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9:54 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Senegal’s president has signed into law a new provision increasing the punishment for homosexuality in the largely Muslim West African nation

9:29 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench

9:14 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Vice President JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith and adult conversion to Catholicism

6:21 AM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump has prioritized efforts to calm the financial markets during the Iran war, but his go-to moves are starting to fall flat

6:06 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Lin Yu-ting, a boxing gold medalist at the center of a gender controversy at the 2024 Paris Olympics, has won her first international bout since then at the Asian championships in Mongolia

5:54 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Europe’s inflation rate rose to 2.5% in March, according to official figures released Tuesday, as the Iran war sent energy prices sharply higher

5:19 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Authorities say a wolf has bitten a woman in a Hamburg shopping area, in what experts call Germany’s first known wild wolf attack on a person since 1998

4:51 AM on Tuesday, March 31

NBA awards voting is ramping up, and Coach of the Year looks wide open

3:50 AM on Tuesday, March 31

The Eurovision music spectacle is expanding to Asia

2:31 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Japan has deployed its first long-range missile at a southwestern army camp as the country accelerates its offensive capability in response to growing global challenges, including an increasingly assertive China

12:53 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Sugar The Surfing Dog, the first canine inducted into the Surfer’s Hall of Fame, has died

12:04 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital

12:01 AM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on Iran’s Kharg Island

11:27 PM on Monday, March 30

Indonesian search teams rescued 21 people from a raft a day after their boat sank in rough seas

11:11 PM on Monday, March 30

Joyce Edwards scored 24 points and Agot Makeer added 18 to help South Carolina beat TCU 78-52 to advance to the Final Four

8:29 PM on Monday, March 30

While Aaron Judge hit batting practice at T-Mobile Park, an advertisement featuring him and Cal Raleigh flashed on the videoboard with a link to buy tickets to the series between the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners

8:01 PM on Monday, March 30

A large donation to mental health research is getting even bigger

6:45 PM on Monday, March 30

This year’s Webby Award nominations highlight the internet’s wildest hits, from celebrity campaigns to strange viral products

5:38 PM on Monday, March 30

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf allies of the United States are urging President Donald Trump to keep prosecuting his war against Iran, saying the month of strikes has not weakened Tehran enough

3:56 AM on Monday, March 30

Israel’s parliament has passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure critics condemn as discriminatory and inhumane