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1:15 AM on Monday, March 30

St. John’s says Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino has signed a new agreement that will keep him under contract with the school through the end of this decade

12:52 AM on Monday, March 30

China’s flag carrier has resumed direct flights between Beijing and North Korea’s capital of Pyongyang not long after the restoration of passenger train services between the capitals

9:41 PM on Sunday, March 29

Emerson Hancock pitched six hitless innings for the Seattle Mariners in his season debut against the Cleveland Guardians before being removed from the game by manager Dan Wilson

8:57 PM on Sunday, March 29

Dawn Staley says conversations with recruits have changed over the past few years, with finances becoming a top point of discussion, especially with players in the transfer portal

8:14 PM on Sunday, March 29

Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri Lehecka to capture the Miami Open title and complete the “Sunshine Double’’ a day after Aryna Sabalenka accomplished the same feat in a win over Coco Gauff

7:37 PM on Sunday, March 29

Braylon Mullins sank a desperation 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to give UConn an astonishing 73-72 victory over top-seeded Duke, earning the Huskies a spot in the Final Four after they rallied from a 19-point first-half deficit

6:42 PM on Sunday, March 29

Chase Elliott has outdueled Denny Hamlin at Martinsville Speedway to earn his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season

6:41 PM on Sunday, March 29

Gary Woodland is a winner again just 30 months after brain surgery

5:58 PM on Sunday, March 29

Andrew McCutchen and Brandon Nimmo each hit their first home runs with the Texas Rangers

5:55 PM on Sunday, March 29

A young man who moved from Connecticut to Israel last year to join the military was killed Saturday during a combat operation in southern Lebanon

5:28 PM on Sunday, March 29

Lauren Betts had 23 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks to help UCLA rally from a rare halftime deficit and beat Duke 70-58, advancing to the women’s Final Four for the second straight season

5:05 PM on Sunday, March 29

Bruce Cassidy is out as coach of the Vegas Golden Knights, who fired him Sunday and replaced him with John Tortorella

4:46 PM on Sunday, March 29

Yaxel Lendeborg scored 27 points, Elliot Cadeau had 10 assists and Michigan rolled into the Final Four by overwhelming Tennessee for a 95-62 victory in the NCAA Tournament

4:35 PM on Sunday, March 29

Chesney the kangaroo jumped an eight-foot fence to escape his petting zoo in Wisconsin, spending three days on the lam

3:39 PM on Sunday, March 29

Violence has erupted in the central Haitian town of Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite as a powerful gang warred with a vigilante group local, regional officials confirmed to the Associated Press

3:26 PM on Sunday, March 29

Geno Auriemma and defending national champion UConn are going to their 25th Final Four in the women's NCAA Tournament

3:05 PM on Sunday, March 29

Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox and Chase DeLauter of the Cleveland Guardians have accomplished something in the last week that had been done only twice before

11:48 AM on Sunday, March 29

Actor Antonio Banderas has joined the crowds in dozens of Palm Sunday processions, marking the official start of Holy Week in Spain

10:55 AM on Sunday, March 29

Israeli police have blocked top Catholic leaders from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Palm Sunday Mass

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 29

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran