Watch out Villanova and Kentucky (and Arizona and Northwestern), there’s a new set of cats going wild for March Madness. Time for Meow Madness, coming in April.
Nation and World
A Florida businessman is raising scholarship money for gay students to honor the 49 patrons killed last June in Orlando’s gay nightclub shooting massacre.
A sloppy late-season storm lashed the Northeast with sleet and more than a foot of snow in some places Monday, paralyzing much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor.
Teams chasing a college basketball title are contending with an unexpected wrinkle that’s making last-minute travel plans difficult — a fierce storm bearing down on the Northeast that’s expected to dump up to two feet of snow in some places and create blizzard-like conditions.
Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, Somali officials and piracy experts said Tuesday, in the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel there since 2012.
Despite what you might have seen on the internet, Death Valley National Park is not in the midst of another wildflower “superbloom.”
Parents scrabbled through a towering pile of fetid garbage on Monday, screaming the names of children buried when a mountain of trash collapsed on makeshift homes and killed at least 65 people.
The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, with forecasts calling for up to 2 feet (60 cm) of snow in places by early Wednesday, with temperatures 15 to 30 degrees below normal for this time of year.
The two leaders now are set to meet at the White House for the first time on Friday.
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to resume his bid to get a judge disqualified from a racial profiling case even though the lawman has been out of office for more than two months.
Previously undisclosed video of Michael Brown, recorded hours before the unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri, has raised new questions about a suspected robbery.
Once the world’s most-wanted fugitive, the man known as “Carlos the Jackal” appeared in a French court Monday for a deadly 1974 attack against a Paris shopping arcade, a trial that victims’ families awaited for decades.
Two Native American tribes who are suing to stop the Dakota Access pipeline have asked a judge to head off the imminent flow of oil while they appeal his decision allowing the pipeline’s construction to be completed.
Las Vegas gambler Bill Walters is expected to go to trial Monday on charges that he made more than $40 million through insider trading.
It might seem all but impossible to sum up one of the most distinguished careers in photojournalism in only four words, but Nick Ut does just that when he says, “From hell to Hollywood.”
