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7:04 AM on Friday, March 27

A newly identified Underground Railroad passage is putting the spotlight on a New York City museum and its struggle with a proposed development

6:27 AM on Friday, March 27

Dual jury verdicts this week have validated longstanding concerns about the dangers of social media for young people

3:17 AM on Friday, March 27

Hundreds of used sneakers arrive each week at a workshop east of Paris, where workers inspect them for resale, redistribution or rejection

1:37 AM on Friday, March 27

The Nashville Predators never doubted they could be a playoff team

12:38 AM on Friday, March 27

David Mirkovic had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and third-seeded Illinois flexed its defensive muscles to eliminate last year’s national runner-up from the NCAA Tournament, beating Houston 65-55 in the South Region semifinals

12:14 AM on Friday, March 27

A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference

11:54 PM on Thursday, March 26

A Manhattan architect intends to plead guilty to Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings

11:37 PM on Thursday, March 26

On the most critical play of Nebraska’s Sweet 16 loss to rival Iowa, the Cornhuskers had only four players on the floor

10:53 PM on Thursday, March 26

A Colorado woman whose son died from a fentanyl-laced pill he bought through social media is celebrating a pair of verdicts this week against Meta and YouTube

9:49 PM on Thursday, March 26

Trey Kaufman-Renn tipped in a miss by Braden Smith with 0.7 seconds left, and No. 2 Purdue edged hobbling Texas star Tramon Mark and the 11th-seeded Longhorns 79-77 on Thursday night in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament

9:49 PM on Thursday, March 26

Alvaro Folgueiras converted a critical three-point play when Nebraska only had four defenders on the floor, and ninth-seeded Iowa continued its unpredictable NCAA Tournament run under first-year coach Ben McCollum, beating Nebraska 77-71 in a South Region semifinal

9:34 PM on Thursday, March 26

Boston College has hired UConn assistant Luke Murray as coach of a slumping men’s basketball program that has gone 17 years without an NCAA Tournament appearance

9:32 PM on Thursday, March 26

Teams had a 61.3% success rate on challenges, going 19 of 31 through the first 12 games of the regular season

6:47 PM on Thursday, March 26

A Minneapolis woman who confronted federal immigration officers alongside Alex Pretti in January is speaking out about alleged excessive force during the enforcement surge in Minnesota

12:06 PM on Thursday, March 26

The runway where a plane collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing the two pilots and injuring several others, has reopened

9:14 AM on Thursday, March 26

The House Ethics Committee is holding a rare public hearing into alleged ethics violations by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

3:44 AM on Thursday, March 26

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks in North Korea’s capital on Thursday and signed a friendship and cooperation treaty as the key allies of Moscow draw closer amid their confrontations with the U.S.-led West

2:42 AM on Thursday, March 26

The Minnesota Timberwolves were missing five of their top seven players for most of their record-setting overtime rally to beat the Houston Rockets

1:30 AM on Thursday, March 26

President Donald Trump says he will sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration workers

11:53 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure and extended a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6