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S&P 500 surges 2.9% to its biggest gain since last spring as hopes build for an end to Iran war 03/31/2026 04:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� S&P 500 surges 2.9% to its biggest gain since last spring as hopes build for an end to Iran war. The Army says crews of two helicopters that hovered near Kid Rock's Nashville home are suspended pending a review 03/31/2026 03:58pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The Army says crews of two helicopters that hovered near Kid Rock's Nashville home are suspended pending a review. Supreme Court seems likely to rule for a Black death row inmate in Mississippi 03/31/2026 03:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to rule for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him. The justices took up an appeal from Terry Pitchford in a case with similarities to that of another Blac European Union official says reports of violence during Serbia vote unacceptable 03/31/2026 03:37pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� A European Union official on Tuesday said violent incidents and irregularities that have been reported during local elections in Serbia were ���unacceptable." EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in a post on X, cited findings of international monitors who said they h Democrats try a new tactic to win a House seat in Utah ��� running as progressives in a red state 03/31/2026 03:36pm • TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) ��� For decades, Democrats' only chance of getting elected to Congress from the conservative state of Utah was by convincing voters that they were sensible moderates, not like the zealous progressives from California or Colorado. But the political landscape has changed, than One Cuban family navigates daily life under a US oil embargo and a deepening economic crisis 03/31/2026 03:35pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� Yuneisy Riviaux grew up in a working-class Havana neighborhood and has endured a life of hardship, but she never imagined a day would come when she and her little girls would go without lunch. The 42-year-old unemployed mother of two lives in Havana with several other families in a h Wisconsin judicial panel dismisses Democratic attempt to redraw congressional maps 03/31/2026 03:28pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A three-judge panel in Wisconsin on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Democratic voters that sought to redraw the battleground state's Republican-friendly congressional boundary lines ahead of the November midterm election. The decision can be appealed to the liberal-cont Sexual violence is being used as a weapon in Sudan's war, doctors group says 03/31/2026 03:27pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Sexual violence against women and girls is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan 's fierce conflict between the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, international aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a report Tuesday. Sudan slid into chaos in April 2023 when Chase Elliott holds off Denny Hamlin for first 2026 win and F1 starts five-week hiatus 03/31/2026 03:24pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Last race: Chase Elliott earned his 22nd career win and second in Martinsville, overcoming race-leader Denny Hamlin and taking the lead for good with 68 laps to go. Next race: April 12, Bristol, Tennessee. Online: http://www.nascar.com NASCAR O'REILLY AUTO PARTS S Monthslong meditation on impermanence at a remote California Zen retreat meets a real-life fire 03/31/2026 03:23pm • A Buddhist meditation hall at the remote Tassajara Mountain Zen Center in Central California burned down just as practitioners were in the home stretch of a sequestered, three-month meditation program in which they had been contemplating the impermanence of existence. The March 26 attic fire swallow Who's behind the Nevada Forum? Nonpartisan group hopes to bring GOP, Dems together 03/31/2026 03:22pm • As candidates scrap it out during an election year, it���s rare to see bipartisan efforts. But The Nevada Forum, a new civic infrastructure nonprofit officially launching Thursday, aims to break through the polarization. The group seeks to find solutions to systemic problems supported by people acr Final Four brings Aday Mara's parents from Spain to experience March Madness with Michigan big man 03/31/2026 03:16pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� Aday Mara was on his tiptoes when he helped cut down the nets in Crisler Arena a few weeks ago after a win against rival Michigan State, celebrating Michigan's Big Ten championship. The 7-foot-3 Spaniard looked around and lamented that he and German center Malick Kordel wer Texas teen who shot teacher before killing himself seemed to be struggling in school, officials say 03/31/2026 03:16pm • BULVERDE, Texas (AP) ��� A 15-year-old student who shot and injured a teacher at a Texas high school and then fatally shot himself appeared to have been struggling academically before coming to the campus armed with a gun he brought from home, authorities said Tuesday. The shooting Monday at Hill Co Haiti imposes austerity measures as Iran war drives up oil prices and disrupts supplies 03/31/2026 03:10pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haiti���s government announced new austerity measures on Tuesday as the war in Iran disrupts critical oil supplies and drives up prices worldwide. Officials in the troubled Caribbean country imposed a ban on the purchase of any new vehicles, will reduce fuel expenditur Projects partly funded by Nevada governor's housing bill take off, aiming at affordability crisis 03/31/2026 03:09pm • A new housing development, supported by funding from the landmark housing bill passed last year, aims to help an unexpected group affected by the affordability crisis: middle-income Nevadans. ���We haven���t ever seen anything like it,��� said Heidi Griffith, a mortgage loan officer who runs the hom