South Bend, Indiana — Former Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz died Wednesday at age 89, the university said. Holtz led Notre Dame to a 12–0 season and the 1988 national championship, won 249 career collegiate games and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. He...
Sri Lanka: U.S. forces sank an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean on March 4, triggering a Sri Lankan navy rescue operation that recovered 32 survivors and bodies, officials said. U.S. officials and the Pentagon attributed the attack to a U.S. submarine; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the sinking as...
BILLINGS, Mont. — Former University of Montana president Seth Bodnar announced Wednesday he will run as an independent for the U.S. Senate, saying Washington serves elites; he filed on the final day for candidates. On the same filing day Republican Sen. Steve Daines withdrew his reelection paperwork minutes before the...
Washington, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee in a hearing on alleged widespread welfare fraud in state-administered programs. Republicans released a report this week alleging officials knew about credible fraud concerns years earlier and did not act. Federal prosecutors have...
United States — College basketball teams entered conference tournaments and regular-season matchups this week, with multiple programs riding win streaks or seeking postseason seeding. Fairfield faces Manhattan in the MAAC, Colorado meets Kansas in the Big 12, and Queens plays West Georgia in the ASUN, while Akron hosts Northern Illinois...
San Antonio — Incumbent Rep. Tony Gonzales and challenger Brandon Herrera will face a Republican runoff on May 26 after neither secured a majority in the March primary. State results show Gonzales with 43 percent and Herrera 41 percent; vote totals were reported by the Texas Secretary of State. The...
Houston, Texas — Republican state representative Steve Toth defeated four-term U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw in the GOP primary for Texas’ 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday, unseating the incumbent after a campaign focused on alignment with former President Donald Trump’s agenda. Toth, backed by Sen. Ted Cruz and hardline conservative groups,...
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk took the stand Wednesday in a trial, where plaintiffs allege he made false public statements in May 2022 that depressed Twitter's stock before his $44 billion acquisition. The lawsuit, filed in October 2022 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, represents shareholders...
DALLAS — James Talarico defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett to win the Texas Democratic Senate primary, the Associated Press called the race at 2:37 a.m. on March 4. Polls closed at 8 p.m. ET on March 3, but vote counts in Dallas County were delayed after confusion over polling hours and...
TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State defeated No. 14 Kansas 70-60 on Tuesday, handing the Sun Devils a late-season victory that may have been head coach Bobby Hurley’s final home game. Moe Odum led with 23 points and Massamba Diop added 19 as ASU built a 40-20 halftime lead and withstood...
