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In this photo taken from video released by the Investigative Committee of Russia on Saturday, March 23, 2024, firefighter work in the burned concert hall after an attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia. (Investigative Committee of Russia via AP)

Putin says gunmen who raided Moscow concert hall tried to escape to Ukraine. Kyiv denies involvement

The suburban Moscow concert hall where gunmen opened fire on concertgoers was a blackened, smoldering ruin as the death toll in the attack surpassed 130 and Russian authorities arrested four suspects.
 
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks after his visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Arabic reads, "Rafah border crossing". (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

UN chief says it’s time to ‘truly flood’ Gaza with aid and calls starvation there an outrage

 
A woman lights candles at the fence next to the Crocus City Hall, on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Russia's top state investigative agency says the death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack has risen to over 133. The attack Friday on Crocus City Hall, a sprawling mall and concert venue on Moscow's western edge, also left many wounded and left the building a smoldering ruin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Deadly attack on Moscow concert hall shakes Russian capital and sows doubts about security

 
FILE - Soldiers of the NATO enhanced forward presence battalion take part in a military exercise 'Saber Strike 2018' at the Training Range in Pabrade some 60km (38 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, June 11, 2018. The U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative, Estonia’s defense officials said Saturday March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Washington approves $228 million in US military aid to the three Baltic states, Estonia says

 
FILE - Britain's Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales leave after they paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Hall for the Lying-in State, in London, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Worldwide support pours in for Kate, the Princess of Wales, after shocking cancer reveal

 

ELECTION WATCH 2024

People walk past a large poster of the movie Swatantra Veer Savarkar displayed outside a cinema hall in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Mar. 21, 2024. The movie, set to be released on Friday, is one of several upcoming Bollywood releases based on polarizing issues, which either promote Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s political agenda, or lambast his critics. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

As India’s election nears, some Bollywood films promote Modi politics by embracing Hindu nationalism

A cluster of Bollywood films based on polarizing issues that promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s Hindu nationalist agenda are coming out.
 
Presidential candidate Anta Babacar Ngom greets supporters during her electoral campaign caravan in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decades long campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Senegal votes Sunday in a presidential election that has fired up political tensions

Senegal votes Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.
 

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FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores flash victory signs as they arrive to the National Assembly for the annual presidential address, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 15, 2024. As the July 28 presidential election nears, Venezuelan government keeps arresting opponents allegedly tied to criminal plots. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

As election nears, Venezuelan government keeps arresting opponents allegedly tied to criminal plots

 
  1. FILE - Algeria's President Abdelmajid Tebboune gives a press conference, in Algiers, Algeria, Sunday, 24, 2019. Algeria's presidential campaign is officially starting a week ago with five candidates vying to replace the longtime leader pushed out in April in an ongoing protest movement. Algeria has scheduled this year’s presidential elections for September 7, providing more than five months for first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune to campaign for a second term to lead the oil-rich north African nation, his office said in a statement on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum, File)

    Algeria sets election for September. The military-backed president is expected to seek a 2nd term

  2. ADDS SECOND SENTENCE. FILE - Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont speaks at a press conference in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, Oct. 4, 2021. Puigdemont says that he will return to Spain for the first time since leading a failed 2017 breakaway bid if he has a viable chance to be restored as regional president following upcoming elections. Puigdemont is still a wanted man in Spain and hoping that a contentious amnesty bill that was crafted by Spain’s left-wing government to clear him and hundreds of other supporters successfully makes it through the Madrid parliament in the coming months. (AP Photo/Gloria Calvi, File)

    Fugitive Catalan chief Puigdemont pledges he will return to Spain if he can be restored to power

Deadly concert hall attack in Moscow

Russia’s Federal Security Service says at least 60 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in an attack at a Moscow concert hall. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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People lay flowers and light candles standing next to the Crocus City Hall, on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Russia's top state investigative agency says the death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack has risen to over 133. The attack Friday on Crocus City Hall, a sprawling mall and concert venue on Moscow's western edge, also left many wounded and left the building a smoldering ruin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

What we know after the Islamic State group claims responsibility for Moscow massacre

 

  1. The double cancer blow to Kate and King Charles leaves Britain’s royal family depleted and strained

  2. The Moscow concert hall attack wasn’t the first during Putin’s 25-year rule

  3. Acclaimed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini dies at age 82

Asia

In this screen grab from video provided by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, a Chinese coast guard ship uses water cannons and closely maneuvers beside a Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4 as it approaches Second Thomas Shoal, locally called Ayungin shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Saturday, March 23, 2024. (Armed Forces of the Philippines via AP)

