Pass rusher Bradley Chubb reached agreement on a three-year, $43.5 million deal worth up to $52.5 million that includes $29 million guaranteed with the Bills, agent Erik Burkhardt told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The administration has also sought to end deportation protections for other immigrant groups, including Syrians.

Julie T. Le, a former government lawyer, described in stark terms how overstretched the legal system had become during the administrations immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Now, she said, she hopes to fix the systems failures by running for Congress.

After making the journey from prewar Germany to Madison Avenue opulence, she gave her name to one of New Yorks most influential indie cinemas.

The Uncensored Library, a digital project that chronicles attacks on journalistic liberty, is adding a U.S. wing alongside those dedicated to Russia, Saudi Arabia and others.

Young conservatives in Florida are fascinated by James Fishback, a long-shot gubernatorial candidate known for his provocative online posts.

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Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10229-9A pangenome reference for the phenotypically diverse crop sorghum aims to help accelerate future efforts to breed crops that are better adapted to changing environments.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10248-6Imprinting by influenza viruses can cause a deleterious shift of nearly the entire memory recall response against key, conserved epitopes.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10038-6A monolithically integrated photonic ski-jump enables scalable, diffraction-limited 2D beam scanning from photonic chips, achieving ultrahigh spot rates, compact footprints and applications spanning displays, sensing and quantum photonics.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00795-3But scientists say there are practical and ethical challenges to overcome before the strategy could be deployed in real-world settings.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10206-2A community-wide intervention in northern Nigeria reduced rates of child marriage from 79% to 14%, showing that bundled, big-push approaches can dramatically shift entrenched behaviours.

Former Michigan assistant Chris Partridge sued the university, its board and AD Warde Manuel, alleging he was made a "scapegoat" when he was fired during the Wolverines' 2023 sign-stealing scandal.

Defensive tackle Javon Hargrave reached agreement Wednesday on a two-year, $23 million contract with the Packers, agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Federico Valverde's stellar first-half hat trick was the catalyst as Real Madrid eased past Manchester City 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 match on Wednesday.

Turning Point USA, the right-wing campus group, is partnering with Arkansas and Indiana, the latest of several states to have similar arrangements.

Documents released by the U.K. government on Wednesday showed that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was told of Peter Mandelsons ties to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00727-1The development of an affordable, low-power and scalable sensor to map the position and velocity of 3D objects in a dynamically evolving scene has so far proved difficult. An imaging system formed using integrated silicon photonic circuits has now been developed as an equivalent to a camera, but for 4D imaging.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00781-9Emerging evidence suggests that LLM outputs can shape the text and thoughts of human users.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10241-zINSTALL overcomes fundamental challenges for DNA delivery and integration methods by synergizing immune-stealth nucleic acids with recombinases to enable kilobase-scale integration strategies without viral vectors.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10225-zNeonatal sepsis caused by Escherichia coli is associated with reduced transfer of pathogen-specific maternal antibodies and, in a mouse model, can be prevented by maternal preconceptual colonization with probiotic E. coli.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10216-0Ageing reprograms the evolutionary trajectory of KRAS-driven lung adenocarcinoma, limiting primary tumour growth while promoting metastatic dissemination through epigenetic activation of the integrated stress response, and a therapeutic opportunity in older patients is revealed.

WNBA player Rickea Jackson filed a petition for protection against her ex-boyfriend, Falcons player James Pearce Jr., saying she was "in fear of my life" and, if the court didn't intervene, she believed "James will kill me," according to court documents.

The Cowboys have traded defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa to the 49ers in exchange for a 2026 third-round draft pick, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter and Todd Archer.

Arizona State will not renew the contract of men's basketball coach Bobby Hurley, the school announced on Wednesday, hours after it was eliminated from the Big 12 tournament in a 91-42 blowout to Iowa State.

Chelsea's Pedro Neto has apologised after shoving a ball boy late in his team's 5-2 loss to Paris Saint-Germain.

