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When do March Madness brackets open? When do they close? Everything to know
It's almost time for one of America's favorite pastimes: filling out your March Madness bracket.Yahoo Sports - 3d -
Braves' Strider K's 6 of 8 batters in spring debut
Braves ace Spencer Strider returned to the mound Monday for the first time in almost a calendar year and threw 2⅔ perfect innings.ESPN - 18h -
British Council accused of forcing gig economy teachers into ‘feeding frenzy’ for work
With regular teaching hours unavailable, agency tutors must compete for lessons. The British Council has been accused of exploiting hundreds of agency teachers on zero-hour contracts forced to ...The Guardian - 3d -
OpenAI to pay CoreWeave $11.9 billion over five years for AI data centers, services
Ahead of CoreWeave's upcoming IPO, the provider of data centers for AI has signed a five-year deal with OpenAI worth almost $12 billion.CNBC - Mar. 10 -
5 Years After Covid Closed the Theaters, Audiences Are Returning
Broadway is almost back, and pop music tours and sports events are booming. But Hollywood, museums and other cultural sectors have yet to bounce back.The New York Times - 6d -
PGA Tour $1 million parlay picks, odds for 2025 Players Championship: Get a giant return on a $10 bet
SportsLine golf expert Eric Cohen locked in a $10 eight-leg PGA Tour parlay that pays almost $1.1 million for The Players Championship 2025CBS Sports - 5d -
Learning a Shared Love Language — One That Includes Signing
Jerald Creer, who is deaf, and Kent Williams met on a cruise ship in 2009. It took almost 15 years and a card game for them to fall in love.The New York Times - 4d -
Wildfires Quickly Spread Across Texas and Oklahoma
In Oklahoma alone, more than 150 blazes were burning, which have destroyed almost 300 structures and killed at least one person.The New York Times - 2d -
Kash Patel Pushes Command Changes at F.B.I.
The move means almost all top agents in the field will no longer answer to the deputy director, a significant departure from the way the F.B.I. has worked.The New York Times - 2d -
Nottingham Forest Women: Their mission to return to the top a decade after nearly folding
Amber Wildgust’s early Nottingham Forest Women experience was almost biblical. In the beginning, there was Before the Centre of Excellence. That was a time when the women’s team (then called ...Yahoo Sports - 2d -
'Paint Japan blue': How the Dodgers' vision of Japanese prominence became reality
It's an almost unthinkable reality: Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest in the team.Yahoo Sports - 2d -
Lena Herzog on her husband Werner Herzog's acting career
Werner Herzog's wife, Lena, told Anderson Cooper that her husband's villainous characters in "The Mandalorian" and "Jack Reacher" are almost a "caricature" of the filmmaker.CBS News - 1d -
Flop XI From Serie A Matchday 29: Ex Spurs Star Breaks Lazio & Juventus Duopoly
TuttoMercatoWeb released its worst lineup of Serie A Matchday 29, and it was almost exclusively constituted of Lazio and Juventus players.Lazio Hammered by BolognaAfter being pummelled by Inter in ...Yahoo Sports - 22h -
Family of missing college student asks police that she be declared dead
Missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki disappeared in the Dominican Republic resort town of Punta Cana almost two weeks ago.CBS News - 59m -
Deadly floods engulf Argentine city after fierce storm
Eight hours of rainfall hit Bahía Blanca, killing at least 13 people and leaving many areas under water.BBC News - Mar. 9 -
Delta warns on profit as economic ‘uncertainty’ dents US demand
Shares tumble more than 12% after-hours as carrier cuts quarterly revenue and earnings outlook by halfFinancial Times - Mar. 10 -
Ukraine agrees to U.S.-led ceasefire plan if Russia accepts
The agreement came after more than seven hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia between high-level American and Ukrainian delegations.CNBC - 6d -
Man who searched killing an "illegal immigrant" online arrested in murder of fiancé
Ty Vaughn, 31, allegedly shot and killed his fiancé hours after searching "is it illegal to kill an illegal immigrant."CBS News - 5d -
Canada cuts rates as trade war shakes consumer and business confidence
Reduction to 2.75% comes hours after US tariffs on aluminium and steel take effectFinancial Times - 5d -
Hard-hit stocks catch another bid — plus, how our sell-off strategy has paid off so far
Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.CNBC - 5d -
Putin visits Kursk as Russia pushes back Ukrainian troops in captured region
Moscow’s soldiers step up offensive just hours after Kyiv backs 30-day, US-brokered armisticeFinancial Times - 5d -
Steph Curry Becomes First Basketball Player Ever to Hit 4,000 Career 3-Pointers: ‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’
The Golden State Warriors star hit the milestone hours before his 37th birthdayYahoo Sports - 4d -
Police get more time with North Sea crash captain
The Russian national will spend an extra 24 hours in police custody after being arrested on Monday.BBC News - 3d -
Stocks jump to close out a rough week — plus, what drove the biggest winners in the portfolio
Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.CNBC - 3d -
Plea for man suspected of student's murder to return to UK
Farouk Abdulhak fled to Yemen within hours of Martine Vik Magnussen's death in 2008.BBC News - 3d -
Great rail journeys: the train that binds Canada together
Slowly rolling across prairies and mountains from Toronto to Vancouver, the 97-hour Canadian is the longest passenger train outside RussiaFinancial Times - 3d -
Trump Signs Spending Bill to Fund Government
The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the government.The New York Times - 2d -
NCAA Tournament bubble watch: Who's in, out of March Madness before Selection Sunday?
Selection Sunday is hours away, and teams on the bubble will soon find out if they are in or out of the NCAA men's tournament.Yahoo Sports - 2d -
South Africa should not be 'bullied' by US in ambassador row, opposition says
The calls come after South Africa's ambassador in Washington was given 72 hours to leave the country.BBC News - 1d -
Burst pipe disrupts debut of new Alton Towers ride Toxicator
Park bosses said rides on the Toxicator, which opened on Saturday, were suspended for two hours.BBC News - 1d -
Caleb Grill is coming home
The Mizzou Tigers would have been happy to play on the moon. Instead, they're just a few hours west.Yahoo Sports - 20h -
The market heads for back to back gains — plus, rumors hitting a portfolio name
Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.CNBC - 18h -
'Reasonable precautions' could have stopped baby deaths, inquiry finds
Leo Lamont, Ellie McCormick and Mira-Belle Bosch died within hours of their births in two Lanarkshire hospitals.BBC News - 1h -
Russia launches devastating attack on Ukraine after Trump’s defence of Putin
Latest attacks came hours after Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin was ‘doing what anybody would do’. Russia launched a devastating attack on Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least 14 people and ...The Guardian - Mar. 8 -
Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Is on the Moon, but Its Fate Is Unclear
After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which could limit the mission’s scientific accomplishments.The New York Times - Mar. 7 -
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria. Here's what we know.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, marking the deadliest eruption of violence since the fall of the Assad regime in December.NBC News - Mar. 9 -
North Korea fires several ballistic missiles into sea after U.S. and South Korea begin military drills
North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills.NBC News - Mar. 10 -
X users report a series of outages
Hours after a series of outages that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk is claiming that the social media platform is being targeted in a “massive cyberattack."ABC News - Mar. 10 -
Moscow and region hit by 'massive' drone attack - Russian officials
At least one person is killed in the overnight attack Russian officials say - coming hours ahead of key talks between the US and Ukraine in Riyadh.BBC News - Mar. 11 -
FTC reverses course, says it has resources to pursue Amazon deceptive practices case
The FTC said it will meet the deadlines for its Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, hours after requesting a delay due to resource constraints.CNBC - 5d