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Lead: Estée Lauder Companies and Spain’s Puig entered talks in late March 2026 about a potential business combination that could create a roughly $40 billion beauty-and-fashion group. Both firms confirmed discussions but said no agreement or final decision has been reached. Markets reacted sharply: Puig shares jumped while Estée Lauder’s stock fell after investors flagged … Read more

Lead President Donald Trump cast a mail ballot in Palm Beach County on Tuesday, March 24, in a special election for Florida state legislative seats; county records show his ballot was counted. At the same time he has intensified public attacks on mail voting — calling it “corrupt as hell” — and is pressing Congress … Read more

Lead Conflicting signals emerged this week about whether the United States and Iran are exploring a way to end the war, even as fighting spreads across the region and oil prices climb back above $100 a barrel. Tehran and Washington gave contrasting public accounts: an Iranian source told CNN there was outreach, while Iranian officials … Read more

Lead: Twenty years after Hannah Montana premiered on the Disney Channel, an anniversary special filmed before a studio audience reunites the cast and revisits the sitcom that turned Miley Cyrus into an international star. The recorded event — presented as a celebration of the show’s defining moments — includes an on-stage interview, musical elements and … Read more

Lead: In hospitals across the United States this year, a growing number of parents have declined routine preventive treatments for newborns — not only vaccines but long-established interventions such as the vitamin K injection and erythromycin eye ointment. Clinicians report that refusals have risen sharply: a national analysis of more than 5 million births found … Read more

Lead — In January 2026, Jay-Z sat for two extended conversations with GQ, reflecting on three decades in hip-hop, his business empire, and a draining civil suit filed at the end of 2024 and dismissed months later. At 56, he framed 2025 as a period of recuperation and declared 2026 an offensive year creatively and … Read more

Lead U.S. equity indexes gave back a portion of Monday’s sharp gains on Tuesday as crude oil prices resumed their rally and the Iran conflict entered its fourth week. The S&P 500 slipped about 0.5%, the Nasdaq Composite fell roughly 0.9% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 141 points, or about 0.3%. Brent crude … Read more

As the new league year opened, teams spent, reshaped rosters and signaled where they expect to be when the 2026 campaign begins. This first post–free agency power ranking set weighs early veteran additions and trades to judge which clubs improved their short- and medium-term odds. The list finds familiar names climbing back into contention—most notably … Read more

Dayton James Webber, 27, a nationally known quadruple-amputee who built a career as a professional cornhole player, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder after a fatal shooting in La Plata, Maryland, on Sunday. The victim, 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells, was shot while seated in the front of a vehicle near Radio Station Road … Read more

Lead: Airstrikes struck Iranian sites while Iranian missiles and drones struck Tel Aviv and multiple locations across the Gulf on Tuesday, even as U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington was in talks with Tehran to halt the fighting. Thousands more U.S. Marines were en route to the region as both sides exchanged heavy barrages and … Read more

Lead On March 24, 2026, as Opening Week kicked off across major-league ballparks, the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers sat atop the first power rankings of the year. After a chaotic offseason of high-profile signings, trades and front-office moves, an ESPN panel produced a full 1–30 ordering while analyst Bradford Doolittle supplied projected records … Read more

Lead On Tuesday, March 24, 2026, the Iran war intensified across multiple fronts while markets reacted to competing signals from Washington and Tehran. President Trump posted that he was seeing “productive conversations” with Iran, a claim Tehran denied, and markets swung sharply: oil plunged then partially recovered and global equities took cautious comfort. On the … Read more

On a misty Sunday night just before midnight, Air Canada Express Flight 8646 collided with a Port Authority fire-and-rescue truck on LaGuardia Airport’s Runway 4, killing the two pilots and injuring roughly 40 people on board plus two people in the vehicle. Passengers, including 35-year-old Rebecca Liquori of North Baldwin, New York, described a turbulent … Read more

Overnight Tuesday in Antwerp, Belgium, three masked assailants set a car ablaze outside a restaurant in a Haredi neighborhood; the blaze was contained quickly and two suspects were arrested. Local Jewish volunteer patrols Haverim and Shmira extinguished the fire before it spread to nearby vehicles, and community rounds continued through the night. An Islamic group … Read more

When driving ability begins to wobble, adult children often must decide whether — and how — to remove car keys from aging parents. In West St. Paul, Minnesota, Jacqueline Hamilton watched small errors escalate into a clear safety risk when her 94-year-old father, James Stubbs, drove onto a walking path after a holiday party. Hamilton … Read more