Chinese coast guard hits Philippine boat with water cannons in disputed sea, causing injuries

 

  1. A Chinese pastor is released after 7 years in prison, only to find himself unable to get an ID

  2. Protests against arrest of one of top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Modi continue for second day

  3. A losing candidate in Indonesia’s presidential election demands a revote, alleging fraud

Latin America

FILE - Taylor Swift fans wait for the doors of the Nilton Santos Olympic stadium to open amid a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 18, 2023. A stifling heat wave was sweeping across southeast Brazil the day of Swift’s concert last November, just before the start of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

The ‘Taylor Swift effect’ aims to provide water during Brazil’s life-threatening heat waves

 

  1. Chevron manager jailed in Venezuela amid crackdown on government critics

  2. For Haitian diaspora, gang violence back home is personal as hopes dim for eventual return

  3. Heavy rains kill at least 7 in Rio de Janeiro state, 4-year-old rescued after 16 hours under mud

Middle East

A general view shows a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, March. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

The UN Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding a Ramadan cease-fire

 

  1. US-backed Syrian force that defeated IS 5 years ago warns group still poses international threat

  2. Lebanon’s displaced celebrate Ramadan amid fears that border conflict might become the ‘new normal’

  3. US fighter jets strike storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen

Africa

Residents collect drinking water that falls naturally down a mountain in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Water, abundant for some and scarce for others, highlights inequalities of climate change

 

  1. Attack on Nigerien forces kills 23 soldiers and underscores continued conflict with militants

  2. Burkina Faso’s security forces are killing more civilians. Survivors detailed 1 village’s massacre

  3. A Moroccan town protests water management plans

  4. Mass grave with bodies of at least 65 migrants found in the deserts of western Libya

U.S. News

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the media after she and the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention met with families whose loved ones were murdered during the 2018 mass shooting that took the lives of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Saturday, March 23, 2024. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

‘Frozen in time.’ Kamala Harris tours bloodstained building where 2018 Parkland massacre happened

 

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  2. Fill up your gas tank and prepare to wait. Some tips to prepare for April’s total solar eclipse

  3. ‘I will not feed a demon': YouTuber Ruby Franke’s child abuse case rooted in religious extremism

  4. 85 years after a racist mob drove Opal Lee’s family away, she’s getting a new home on the same spot

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Greek authorities seize 3.75 million capsules of contraband nerve pain drug pregabalin

Greek authorities have seized more than three tons of the prescription nerve pain drug pregabalin and impounded a yacht registered in the United Kingdom.
 

Local authorities in northwestern Mexico release 18 hostages of criminal groups

Mexican authorities have rescued 18 hostages of criminal groups amid a wave of kidnappings in the state of Sinaloa, where more than 600 special forces were sent to beef up security.
 
FILE - A front page of the El Mundo newspaper is displayed at the press stand in Madrid, Thursday Oct. 14, 2010. Russia's Foreign Ministry says it issued the necessary documents for a Spanish journalist to stay in the country although the reporter claims he was forced to leave because his visa was not renewed. Xavier Colas of the newspaper El Mundo is the latest foreign journalist to have left Russia after visas were not continued. The cases come amid a crackdown on media that has intensified since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says Spanish reporter denied a visa was invited to stay

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it issued the necessary documents for a Spanish journalist to stay in the country although the reporter claims he was forced to leave because his visa was not renewed.
 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau places his hand on the casket during the funeral of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, in Montreal, Saturday, March 23, 2024. (Ryan Remiorz /The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada holds a state funeral to honor Brian Mulroney, one of its most consequential prime ministers

Politicians, dignitaries and celebrities joined members of the public at a state funeral to honor Brian Mulroney.
 
In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, service towers lower prior to the launch of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket with Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus to the International Space Station, ISS, at the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan, Saturday, March 23, 2024. The crew's launch was initially scheduled for Thursday, but it was aborted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled liftoff. Officials said the launch abort was triggered by a voltage drop in a power source. (Roscosmos space corporation via AP)

A Russian Soyuz rocket with 3 astronauts blasts off to the International Space Station

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station has blasted off two days after its launch was aborted at the last minute.
 
FILE - Nuns wait for the start of the Palm Sunday's mass celebrate by pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023. Palm Sunday will be celebrated by Christians worldwide Sunday, March 24, 2024. It commemorates the Christian belief in the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when palm branches were strewn before him. It marks the start of Holy Week. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

What is Palm Sunday and how is it celebrated worldwide?

Palm Sunday will be celebrated by Christians worldwide this Sunday. It commemorates the Christian belief in the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when palm branches were strewn before him.
 
