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TOI was the first to carry a report about the Centre seeking payment from Punjab.

Sen. Klobuchar is angry the agency hasn’t hired enough screeners.

CHICAGO - Aaliyah Lewis had 14 points and eight rebounds and No. 4 seed St. John's won its first Big East tournament championship since 1988 in a 50-37 victory over seventh-seeded Creighton on Tuesday night, earning a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

"There are snipers shooting at anyone on the road, and landmines in the fields. Checkpoints stop everything coming in– food, medicine, fuel; everything needed for life."

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Football teams have been wearing numbers since Arsenal experimented with putting their players in numbered shirts in 1928 (it didn’t bring them much luck – they lost 3-2 to Sheffield Wednesday).

But it was Manchester United that made the number seven shirt iconic by putting their best players in it – perhaps most famously David Beckham, who said:

It always was an inspiration for me, but it was never my shirt. It was George Best’s, Bryan Robson’s, Eric Cantona’s. Читать дальше...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber about his endorsement of Secretary Hillary Clinton after polls close in Mississippi.

President Obama has begun interviewing candidates to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Charles Evers, the brother of late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, about his endorsement of Donald Trump after Mississippi polls closed Tuesday night.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with former Michigan Sen. Don Riegle about his endorsement of Bernie Sanders for president.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "5 Card Cash" game were:

An elite FBI hostage rescue team is under investigation after one or more federal agents apparently lied or failed to admit that they shot at Oregon occupier Robert “LaVoy” Finicum during a fatal showdown in January, officials revealed Tuesday.

African-American voters have consistently supported the former senator and secretary of State in the South, says Ron Elving, and that appears to be the case again tonight.

Exit polls suggest Donald Trump's early lead may hold up, and that Rubio's in for a disappointing night, says NPR's Ron Elving.

A large turnout among evangelicals didn't stop Trump in the southern state, while a strong performance among African-American voters gave Clinton another win.

There are spoilers concerning Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. midseason premiere here.

MD Biosciences worked for 6 weeks on diagnostic exam that is attracting interest

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister on Wednesday dismissed public concerns revealed by a U.S. opinion poll about a Chinese company leasing a strategically important port.

(ATTN: ADDS details from para 2) BEIJING, March 9 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a telephone discussion on Wednesday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi about the situation on the Korean Peninsula, China's foreign ministry said

IMF warning on health of global economy damps sentiment

Jessica Chastain walks around the set of her upcoming movie Miss Sloane on Monday (March 7) in Toronto, Canada. The two-time Oscar-nominated actress is starring in the movie about “a ruthless and highly successful political strategist named Elizabeth Sloane who exposes the cutthroat world of D.C lobbyists on both sides of the gun legislation debate.” [...]

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After winning GOP primaries in Mississippi and Michigan on Tuesday, Donald Trump used part of his press conference to show off Trump-branded steaks, water and wine to rebut criticism from Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio about his "failed" business ventures. Photo: AP

The eyes, heart, pancreas, kidneys, oesophagus, liver and bone marrow of a Bengaluru youth have granted a new lease of life to at least eight persons in New York.