Iranian drone damages desalination plant in Bahrain

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel renewed its assault on southern Lebanon early Sunday as the war entered its ninth day and Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahupromised "many surprises" in the next phase ofthe conflictrippling across the region.

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The latest strikes in Lebanon killed 12 more people, pushing the death toll there above 300 after Israel ordered large swaths of the country to evacuate during an offensive that its military said would be aimed at stamping out Iran-supported forces there.

Israel and the United States launched the war on Feb. 28, saying they were targeting Iran's nuclear and missile programs and suggesting they sought to topple the government. The conflict has since spread across the region, rattling global markets, disrupting air travel and leaving Iran's leadership weakened by hundreds of Israeli and American airstrikes.

Iran has fired missiles and drones at neighboring countries in the Gulf, Israel has intensified attacks in Lebanon and strikes have reported from Cyprus to waters off of Sri Lanka.

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out the next phase of the war late Saturday, saying Israel aims to destabilize Iran's regime and allow change in government, Israel launched another wave of strikes late Saturday, hitting an oil storage facility in Tehran — the first apparent strike on a civilian industrial site — sending pillars of fire into the night sky.

Iranian president apologizes for attacks but has limited power over them

Iran has apologized for attacks onattacks on "neighboring countries,"even as its missiles and drones continued striking sites in Gulf states — including attacks that have killed civilians — and hard-liners signaled Tehran would not change course.

President Masoud Pezeshkian again struck a conciliatory tone on Sunday, calling Iran's neighbors friends and brothers while accusing the United States and Israel of using "manipulation" to sow discord between them in remarks aired on state television.

"We will not bow our heads to bullying, injustice or intrusion," he said.

Pezeshkian and other Iranian leaders have underlined the limited powers exercised by the theocracy's leaders over theparamilitary Revolutionary Guard, which controls ballistic missiles used to target Israel and other countries. It answered only to Khamenei and appears to be picking its own targets. The president is one three members of a leadership council that has overseen Iran sinceSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneiwas killed in the war's opening airstrikes.

A rift between politicians looking to de-escalate the war and others committed to battling the United States and Israel could complicate any diplomatic efforts.

Pezeshkian's remarks came a day after he said the leadership council had been in touch with the armed forces and "from now on, they should not attack neighboring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked by those countries. I think we should solve this through diplomacy."

The U.S. strikes have not come from the Gulf Arab governments under attack, but from U.S. bases and vessels in the region.

But hard-line judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, another member of the three-man council, suggested that war strategy will not change.

"The geography of some countries in the region — both overtly and covertly — is in the hands of the enemy, and those points are used against our country in acts of aggression. Intense attacks on these targets will continue," he posted on X.

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No sign of deescalation

Pezeshkian also dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's call for Tehran to surrender unconditionally, saying: "That's a dream that they should take to their grave."

Trump threatened that Iran would be "hit very hard" and more "areas and groups of people" would become targets, without elaborating. Already, the conflict hasrattled global marketsand leftIran's leadershipweakened by hundreds of Israeli and American airstrikes.

"We're not looking to settle," Trump told reporters Saturday aboard Air Force One. "They'd like to settle. We're not looking to settle."

He described the ongoing U.S. operations in Iran as an "excursion" and said issues such as rising gas prices and the safety of Americans would improve once the conflict ends.

The U.S. and Israel have targeted Iran's military capabilities, leadership and nuclear program. The war's stated goals and timelineshave repeatedly shiftedas the U.S. has at times suggested it seeks to topple Iran's governmentor elevate new leadership.

The fighting has killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, more than 290 inLebanonand 11 in Israel, according to officials in those countries.Six U.S. troopshave been killed.

Strikes target other Gulf countries

After Pezeshkian's apology, Iranian strikes kept coming.

Bahrain says an Iranian drone attack caused "material damage" to a desalination plant — the first time an Gulf country said Iran has struck a desalination plant during the nine-day war.

