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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: 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 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

Lead: U.S. expeditionary forces are moving into the Middle East as the White House pursues parallel diplomacy aimed at ending the war with Iran. Thousands of marines from the 31st and 11th amphibious expeditionary units have been repositioned from Asia, and roughly 2,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne are en route. Senior officials, including Secretary … 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

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

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 Friday, March 28, 2026, the US House approved a Republican-authored stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for eight weeks after rejecting a bipartisan Senate compromise. The House vote passed 213 to 203 and keeps funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border patrol … Read more

Lead: On March 28, 2026, an Iranian missile-and-drone strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia injured 12 U.S. service members, two critically, U.S. officials said, as the monthlong war that began on February 28 widened across the region. The attack also damaged at least two KC-135 refueling aircraft and came amid new Houthi … Read more

Lead On the evening of March 28, 2026, residents of L’Isle-aux-Coudres, a small island in Quebec’s St. Lawrence River, held their annual Mid-Lent (Mi-Carême) masked festivities. Participants visited homes, bars and community halls wearing wigs, pillows and elaborate masks, performing jigs and music to avoid recognition. The rite, rooted in medieval French practice, endures here … Read more

Lead: At 26, David Lyon noticed two symptoms—blood in his stool and a sharp pain when standing—that led to a July 2021 emergency-room referral and, three days later, a diagnosis of Stage IV colorectal cancer that had already spread to his liver. Treated with three years of chemotherapy, colon resection in July 2022 and a … Read more

Lead As the U.S.-Iran war approaches the one-month mark, the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint that normally carries around one-fifth of the world’s oil — has seen daily transits fall roughly 90% to 95%, trapping hundreds of tankers in the Persian Gulf. A surge in drone and missile strikes and sharply higher marine insurance … Read more

Lead On March 28, 2026, travelers at several U.S. airports faced unprecedented TSA screening delays amid a partial federal government shutdown, forcing some passengers to miss flights and rebook. Waits topped four hours in some locations, while other airports reported near-normal processing times. Airlines have announced temporary waivers at affected hubs but are not universally … Read more

Lead: On March 23, 2026, Brent crude suffered a sudden, 15%-plus intraday plunge to about $96 a barrel before prices snapped back above $100 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a five-day pause on an ultimatum to strike Iranian power plants — a pause Tehran immediately denied. The episode exposed how engineering limits in storage, … Read more

Organizers say millions of people across the United States and abroad plan to join the third nationwide No Kings day of action on Saturday, March 28, staging more than 3,000 events in all 50 states and in 16 countries. The coalition behind the mobilization — including Indivisible, the 50501 movement, labor unions and local grassroots … Read more