Despite his tough talk, President Trump has consistently made allowances for countries he sees as powerful or dominant.

The former Missouri police officer, Julian Alcala, was sentenced to two years in prison and now faces civil lawsuits from several of the 20 victims the authorities identified.

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Former President Jimmy Carter speaks during an annual Carter Town Hall held at Emory University in Atlanta, Sept. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)2026-03-11T20:44:56Z The Trump administration is using a 20-year-old report to misrepresent former President Jimmy Carters views on mail-in and absentee ballots as it pushes for federal legislation that would impose strict new proof-of-citizenship and photo ID requirements for voting ahead of the midterm elections.On two successive days this week, President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt invoked the 2005 report by the Commission on Federal Election Reform while advocating for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE America Act. The commissions co-chairs were Carter, a Democrat, and former Secretary of State James Baker, who held senior government positions in the administrations of three Republican presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.Trump and Leavitt falsely claimed that Carter was against the use of mail-in and absentee ballots because they can lead to fraud, a mischaracterization of the reports conclusions. Heres a closer look at the facts.TRUMP, at the Republican Members Issues Conference on Monday: Jimmy Carter, the best thing he ever did, he headed a commission after he was president. It was the single best thing. And he did a thing on mail-in ballots. He said mail-in ballots should not be allowed because they are inherently dishonest. LEAVITT, at a White House press briefing on Tuesday: The bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, shared by, of all people, former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, concluded that, quote, absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud. THE FACTS: Carter supported mail-in voting and absentee ballots, according to statements by the late president, his grandson Jason Carter and The Carter Center. The 2005 report stated that absentee and mail-in ballots can create opportunities for fraud, but also suggested ways to reduce that risk and recommended further research on the issue. Experts say there is no evidence that mail-in and absentee voting leads to widespread fraud, either now or 20 years ago. My grandfather supported mail-in voting so much so that he used it himself, Jason Carter, chair of The Carter Centers board of trustees, told The Associated Press in a statement on Wednesday. Any claim to the contrary unnecessarily sows doubt in election integrity and undermines voter confidence in a consequential election year.President Carter himself publicly endorsed mail-in voting and absentee ballots in 2020, a view that continued until his death in 2024.I urge political leaders across the country to take immediate steps to expand vote-by-mail and other measures to help protect the core of American democracy the right of our citizens the vote, he said in May 2020 amid concerns about elections during the COVID-19 pandemic.Four months later, in response to news reports about his opinion of absentee ballots, Carter said: I approve the use of absentee ballots and have been using them for more than five years. Voting by mail remains popular with voters of both major parties. During the 2024 election, which Trump won, roughly 30% of voters cast mailed ballots, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. That was higher than pre-pandemic levels, when about a quarter of voters used mailed ballots. Three of the four states where use of mailed ballots was higher than in 2020 are controlled politically by Republicans Indiana, South Dakota and Utah.Trump himself has voted by mail in his home state of Florida. A misrepresented reportThe Commission on Federal Election Reform, organized by American Universitys Center for Democracy and Election Management and funded by a group of philanthropic organizations, published a report, Building Confidence in U.S. Elections, in 2005. Among its findings were that absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud and that voting by mail is likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections in certain states.However, the report did not discourage the use of mail-in and absentee ballots. Rather, it included suggestions for how to reduce the risk of fraud.The report made three recommendations related to absentee ballots and voter registration fraud: that jurisdictions only allow specific people to handle ballots, and prohibit candidates or party workers from picking up and delivering absentee ballots; that states should pass legislation to minimize fraud from payments for voter registration, absentee ballot or signature collection efforts; and that states should not discourage legal voter registration or get-out-the-vote work.It also suggested that states should implement better safeguards for ballot integrity and encouraged further research on the pros and cons of mail-in and early voting. The report noted that in Oregon, which had been using vote-by-mail for seven years, there was little evidence of fraud. The administrations claims about President Carters views on mail-in voting are not true, the Carter Center said in a statement this week to The Associated Press.It said the claims do not consider the rest of the reports findings or President Carters acknowledgment of the safeguards that have emerged in the 20+ years since this report came out.No rampant fraudMail-in and absentee voting does not cause widespread election fraud, according to experts, even as their use has increased in the past two decades, from roughly 13% of voters in 2004 to nearly a third of all ballots cast two years ago.Theres no evidence that mail-in voting fraud was rampant then, and its not rampant now, said Mark Lindeman, policy and strategy director at Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group focused on election technology. Mail voting has become more common and more mature. So, over that period of time, states have learned from each other best practices for not only avoiding fraud, but just generally administering mail balloting well.For example, ballot tracking, curing ballots that had initially been rejected, and the ability to identify and address duplicate voter registrations have improved.Trump has flip-flopped on mail-in voting over the years. He preemptively argued that mail balloting was bad months before voting even began in the 2020 election. At the same time, he encouraged voters in Florida a state he won to vote by mail. Trump and other Republicans then blamed mail-in voting for his loss.The GOP, and sometimes even Trump, urged voters to cast their ballots by mail ahead of the 2024 election when it was seen as a necessary course correction during a tight race.Asked whether Trump stands by the statements he and Leavitt made, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said: President Trump and Karoline are completely right -- and Karoline read a direct quote from the report during her briefing.She added that the press release The Carter Center published in May 2020 that included Carters endorsement of mail-in voting does not invalidate the findings of the 2005 report.___Find AP Fact Checks here: https://apnews.com/APFactCheck. MELISSA GOLDIN Goldin debunks, analyzes and tracks misinformation for The Associated Press. She is based in New York. twitter mailto

