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Lead George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston has emerged as a focal point for the travel disruption caused by the ongoing partial U.S. government shutdown. In March travelers faced security waits the Transportation Security Administration estimated could reach hours as many TSA officers stayed home without pay. The situation at Bush Intercontinental has been especially … Read more

On 25 March 2026, Sarah Mullally was formally installed as the archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral, marking the ceremonial start of her public ministry as the first woman to lead the Church of England. The 63-year-old, a former National Health Service nurse, took the 13th-century Chair of St Augustine before about 2,000 invited guests, … Read more

Lead US President Donald Trump has confirmed a trip to China to meet President Xi Jinping on 14–15 May, after postponing an earlier visit because of the US–Israel campaign against Iran. The Washington visit by Xi is also planned later this year, with officials saying preparations are being finalised. The delay followed wide-ranging strikes and … Read more

Pilots and anonymous safety reporters have for years flagged recurring runway incursions, vehicle near-misses and confusing air traffic control (ATC) instructions at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, according to federal and NASA safety databases. The warnings, logged across decades, gained renewed attention after a deadly collision at LaGuardia earlier this week in which an Air Canada … Read more

Lead: Shaquille O’Neal has publicly denied responsibility for a set of sexually explicit direct messages that circulated online and were linked to singer Sabrina Carpenter. On The Big Podcast with Shaq, O’Neal disputed the authenticity of the messages, read them aloud and used humor to insist they were not his, saying he has “way more … Read more

Lead Incoming North Carolina athletic director Steve Newmark has described the sequence of discussions and decisions that resulted in the dismissal of men’s basketball coach Hubert Davis after five seasons. The deliberations stretched across several days after UNC’s NCAA Tournament exit to VCU, with Newmark and interim AD Bubba Cunningham meeting university leaders and Davis … Read more

Lead A team led by Yifan Cheng and David Julius reports (Nature, 25 March 2026) high-resolution structures and local energetic measurements that explain how the cold receptor TRPM8 senses temperature. Using cryo-EM of cell-derived membrane vesicles together with hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX–MS), the authors capture two interconverting architectures—a canonical “fully swapped” and a newly … Read more

On March 25, 2026 at Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants’ season opener against the New York Yankees was marred on-screen by a digitally inserted bright-red Adobe advertisement, creating a visible “green-screen” glitch when players stood in front of it. The effect was most noticeable during the bottom of the first inning on left-handed hitters … Read more

Apple released tvOS 26.4 on March 25, 2026, bringing a small but notable set of changes to the Apple TV software that are available on models dating back to 2015. The update introduces a new content-discovery section called Genius Browse, a new Continuous Audio Connection setting to address format handoffs, in-player subtitle styling controls, and … Read more

Lead: Defense and intelligence officials briefed members of Congress behind closed doors on Wednesday as the war in Iran nears the one-month mark, prompting sharp frustration from both Republicans and Democrats. Lawmakers at the House Armed Services Committee pressed for clarity on President Donald Trump s strategy, including whether US ground troops might be deployed … Read more

Lead U.S. President Donald Trump asserted on Wednesday that Iran remains interested in negotiations, even as Tehran publicly rejected an initial ceasefire proposal. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, described a “glimmer of hope” after diplomatic outreach to Turkey and Egypt, saying both Tehran and Washington have signalled a readiness to return to talks. Meanwhile, heavy … Read more

Lead On March 25, 2026 at Oracle Park in San Francisco, the New York Yankees opened the major-league season with a 7-0 road victory over the San Francisco Giants. Max Fried set the tone with 6 1/3 shutout innings, while José Caballero produced a key RBI single in a five-run second inning. The game doubled … Read more

Lead Police in Utah are investigating a third allegation of domestic violence involving reality TV personality Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex-partner Dakota Mortensen, sources told The Times on March 25, 2026. The West Jordan Police Department says Mortensen filed a report in February alleging an incident took place in early–mid 2024. Draper Police are … Read more

Lead: Teams from Walt Disney Co. and OpenAI met in Los Angeles on Monday evening to discuss a collaboration tied to Sora, OpenAI’s AI video tool. Roughly 30 minutes after that meeting, Disney staff were informed that OpenAI would discontinue Sora; OpenAI made the decision public on Tuesday. The cancellation terminates a proposed three-year, $1 … Read more

Lead A Nature study (Nagaraja et al., 25 March 2026) reports that repeated colonic injury leaves a durable epigenetic imprint in colonic stem cells that raises the likelihood of tumour outgrowth. Using a mouse DSS model (acute, chronic and recovery stages) and joint single-cell chromatin/transcriptome profiling of 52,540 cells from 23 animals, the team found … Read more