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Trump demands that ‘about 7’ countries join coalition to police Iran’s Strait of Hormuz
CAIRO — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has demanded about seven countries send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but his appeals have brought no commitments as oil prices soar during the Iran war. The president declined to name the countries heavily reliant on Middle East...
AP finds an Israeli group discreetly organized the mystery flights evacuating Palestinians from Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel — The plane carrying about 150 Palestinians from Gaza came as a surprise to everyone on the ground when it landed in South Africa in November. It wasn’t the only one. Since May, at least three flights filled with Gaza residents who’d signed up to leave the...
Hospital officials say Israeli strikes killed 12 in Gaza, including 2 children and a pregnant woman
CAIRO — At least 12 Palestinians, including two boys, a pregnant woman and eight police officers, were killed Sunday by Israeli airstrikes in the war-torn Gaza Strip, hospital authorities said. A strike Sunday morning hit a house in the urban refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza and killed four...
Ludvig Aberg builds 3-shot lead heading into final round of The Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The biggest challenge for Ludvig Aberg was finding satisfaction in a three-shot lead Saturday at The Players Championship instead of wondering how much larger it could have been. Aberg had only two bogeys on his card all week and was four shots ahead of Michael...
Duke edges Virginia for 2nd straight ACC Tournament title under Jon Scheyer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Isaiah Evans scored 20 points, Cameron Boozer made two free throws with 3.9 seconds to seal the game and No. 1 Duke defeated No. 10 Virginia, 74-70, on Saturday night for its second straight ACC Tournament championship under coach Jon Scheyer and its third title in the...
Brayden Burries scores 21 as Arizona holds off Houston in Big 12 final rematch
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Arizona guard Jaden Bradley had just emerged from the locker room, his left wrist tightly taped after a collision left him holding it in pain. Koa Peat was mired in foul trouble, and Houston was making a big run in the Big 12 Tournament title game...
Zuby Ejiofor leads St. John’s to rout of UConn for 2nd straight Big East tourney title
NEW YORK — Zuby Ejiofor had seven blocks, nine rebounds and three steals to anchor a tenacious defensive performance that carried No. 13 St. John’s to its second straight Big East Tournament championship Saturday night with a 72-52 blowout of sixth-ranked UConn at Madison Square Garden. Ejiofor and Bryce Hopkins...
Michigan hits 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to sink Wisconsin in Big Ten semifinals
CHICAGO — Yaxel Lendeborg made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds remaining, and No. 3 Michigan beat Nick Boyd and No. 23 Wisconsin, 68-65, on Saturday to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship. Aday Mara scored 16 points and Elliot Cadeau had 15 as top-seeded Michigan (31-2) avenged its...
The biggest change to voting in Republican election bill could become a burden for many U.S. voters
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Joshua Bogdan was born and raised in the United States. The only time the New Hampshire resident has left the country was for a day and a half in seventh grade, when he went to Canada to see Niagara Falls. Even so, that did not mean proving...
Tehran claims the U.S. attacked it from the UAE as Iran war enters its third week
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran urged people Saturday to evacuate the Middle East’s busiest port and two others in the United Arab Emirates, openly threatening a neighboring country’s non-U.S. assets for the first time as its war with the U.S. and Israel entered a third week. Tehran said the...
Trump seeks to close $1.6 trillion revenue gap with raft of new tariffs
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration this week stepped up its ambitious effort to replace about $1.6 trillion in lost tariff revenue that was eliminated by the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a range of the president’s import taxes. Recovering that lost revenue, which the White House was counting on...
What to know about attacks at Old Dominion University and a Michigan synagogue
Communities were left reeling from attacks that unfolded less than two hours apart at a Michigan synagogue and at Old Dominion University in Virginia, violence that officials said would have been bloodier without intervention from residents. In Virginia, a former Army National Guard member who served years in prison for...
Construction finishes on a major offshore wind farm, the first during Trump’s tenure
Construction is finished on a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm, the first project to reach this stage during President Donald Trump’s time in office. Offshore construction was completed Friday night on Vineyard Wind with the installation of the final blades, Craig Gilvarg, a spokesperson for the project, said Saturday. Trump,...
From rockets to cancer research, here’s how the number pi is embedded in our lives
LOS ANGELES — Math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day every March 14, the date that represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi. Representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, pi is approximately equal to 3.14159 — but its digits go...
Pirates’ Paul Skenes to pitch in WBC semifinals after refocused U.S. beats Canada
HOUSTON — The United States is heading to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic after a “different level of focus” helped this All-Star-studded team rebound from a shocking loss. The U.S. beat Canada, 5-3, on Friday night for a spot in the semifinals Sunday against the Dominican Republic. The...
U.S. orders 2,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to Mideast after almost 2 weeks of war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The American military has ordered 2,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Friday, in a major addition of forces in the region after nearly two weeks of war with Iran. Hours later, President Donald Trump said U.S....
The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening for visitors
WASHINGTON — The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening for visitors, the latest step in the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the grounds. Plans, including renderings of the 33,000-square-foot center, were included in the preliminary agenda released on Friday for the April meeting of...
A strong chemical smell forces a 1-hour flight halt at 4 major DC-area airports
WASHINGTON — Four airports serving Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Richmond, Virginia, halted all flights on Friday evening for over an hour because of a strong chemical smell that was impeding air traffic controllers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The ground stop affected Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington Dulles...
U.S. forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once
Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be. Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes...
Ludvig Aberg aces Sawgrass with 63 to lead The Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Ludvig Aberg had a dream start that carried him to a 9-under-par 63 and a two-shot lead Friday in The Players Championship. Scottie Scheffler had a clutch finish, but only to avoid missing the cut. Aberg was 5-under through his opening four holes and motored...
Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews out for season with torn MCL after kneeing by Radko Gudas
TORONTO — Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NHL season. The team provided an injury update Friday night, a little less than 24 hours after Matthews was knocked out of a game against...
Judge quashes subpoenas in Justice Department’s investigation of Fed chair Jerome Powell
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill. The investigation into testimony last June by Chair Jerome Powell about a $2.5 billion building renovation has...
2 long-lost episodes of ‘Doctor Who’ have been found
LONDON — Over six decades of “Doctor Who,” the intergalactic adventurer’s adversaries have included evil robots, rampaging Yeti — and the BBC, which erased many early episodes of the now-iconic sci-fi TV series. A film charity announced Friday that it has found two previously lost 1960s episodes in film cans...
Old Dominion shooter was convicted of Islamic State group ties and freed from prison 2 years before attack
NEW YORK — Court documents show less than two years after Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was released from prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State group, he opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University on Thursday before ROTC students subdued and killed him. The shooting that left...
A U.S. military refueling plane crashed in Iraq, killing 6. Here’s what to know:
SEOUL, South Korea — All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran are dead, the U.S. military said Friday, after their plane crashed in western Iraq. The U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft...
