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• NCAA Tournament: Auburn, Duke, Houston, Florida awarded top seeds in men’s bracket

  16-03-2025 23:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Auburn Tigers, Duke Blue Devils, Houston Cougars and Florida Gators were selected as No. 1 seeds in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
  
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• US military shoots down Houthi drones as Trump's strikes against terrorist group continue

  16-03-2025 23:15 via foxnews.com
  
  U.S. warships have shot down roughly a dozen Houthi drones since President Donald Trump launched airstrikes against the terrorist organization on Saturday, Fox News has learned.A senior defense official told Fox News of the developments on Sunday. The drones were aimed at the U.S. Navy's Truman Carrier Strike Group, and were shot down "well before" they posed a serious threat, the official added.The latest military action came after nearly a year and a half of attacks from Houthis, both on comme
  
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• Live like you're on 'The White Lotus' at this luxury resort — but it will cost you

  16-03-2025 22:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  The latest installment of HBO’s “The White Lotus” has viewers wishing they were also poolside, soaking in the tropical scenery.
  
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• Man set on fire in New York City's Times Square

  16-03-2025 21:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  New York City authorities are searching for the person who set a man on fire in Times Square on Sunday morning.
  
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• 'Howe's history men to go down in Newcastle folklore'

  16-03-2025 21:48 via bbc.com
  
  Newcastle manager Eddie Howe and his players will assume legendary status on Tyneside after winning the club's first major trophy in 56 years, says Phil McNulty.
  
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• White House touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use

  16-03-2025 21:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Trump administration announced deportations of hundreds of immigrants it alleges are members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.
  
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• Netanyahu says he will seek to dismiss head of Israel’s internal security service

  16-03-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister's move against Shin Bet’s Ronen Bar will prompt further accusations of authoritarianismBenjamin Netanyahu has announced he will seek to dismiss the director of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, through a cabinet vote later this week, in a move that will prompt further accusations of authoritarianism.The Israeli prime minister said in a video statement on Sunday that “ongoing distrust” made it impossible for him to continue to work with Ronen Bar
  
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• Pope seen praying at hospital chapel in photo released by Vatican

  16-03-2025 20:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Francis pictured for first time since he was admitted to hospital more than a month ago with pneumoniaThe Vatican has released the first photograph of Pope Francis since the 88-year-old was admitted to hospital more than a month ago with pneumonia in both lungs.The photo shows the pope, bare-headed, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a white robe and purple shawl, in front of a simple altar with a crucifix on the wall. Continue reading...
  
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• Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website

  16-03-2025 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website addressThe US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address.On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The UR
  
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• North Macedonia mourns dead in nightclub fire as 15 people detained

  16-03-2025 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Government declares seven-day period of mourning after fire in eastern town of Kočani kills at least 59North Macedonia has declared a seven-day period of mourning after a fire in a nightclub that left at least 59 dead and scores injured, as authorities detained 15 people for questioning and the interior minister said a preliminary inspection revealed the club was operating without a proper licence.At the end of a day in which the small Balkan country grappled with a disaster not seen in dec
  
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• Vatican releases first photo of Pope Francis since his hospitalization

  16-03-2025 19:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pope Francis was photographed at the hospital for the first time since he was admitted last month for double pneumonia.
  
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• Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza in one day as negotiators work to uphold fragile ceasefire

  16-03-2025 19:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  Israeli military strikes killed at least 14 people in 24 hours, the Gaza Health Ministry said, as international negotiators engage in talks to reinforce the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
  
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• Man set on fire in New York’s Times Square

  16-03-2025 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Victim, 45, hospitalized and in stable condition as police unable to say if attack was random or targetedA 45-year-old man was set on fire in the middle of Times Square overnight on Sunday, according to police, three months after a woman was killed on a subway car in an arson attack.Footage from the scene captured the moments the man, shirtless and severely burned, was rushed by authorities into an ambulance after the flames were extinguished. Continue reading...
  
