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6:34 PM on Sunday, March 15

Duke, Arizona, Michigan and Florida receive No. 1 seeds for men's March Madness. Miami (Ohio) makes the field

6:05 PM on Sunday, March 15

Duke, riding an 11-game winning streak, named the overall top seed for men's NCAA Tournament

5:45 PM on Sunday, March 15

The CEOs of the nation’s top airline companies are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers, including airport security officers, during a partial government shutdown

4:25 PM on Sunday, March 15

Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports 5th Iranian soccer team member gives up asylum in Australia

1:46 PM on Sunday, March 15

The U.S. military is identifying the six service members who died last week when a KC-135 refueling plane crashed in western Iraq

12:46 PM on Sunday, March 15

A powerful storm chain has brought blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest, with dangerous winds elsewhere and the threat of severe storms heading east

12:19 PM on Sunday, March 15

Pixar’s “Hoppers” held onto its spot atop the box office, bringing in $28.5 million in its second weekend

11:47 AM on Sunday, March 15

Israel's military is claiming that the brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week was a Hezbollah commander

10:53 AM on Sunday, March 15

Pakistan says it struck militant hideouts in Afghanistan as cross-border fighting intensified and both sides traded blame

8:09 AM on Sunday, March 15

An AP investigation has found that an Israeli group whose founder strongly supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza is behind several flights that transferred hundreds of people out of the war-torn enclave

7:47 AM on Sunday, March 15

A company that evaluates news outlets and websites to see which produce reliable journalism says it's under attack by the Trump administration

7:39 AM on Sunday, March 15

Presidents come and go from the White House every four year or eight years

6:47 AM on Sunday, March 15

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready for the next trilateral peace talks with the U.S. and Russia, but the meeting depends on Washington and Moscow

6:27 AM on Sunday, March 15

Hungary’s election fight is intensifying as Viktor Orbán and challenger Péter Magyar stage rival mass rallies in Budapest to show strength

6:02 AM on Sunday, March 15

Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has won her record-equaling eighth World Cup slalom of the season

4:15 AM on Sunday, March 15

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people, including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said

4:02 AM on Sunday, March 15

Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes hit a home and a police vehicle in central Gaza and killed at least 12 Palestinians, including two boys, a woman pregnant with twins and eight police officers

3:20 AM on Sunday, March 15

Kazakhstanis are voting Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that would strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's hold on power

3:19 AM on Sunday, March 15

Ballots are being counted in the Republic of Congo after a presidential vote that keeps Denis Sassou N’Guesso on track for a fifth term

12:05 AM on Sunday, March 15

Thousands of spectators lined the streets of South Boston on Sunday for the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, one of the largest celebrations of Irish heritage in the country