Lead: The United States men’s national team faces Belgium this afternoon at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta in the first friendly of the March international window. Manager Mauricio Pochettino confirmed defenders Miles Robinson and Chris Richards will not be on the matchday sheet due to ongoing minor injuries, and both are also expected to miss Tuesday’s … Read more
Lead: On 26 March a truck carrying 413,793 KitKat confectionery units—roughly 12 tonnes of a new Formula One-themed chocolate line—was stolen while traveling through central Italy en route to Poland. Nestlé, KitKat’s parent company, confirmed the theft and said it is working with local authorities and supply-chain partners to investigate. The vehicle and the cargo … Read more
Lead On Saturday, demonstrators took to streets in cities and towns across the United States for the first “No Kings” action since the joint US–Israeli war against Iran began one month ago. Events were planned in all 50 states, with organisers reporting more than 3,300 actions and projecting large turnouts in New York, Los Angeles … Read more
Lead President Donald Trump has set a firm rule that Tiger Woods may not drive his grandchildren following Woods’s March 27 Land Rover crash and subsequent DUI charge. The restriction applies to the five children of Vanessa Trump and Donald Trump Jr., whom Woods has regularly spent time with during a relationship with Vanessa that … Read more
Lead: Two of the final co-founders at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, have reportedly left the company as of late March 2026. Business Insider first reported Kroiss told colleagues he was departing, and later that Nordeen exited on Friday. The departures come as Musk says xAI is being rebuilt “from … Read more
Health authorities and researchers are tracking a newly notable Omicron-lineage SARS-CoV-2 variant known as BA.3.2, nicknamed “cicada.” First identified in South Africa in November 2024, it reappeared in the United States after a months-long lull and has been detected across multiple countries. Laboratory studies show it carries roughly 70–75 mutations relative to the currently dominant … Read more
Lead: U.S. Soccer published its official starting XI for the U.S. men’s national team friendly against Belgium on Saturday, March 28, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. The announcement set the tone for a high-profile test against a top-ranked European opponent and provided early clues about selection priorities ahead of competitive windows. Coaches on both sides used … Read more
Lead: Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary continued its strong theatrical run over the weekend, posting an updated second-weekend gross of $53.1 million after a $14.6 million Friday. That performance places the Ryan Gosling–produced original well ahead of 2024 tentpoles’ second frames and marks an unusually robust hold for a non-franchise release. Counterprogramming horror entries … Read more
Lead: On Saturday, March 28, 2026, four Sweet 16 matchups will decide which eight teams advance in the NCAA Women’s Tournament, with action beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET on ABC and continuing across ABC and ESPN. Top seeds Texas and South Carolina, along with high-profile programs Michigan, Louisville, Kentucky and TCU, headline the slate. Several … Read more
Lead On March 28 in Monaco, Pope Leo made a one-day visit to the tax-free principality known for its concentration of extreme wealth and luxury yachts, urging residents to put their prosperity at the service of others. He arrived after a roughly 90-minute helicopter trip from the Vatican and met Prince Albert at the prince’s … Read more
Lead: Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools will have counselors available Monday and local vigils are planned after a school bus crash in Carroll County on Friday left two students dead and at least seven others critically injured. The Kenwood Middle School bus collided with a Chevrolet Trailblazer and a TDOT dump truck on Highway 70 near Huntington … Read more
Lead On Friday, March 28, 2026, a ballistic missile-and-drone barrage that U.S. officials and regional sources attribute to Iran struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, wounding 12 American service members. Two of the injured were reported in serious condition and at least one KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft was struck and burned. U.S. military … Read more
NASA is preparing to send four astronauts on a roughly 10-day out-and-back flight around the Moon, the agency’s first crewed lunar mission since 1972. The Artemis II roster — a woman, a person of color, a Canadian and a U.S. Navy veteran — reflects a more diverse astronaut corps than the all-male, predominantly military test-pilot … Read more
Lead On 28 March 2026, multiple incidents across the Middle East marked a sharp escalation in the Iran war: Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed a missile attack on Israel while Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an unannounced visit to the United Arab Emirates to discuss defence cooperation. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also claimed it … Read more
Peter Alexander announced on Saturday during the weekend “Today” broadcast that he is leaving NBC News after a long run splitting duties between the network’s White House coverage and co-anchoring the Saturday edition of “Today.” Alexander has spent 15 years on the White House beat and has been a regular on “Today” weekends since 2018, … Read more