A worker lifts an aluminum beam on the factory floor at The Luxury Pergola, a company that manufactures aluminum pergolas, on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, in Noblesville, Ind. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy)2026-03-11T23:16:32Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries an effort that comes after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trumps previous use of tariffs by declaring an economic emergency.Trump and his team have made clear that theyre seeking to replace the hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenues after the Supreme Courts February ruling by using different laws to establish new tariffs. In this case, the administration is starting investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which could eventually lead to new import taxes. But U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, in a Wednesday call with reporters, said he didnt want to prejudge the outcome of the process.The policy remains the same the tools may change depending on, you know, the vagaries of courts and other things, said Greer, stressing that the goal was to protect American jobs. The start of the process to fully replace Trumps prior tariffs could invite a return of much of the drama that rattled the global economy last year. The since-overturned tariffs led to new frameworks with U.S. trade partners and its unclear what impact a new set of import taxes could have on those agreements. Greer described the trade frameworks as standing on their own and suggested they were separate from the new investigation. This new set of tariffs could play out against the backdrop of a war in Iran and midterm elections in which Democrats are running against Trumps Republican allies by emphasizing that the public is owed tariff refunds following the Supreme Court decision. Greer said that the investigation would examine excess industrial capacity and government backing that could give foreign companies an unfair advantage over U.S. companies.The entities subject to the investigation include China, the European Union, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, the self-governing island of Taiwan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Japan and India. The government is looking for what it deems to be persistent trade surpluses with the U.S. and policies such as subsidies and the suppression of workers wages, among other factors. The administration is also rolling out a Section 301 investigation to ban the importing of goods made by forced labor.Greer indicated that there could be additional Section 301 investigations over issues such as digital service taxes, pharmaceutical drug pricing and ocean pollution, among other possibilities. The Commerce Department has separate trade investigations under Section 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act.There are timeline pressures for the administration to complete its investigations. The administration has imposed 10% tariffs on foreign-made goods under section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, but those expire after 150 days on July 24. Trump said he planned to raise that import tax to 15%, but he has yet to do so.Greer said the administration is keying off the new investigation based on the 150-day deadline, saying that the goal is to bring potential options to Trump as soon as possible. Greer said the investigations would be separate from the trade frameworks announced last year by Trump that set baseline tariff rates, which led to 15% rates charged on goods from the European Union, Japan and South Korea, among other places, that have since been overturned by the Supreme Court. Still, he suggested that the frameworks could play a factor.My sense is that these countries continue to want to deal, and President Trump continues to want the deal, Greer said, adding that since tariffs are in play the commitments that the countries have made and the implementation of the frameworks would be considered as they bump against the demands of the Section 301 process.___AP writer Mae Anderson contributed to this report. JOSH BOAK Boak covers the White House and economic policy for The Associated Press. He joined the AP in 2013. twitter mailto

Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble in the aftermath of a strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency via AP)2026-03-11T23:06:26Z WASHINGTON (AP) Dozens of Democratic senators demanded answers from the Trump administration on Wednesday as a growing body of evidence suggested that the U.S. was likely responsible for a strike at an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children.The letter from more than 45 senators pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether the U.S. was culpable for the strike and what previous analysis of the building had been done. The senators also raised concerns about the Pentagon hollowing-out a congressionally mandated office set up specifically to reduce civilian casualties.The bombing of the school and the casualties involving children have become a focal point of the war, and if confirmed to be at the hands of the U.S., would also stand among the highest civilian casualty events caused by the American military operations in the last two decades. President Donald Trump initially blamed Iran for the attack, later said he wasnt certain who was to blame, and then said he would accept the results of the Pentagons investigation. The issue took on added urgency on Wednesday after the New York Times reported that a preliminary investigation found that the U.S. was responsible. Under this administration, budgetary and personnel cuts at the Department have robbed military commands of crucial resources to prevent and respond to civilian casualties, the senators wrote. Those include cuts at U.S. Central Command, whose forces are leading the military campaign against Iran, and the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which was signed into law in 2022 as part of a Pentagon ambition to reduce death tolls from strikes. If the U.S. is determined to be responsible, the revelation would threaten to erode public support in the U.S. effort against Iran at a time when Trump, who as a candidate railed against American involvement in stupid overseas wars, faces persistent questions about the purpose and of the conflict and what would bring it to an end. One former Pentagon official said the Feb. 28 strike that hit Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, which is located near a neighboring base for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, came as a natural result of changes made by the Trump administration to reduce staff to mitigate civilian harm and Hegseths emphasis on lethality over legality. Evidence mounts pointing to US responsibility for strikeThere are several indications that the strike on the school may have been avoidable.It happened Saturday morning, the start of the Iranian school week, when the building was full of young children. Satellite analysis by the AP shows that the school, as well as other targets struck the same day, had characteristics visible from the air that could have identified them as civilian sites before they were struck. The AP reported last week that satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. military all suggested it was likely a U.S. strike. That evidence grew stronger on Monday, as new footage emerged showing what experts identified as a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile slamming into the military compound as smoke was already rising from the area where the school was located. Publicly available satellite imagery shows the school building was part of the military compound until about 2017, when a new wall was added to separate the two. A watchtower on the property was also removed. Around the same time, the imagery shows the walls surrounding the building were painted with murals in vibrant colors, primarily blue and pink, so bright theyre visible from spaceThe school was clearly labeled as such in online maps and has an easily-accessible website full of information about students, teachers and administrators. International law governing warfare bars strikes on structures, vehicles and people that are not military objectives and combatants. Civilian homes, schools, medical facilities and cultural sites are generally off limits for military strikes. The proximity of a school to a valid military target does not change its status as a civilian site, said Elise Baker, a senior staff lawyer at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based nonprofit think tank. If the U.S. is found responsible, said Senator Tim Kaine during a briefing with journalists on Wednesday: Its either weve changed our traditional targeting rules or we made a mistake.If weve changed our traditional targeting rules and we no longer provide the same level of protection for civilians, that would be tragic, Kaine said.Some Republicans, too, are sounding alarms.Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota told reporters that an investigation needs to get to the bottom of it, and then admit if you know whose fault it is.If the U.S. was behind it, Cramer said, the military must do everything you can to eliminate those mistakes going forward.He added: But you also cant undo it. Guardrails to curb civilian deaths have been guttedCongress directed the Pentagon to create the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence in late 2022 as part of the wide-ranging annual defense authorization bill, which passed both chambers with broad bipartisan support. The bill said the center was to institutionalize and advance knowledge, practices, and tools for preventing, mitigating, and responding to civilian harm.The measure put into law an initiative that had already been started by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier that year. The 36-step action plan was ambitious and necessary, Austin said at the time.In April 2023, that office had a full-time director hired by the Army and an initial core staff of 30 civilians, according to a 2024 Pentagon report that said that the workforce was expected to grow.Wes Bryant began working there in 2024 as the Branch Chief of Civil Harm Assessments. One of the things the office was discussing was updating the no strike list, he said, a series of civilian targets in other countries that the Pentagon keeps. When he was working at the Pentagon, it was well known that the list was out-of-date, he said. But under Hegseth, the offices size was slashed and the work on updating the no-strike lists stopped, he said. They have no budget. Theyre just sitting there trying to maintain any semblance of the mission, he said.Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesman for U.S. Central Command, denied reports that the military command only had a single person assigned to the mission but would not offer any further details, citing the ongoing investigation.____Frankel reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Konstantin Toropin, Aamer Madhani and Joey Cappelletti contributed to this report. JULIA FRANKEL Frankel, based in Jerusalem, has reported from across Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Her reporting focuses on war, human rights, displacement and criminal justice. twitter mailto MICHAEL BIESECKER Biesecker is a global investigative reporter for The Associated Press, based in Washington. He reports on a wide range of topics, including human conflict, climate change and political corruption. twitter instagram mailto ERIC TUCKER Tucker covers national security in Washington for The Associated Press, with a focus on the FBI and Justice Department. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00494-zInfected plants assemble immune-protein complexes on cell membranes to induce defence responses and cell death. Some such complexes can form large ring-like clusters.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00720-8A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21%. Interventions that address complex, entrenched social problems from various angles simultaneously might be considerably more effective than smaller-scale, cheaper alternatives are.

