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12:20 PM on Friday, March 20

An author and longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Calvin Tomkins has died at 100

10:53 AM on Friday, March 20

Nearly 90,000 bottles of a children’s pain reliever have been recalled due to reports of particles and other possible contaminants

9:55 AM on Friday, March 20

Jehovah’s Witness leaders are modifying their rules on blood transfusions by letting members choose whether to store and reuse their own blood for medical care

9:08 AM on Friday, March 20

The death of U.S. college student James “Jimmy” Gracey in Spain was likely an accident, local authorities have said

7:41 AM on Friday, March 20

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian officials are helping five countries in the Middle East and Gulf region counter attacks on their territory by Iranian drones

7:14 AM on Friday, March 20

Manchester City and Norway striker Erling Haaland wants to bring new audiences to chess after becoming a strategic investor in a world championship tour scheduled to launch next year

7:10 AM on Friday, March 20

Norway’s crown princess says she was manipulated and deceived by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and felt unsafe during a 2013 encounter with the American financier at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion

7:08 AM on Friday, March 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran

7:05 AM on Friday, March 20

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right

6:29 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day

5:58 AM on Friday, March 20

Belgium has unveiled a new men’s away soccer jersey that celebrates René Magritte and the country’s surrealist roots

4:19 AM on Friday, March 20

Snooker great Ronnie O’Sullivan has made the highest-ever break in the professional game

2:30 AM on Friday, March 20

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago

1:25 AM on Friday, March 20

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbor that will put even more pressure on Kyiv

1:11 AM on Friday, March 20

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns

12:34 AM on Friday, March 20

Dion Brown scored 18 points on 9-of-10 shooting, all on layups and dunks, and Saint Louis blew out Georgia 102-77 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

12:22 AM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender-affirming care unsafe for young people

2:35 PM on Thursday, March 19

FIFA has fined the Israeli soccer federation for breaching anti-discrimination regulations but it took no action on a Palestinian request to suspend Israel from global soccer for allowing clubs based in West Bank settlements

1:38 PM on Thursday, March 19

LeBron James started for the Los Angeles Lakers against the Miami Heat, making it the 1,611th regular-season game of his career and tying Robert Parish’s all-time NBA mark

11:23 AM on Thursday, March 19

Major League Baseball is entering an official partnership with Polymarket and has an agreement with the federal commission overseeing prediction markets to collaborate on integrity concerns