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3:52 AM on Friday, March 20

Hours after Israel killed the top commander of Iran’s Basij, it struck again -- this time at the rank and file of the feared force that helped crush widespread protests this year

1:30 AM on Friday, March 20

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago

11:49 PM on Thursday, March 19

Kuwait said Friday its Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery again came under attack by Iranian drones, which sparked a fire at several of its units

11:09 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies

11:05 PM on Thursday, March 19

Democrats running for governor across the country are making tariffs a central element of their political message this year

11:03 PM on Thursday, March 19

Three teenagers in Tennessee have sued Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company’s image-generation tools were used to morph real photos of them into explicitly sexual images

10:51 PM on Thursday, March 19

8:24 PM on Thursday, March 19

Nicholas Haysom has died at 73

7:45 PM on Thursday, March 19

A senior vice president of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others affiliated with the company have been charged with conspiring to smuggle billions of dollars of computer servers containing advanced Nvidia chips to China

3:46 PM on Thursday, March 19

The NCAA Tournament brackets have already been busted for millions of college basketball fans

3:19 PM on Thursday, March 19

ABC has canceled its already filmed season of “The Bachelorette” starring Taylor Frankie Paul after a 2023 video surfaced

3:07 PM on Thursday, March 19

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal attorney testifies to a House committee that he was unaware of the late financier’s sexual abuse of underage girls at the time it was happening

3:02 PM on Thursday, March 19

The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department

1:16 PM on Thursday, March 19

Abnormal heat on the last day of winter continues to set records in the U.S. Southwest

12:09 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the merger of the Nexstar Media Group and its rival Tegna, creating a company that will control more than 250 television stations across the country, most of them local affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC

9:10 AM on Thursday, March 19

All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed lung and is expected to miss at least two weeks and possibly more

12:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year

11:21 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Iran intensified its attacks on Gulf oil and gas infrastructure Thursday in retaliation for an Israeli attack on a key Iranian gas field, dramatically raising the stakes in a war that's sending shock waves through the global economy

11:07 PM on Wednesday, March 18

There appeared to be some tension as President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answered questions from White House reporters about Japan’s support for the Iran war

4:25 PM on Wednesday, March 18

A new cash aid program in Maui is helping some Lahaina fire survivors stay afloat long after the flames