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Lead Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old former underground rapper known as Balen, was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister after the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) delivered a landslide win in the general elections held on 5 March. His ascent follows last year’s youth-led protests — in which 77 people died — and reflects widespread voter frustration … Read more

Lead: A helicopter carrying one pilot and four passengers crashed Thursday afternoon onto Kalalau Beach on Kauai’s Na Pali Coast, killing three people and sending two others to Wilcox Medical Center, authorities said. The aircraft was identified by officials as operated by Airborne Aviation and was conducting a tour flight along the island’s north shore. … Read more

Lead Readers of The Globe and Mail received the daily horoscope for March 27, 2026, offering sign-by-sign guidance for personal and social choices as the week closes. The column highlights a mix of celebration, self-reflection and practical warnings across the 12 zodiac signs, and singles out birthday readers for a notably introspective year ahead. Advice … Read more

Iran launches 83rd wave of strikes on Israel; missiles bear ‘Thank you to people of India’ On Friday, Iran conducted what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps described as its 83rd wave of strikes aimed at Israel and military targets across the Gulf. Footage circulating on social media and distributed by Iranian outlets showed personnel preparing … Read more

On Saturday, March 28, 2026, dozens of “No Kings” demonstrations are scheduled across Southern California — from Los Angeles neighborhoods to Ventura County — as part of a nationwide day of protest organized against the Trump administration. Organizers say roughly two-thirds of more than 3,000 planned demonstrations will take place outside urban centers and that … Read more

Lead FX’s limited series Love Story closes with a deliberate, elegiac imagining of what John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy might have been in private before fate intervened. The finale returns viewers to the tarmac and the July 16, 1999, flight that killed John, Carolyn and Carolyn’s sister Lauren off Martha’s Vineyard, but … Read more

Lead In a rare overnight session on March 27, 2026, the U.S. Senate moved unanimously to provide funding for most Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components while explicitly excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and portions of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), notably border patrol. The agreement — advanced by unanimous consent after negotiations unraveled … Read more

Lead Taylor Swift and fiancé Travis Kelce made their first appearance as an awards-show couple at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Thursday night at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre. The pair did not pose together on the red carpet—Swift arrived and walked solo—but they were seated next to one another inside the venue. Swift dominated … Read more

Lead On Thursday night, No. 9 seed Iowa defeated No. 4 Nebraska 77-71 in the Sweet 16 in a game decided late by Alvaro Folgueiras’ three-point play and free throw. Bennett Stirtz led the Hawkeyes with 20 points while Folgueiras added 16, including two decisive dunks in the final minute. The victory, under first-year coach … Read more

Lead: US President Donald Trump announced a further 10-day pause — until 6 April — on his threat to strike Iran’s energy infrastructure, saying Tehran requested more time and talks were progressing. The pause coincided with a dip in Brent crude to about $108 a barrel after an earlier spike. Yemen’s Houthi movement said there … Read more

On March 26, 2026, author J.K. Rowling publicly welcomed the International Olympic Committee’s ruling to bar transgender women from future Olympic female events and, within minutes, praised the newly released trailer for the HBO Harry Potter reboot. The IOC decision follows a controversy at Paris 2024 involving Algeria’s boxer Imane Khelif, whose participation after a … Read more

Lead: A former FBI agent says Savannah Guthrie’s emotional TODAY interview has refocused national attention on the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, and could unsettle whoever is holding her. Nancy has been missing since February 1 after failing to attend a church service in Tucson, Arizona. Savannah broke down on air while describing … Read more

Lead: On March 26 and 27 in the Sweet Sixteen round of the 2026 NCAA Tournament, Purdue, Iowa, Illinois and Arizona each won to reach the Elite Eight. In San Jose, Trey Kaufman-Renn tipped in the game winner with 0.7 seconds left as Purdue edged Texas 79-77. Iowa closed out Nebraska 77-71, Illinois held Houston … Read more

With the Cornhuskers’ season on the line Thursday in the Sweet 16, Nebraska committed a late, decisive error: the team took the court with only four defenders on an inbounds play and Iowa turned that window into an and‑one that effectively ended the game. With 58.8 seconds remaining and Iowa leading 71‑68, junior guard Kael … Read more

Who: No. 4 Arkansas Razorbacks vs No. 1 Arizona Wildcats. When: Thursday, March 26, 2026, tip-off 9:45 p.m. ET. Where: SAP Center, San Jose, CA. This Sweet 16 matchup pits Arkansas’s high-octane offense against Arizona’s elite interior defense; the market favors Arizona, but several player props and a same-game parlay offer value for bettors tonight. … Read more