Hundreds of desalination plants sit along the Persian Gulf coast, and the region relies heavily on them for their water.

Earlier Sunday, the United Arab Emirates said debris from an aerial interception fell onto a vehicle and killed a driver. Four people have now been killed in the UAE since the war began. Authorities have said all were foreign nationals.

The UAE urged residents to stay indoors Sunday morning as its military responded to a drone attack. In Kuwait, authorities said a wave of drones targeted critical infrastructure, including fuel tanks at Kuwait International Airport and a government building in Kuwait City. At least two people were killed by strikes in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.

Saudi Arabiasaid it destroyed a drone headed toward its vast Shaybah oil field on Sunday and shot down four drones over the capital, Riyadh, including one aimed at the diplomatic quarter. Bahrain's Interior Ministry said that missile fragments fell onto a road in Manama, injuring one person and causing damage to several shops.

Metz reported from Ramallah, West Bank, and Magdy from Cairo, Egypt. Associated Press journalists Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad, Amir-Hussein Radjy in Cairo, Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, and Aamer Madhani in Doral, Florida, contributed reporting.

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When does daylight saving time end? Here's when we 'fall back'.

Daylight saving time has arrived— and for those of us who hate losing sleep, the countdown to it ending has begun.

As we "spring forward" from winter, American clocks will move ahead one hour. The dark winter hours will give way to evenings full of more light, but pushing time forward also means losing an hour of sleep, whichcan be an unpleasant adjustment.

The United States has tried to do away with daylight saving time more than once, proposing bills that have stalled over the century the country has observed the practice. So far, no luck, butlawmakers are still trying.

Already looking forward to the day daylight saving ends and we "fall back?" Here's what to know.

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When does daylight saving time end in 2026? When will we 'fall back'?

In 2026, daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 1. At 2 a.m. local time, Americans will set clocks back one hour to 1 a.m.

Moving the clock back one hour means more light in the morning and less in the evening - and an extra hour of sleep.

When do we 'spring forward'?

We will "spring forward"at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8. Americans should set their clocks forward one hour, to 3 a.m., to account for the change.

That day, sunrise and sunset will be about one hour later than the previous day, and there will be more light in the evening and less light in the morning.

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What is daylight saving time? Why do we have it?

Daylight saving time was first introduced in the United States during World War I to make better use of natural daylight. It entails setting the clocks forward one hour during part of the year: in the Northern Hemisphere, that's currently between the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November.

While the idea came from an essay by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, it wasn't adopted in the United States (and other countries, including Australia, Great Britain and Germany) until WWI necessitated the conservation of fuel used for artificial lighting,according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 made daylight saving a uniform, federal matter. Previously, the Standard Time Act of 1918 established time zones but left the timing of DST to the states, some of which weren't consistent even within states themselves,according to National Geographic.Subsequent laws and amendments changed the start and end times of DST until the current dates were established in 2007.

Does every state observe daylight saving time?

Nope!Currently,the following states and territories do not observe daylight saving time.

• Hawaii

• Arizona (except the Navajo Nation)

• American Samoa

• Guam

• Northern Mariana Islands

• Puerto Rico

• U.S. Virgin Islands

Most Americans want to say goodbye to daylight saving time

Polls have shown that the majority of Americans are on board with changing DST. A 2023YouGov pollfound that 62% of respondents agreed that they want to stop changing the clocks twice yearly. A2025 Gallup pollfound that 54% of Americans also wanted to see the demise of DST; however, 48% preferred standard time year-round, while 24% wanted permanent daylight saving time.

Several laws proposing an end to the practice have been introduced. The most recent,the Daylight Act of 2026, introduced to Congress in February,proposed permanently shifting all U.S. time zones forward 30 minutes.

If passed by Congress, the time change would kick in 90 days after PresidentDonald Trumpsigns it into law.

Contributing: Julia Gomez, Emily Vetter, Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:When does daylight saving time end? See when clocks go back an hour.

