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Getty Images USA lost to Italy, 8-6, Tuesday night in World Baseball Classic action in a shocking result. This means Team USA finishes pool play with a 3-1 record. Usually, that’s good enough to advance. With Mexico sitting 2-1 and Italy now a surprising 3-0, though, there’s a chance that USA could lose a three-way tiebreaker, should Mexico defeat Italy on Wednesday. Yes, there is a chance this American baseball Dream Team featuring Aaron Judge, Cal Raleigh and Paul Skenes, has already played its final game in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.Team USA had not officially clinched a spot in…

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to a whistleblower complaint reported by The Washington Post. The former DOGE software engineer told co-workers at his new job that he “possessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens’ information” and was planning to use the information at his new company, according to the report, which added that the Social Security Administration’s inspector general is investigating the whistleblower complaint. The former DOGE employee, whom The Washington Post did not name,…

Chicago always has something to prove. When it went up against New York for the 1893 World’s Fair, a New York Sun reporter called out its “windbag” campaigners. Illinois ended up hosting the fair, and Chicago embraced its new identity as the Windy City. That chip-on-the-shoulder energy still defines this metropolis, a city that builds, innovates, and competes like it has everything to lose.Chicago’s tech scene is a diverse landscape that shouldn’t be slept on—but you probably know that. The Second City’s tech sector has grown by 18 percent over the past decade, adding more than 106,000 direct jobs and…

Does everything feel like too much these days? Get When Life Sucks: 21 Days of Laughs and Light for free when you join the Tiny Buddha list. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” ~Viktor Frankl  For a long time, my first response to difficulty was a single, aching question: “Why me?” It surfaced whenever life took an unexpected turn—when plans collapsed, when effort didn’t materialize, when circumstances felt unfair and overwhelming. I believed that if I could understand why something was happening, I would somehow fix the situation…

Rich CiminiMar 10, 2026, 02:21 PM ETCloseRich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for the New York Daily News and is a graduate of Syracuse University.Multiple AuthorsFLORHAM PARK, N.J. — After a nine-year separation, the New York Jets and quarterback Geno Smith are together again.Instead of waiting for him to be released, the Jets traded for Smith on Tuesday, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.…

At the start of the year, Google brought a host of new Gemini-powered features, including built-in Nano Banana image generation, to Chrome. After debuting in the United States, those features are now making their way to Chrome users in Canada, India and New Zealand, with support for 50 additional in tow. Among the new languages Gemini in Chrome can now converse in are French, Gujarati, Hindi and Spanish.To try out Gemini in Chrome, tap the sparkle icon at the top right of the interface. This will open the sidebar interface Google introduced in January. From there, you can chat with…

Rotterdam hopper dredger vessel operated by Van Oord sits anchored, as Iran vows to close the Strait of Hormuz, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 9, 2026.Benoit Tessier | ReutersIran has continued to send large amounts of crude oil via the Strait of Hormuz to China even as the war between U.S.-Israel and Iran has jeopardized broader supplies through the critical waterway. Iran has sent at least 11.7 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28, all of which were headed to China, Samir Madani, co-founder of…

St. Patrick’s day is just around the corner—and with that, it was as good a time as any to celebrate JW Anderson’s latest partnership with Guinness. As Jonathan Anderson, creative director and founder of the label, told Vogue: “This collaboration felt like an opportunity to take the heritage of Guinness and re-contextualize it through a craft-led lens that defines JW Anderson today.”The brands came together for a bash on Monday night at NoLita’s The Mulberry; a bar hand-selected for having one of the best pours in the city, especially with Ryan Wagner, Guinness’s national ambassador and head of beer quality,…

Anyone who finds themselves wishing they could spend less time on meal prep might have a solution in the form of the recently-launched Nosh One from Nosh Robotics, an AI kitchen appliance that can autonomously cook for you.All users need to do is load their ingredients into the robot’s tray then select a recipe. The Nosh One adds the ingredients into its pot at the appropriate time, stirs everything, uses AI to monitor the ingredients with a built-in camera, and completes the meal without needing any intervention along the way. Nosh’s app notifies users when the meal is ready. They…

BALTIMORE — The date was March 18, 1997, and the Baltimore Ravens made a bold announcement. They had agreed to a four-year deal with Dallas Cowboys safety Brock Marion, a move that was expected to bolster the defense.Two days later, after a CT scan in Baltimore revealed that Marion’s left scapula had not fully healed, then-owner Art Modell walked into a packed news conference at the old Ravens training facility to announce that the deal was void. Modell looked so miserable, upset and downright embarrassed, because this was supposed to be an announcement that Marion was a Raven.AdvertisementIt turned out…