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NCAA expands March Madness field, says change allowing alcohol sponsorships helped with expansion
The 76-team brackets will fit eight more games into the front half of the first week of each tournament, for a total of 12 involving 24 teams.
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Senegal native who killed 3, wounded 15 in Austin bar shooting motivated by support for Iran: FBI
Ndiaga Diaga, 53, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal, was wearing a T-shirt with an Iranian flag design, sweatshirt that read "Property of Allah."
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PA Sen Fetterman says in op-ed that Dems can't 'simply be the opposite' of 'whatever Trump says'
After a series of votes and statements putting him at odds with his fellow Democrats over the past year, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., says that he has “no plans to leave” the party.
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Religious parents ask SCOTUS to require exemptions to LGBTQ mandates in public schools
Federal appeals court reinterpreted SCOTUS precedent as "Amish one-off" inapplicable to wealthy and religiously diverse D.C. suburb's refusal to even notify parents when they would teach "Pride storybooks," plaintiffs say.
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Cocaine busts galore at Texas, Arizona and California borders, including from 'trusted traveler'
Noteworthy roundups of cocaine were announced by United States Customs and Border Protection this week across three border states.
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San Francisco man with $2.4 million house got subsidized rent
"The program is intended to help low- and moderate-income families afford housing, and it has income limits and other eligibility requirements that applicants must meet to qualify for assistance," a release explained
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Body found near Kentucky highway shooting site is confirmed as suspect Joseph Couch
Kentucky's Chief Medical Examiner William Ralston said the cause of Couch's death was a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. It is not clear when Couch allegedly committed suicide, but the body was in such a state of decomposition that the identity could not be confirmed through soft tissue DNA.
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Climate fiction is popular, but readers sometimes led to believe fictional portrayals are accurate
One popular title by Kim Stanley Robinson opens in 2025 with a heat wave killing 20 million people in India. For context, the average annual deaths from all natural disasters between 2010 and 2019 across the entire world, including non-climate disasters like earthquakes, was 45,311.
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Feds appeal to remove endangered species status for gray wolf
Fish and Wildlife Service hopes to reinstate a rule passed under Trump that removes protections for gray wolves in lower 48 states.
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Poll shows Harris gaining ground with voters on the economy in warning sign for Trump
“We need all economic voters voting for Trump,” former Trump economic advisor Steve Moore told Just the News. “He has to keep stressing that people are poorer… the average family is doing worse than they were four years ago.”
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App exposes worst of U.S. military housing
Founder Rob Evans created the app more than a year ago after a Congressional watchdog called attention to longstanding problems with housing for junior enlisted service members.
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Poll: Harris, Trump tied in Virginia
The Trump campaign and Virginia Republicans maintain the commonwealth is in play this election year despite Virginia not going for a GOP presidential candidate in 20 years.
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Judge declares mistrial in Madigan-linked corruption case
Mistrial marks first defeat for federal prosecutors who have been pursuing corruption charges related to Illinois House speaker.