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12 years on, renewed hunt for missing Flight MH370 comes up empty as families press for answers

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Twelve years after Malaysia AirlinesFlight MH370vanished with 239 people aboard, a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, Malaysian authorities said Sunday, as families pressed for the effort to continue.

The Air Accident Investigation Bureau said in a statement that a seabed search conducted by marine robotics company Ocean Infinity between March 2025 and January 2026 surveyed thousands of square kilometers of ocean floor but has not produced any confirmed findings of the aircraft wreckage.

Malaysiagave the nodto the Texas-based company last year to renew the search for Flight 370 under a "no-find, no-fee" contract at a new 15,000-square-kilometer (5,800-square-mile) site in the southern Indian Ocean where it wasbelieved to have crashed. Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million only if wreckage is discovered.

The search was carried out for 28 days in two phases — March 25–28 last year andDec 31, 2025, to Jan 23 this year, covering about 7,571 square kilometers (2,923 square miles) of seabed, the bureau said. Weather periodically disrupted operations, it said.

"The search activities undertaken have not yielded any findings that confirm the location of the aircraft wreckage," it said in a statement. It didn't give details on when the search will resume.

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The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it isbelieved to have crashed.

An expensive multinational search failed to turn up any clues to its location, althoughdebris washed ashoreon the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands. A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity alsofound nothing.

Voice 370, representing the families of some of those aboard the missing plane, urged the government to extend Ocean Infinity's contract and to consider similar arrangements with other deep-sea exploration companies.

Although Ocean Infinity's contract runs until June, the group said the company's vessel has been redeployed for other work and is unlikely to return soon to complete the remaining search areas due to the approaching winter months and deteriorating sea conditions.

"The government pays nothing unless the aircraft is found. Any request by Ocean Infinity to extend the search contract should therefore be granted without hesitation," it said in a statement. "If the present search is unsuccessful, we would also urge Malaysia to kindly consider extending similar no find, no fee opportunities to other capable deep sea exploration companies."

The group vowed to "continue the fight for answers. We will never give up!"

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Charles Oliveira stuns Max Holloway at UFC 326

LAS VEGAS -- 36-year-old Charles Oliveira turned back the clock and shocked the world at UFC 326 on Saturday, putting on a dominant performance against heavily favored Max Holloway to win the BMF belt by unanimous decision, 50-45, at T-Mobile Arena.

Oliveira stunned Holloway in the early stages of the first round of their lightweight bout and controlled the fight from that point forward, logging a remarkable 20:49 of control time while succeeding on 5-of-13 takedown attempts. Oliveira's insistence at keeping the fight on the ground drew some boos from fans who were hoping for a typical BMF-style brawl, but the Brazilian jiu-jitsu artist also landed his strikes at a higher percentage and volume than Holloway in addition to his elite ground performance.

The win was a full circle moment for Oliveira, who lost to Holloway in 2015 after suffering a shoulder and esophagus injury on a first-round takedown attempt rendered him unable to compete. Oliveira is now the fourth BMF champion in UFC history, joining Holloway, Justin Gaethje and Jorge Masvidal.

The co-main event saw "Fighting Nerds" founder Caio Borralho defeat Reiner De Ridder in a unanimous 30-27 decision, although the fight was certainly more competitive than the final scorecards indicated. Regardless, Borralho rebounded from his disappointing loss to Nassourdine Imavov in September and now has his sights set on former middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis, whom Borralho called out in his post-fight interview.

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The second bout of the main card between Drew Dober and Michael Johnson drew some unwanted attention on betting markets in the hours leading up to the fight, after a series of posts on social media led to a drastic line shift that saw Johnson move from a -155 favorite last week to a +150 favorite in the hours leading up to the fight. Johnson, whose last scheduled fight against Alexander Hernandez at UFC 324 was pulled due to betting irregularities, was knocked out with a thundering left hook from Dober at 1:53 in the second round.