Presidential candidate Peter Pellegrini, who currently serves as Parliament's speaker, smiles before casting his vote during the first round of the presidential election in Bratislava, Slovakia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Slovakia votes for a successor to the nation’s first female president. An April 6 runoff is expected

Voters in Slovakia are electing a successor to Zuzana Čaputová. She is the country’s first female president and a staunch backer of neighboring Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion.
 
FILE - Indian farmer Ram Singh Patel, right, and his wife Kantee Devi take their cattle out in the open in Fatehpur district south of Lucknow, India, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India has millions of dairy farmers. It’s creating a methane problem that’s tricky to solve

India is the world’s largest milk producer, and is home to 80 million dairy farmers who made 231 million tons of milk last year.
 
France SailGP Team helmed by Quentin Delapierre and Jason Saunders, flight controller of France SailGP Team and Olivier Herledant, grinder of France SailGP Team in action ahead of the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 22, 2024. (Felix Diemer/SailGP via AP)

Endangered dolphins on course prevent racing at SailGP New Zealand in Christchurch

The presence of an endangered species of dolphins on the race course has prevented sailing on the first day of the New Zealand leg of the SailGP series.
 
FILE - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view made through an airplane window in Washington, Jan. 26, 2020. The Defense Department found $300 million for weapons for Ukraine in March 2024, even though the bill to fund the military aid is stalled in Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Finding money: How the Pentagon dug down and found $300M for Ukraine but is still deep in the red

The Defense Department this month found $300 million for weapons for Ukraine, even though the bill to fund the military aid is stalled in Congress.
 
This combination of photos shows actor Daniel Craig as James Bond in a scene from "No Time To Die," left, and actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson at the Giorgio Armani women's Fall-Winter 2024-25 collection in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 25, 2024. (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures via AP, left, and AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

As speculation about the next Bond grows, here’s how some actors have responded to casting rumors

Speculation about the actor who will be tapped as the next James Bond grew this week with reports that the role would go to Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
 
FILE - Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves sits during his trial in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. A Spanish court has decided to release Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves if he pays a bail of one million euros and hands over his passports while awaiting the appeal of his conviction for raping a woman in Barcelona. (D.Zorrakino/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Brazil soccer chief says rape convictions for Alves and Robinho ends ‘nefarious chapter’

Brazil’s soccer chief says the rape convictions of former internationals Dani Alves and Robinho ends “one of the most nefarious chapters” in the country’s sports history.
 
FILE - Border Patrol agents ask asylum-seeking migrants to line up in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after the group crossed the border with Mexico,Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month. But at a time when immigration is increasingly a concern for voters, the numbers were still among the lowest of Joe Biden's presidency. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Arrests for illegal border crossings nudge up in February but still among lowest of Biden presidency

The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month.
 
FILE - Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, left, and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara answer questions during a news conference at Dodger Stadium on Dec. 14, 2023, in Los Angeles. Mizuhara has been fired from the Dodgers following allegations of illegal gambling and theft. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis,File)

MLB investigating gambling, theft allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara

Major League Baseball has opened a formal investigation into illegal gambling and theft allegations involving Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.
 

Canadian governments commit millions to landfill search for remains of slain Indigenous women

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Canada’s federal government and the provincial Manitoba government agreed Friday to spend tens of millions to help search a landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women.
 
Opposition leader María Corina Machado embraces Corina Yoris during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 22, 2024. Machado on Friday named Yoris as a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a government ban on her running for office. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate María Machado names substitute while she fights ban

Venezuelan opposition powerhouse María Corina Machado has named a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a government ban on her running for office.
 
This grab taken from a video released by the BBC Studios on Friday March 22, 2024, shows Britain's Kate, the Princess of Wales recording her message announcing that following her abdominal surgery in January "tests after the operation found cancer had been present." Kate, said Friday she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. (BBC Studios via AP)

What is known about Kate’s cancer diagnosis

Kate, the Princess of Wales, has disclosed that she has cancer but hasn’t said what kind. In a video announcement Friday, she revealed that she was undergoing chemotherapy but didn’t give further details of her treatment.
 
This grab taken from a video released by the BBC Studios on Friday March 22, 2024, shows Britain's Kate, the Princess of Wales recording her message announcing that following her abdominal surgery in January "tests after the operation found cancer had been present." Kate, said Friday she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. (BBC Studios via AP)

Kate, the reliable face of a modern monarchy, now faces a personal battle in the public eye

One of the most famous, photographed and talked-about women in the world is fighting a very personal battle.
 
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a ‘Mexico First’ policy

Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs.
 
