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Michigan State Spartans guard Travis Trice shoots the ball during the first half against the Virginia Cavaliers in the third round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament.(Photo: Bob Donnan, USA TODAY Sports)
March Madness is underway
March Madness didn't fail to deliver in the NCAA tournament's opening weekend. There were upsets — Georgia State stunning Baylor and UAB shocking Iowa State — and now we're suddenly down to 16 teams. Some of them, like undefeated Kentucky, were expected to survive. Others, like No. 11 seed UCLA and No. 9 seed N.C. State, weren't even expected to make the field of 68. For all our coverage of this weekend's NCAA action, head here.
Ted Cruz to announce presidential run
Ted Cruz will announce Monday that he will seek the presidency, with a campaign that aims to energize the party's Tea Party and socially conservative wings. Cruz's plans were confirmed Sunday by two senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who requested anonymity because an official announcement had not yet been made. He will be the first Republican to declare his candidacy. Cruz, 44, is just starting the third year of his first Senate term. He is an undisputed leader of the Tea Party movement, known for his brash, uncompromising style and conservative beliefs that target both President Obama as well as his fellow Republicans. Here are 6 things to know about Cruz as he launches his 2016 bid.
U.S. forces evacuate Yemen air base
U.S. troops evacuated a southern Yemen air base Saturday after al-Qaeda seized a nearby town amid growing violence in the war-torn nation. Military forces, including commandos, left the Al Anad air base near the southern city of al-Houta. About 100 American troops and special forces units are stationed there. Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch — considered the terror organization's most dangerous — seized al-Houta on Friday. The evacuation comes amid growing sectarian violence in the mostly Sunni nation under assault from Shiite rebels known as the Houthis, who are the sworn enemies of the Sunni al-Qaeda terrorists.
530 years later, Richard III gets proper burial
Richard III is finally getting the ceremony and honor a king deserves, 530 years after his ignominious death in battle. Hundreds of people turned out in Leicestershire on Sunday as a procession carrying the remains of the medieval king, whose bones were found under a parking lot, headed to a cathedral where the monarch will be properly reburied. Richard, the last Plantagenet king, was killed in battle against Henry Tudor in 1485 and buried hastily without a coffin in a long-demolished monastery. His bones weren't found until 2012, when archaeologists excavated them from a Leicester parking lot. DNA tests, bone analysis and other scientific scrutiny established that the skeleton belonged to the king.
New Orleans airport machete suspect is dead
Richard White, 63, the suspect believed to have carried out a machete attack Friday night in New Orleans, is dead. White was shot three times at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport during his horrific attack and was pronounced dead at 5:02 p.m. Saturday. Authorities say the suspect in the brazen machete attack may have been planning to bomb the site as well. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said White carried a bag with six gasoline-filled Molotov cocktails and a barbecue lighter when he assaulted Transportation Security Administration workers at Louis Armstrong International Airport.
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Authorities say the machete-wielding man who was shot at New Orleans' international airport after trying to attack security agents was carrying explosives at the time. (March 21) AP
Islamic State releases troops' IDs, urges attacks
The Islamic State group has reportedly posted the names, photos and home addresses of 100 American troops, urging sympathizers inside the U.S. to carry out attacks against them. A group calling itself the Islamic State Hacking Division posted the threat on a website Friday night, stating that the troops identified carried out bombings on Islamic State targets in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, the New York Daily News reported Saturday. The group called on the troops to be killed "in their own lands" as they "walk their own streets thinking they are safe," according to the Daily News.
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An Islamic State group has reportedly posted the names, photos and addresses of 100 U.S. troops and servicemembers online, calling for sympathizers to attack here at home. VPC
Steve Nash announces his retirement from the NBA
Two-time MVP Steve Nash's NBA career is officially over. Nash, who has not played for the Los Angeles Lakers this season because of nerve damage in his back, announced his retirement on "The Players' Tribune." "I heard someone once say there comes a day when they tell us all that we can't play anymore," Nash wrote. "We're not good enough. Surplus to requirements. Too slow, maybe. When you're a teenager with outsized dreams and a growing obsession, and someone tells you this ain't gonna last forever, it's scary. I never forgot it." When Nash, 41, was ruled out for the season in October, his retirement was expected, but this puts finality on a remarkable and unexpected 19-year NBA career.
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USA TODAY Sports' Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt reflect on Steve Nash's career.
WABC-TV reporter Lisa Colagrossi dies at 49
Reporter Lisa Colagrossi, a fixture of New York's ABC affiliate, WABC-TV's morning news coverage, has died, the station announced on its website Saturday. The Eyewitness News correspondent and anchor, 49, was returning from a work assignment Thursday morning when she suffered a brain hemorrhage and died. The Cleveland native began work at WABC less than a week after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Barely two months later, she was the first reporter on site when American Airlines crashed after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, which killed all 260 people aboard. "She could walk you through any story, even the hardest ones including the Sandy Hook tragedy," recalled her friends at WABC. "It's hard to imagine mornings without Lisa."
Lisa Colagrossi, a staple of New York's morning news scene, has died at age 49.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: WABC-TV)
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