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Former Memphis basketball player and coach Tony Madlock leads Alabama State to NCAA tournament

Tony Madlock, who played with and coached with Penny Hardaway at Memphis, is headed to the NCAA tournament as Alabama State's head coach.

Yahoo Sports - 2d

FDA Nominee Marty Makary to Face Grilling Over Cutbacks and Policy Shifts

Dr. Marty Makary will testify before the Senate health committee on Thursday. Lawmakers may press him over staff reductions and changes in agency direction on issues like vaccines.

The New York Times - Mar. 6

Muslim nations reject Trump's call to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population

Foreign ministers from Muslim nations rejected calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and backed a plan for an administrative committee of ...

ABC News - Mar. 8

Watch live: House GOP leaders speak ahead of key vote to avert shutdown

House Republican leaders will speak Tuesday morning ahead of a key vote on the stopgap bill that would fund the government through September. The House Rules Committee voted Monday night to advance ...

The Hill - Mar. 11

House GOP campaign arm rolls out ad targeting Democrats over shutdown vote

The National Republican Congressional Committee rolled out an ad Wednesday targeting House Democrats who voted against a measure on Tuesday to fund the government through September and avoid a ...

The Hill - 6d

March Madness selection panel will have to juggle thanks to SEC overload in bracket

The NCAA selection committee will have some juggling to do before the bracket comes out Sunday to keep March Madness from looking like an extension of the Southeastern Conference’s regular season

ABC News - 6d

Watch live: Senate questions Trump's Canada, Mexico ambassador nominees

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold hearings Thursday for President Trump's nominees to serve as ambassadors to Canada, Mexico and Japan. If confirmed, Peter Hoekstra, a longtime ...

The Hill - 5d

White House withdraws CDC director nomination

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of Dave Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee announced it has ...

The Hill - 5d

Bhattacharya's nomination as NIH director advances in Senate

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted to advance Jay Bhattacharya's nomination as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday. He now faces a ...

The Hill - 5d

Senate panel OKs Makary's nomination as FDA commissioner

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted Thursday to advance Marty Makary's nomination as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He will likely be ...

The Hill - 5d

Comcast, IOC reach multibillion dollar agreement on Olympic broadcast rights

Comcast has reached a multiyear agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to broadcast the games on all platforms in the United States for the Olympic Games through to 2036, meaning ...

The Hill - 5d

Democrats grill Trump ambassador nominees for Canada, Mexico amid trade battles

Democratic Senators grilled President Trump's ambassador nominees for Canada and Mexico during the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing Thursday over the administration's new trade ...

The Hill - 5d

Raskin asks for DOJ probe into acting US Attorney Ed Martin

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is asking the Justice Department’s (DOJ) inspector general to launch an investigation into Ed Martin, the interim U.S. ...

The Hill - 5d

Senate Banking panel advances stablecoin bill

The Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to advanced legislation to create a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. The movement on the GENIUS Act marks a key win for the Trump ...

The Hill - 5d

White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director

Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.

The New York Times - 5d

Columbia disciplines students for protests as activists seek to block school from sharing records

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and seven current students sued the school Thursday in a bid to block it from producing disciplinary records to a House committee as school officials ...

NBC News - 4d

Dr. Oz Faces Senators at Confirmation Hearing to Oversee Medicare and Medicaid

The Senate Finance Committee holds a confirmation hearing on Friday for Dr. Mehmet Oz, the TV celebrity who is nominated to run major health programs for older Americans and the poor.

The New York Times - 4d

SoFi testing 'hybrid' pitch ahead of '26 World Cup

SoFi Stadium will debut new grass field technology for Concacaf Nations League games next week as a test run for World Cup 2026, the Los Angeles World Cup host committee announced Thursday.

ESPN - 4d

IOC candidate Samaranch sees diplomacy with Trump as key priority ahead of 2028 LA Olympics

Meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump should be high on the agenda of the next IOC leader, according to a strong candidate to win the Olympic body’s presidential election next week. “It has to ...

Yahoo Sports - 4d

Rep. Roae wants study, reform of PIAA in wake of fight

HARRISBURG — State Rep. Brad Roae has reiterated his support for a Legislative Budget and Finance Committee (LBFC) study of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA). Roae, a ...

Yahoo Sports - 4d

Hundreds of Olympians call on IOC candidates to make climate top priority

Just days before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elects a new president in Greece more than 400 athletes on Friday called on the future leader of the body to strengthen its action for the ...

Yahoo Sports - 4d

‘Not quite yet beautiful’: Republicans at odds over spending cuts after meeting Trump

Senate Republicans aren’t seeing eye to eye with their colleagues in the House over places to cut spending in order to pay for their extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts. GOP members of the Senate ...

The Hill - 3d

Senate GOP campaign arm targets Ossoff over vote against funding bill in digital ad

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) targeted Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in a new digital ad on Friday over his vote against a GOP-crafted bill to fund the government through ...

The Hill - 3d

Bruce Pearl points to No. 3 Auburn’s resume in saying Tigers deserve NCAA’s No. 1 overall seed

Auburn won this tournament last year only to wind up a No. 4 seed when the selection committee announced the NCAA Tournament bracket. Auburn lost to Yale in the first round.

Yahoo Sports - 2d

Heavyweight seven eye finish line in race to succeed Olympics chief Bach

The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee is nearing the finish with Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, Sebastian Coe and Kirsty Coventry widely seen to be ...

Yahoo Sports - 1d

IOC board puts boxing back on the Olympic program for LA in 2028

Boxing is set to be on the program for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles after years of disputes over how the sport is run. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Monday that ...

Yahoo Sports - 1d

House Democrat on party’s low approval: ‘We’ll take back the majority in 2026’

Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said she believes her party will take back the House majority in 2026 despite receiving its lowest ...

The Hill - 1d

IOC recommends boxing in L.A. 2028 Games

The International Olympic Committee executive board on Monday recommended the inclusion of boxing in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, ending a years-long saga regarding the sport's Olympic ...

ESPN - 1d

Duke remains at No. 1 in AP Top 25 entering March Madness; St. John's rises to No. 5

Duke remained atop The Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll on Monday a day after the committee that selects the 68-team field for the NCAA Tournament went with Auburn as the No. 1 ...

Yahoo Sports - 1d

Duke remains at No. 1 in AP Top 25 entering March Madness; St. John’s rises to No. 5

Duke remained atop The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll on Monday a day after the committee that selects the 68-team field for the NCAA Tournament went with Auburn as the No. 1 ...

Yahoo Sports - 1d

Top House Democrats seek DOGE details under Freedom of Information Act

The House Judiciary and Oversight committees sent a sweeping information request to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Tuesday, seeking to root out Elon Musk's role and the extent ...

The Hill - 5h

Kinzinger dares Trump to charge him for Jan. 6 panel role: 'Bring it'

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Monday welcomed a legal battle with President Trump over the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — hours after ...

The Hill - 4h