Britain's Kate, Duchess of Cambridge watches Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic of Croatia play Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell of Australia in the final of the men's doubles on day thirteen of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Saturday, July 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

A look at Kate, Princess of Wales, through the years

After weeks of speculation about her whereabouts, Kate, the Princess of Wales, announced in a video message Friday that she is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer.
 
This grab taken from a video released by the BBC Studios on Friday March 22, 2024, shows Britain's Kate, the Princess of Wales recording her message announcing that following her abdominal surgery in January "tests after the operation found cancer had been present." Kate, said Friday she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. (BBC Studios via AP)

Read the transcript of Kate’s video announcement about her cancer diagnosis

Kate, Princess of Wales, has released a statement saying she has been diagnosed with cancer. In it she said she wanted to thank people for their messages of support after her abdominal surgery in January.
 
FILE - Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani attends a ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 9, 2024. The White House announced Friday, March 22, that President Joe Biden plans to host al-Sudani on April 15 as the countries hold formal talks about winding down the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq. (Murtadha Al-Sudani/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Biden to host Iraqi leader with talks underway on winding down coalition against the Islamic State

The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gestures, as he departs, at Ben Gurion International airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday March 22, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein, Pool Photo via AP)

Israel’s Netanyahu rebuffs US plea to halt Rafah offensive. Tensions rise ahead of Washington talks

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has once again left the Middle East empty-handed. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected American appeals to call off plans for a promised ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
 
FILE - Tennis balls are stacked on the court at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022, in Mason, Ohio. The number of suspicious tennis matches around the world went down for the second consecutive year, and there were none at any of the four Grand Slam tournaments in 2023, according to an annual review by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) released Friday, March 22, 2204. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster, File)

The number of suspicious tennis matches decreased in 2023. There were none at Grand Slam tournaments

LONDON (AP) — The number of suspicious tennis matches around the world went down for the second consecutive year, and there were none at any of the four Grand Slam tournaments in 2023, according to an annual review by the International Tennis Integrity Agency released Friday.
 
This grab taken from a video released by the BBC Studios on Friday March 22, 2024, shows Britain's Kate, the Princess of Wales recording her message announcing that following her abdominal surgery in January "tests after the operation found cancer had been present." Kate, said Friday she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. (BBC Studios via AP)

Kate, Princess of Wales, reveals she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy

Kate, the Princess of Wales, reveals she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. The stunning video announcement Friday came after weeks of speculation spread on social media about her whereabouts and health since she was hospitalized in January for unspecified abdominal surgery.
 
Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Frankie Miranda, Hispanic Federation president, applaud, during a visit, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, March 22, 2024. Harris visited Puerto Rico on Friday as part of a whirlwind trip to tout the federal aid the U.S. territory has received following deadly hurricanes and attend a Democratic fundraiser. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Kamala Harris marks first visit to Puerto Rico as vice president, riling some in the US territory

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has visited Puerto Rico as part of a whirlwind trip to tout the federal aid the U.S. territory has received following deadly hurricanes and attend a Democratic fundraiser.
 
A Russian Rosguardia (National Guard) servicemen secures an area as a massive blaze seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 22, 2024. Several gunmen have burst into a big concert hall in Moscow and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, injuring an unspecified number of people and setting a massive blaze in an apparent terror attack days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on the country in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility

Russian officials say more than 60 people have been killed and over 100 injured by assailants who burst into a concert hall and sprayed the crowd with gunfire.
 
Andrew Tate leaves the Bucharest Tribunal in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, March 15, 2024. A court in Romania’s capital on Wednesday extended geographical restrictions against online influencer Andrew Tate, who is awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A Romanian court rejects Andrew Tate’s bid to get his confiscated assets returned

A court in Romania’s capital has denied a request by online influencer Andrew Tate to return assets that were seized during investigations into the case in which he is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
 
Pattie Boyd poses next to the original artwork by E. Frandsen De Schomberg, used for the cover of Derek and the Dominoes album 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' as part of The Pattie Boyd Collection at Christie's, in London, Thursday, March 14, 2024. The artwork is estimated to sell £40,000-60,000. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Auction of Pattie Boyd’s trove of treasures surpasses expectations as it nets $3.6 million

The online auction of a trove of letters, photos and other items that Pattie Boyd, who was at the heart of the Swinging 60s, has surpassed all expectations.
 
Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit, center, speaks to NFL scouts following pro day for NFL International Player Pathway prospects held at the University of South Florida on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Rob Maaddi)

Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit was the center of attention at NFL’s international player pro day

Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit was dripping sweat and still catching his breath after finishing up receiving drills when several NFL scouts approached him at the University of South Florida’s pro day.