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The Sun Belt Conference on Friday released the full bracket and schedule for the 2026 Visit Pensacola Sun Belt Men’s Basketball Championship Presented By Air Force Reserve. The single-elimination, 14-team tournament runs March 3–9 at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Florida, with all games streamed on ESPN+ and the title game on ESPN2. Troy … Read more

At the BAFTA awards earlier this week a vocal tic produced a racial slur while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage, leaving many Black people with Tourette syndrome with conflicted emotions. Some emphasized that tics are involuntary and require medical understanding, while others stressed the real harm the utterance caused to Black attendees … Read more

Investigators continue to probe the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, reported missing on Feb. 1 from her Tucson-area home, with no suspect publicly identified. Authorities have acknowledged limited success so far with DNA evidence, including a glove sample that returned no CODIS matches, prompting experts to emphasize digital forensics as an alternate avenue. Law enforcement … Read more

Airlines serving the Middle East suspended or rerouted services on Saturday after the United States and Israel carried out strikes on targets inside Iran. Major carriers including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Wizz Air reduced schedules to destinations across the Gulf, citing safety and airspace closures. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) urged … Read more

Lead: This week the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a challenge to a federal law that bars people who regularly use marijuana from possessing firearms, producing an uncommon coalition of advocates and adversaries. The dispute — highlighted in the government’s request to revive a criminal prosecution of Texas resident Ali Danial Hemani — pits traditional … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 28, 2026, following coordinated U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, Tehran launched widespread retaliatory missile and drone attacks across the Gulf and at Israel, prompting civilian alerts, embassy shelter-in-place orders and an emergency U.N. Security Council session. Officials in the region reported at least one fatality in Abu Dhabi and damage to infrastructure around … Read more

Lead In June 2024 a 21-year-old college student began what she and clinicians first took to be a urinary tract infection while attending a graduation in Milwaukee. Over the following weeks fevers, severe fatigue and growing pain led to imaging, a biopsy and an unexpected diagnosis of stage IV ALK+ anaplastic large cell lymphoma. After … Read more

Lead: Durham, North Carolina voters head to the polls on March 3, 2026, in a high-profile Democratic primary that could reshape the party’s congressional direction. Incumbent Rep. Valerie Foushee is defending her seat against Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, who is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and national progressive groups. Outside spending and sharp contrasts … Read more

Lead On Feb. 28, 2026, the U.S. announced it had launched “major combat operations” in Iran, after strikes that Iranian sources say hit several ministries in southern Tehran. Markets around the world moved into risk-off mode as investors weighed potential disruption to oil flows and regional trade routes. Analysts warn the economic consequences could exceed … Read more

Lead: European governments reacted with caution on Saturday after coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, holding emergency meetings and taking steps to protect citizens in the Middle East. Key EU capitals urged de-escalation and a resumption of diplomacy even as Australia and Canada signaled clearer support for the military action. Russia and China criticized … Read more

In the early hours of Wednesday, a speedboat carrying 10 Cuban exiles approached the Cuban coast after apparently departing from Florida and was intercepted by a Cuban coastguard patrol boat. The encounter led to an exchange of fire that left four people aboard the speedboat dead and six wounded. The Cuban government said the group … Read more

Lead South Carolina blanked No. 11 Clemson 7-0 on Friday night at Founders Park in Columbia, S.C., as junior right-hander Josh Gunther delivered seven strong innings with a career-high 10 strikeouts in his first collegiate start. The Gamecocks improved to 7-3 on the season while the Tigers fell to 8-1, and Clemson’s five-game winning run … Read more

Lead: NASA’s Artemis II mission will carry four astronauts on a lunar flyby, marking the United States’ first crewed trip beyond low Earth orbit in more than five decades. The crew includes Victor Glover and Christina Koch, who will become the first Black astronaut and the first woman respectively to travel to the moon on … Read more

In the fourth quarter of 2025, Berkshire Hathaway reported operating earnings of $10.2 billion, a drop of more than 29% from $14.56 billion a year earlier. The decline was driven largely by weaker results in the conglomerate’s insurance operations and lower investment returns in that segment. The quarter was the final one reported under Warren … Read more

Lead Researchers using large population genetic databases have found that many inherited disorders once considered “single-gene” with near‑certain outcomes often show far lower penetrance in the general public. Studies comparing clinical cohorts to resources such as the U.K. Biobank and the NIH All of Us cohort reveal that variants tied to severe retinal disease, thyroid … Read more