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The national semifinals for the 2026 men’s basketball tournament take place Saturday with a pair of highly anticipated matchups.The action tips off when 3-seed Illinois (-1.5, over/under 139.5) takes on 2-seed UConn at 6:09 p.m. ET, followed by a showdown between pair of No. 1 seeds, Michigan (-1.5, O/U 157.5) and Arizona, at approximately 8:49 p.m.Here are my selections for these games and the final two picks for the new ESPN Men’s Tournament Challenge Eliminator game.Note: Odds by DraftKings Sportsbook at time of publication time and subject to change.Saturday’s betsIllinois moneyline (-130)This national semifinal is a rematch of two teams…

A slim majority of voters in Virginia support a redistricting effort that would give Democrats an advantage in November’s elections, according to a new survey. The Washington Post-Schar School poll, released earlier this week, found that 52 percent of voters in the Old Dominion State back the measure and would vote “yes” on it if…

NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Chris O’Meara/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris O’Meara/AP The Artemis II mission rumbled, roared, and rocketed into the sky at dusk on Wednesday, beginning a journey around the moon and back. Four astronauts are aboard for the first human rendezvous with the moon since the last Apollo spaceflight in 1972. “We have a beautiful moonrise,” mission commander Reid Wiseman said shortly after liftoff. “We’re headed right at it.” The crew will travel more than 250,000 miles from…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Homeland Security revealed that a suspect who fled to China after allegedly planting a deadly explosive device at an important military base is the child of two Chinese illegal immigrants.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Chinese nationals Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, both of whom were living in the U.S. illegally, Homeland Security said. Their arrests came following two of their adult children, Ann Mary Zheng and Alen Zheng, being connected to a failed plot to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) at MacDill Air Force Base in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A report from the liberal HuffPost raised eyebrows among critics for suggesting Catholics were being excluded from a Good Friday service at the Pentagon. HuffPost senior politics reporter Jennifer Bendery wrote that the Pentagon “invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel.””Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics,” Bendery wrote.The report cited a memo sent to staff by Air Force leadership that read, “Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel.” A spokesperson…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police are investigating a small explosion outside a Christian center that promotes Israel. Police in Gelderland province said in a post on X that nobody was injured in the explosion on Friday night and that it caused only limited damage at an address in Nijkerk, in the central Netherlands.Police appealed for witnesses and said nobody has been arrested.The group Christians for Israel said the detonation targeted its Israel Center in Nijkerk and was caused by an explosive device.In a statement on its website, the group expressed shock and said the blast fits a pattern of…

The 2026 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship on Sunday features the South Carolina Gamecocks (36-3) and the UCLA Bruins (36-1). The Gamecocks are in line for their fourth national title in the last decade following their 62-48 win over previously undefeated UConn. UCLA has reached its first-ever NCAA tournament championship game following a 51-44 win over Texas.Led by Coach Cori Close, the Bruins rely on a veteran lineup led by two-time All-American center Lauren Betts (17.2 ppg, 8.7 rpg) and playmaking guard Kiki Rice. A win in the national title game would be their 30th in a row this season.…

President Trump claimed victory in Iran during a prime-time address to the nation. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi is out, and the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on birthright citizenship.

U.S. forces were racing to find a missing F-15 crew member in Iran as the risky search-and rescue mission entered its second day. Two military aircraft were shot down Friday in what marked the first loss of a crewed American aircraft inside Iran since the war began more than one month ago.

Dr. Aleksandra Stankovic, director of the Center for Space Medicine Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the psychology and behavioral health of the Artemis II crew.