Fighting for the first time on the main card of a numbered UFC event, rising 21-year-old Raul Rosas Jr. earned his fifth straight win and third straight unanimous decision with a clinical wrestling performance against 13th-ranked bantamweight Rob Font. Rosas Jr. registered over 10 minutes of control time and landed 16-of-18 takedown attempts, putting together the most dominant performance of his young career to this point.

The main card started off with a bang thanks to Gregory "Robocop" Rodrigues, who avenged his first-round knockout loss to Brunno Ferreira at UFC 283 with a first-round knockout of his own on just his second strike attempt, 1:47 into Saturday's fight. Since that initial loss to Ferreira in 2023, Rodrigues has won six of his last seven fights, including four by KO/TKO.

--Will Despart, Field Level Media

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When the Lionel Messi circus comes to town, MLS teams need a bigger tent

BALTIMORE — Messi League Soccer — or Major League Soccer, as it shall again be known when the Argentine maestro heads home someday — barnstormed into a new big top Saturday.

Inter Miami is Cirque de Soleil with a supernatural ringmaster sent to charm audiences outside the regular tour stops with unrivaled performance art.

Lionel Messi is MLS' — and the sport's — greatest attraction, and so this offseason it was off to Peru, Colombia and Ecuador for friendlies and, two weeks ago, a one-night stint inPuerto Rico marred by an invading fan and a security officer knocking down the superstar.

The season opener at Los Angeles FC was relocated from tidy BMO Stadium across the park to the vast Coliseum.

For a nervy 2-1 victory Saturday, Inter Miami hit Inner Harbor to play D.C. United, which sacrificed home-pitch advantage for an NFL stadium 37 miles north to sell 3 1/2 times more tickets than it would have at Audi Field.

Thousands of Messi gawkers among the announced sellout of 72,026 at M&T Bank Stadium — there were a few thousand empty seats — helped offset United's 2025 attendance plunge and underwhelming turnout for the 2026 home opener two weeks ago.

Moving to a larger location was good business — no argument there — but it also gave off carnival vibes. Three decades since its launch, MLS remains a thirsty operation reliant on Messi and other big names late in their careers for attention outside the league bubble. From a competitive standpoint, United wasn't doing its team any favors; it was all about revenue and marketing.

Miami welcomed the pink-clad support.

"It's definitely nice to be able to go to away stadiums and know you probably have more supporters than the actual home team sometimes," goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair said. "Obviously that won't be the case in every single stadium, but I think it was definitely the case tonight."

At the center of it was Messi, who goes where he is told, probably without the slightest idea where Baltimore is or why he's there.

He did know where he was Thursday:at the White House, at a time of war, shaking hands with the FIFA Peace Prize recipient, President Donald Trump, at a ceremony honoring the reigning MLS Cup champions.

By all accounts, Messi is not a political person, but he has stepped into sticky situations before as a well-paid Saudi tourism ambassador. The White House invitation was extended to Inter Miami, not Messi himself, but given Messi's outsized influence at the club and in the league, he and his handlers could've quietly discouraged it.

Messi is so popular and his brand so secure, though, the potential damage of appearing with a polarizing political figure probably won't amount to much before his expected World Cup farewell this summer across North America.

The White House visit wasn't without awkwardness. As Trump spoke about the bombing of Iran, Messi, standing to the president's right, shifted his weight back and forth, looked down and coughed nervously into his left hand.

Trump's comments about soccer brought a smile to Messi's face; he doesn't speak English but clearly understands some. Later, he presented Trump with a commemorative pink ball.

Asked in his video call with reporters Friday about the White House visit, coach Javier Mascherano said in Spanish, "I thought we were going to talk about soccer." He then explained the visit had been in place for a few months and followed protocol for a championship team.

St. Clair said Trump's political rhetoric in front of the team was "definitely a little bit awkward … and kind of threw a lot of guys off, because it was supposed to be about the team and winning last year. … It's something that's out of our control, and we didn't know that was going to be a part of it as well."

