The 10th-seeded Orange defied their skeptics and rode a No. 10 seed all the way to the ultimate week of the college basketball season.

Seeded 10th, Syracuse Is One of the Last Four Left

As President Raúl Castro of Cuba stammered over questions from the news media, it was a reminder of the signs of regression concerning President Obama and the press back home.

A Castro Met a Free Press, and the World Watched It Live

The question of what turns people toward violence — and whether they can be steered away from it — has bedeviled governments around the world for generations.

Who Will Become a Terrorist? Research Yields Few Clues

In addition to virtual currency, Ethereum also provides a way to create online markets and programmable transactions known as smart contracts.

Ethereum, a Virtual Currency, Enables Transactions That Rival Bitcoin’s

Charter Communications is poised to gain F.C.C. approval to join with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, and streaming looms large in the deal.

Charter’s $67 Billion Cable Merger Hinges on the Cord Cutters

The party establishment abandoned its most faithful voters, blue-collar workers who faced economic pain while donors, lawmakers and lobbyists prospered.

How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Voters to Donald Trump

Edna O’Brien’s boldly imagined and harrowing new novel, about a Serbian war criminal in hiding, is an exploration of Irish provincial life and a work of alternate history.

‘The Little Red Chairs,’ by Edna O’Brien

The sturdy green, added to romaine, produces an updated classic that can keep awhile. (Article plus video.)

For a Better Caesar, Get Kale Into the Mix

In the first of two sold-out shows at Barclays Center on her world tour for her album “Anti,” Rihanna proved to be the most present she has ever been onstage.

Review: Rihanna on Tour, Part Preacher, Part Dominatrix, All Human

Murders and shootings have risen sharply this year, and the increase could hardly have come at a more difficult time.

Violence Surges in Chicago Even as Policing Debate Rages On

The $95 million scheme highlights how much research and checking institutional investors actually do when making an investment.

Wall Street Scion Is Accused of Faking Investments

The sculptor Arthur Kern has been working in isolation for decades. Now he has his first solo show since the 1970s.

At 84, an Artist Tries Something New: Displaying His Work

A European player is challenging a practice known as training alone, soccer’s version of solitary confinement, in which a player is forced to accept an employer’s demands or endure a punitive regimen.

A Challenge to Soccer’s Version of Solitary Confinement

China is the world’s largest market for new cars, but its slowing economy could leave automakers with too many factories and not enough buyers.

Automakers Expanding in China May Soon Face Weakening Demand

A country’s stunning progress against tuberculosis may be threatened by reduced support for a health care system stretched thin.

Vietnam’s Battle With Tuberculosis

Ms. Jahren’s book, at its best, does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings did for paleontology.

Review: ‘Lab Girl,’ Hope Jahren’s Road Map to the Secret Life of Plants

Mr. Harrison’s hungers and how he satisfied them spill out in his prose and poetry.

An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life

The Justice Department announcement, in a court filing, ends an immediate legal battle over the San Bernardino shooting case but raises questions about Apple’s security.

U.S. Says It Has Unlocked iPhone Without Apple

Reports for hiring, personal spending and income are expected, along with Janet Yellen’s first speech of 2016 and bleak bank reports out of China.

Small Gains in the U.S. and Concerns in China

Quotation of the Day for Monday, March 28, 2016.

Quotation of the Day

With a kaleidoscope of talent — from elite recruits to juniors, seniors and postgraduates — the A.C.C. has served notice that it is built for the short and long run.

‘Big Boy League’ A.C.C. Rules the Final Four

Corrections appearing in print on March 28, 2016.

Corrections: March 28, 2016

The 1966 N.C.A.A. championship game remains a landmark event because Texas Western started five black players against an all-white Kentucky. Now it will be seen again on ESPN.

A Game Changed History, but It’s Hardly Been Seen Since

It’s a phenomenon known as olfactory adaptation, or odor fatigue, which occurs with continuous exposure to a smell.

Why Your Perfume No Longer Reeks

The subsidiary, which provides information technology services to hospitals and governments, is being sold in preparation for Dell’s takeover of EMC.

Dell to Sell Perot Systems to NTT Data of Japan for About $3.1 Billion

James Wilkes Noble was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of sweet-natured, dense, naive Governor Eugene X. Gatling on ABC's 1979–1986 sitcom Benson.

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Seeded 10th, Syracuse Is One of the Last Four Left

A Castro Met a Free Press, and the World Watched It Live

Who Will Become a Terrorist? Research Yields Few Clues

Ethereum, a Virtual Currency, Enables Transactions That Rival Bitcoin’s

Charter’s $67 Billion Cable Merger Hinges on the Cord Cutters

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