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• Pope Francis seen for first time since being admitted to hospital: photo

  16-03-2025 19:24 via foxnews.com
  
  The Vatican released a photo of Pope Francis observing Mass on Sunday, highlighting how his health has gradually improved over recent days.The photograph is the first picture of Pope Francis that has been released since he was admitted to Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14. The photo shows him sitting near an altar with his back facing the camera.Pope Francis was diagnosed with a complex viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract infection that worsened before improving earlier last week. At the wor
  
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• US says airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen will continue indefinitely

  16-03-2025 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Strikes began on Saturday with the aim of punishing Iran-backed armed group for attacks on Red Sea shippingUS officials have said airstrikes launched against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis will continue indefinitely, after a first round on Saturday killed at least 53 people and injured almost 100 more.The strikes, which aim to punish the Houthis for their attacks against Red Sea shipping, are Donald Trump’s first such use of US military might in the region since he took power in January
  
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• National security adviser Mike Waltz says 'all options' on the table in responding to Iran

  16-03-2025 18:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  National security adviser Mike Waltz said “all options are always on the table” when asked whether direct military action against Iran would be possible.
  
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• Macron says Russia’s permission not needed to deploy troops in Ukraine

  16-03-2025 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  French president says France, UK and others could each deploy ‘a few thousand troops’ to key locations to show Ukraine ‘long-term support’Emmanuel Macron has said France, the UK, and other nations providing security guarantees for Ukraine after any eventual ceasefire would not be aiming to deploy a “mass” of soldiers, but instead could send contingents of several thousand troops to key locations in Ukraine without needing Russia’s permission.The French p
  
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• US deports 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling to halt flights

  16-03-2025 18:10 via theguardian.com
  Trump invoked 1798 law previously used to detain Japanese Americans in second world war to justify deportationsThe US deported more than 250 mainly Venezuelan alleged gang members to El Salvador despite a US judge’s ruling to halt the flights on Saturday after Donald Trump controversially invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law meant only to be used in wartime.El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and 23 members of the Salvado
  
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• Life of British man, 79, imprisoned by Taliban is in serious danger, say family

  16-03-2025 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Reynolds, who runs a business in Afghanistan, was held along with his wife last month and needs heart pills, says his daughterThe life of a 79-year-old British man imprisoned along with his wife by the Taliban is in serious danger, his family have warned.Peter Reynolds and his wife, Barbie, 75, who run a training business in Afghanistan, were detained last month when they travelled to their home in Bamiyan province. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump and Putin expected to speak this week about ceasefire terms, envoy says

  16-03-2025 17:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Steve Witkoff says US discussions with Russian president ‘positive’ and ‘solution-based’ and leaders likely to speakDonald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that he expected the US president to speak with Vladimir Putin this week, saying that the Russian president “accepts the philosophy” of Trump’s ceasefire and peace terms.Witkoff told CNN that discussions with Putin over several hours last week were “positive” and “sol
  
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• Monster storm system in US south kills at least 35 people

  16-03-2025 17:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Several people killed in Kansas dust storm while scattered tornadoes cause fatalities in MissouriPeople return to their storm-ravaged homes in the US south – in picturesViolent tornadoes ripped through parts of the US, wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm that killed at least 35 people as more severe weather was expected.In western Kansas, a dust storm was reported to have killed eight people as high winds produced blowing dust ove
  
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• Arrest warrants issued as death toll rises to 59 from Kočani nightclub fire in North Macedonia – as it happened

  16-03-2025 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 150 people injured after blaze broke out in the early hours at Pulse club in town 60 miles from SkopjeAt least 59 killed in North Macedonia nightclub fireNorth Macedonia’s public prosecutor Ljupco Kocevski has said five prosecutors would investigate the fire.“At the moment, orders have been issued for collecting of evidence” and some people were being interviewed, Kocevski said. Continue reading...
  