Colin Dorgan, the high school hockey player who lost three family members in a mass shooting at a Rhode Island rink last month, scored on a breakaway in double overtime to lift his Blackstone Valley Co-op team into the state final.

Ravens GM Eric DeCosta got emotional at times in explaining it was a difficult but necessary decision to rescind the trade with the Raiders for Maxx Crosby, saying, "Nobody's more upset about this than me."

Pete Carroll, in his first interview since being fired by the Raiders, took the blame for Geno Smith's struggles in Las Vegas.

Playing in her first game since July, Caitlin Clark had 17 points and 12 assists in 19 minutes to lead Team USA to a 110-64 win in its first game of the FIBA World Cup qualifiers.

The Big Ten sent a letter to the NCAA asking the organization to suspend investigations and enforcement related to tampering, and modernize its rules.

After 23 years running the Copenhagen restaurant, widely considered one of the most innovative and important in the world, the chef is leaving.

High prices have pushed more Londoners to live with roommates well into their late 20s and 30s if they can afford to move out of their parents homes at all.

It would be the first income tax in Washington, affecting an estimated 20,000 households. Some of the wealthiest are leaving for Florida.

At the vaunted restaurants pop-up in the Silver Lake neighborhood, fallout from recent reports continued.

Lebanons health ministry said at least seven people were killed in the Beirut attacks early Thursday.

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Co-owner Jorge Mas has made it clear: Inter Miami wants to win the Concacaf Champions Cup. And the pressure is on Leo Messi and Co. after a drab 0-0 first-leg draw in the round of 16 on Wednesday.

Team USA advanced out of pool play in the World Baseball Classic and will face Canada on Friday in the tournament's quarterfinals, averting a disastrous flameout thanks to Italy's 9-1 victory against Mexico on Wednesday night.

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ESPN writers Mark Ogden, Sam Tighe, Gab Marcotti and Alex Kirkland break down the action as it happened, reflect on the first legs, and look ahead to next week's return fixtures.