Last year, citing a scheduling conflict, Messi declined then-president Joe Biden's invitation to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

D.C. United is not the first team to try maximizing the Messi spectacle, though other efforts have come with controversy. Last year, the Columbus Crew angered many loyal supporters by moving its home match against Miami 150 miles north to Cleveland's NFL stadium, where 60,614 tripled normal attendance. (The Haslem family owns both the Crew and Browns.)

"It was nice to have a game in front of so many spectators and in this beautiful stadium," D.C. coach René Weiler said Saturday. "We prefer to have a good result at the end, but it was a nice atmosphere."

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Two years ago, Miami's away match against Kansas City took place at Arrowhead Stadium (72,610), quadrupling Sporting Park's 18,457 capacity.

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Messi promotions have also backfired. Last year, MLS and the Whitecaps faced a class-action lawsuit after pumping up an appearance that never came to fruition. Fans received steep discounts for food and drinks, and last week the British Columbia Supreme Court approved a $329,000 settlement.

Two years ago, when Messi injured an ankle six weeks before a scheduled appearance at Soldier Field, the Chicago Fire scrambled by offering free tickets to a future game that season and discounted seats the following year, if he didn't play. (He didn't play.)

D.C. fans have never seen Messi at Audi Field. His 2023 MLS debut fell just after Miami's lone visit to Washington, and he was injured in subsequent years. In assembling this year's schedule, United not only passed over its own 20,000-capacity venue in the city, but Northwest Stadium, the unappealing home to the NFL's Washington Commanders, located a few miles east of the city.

The crowd of 75,673 at the Coliseum on Feb. 21 was the second largest for a standalone match in league history, behind the LAFC-L.A. Galaxy derby at the Rose Bowl (82,110) in 2023. Most fans this year supported the home team, not Miami.

Next month, Miami's match in Denver will take place at the NFL venue instead of the small MLS park.

In Baltimore, ticket prices were considerably higher than for a common match at Audi Field, and the cheapest seats on the resale market still available before kickoff started at $78.65 for the corner of the upper deck.

The crowd was a blend of those wanting to see Messi and Miami, those supporting D.C., and those interested in attending a big event. On a backdrop of the Ravens' purple seats, United's black and red mixed with Miami's pink.

The visiting team has been neither fazed nor emboldened by the larger-than-normal crowds.

"The people outside, they can make some noise," Mascherano said, "but they don't play."

Given the proximity to Washington, United should have enjoyed more support. But after years of D.C. ownership neglect and bad-to-bland performances, the stadium looked and sounded like a neutral venue.

Miami went ahead in the 17th minute, courtesy of a D.C. blunder. Lucas Bartlett coughed up possession at the end line to Germán Berterame, who supplied Telasco Segovia, who found Rodrigo De Paul for a neat, 12-yarder.

"It was a gift, the first goal," Weiler said. "That was not expected, but maybe [D.C. was] a little bit nervous because of the atmosphere, the spectators in the stadium and, of course, the opponent."

Ten minutes later, Messi timed his run behind Bartlett to latch onto Mateo Silvetti's lovely ball and one-time an 8-yarder past helpless goalkeeper Sean Johnson.

Aside from an overhead kick by D.C.'s Louis Munteanu that missed by a whisker, the second half trudged along without superlatives or suspense until the 75th minute.

Miami's sloppiness gifted a counterattack to United. St. Clair's diving save thwarted Jackson Hopkins, but Tai Baribo cleaned up the rebound.

United hummed with confidence, while Miami's suspect defense found itself under duress. Given the gap between the clubs, it was an unexpected development, indeed.

"The feeling of not controlling the game is unusual for us because we usually do," Mascherano said. "When we don't, you can see we're displeased."

De Paul squandered a golden opportunity to seal the outcome. Messi kept going until the final whistle. The star-struck portion of the audience seemed satisfied.

Miami's — and Messi's — work was done here, albeit with some discomfort. The show goes on.

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