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• Russell T Davies: gay society in ‘greatest danger I’ve ever seen’ after Trump win

  16-03-2025 16:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Doctor Who writer says he feels ‘a wave of anger heading towards us’ and hostility in UK as well as USRussell T Davies has said gay society is in the “greatest danger I have ever seen”, since the election of Donald Trump as US president in November.Speaking to the Guardian at the Gaydio Pride awards in Manchester on Friday, the Doctor Who screenwriter said the rise in hostility was not limited to the US but “is here [in the UK] now”. Continue readin
  
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• Treasury Sec. Bessent: ‘There are no guarantees’ that there won’t be a recession

  16-03-2025 14:32 via nbcnews.com
  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent reacts to fears of a recession happening as the Trump administration enacts sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners.
  
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• Steve Kornacki: Voters sour on Trump’s handling of the economy in NBC News poll

  16-03-2025 13:57 via nbcnews.com
  A new NBC News poll shows President Donald Trump with a job approval rating as high as he’s ever had. But doubts loom in voters’ minds, especially over the economy and government cuts, NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki explains.
  
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• US airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis kill at least 31

  16-03-2025 13:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Up to 100 injured after Trump orders strikes in response to shipping attacksThe US has launched airstrikes against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis, killing at least 31 people and injured up to 100 more, in Donald Trump’s first such use of US military might in the region since he took power in January.US officials have said the airstrikes, which aim to punish the Houthis for their attacks against Red Sea shipping, may continue for weeks. Continue reading...
  
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• Is The Government Backing Down Over Benefits?

  16-03-2025 13:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plans to freeze some disability benefits could be abandoned.
  
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• Dozens dead, more than 100 injured in North Macedonia nightclub fire

  16-03-2025 12:41 via foxnews.com
  
  A fire broke out in a nightclub in North Macedonia early Sunday, killing 51 people and injuring more than 100 others, authorities said.Pyrotechnic devices sparked the fire at around 2:35 a.m. during a concert by a local pop group at the Pulse nightclub in the town of Kocani, Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski told reporters."Sparks caused fire … and fire spread through the discotheque," he said, according to Reuters.The injured were rushed to hospitals across the country. Many of th
  
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• Peruvian fisher rescued after three months stranded at sea

  16-03-2025 11:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Maximo Napa, 61, says he survived by eating cockroaches, birds and a turtle – and thinking about his motherA Peruvian fisher was found alive after drifting at sea for 94 days, a navy official said on Saturday, as he was discharged from hospital after his ordeal.Maximo Napa, 61, was rescued in his small fishing boat on Tuesday after being spotted by an Ecuadorian vessel off the coast of Chimbote in northern Peru. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We are all Natasha’: senator’s sexual harassment claims roil Nigeria

  16-03-2025 10:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Treatment of Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who has been suspended from senate, shines light on women’s rights Last July, Nigeria’s third-most powerful man gave a rare apology on the floor of the senate which he heads.Godswill Akpabio had chastised his colleague Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for speaking out of turn, saying: “We are not in a nightclub”. But after receiving what he said was a deluge of insulting text messages from Nigerians, he apologised publicly a few days later. Co
  
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• Elon Musk could be a bridge between the U.S. and China — but for which country’s benefit?

  16-03-2025 10:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s financial interests in China have raised concern that they could influence his work as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump.
  
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• Demon-child movie wows China – and smashes global box office records

  16-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Virtually unknown in the west, Ne Zha 2 is the world’s highest-grossing animation at £1.6bn – outdoing Inside Out 2 –just weeks after its releaseJust a few years ago, the biggest star of the Chinese box office was a brave army commander. Last year it was a woman who rediscovers herself through boxing. But in 2025 the hero that has caught everyone’s attention – and broken international box office records – is an animated demon child.Ne Zha 2, a Chinese an
  
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• 'Extermination' site discovered in Mexico with cremation ovens, human remains

  16-03-2025 02:36 via foxnews.com
  
  For families in Mexico searching for missing loved ones, the grim discovery of what is being called an "extermination" site with human remains and ovens, could be their worst fears some true. Mexican authorities are now investigating the site in the western state of Jalisco, first found last week by a group of volunteers that was believed, by the volunteers, to have been used by one of the area's cartels known as the New Generation Jalisco Cartel. Inside its iron gates were an increasi
  
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