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Republicans resist calls for Iran war hearings, creating a new standoff with Democrats
WASHINGTON — The United States’ war with Iran is entering its third week, but Congress has yet to publicly test the Trump administration’s case for the conflict. Republicans in Congress have so far side-stepped public debate over the war, even as Senate Democrats reach for every tool at their disposal...
Stair climbers love their exercise, even when security guards act like they’re up to something
NEW YORK — Tom McGee began climbing stairs for exercise 20 years ago as part of an effort to stay off cigarettes. It hasn’t always been easy: His climbs in hotel stairwells sometimes draw the attention of security guards. “I’ve gotten kicked out of about every hotel in the city,”...
Kennesaw State, Texas, NC State and Queens all notching firsts in the NCAA Tournament West Regon
Amir Abdur-Rahim will always hold a special place in Kennesaw State’s basketball history. Not only was he the first coach to lead the Owls to the NCAA Tournament, Abdur-Rahim set an example by the way he lived his life and coached his players. So when Kennesaw State reached the tournament...
Ball or strike? Bethel Park product Mason Miller seals U.S. victory over Dominican Republic on controversial call
MIAMI — Ten days later, the United States and the Dominican Republic would have kept on playing. Geraldo Perdomo watched Mason Miller’s full-count slider appear to drop just under the strike zone and took a step toward his team’s dugout on the third-base side, thinking he walked to put runners...
‘Wants the moment’: Paul Skenes shines in the WBC spotlight, treats it same as Pirates outings
MIAMI — Paul Skenes pitched with poise through pressure, dispatching a series of stars on a night of great stakes in a sold-out stadium with millions watching on TV. This was the type of game he never sees with the Pittsburgh Pirates and he may not experience on a regular...
Severe storms pummel parts of U.S. with snow and high winds and raise tornado threat
CHICAGO — Successive punches of snow and wind were impacting the eastern half of the United States on Monday as severe weather swept across much of the nation, making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest and canceling more than 2,000 flights nationwide. Forecasters said mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., were...
Do you really need a water filter? Here’s what experts say
U.S. tap water is generally safe and high quality. But that doesn’t mean every glass tastes the same, or that every building’s plumbing delivers identical water to the faucet. That uncertainty has fueled a booming market for water filters, from simple pitcher models to multi-thousand-dollar reverse osmosis systems. Yet experts...
Trump suggests he may delay China trip, but Bessent says it’s not to pressure on Strait of Hormuz
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may delay his China trip due to the Iran war, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday it’s not to pressure Beijing on the Strait of Hormuz. Bessent said any delay to Trump’s month-end trip to Beijing would not be because of disagreements over the...
Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada
WASHINGTON — Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico — U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup. Much of...
Asian and European nations are tepid to Trump’s call for help unblocking gulf
A call by President Donald Trump for Asian and European countries to send warships to help unblock oil supplies from the Persian Gulf received a cautious public response Sunday as a global oil shock from the war in Iran continued to reverberate through the global economy. Chris Wright, the U.S....
2 dead after 2 boats carrying students capsize off U.S. base construction site in southern Japan
TOKYO — Two boats carrying 21 people capsized Monday off Henoko, a controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, throwing all into the water and leaving two of them dead, officials said. The Japan Coast Guard said 18 of them were students from...
Paul Skenes helps U.S. beat Dominican Republic to reach 3rd straight WBC title game
MIAMI — Gunnar Henderson and Roman Anthony homered, and the United States limited the Dominican Republic’s electric offense to win a thrilling semifinal 2-1 on Sunday and move one win from capturing its second World Baseball Classic championship. The loaded American roster — led by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ NL Cy...
Unbeaten UConn joined by UCLA, Texas and South Carolina as No. 1 seeds for women’s NCAA Tournament
UConn was awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament on Sunday and enters March Madnes s needing six more victories to complete the seventh undefeated season in school history. The Huskies (34-0) are looking for their 13th national title and becoming the first team to repeat...
Denny Hamlin storms back to win at Las Vegas after early penalty
LAS VEGAS — Denny Hamlin returned to victory lane at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday for his first win since he lost the NASCAR championship four months ago and first since the death of his father in a December house fire. “I knew it took a few weeks to...
Cameron Young is clutch on island green, rallies to win The Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Cameron Young delivered the biggest birdie of his career on the most notorious hole on the TPC Sawgrass, a sand wedge to 10 feet to tie for the lead in The Players Championship. And then he was even better on a shot equally daunting. Young...
Duke, Arizona, Mich, Florida get top seeding for March Madness, Miami (Ohio) squeaks in as 11 seedVideo
Duke received the top overall seed for March Madness on Sunday, followed by Arizona, Michigan and Florida, each of whom would love a repeat of last season when all four No. 1s made it all the way to the Final Four. The top line was the most predictable thing to...
Israeli military claims brother of man who attacked Michigan synagogue was Hezbollah commander
JERUSALEM — The man who attacked a Michigan synagogue was the brother of a Hezbollah commander killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, Israel’s military claimed Sunday. Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in the March 5 strike in Lebanon along with three other relatives of the attacker in Michigan —...
CEOs of top airlines demand Congress restore funding to Homeland Security and pay airport workers
NEW YORK — The CEOs of the nation’s top airline companies, including American, Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers including airport security officers during the partial government shutdown. “Once again,...
‘One Battle After Another’ wins best picture at 98th Academy Awards
LOS ANGELES — Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was crowned best picture at the 98th Academy Awards, handing Hollywood’s top honor to a comic, multi-generational American saga of political resistance. The ceremony Sunday, which also saw Michael B. Jordan win best actor and “Sinners” cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw...
Israeli soldiers fire on family car in occupied West Bank, killing 4
TAMMUN, West Bank — Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said that Ali and Waed Odeh, and two of their four children, were shot...
Snow, wind batter parts of U.S., with threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes starting later SundayVideo
CHICAGO — A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest while damaging wind swept across the Plains. Hawaii also continues to be affected by severe flooding. And portions of the mid-South...
Oscars stars ready for their big fashion moment as red carpet opens
As Hollywood’s biggest names gather for the Oscars on Sunday, A-list celebrities will have their moment in the spotlight on the red carpet. Some will win there even if they fail to take home an Academy Award. For this year’s nominees, the Oscars red carpet is the final chance to...
Kazakhstanis vote in referendum on new constitution that would cement president’s grip on power
Voters in Kazakhstan headed to the polls Sunday for a referendum on a new constitution that would strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s grip on power in Central Asia’s largest country. The proposal merges the Kazakhstani parliament’s two chambers into one and gives the president the right to appoint key government officials,...
Analysis: 2 weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels. He’s grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war...
From slavery to the White House, the Ficklin family served presidents for nearly 8 decades
WASHINGTON — John Wrory Ficklin was 7 when he learned that his father, the son of a slave, was important. It was 1963, and the nation was mourning President John F. Kennedy. Wrory Ficklin was sitting with his mother and brother, watching funeral coverage on TV in the family’s Washington...
