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11:05 PM on Friday, March 20

Florida began its national title defense with the second-largest victory margin in NCAA Tournament history, pounding Prairie View A&M 114-55

11:05 PM on Friday, March 20

An Israeli strike has hit a Hezbollah-run health center in southern Lebanon and killed 12 medical workers, as Israel widens its campaign beyond fighters

11:01 PM on Friday, March 20

More research is starting to show that women can benefit from lifting weights, perhaps even more than men

11:01 PM on Friday, March 20

A judge this week ruled that Voice of America's employees — and the news organization itself — get back to work

10:08 PM on Friday, March 20

Tyler Fay pitched Alabama’s first nine-inning, complete-game no-hitter in 84 years, striking out 13 in a 6-0 victory over Florida

9:28 PM on Friday, March 20

Zamareya Jones scored 15 of her career-high 30 points in the first half to help build a double-digit lead and seventh-seeded North Carolina State went on to beat the slumping, 10th-seeded Tennessee 76-61 in the first round of March Madness

8:58 PM on Friday, March 20

Police have released body camera footage from Justin Timberlake's drunken driving arrest in New York’s Hamptons in 2024

8:54 PM on Friday, March 20

High Point’s bracket-busting NCAA Tournament upset has put the spotlight on the private school in North Carolina that offers some unusual perks for its student body

8:37 PM on Friday, March 20

The Iran war is tightening global tech supply chains by cutting off helium from Qatar, a key source of the gas used in advanced industries like chipmaking

7:56 PM on Friday, March 20

The Cuban government has refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana to allow it to import diesel for its generators while the Trump administration continues to impose a fuel blockade on the island, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter

7:23 PM on Friday, March 20

Minnesota survived a home-court scare by No. 13 seed Green Bay, getting 21 points from Amaya Battle and using a 30-point fourth quarter for a 75-58 victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

7:09 PM on Friday, March 20

Purdue guard Braden Smith broke former Duke star Bobby Hurley’s Division I assist record with 12:11 to go in the first half of the Boilermakers’ NCAA Tournament game against Queens on Friday night

6:26 PM on Friday, March 20

Mila Holloway and Syla Swords each had seven points in a dominant opening quarter and combined to score 33 points, leading second-seeded Michigan to an 83-48 win over 15th-seeded Holy Cross in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament

4:57 PM on Friday, March 20

The dreams of a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket have already gone bust for the vast majority of those hoping to go an improbable 63-0

4:42 PM on Friday, March 20

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion

12:59 PM on Friday, March 20

More than 200 people were rescued Friday as heavy rains pummeled the Hawaiian island of Oahu and triggered the worst flooding the island has in 20 years

12:20 PM on Friday, March 20

Former reality TV star Joseph Duggar waived an extradition hearing in Arkansas, setting in motion his transfer to Florida, where he faces a child molestation charge

11:58 AM on Friday, March 20

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press

12:34 AM on Friday, March 20

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East

11:33 PM on Thursday, March 19

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring