problem…

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Ryan Gosling, who hosts Saturday Night Live on March 7, appears in a new promotional clip in which he behaves as if he has already earned a spot in SNL’s exclusive Five-Timers Club — only to be undercut by a backstage encounter. The short film follows Gosling through the corridors outside Studio 8H as he … Read more

Measles Outbreak Confirmed at Nation’s Largest ICE Detention Site in Texas

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Lead: Federal immigration authorities have confirmed a measles outbreak at Camp East Montana, the largest ICE detention facility, located on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. At least 14 detainees tested positive for the highly contagious disease, and officials say infected individuals have been separated from the wider detained population to limit transmission. The facility, … Read more

Lou Holtz, Legendary Coach and Commentator, Dies at 89

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Lead Lou Holtz, the quick-witted college football coach who rebuilt programs and led Notre Dame to the 1988 national championship, died March 4, 2026, in Orlando at age 89, his family said. Notre Dame’s statement said he was surrounded by family; the family did not provide a cause of death. Holtz retired from coaching with … Read more

NATO Air Defenses Shoot Down Iranian Missile Headed Toward Turkey – The New York Times

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Lead: On March 4, 2026, NATO air and missile defenses intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Iran while it traveled eastward across the Mediterranean toward Turkish airspace. According to Turkey’s defense ministry, the missile crossed Iraq and Syria before being shot down; debris fell in Hatay province near the Syrian border, and no injuries were … Read more

MP says she has seen nothing to suspect husband broke any law after China spy arrests

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Scottish Labour MP Joani Reid has said she has never seen anything to make her suspect her husband, David Taylor, had “broken any law” after Taylor was among three men arrested this week on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service. The arrests, carried out in London and Wales, form part of an investigation led … Read more

House Subpoenas Attorney General Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files

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Lead: On March 4, 2026, the House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for a deposition about the Justice Department’s handling of records tied to Jeffrey Epstein. The subpoena responds to concerns that the DOJ has not complied with the Epstein Transparency Act and that thousands of previously public files … Read more

Six Essential Story Lines for the 2026 World Baseball Classic – The Ringer

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Lead: The 2026 World Baseball Classic arrives as baseball’s most concentrated spectacle, opening in March with games staged in Miami, Houston, Tokyo and, for the first time since 2013, Puerto Rico. The last Classic, in 2023, ended with Japan defeating the United States in a final that featured Shohei Ohtani striking out Mike Trout — … Read more

Watch Live: Noem testifies at House hearing after grilling from senators – CBS News

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2026, defending Department of Homeland Security actions amid intense questioning from Democrats and some Republicans. Lawmakers pressed her on allegations about a personal relationship with adviser Corey Lewandowski, a $220 million ad campaign, the department’s handling of two … Read more