Sunday, March 16, 2025

Good Morning! On this day in 1802, Congress approved legislation establishing the United States Military Academy at West Point, one of the oldest military service academies in the world. (See Photos)

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Violent Tornadoes Pound South

Violent tornadoes killed at least 20 people and decimated homes in the Mississippi Valley and Deep South on Saturday. The death toll is expected to rise.

Hundreds of thousands of people were without power across the region, and 10 million are under a "tornado watch" from Tennessee to Louisiana. Photos of the tornado damage can be seen here.

The federal Storm Prediction Center issued the rare "high risk" designation on Saturday, an indication that "numerous intense and long-tracked tornadoes" were expected.

U.S., Iraq Kill ISIS Leader

U.S. Central Command and the Iraqi prime minister announced on Friday that they killed the head of the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria in a targeted operation.

CENTCOM reported in a social media post that Abu Khadija was killed in a "precision airstrike" Thursday in Iraq's Al Anbar Province. A second ISIS operative was also killed in the strike.

Abu Khadija served as ISIS second-in-command and chief of global operations. He was identified through a DNA match from evidence collected on a previous raid where the terrorist narrowly escaped, officials said.

SpaceX Launches Mission to Return Astronauts

The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts launched for the International Space Station on Friday night, with a scheduled arrival set for late Saturday night.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying four astronauts who will replace Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been in orbit for nine months now.

Problems with the Boeing Starliner's propulsion system during their initial flight made it to risky to fly home on the craft.

There will be a two-day handover before the old crew are due to begin their journey back to Earth. That would put them on course for a splashdown off the Florida coast late next week.

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➤ March Madness tips off this evening with the announcement of the NCAA college basketball 68-team bracket on the "Selection Sunday" telecast at 6 p.m. ET. (How to Watch)

➤ Villanova fired basketball coach Kyle Neptune Saturday after a three-year run where he succeeded Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright and failed to ever make the NCAA Tournament. (More)

➤ Super Bowl LVI MVP Cooper Kupp signed a three-year $45 million contract with the Seattle Seahawks after being cut loose by the Los Angeles Rams. (More)

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➤ A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to begin deporting Venezuelan migrants suspected of being Tren de Aragua gang members. The president had announced earlier in the day that he would enforce the 227-year-old law. (See Details)

➤ On Friday, Trump rolled back 18 former executive orders and directives signed by former President Biden focused on gender, labor policies, and industry regulations. (More)

➤ Journalists at Voice of America were put on administrative leave on Saturday, one day after President Trump signed an executive order to eliminate the U.S. Agency for Global Media, VOA’s parent company. (More)

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➤ New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters there has been "progress" in discussions with the Trump administration, after weeks of trading tariffs on each country's exports. (More)

➤ Vice President JD Vance expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell social media app TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, would largely be in place by an April deadline. (More)

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➤ Here's a map that shows what the United States would look like if every state was sized according to its population. (See Map)

➤ Linguists have identified the hardest tongue twister in the English language, and it's only six words long. (See Tongue Twister).

➤ Americans of a certain age will remember a variety of once-common candy bars that have disappeared. How many of these do you remember? (See Candy)

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➤ A remarkable NASA photo captures the XB-1, a U.S. civilian jet, breaking the sound barrier, making the "invisible visible." (See Photo)

➤ A new list highlights the most colorful natural wonders in the world, including Bolivia's red Laguna Colorada, and Australia's pink Lake Hillier. (See Photos)

➤ Switching to daylight saving time requires adjustment, but societies centuries ago also had problems matching their calendars with the seasons. Can you solve these time puzzles from the ancient world? (See Puzzles)

➤ The futuristic Danjiang Bridge in Taipei will be the longest of its kind in the world, a single-tower, cable-stayed bridge set to open in early 2026. (See Images)

➤ The world's first—and possibly only—orchestra to use vegetables as their musical instruments won a Guinness World Record after playing 344 concerts over 27 years. (See Video)

➤ The ancient game of Royal Shrovetide, an early form of soccer, includes a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. It's still played today in England as a two-day game of mass street football that could be mistaken for a riot. (See Video)

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