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From @theathletic.com: Our columnist translates how the NFL Combine in Indianapolis affects the early rounds of the Draft. While free agency remains a major domino, the combine offers key breadcrumbs into team thinking.

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From @theathletic.com: With only 99 days until the World Cup, things are getting tense in Foxboro. The local select board is still blocking FIFA's license for Gillette Stadium due to a $7.8 million gap in security funding. Seven matches are at stake.

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How did you do in Connections today? Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. nyti.ms/4smmlbB

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James Talarico, a Texas state lawmaker and former teacher who has put his Christian faith at the forefront of his campaign, won the Democratic Senate primary in Texas. Here are five things to know about him. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

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Representative Jasmine Crockett issued a statement Wednesday conceding the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas to James Talarico in a contest that served as an early test of the party’s direction heading into the November midterm elections. Follow live updates.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. used a submarine-launched torpedo to sink an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean — the first time an American submarine has been used to fire a torpedo against an enemy ship in combat since World War II. Follow live updates.

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The U.S. State Department on Tuesday ordered more employees to leave their posts at embassies and consulates in four countries, citing risks to safety as Iran expanded its retaliatory attacks.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The nine law firms that surrendered to President Trump’s illegal intimidation campaign “failed a high-stakes character test,” the editorial board writes. “Their leaders faced a choice between submitting to a bully and doing the right thing.”

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James Talarico, a 36-year-old state legislator, won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas, finishing ahead of Representative Jasmine Crockett as his party’s voters put their faith in him to pursue an elusive decades-long goal of turning the state blue. nyti.ms/4u8ZS3k

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The state representative and seminarian prevailed over Representative Jasmine Crockett with a religiously infused message tailored to appeal to independents and disaffected Republicans.

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The Israeli and U.S. bombardment of Iran continued early Wednesday, as did Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone barrage across the Gulf region.

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The process of tallying primary ballots in Texas’ second-most-populous county was thrown into uncertainty on Tuesday evening when the State Supreme Court temporarily blocked an earlier court ruling allowing voters more time to cast ballots.

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Bobby Pulido, a moderate Democrat and Latin Grammy Award-winning Tejano singer, won his House primary race on Tuesday in South Texas, defeating Ada Cuellar, an emergency room doctor who challenged his center-left views on abortion and his connections to the Democratic establishment.

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Breaking News: Senator John Cornyn of Texas was forced into a Republican primary runoff against Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, in the race to be their party's nominee for U.S. Senate this November. nyti.ms/4cqGzMM

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Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, destroying its ballistic missile capabilities has emerged as a top objective. Here's a look at some of the key sites that have been hit, and what it says about the U.S. and Israel’s strategy. nyti.ms/46E5c4Z

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Obviously there is more to the story here than just Trump’s instincts,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes about war on Iran. “But I think it makes sense to put them at the center of the story, rather than Israeli influence or Saudi pressure.”

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The Department of Homeland Security has opened an internal investigation into a report that Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol commander, made disparaging remarks about the Jewish faith of the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota during an immigration operation in the state.

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When asked on Tuesday who he would like to rule Iran, President Trump responded: “Most of the people we had in mind are dead.” “Now we have another group,” he continued. “They may be dead also, based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming. Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody.”

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Breaking News: The U.S. conducted joint military operations with Ecuador against “designated terrorist organizations,” the Pentagon said. The U.S. Southern Command called it an effort to “combat the scourge of narco-terrorism,” but did not provide other details. nyti.ms/4cld7aV

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Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appears to be a front-runner to become his father’s successor. Known for having close ties to the Revolutionary Guards, Mr. Khamenei first joined the Islamic military corps around 1987 after finishing high school. nyti.ms/4rTua8U

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Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.

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Polls have closed in Texas, where results in a combative and expensive Senate primary have begun arriving as the first races of the midterm elections were being decided on Tuesday. Follow live results as votes are counted.

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A Toronto synagogue was damaged by gunfire on Monday night, the beginning of the Jewish holiday Purim, the police said. No one was hurt. A vehicle was reportedly seen leaving the area after the shots, but there is no description of any suspect, the police said. nyti.ms/4bqWI2L

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More than 870 people have been killed in the fighting in the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. The vast majority of those reported so far have been in Iran, but others have died in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Israel as well.

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Two people were left dangling more than 900 feet in the air after their hot air balloon that had been floating in the almost cloudless sky was punctured, ripped to shreds and left fluttering from the 1,000-foot communications tower it struck near in Texas on Saturday. nyti.ms/4l9N0pF

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No Democrat has won a statewide election in Texas since 1994. In fact, only one major statewide race has even been close this century — when Beto O’Rourke came within three points of knocking out Senator Ted Cruz in 2018.

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President Trump has endorsed hundreds of Republican candidates running for office this year. See results for the candidates running in tonight’s primaries.

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Roy Cooper, a former Democratic governor of North Carolina, and Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the RNC, won their respective primaries for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina on Tuesday.

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A conservative member of the Texas Legislature is facing a tough challenge in Tuesday’s Republican primary from an Air Force veteran who went to prison for breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

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U.S. officials have identified four of the U.S. soldiers killed by an Iranian drone on Sunday. They were Army Reserve officers from Nebraska, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. One was wrapping up his final deployment and hoped to open a martial arts studio. nyti.ms/4r9Cnoa

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