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Lead On March 12, 2026, the Florida Legislature approved House Bill 991, requiring citizenship verification for all registered voters and narrowing which photo IDs are accepted at polling places. The Republican-backed measure cleared the Senate 27-12 and the House 77-28 and moves to Gov. Ron DeSantis for consideration. Sponsors said the law closes gaps they … Read more

Lead: The NFL free agency period opened on March 11, 2026, and a flurry of signings, trades and one high-profile non-trade have reconfigured several rosters ahead of the 2026 season. The most disruptive moment was the arranged but ultimately unconsummated Maxx Crosby deal between the Las Vegas Raiders and Baltimore Ravens, a sequence that produced … Read more

Lead Pro Football Focus revised a three-round mock for the 2026 NFL Draft the same week the league opened the new year and free agency formally began on Wednesday, a period that has already seen a dozen teams spend hundreds of millions to reshape rosters. The updated mock factors heavy early free-agent movement and was … Read more

Federal and local authorities say a single attacker drove a vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Thursday, March 12, 2026, then exchanged gunfire with security before dying at the scene. Officials identified the suspect as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon who entered the United States … Read more

Lead — In Charlotte on March 12, 2026, top-seeded Duke survived a turbulent ACC Tournament quarterfinal against eighth-seeded Florida State, prevailing 80-79 after a late-game push and a missed buzzer jumper by Robert McCray V. The Blue Devils answered an eight-point second-half deficit with a 19-2 run and closed out the game despite missing two … Read more

Lead NASA completed a two-day Flight Readiness Review (FRR) this week and announced a new target launch date for Artemis II: April 1 at about 6:24 p.m. ET. The agency said its managers reached unanimous agreement that the integrated team has addressed key issues and listed alternate April windows on the 2nd–6th and the 30th. … Read more

Lead In Washington this week, President Donald Trump shifted from celebrating low domestic gasoline prices to arguing that higher oil prices can benefit the U.S. after a war with Iran sent crude and pump prices sharply higher. The move follows a spike in global benchmark crude to about $100 a barrel and a surge in … Read more

Lead One day after the Arizona Cardinals released him, 28-year-old quarterback Kyler Murray signed a one-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings on March 12, 2026, giving the former No. 1 overall pick a clear path to reboot his career. The deal, reached after a visit to the Vikings’ TCO Performance Center in Eagan, Minn., is … Read more

Fox announced on Thursday that Livvy Dunne, the former LSU gymnast turned social media personality, has joined the network’s Baywatch reboot in a recurring role. Dunne will play Grace, described by producers as “a highly enthusiastic junior lifeguard,” and is set to appear alongside a cast led by Stephen Amell and Shay Mitchell. The series … Read more

Shortly before Thursday afternoon at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, a gunman opened fire inside a classroom in Constant Hall, the university’s business school. Three people were shot; one later died in hospital and two were injured. The suspect, identified by the FBI as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, was also found dead after students—members of … Read more

Lead: Astronomers report evidence that two planets smashed together in the Gaia20ehk system, producing a cloud of hot debris that briefly dimmed and brightened the host star. The system, an otherwise steady main-sequence star about 11,000 light-years away, began showing unusual visible dimming and simultaneous infrared brightening beginning around 2016. Researchers say the observations are … Read more

Millicent Hailes’ Perfect, which screens at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, TX (March 12–18), attempts a drought-set lesbian romance but largely fails to convince. The film follows a drifter who becomes stranded at an oasis and forms a connection with a wealthy, pregnant woman, while a social-commentary premise about contaminated water … Read more

Lead On March 12, 2026, US Central Command confirmed that a US KC-135 refuelling aircraft was lost over western Iraq during Operation Epic Fury and that search-and-rescue operations were underway. The command said the incident happened in friendly airspace and that a second US aircraft involved landed safely. Officials stated the crash was “not due … Read more

U.S. stock futures were largely steady on Thursday night, March 12, 2026, as traders braced for Friday morning’s release of January’s personal consumption expenditures price index (PCE), the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge. The move came after a sharp rally in oil following comments from Iran’s new Supreme Leader, which pushed Brent above $100 and … Read more

Lead: In March 2026, wildlife scientists confirmed an HPAI H5N1 outbreak at Año Nuevo State Park that has killed dozens of northern elephant seals and is now detected beyond the reserve onto public beaches. Tests from sick and stranded animals show at least 16 live elephant seals infected and 47 dead since the outbreak began, … Read more