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Barry Keoghan opened up about how he deals with online hate, specifically that centered around how he looks, in a new interview

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• "It's made me shy away, it's made me really go inside myself and not want to attend places, not want to go outside," the actor said

• Keoghan also expressed his disappointment knowing that his 3-year-old son will one day have to see all the hurtful comments sent his way

Barry Keoghanhas a message for the haters.

While appearing on SiriusXM'sThe Morning Mash Up, the actor, 33, opened up about how hedeals with criticism, specifically thatcentered around how he looks.

"There's a lot of hate online. It's a lot of abuse of how I look," Keoghan told host Ben Harlum on Friday, March 20.

Highlighting that he does have "an incredible fanbase, and people are so lovely out there," thePeaky Blinders: The Immortal Manstar admitted, however, that there "is also a nasty side."

"It's also disappointing that my little boy has to read all of this stuff when he gets older," Keoghan added, referring to his 3-year-old sonBrando, whom he welcomed with former girlfriendAlyson Sandro.

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According to Keoghan, he has heavily "removed" himself from being online. "But I'm still a curious human being that wants to go on," he said.

"If I attend an event, or if I go somewhere, [I] want to see how it was received, and it's not nice," Keoghan continued. "It's made me shy away, it's made me really go inside myself and not want to attend places, not want to go outside."

"And I say this, being absolutely pure and honest to you. It's becoming a problem," the actor — currently shootingThe Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event, in which he stars asRingo Starr— added. "I actually don't go to places because of these things."

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Keoghan further explained that the criticism sent his way is especially frustrating for him as an actor.

"When that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem, because then you don't even want to be on screen anymore," he said.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Emanuel Sharp scored 18 points, Chris Cenac Jr. had 17 points and nine rebounds, and seed Houston rolled past Texas A&M 88-57 in the second round of theNCAA Tournamenton Saturday to reach the Sweet 16 for the seventh consecutive year.

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Milos Uzan added 15 points for the Cougars (30-6), the No. 2 seed in the South Region. Houston will play in its home city on Thursday against either No. 3 seed Illinois or No. 11 seed VCU, and coach Kelvin Sampson's squad — which lost in the national title game to Florida last year — again looks like an opponent nobody wants to play.

Josh Holloway scored 12 points in a reserve role for Texas A&M. The 10th-seeded Aggies (22-12), who beat St. Mary's in the first round, struggled against Houston's aggressive interior defense. The Cougars won the rebounding battle 46-29, had 19 offensive boards and blocked seven shots.

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Holloway kept the Aggies close in the first half with a pair of 3-pointers. His second, with 9:21 left, cut the deficit to 23-19. But Houston, behind 14 points from Sharp and 10 from Cenac, outscored the Aggies 23-9 after that for a 46-28 lead at the break.

The Cougars, who made 30 of 68 shots (44%), extended their advantage to 67-39 on a 3-pointer by Milos Uzan with 11:17 left.

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Amanda Peetis opening up about her breast cancer journey.

TheYour Friends & Neighborsactress penned a candid, vulnerable essay chronicling her health crisis, which coincided with both of her parents dying in hospice care.

"For many years, I've been told that I have 'dense' and 'busy' breasts — not as a compliment but as a warning that they require extra monitoring," Peet wrote forThe New Yorker."I had been seeing a breast surgeon every six months for checkups."

Peet saw her doctor in August 2025. "Dr. K. usually chatted me up while she examined me, but this time she went silent," the actress recalled. "She told me that she didn't like the way something looked on the ultrasound and wanted to perform a biopsy. After the procedure, she said that she would walk the sample over to Cedars-Sinai and hand-deliver it to Pathology. That's when I knew." The next day, Peet's doctor reported that she had a tumor that "appeared" small but would require an MRI in the near future to ascertain "the extent of the disease."

TheSomething's Gotta Givestar said the doctor explained that she would also soon learn her receptor status, which would reveal the toughness of her particular strain of cancer. "It's like dogs," her doctor said. "You have poodles on one end and, on the other, pit bulls."

That same weekend, Peet's father died, and she flew from Los Angeles to New York to see her family. "I didn't make it before my father took his last breath, but I got to see his body before it was taken from his apartment," she recalled. "As soon as my dad's corpse was out of sight, I was free to panic about my cancer again."

After returning home, theTogethernessactress decided not to tell her mother about her diagnosis or her father's death, as she was in the final stages of a battle with Parkinson's disease. Peet took anxiety medicine as she waited on her results. "I sucked on little chips of Ativan all day, but my blood pressure was so jacked they didn't even register," she said. "Then, at 4:42 p.m., Dr. K. texted: 'All poodle features!'" This meant that the actress' cancer would be treatable.

"You'd think that I had just taken Ecstasy," Peet wrote. "I was happier than I'd been pre-diagnosis, when I was just a regular person who didn't have cancer."

However, she quickly panicked again after remembering that she still required an MRI, and that her doctor said the radiologist would check her lymph nodes and the other breast for "surprise findings" shortly thereafter.

The radiologist ended up finding a second tumor in the same breast. "She ordered an MRI-guided biopsy, which is when a tumor sample is extracted while you're inside the big white imaging doughnut," she recalled.

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Peet said the procedure was a horrific experience, despite the best efforts of a tech nicknamed Tom.

"Tom helped me lie on my belly and lowered my traitorous breast into a horizontal, doll-size lunette," she remembered. "She injected the pain medication, which was so excruciating that there was no way white-knuckling it could have been worse. Then came an injection of dye, to make the suspicious mass stand out, and finally Tom slowly flattened my breast — while it was hanging in the air — with a barbaric waffle iron, whose latticed squares were numbered to locate the target site for the needle. Tom and my doctor called coordinates back and forth, as if playing a perverse game of Battleship, to confirm the quadrant of interest."

At the end of the procedure, the doctor said "it was 50-50 whether or not there was more cancer."

Peet's doctor told her that the second mass was benign, which meant she would only require a lumpectomy and radiation rather than chemotherapy or a mastectomy.

"Radiation wasn't bad compared with Tom's waffle iron — until the last stretch, when my nipple became charred and blistered, like an over-roasted marshmallow," she detailed.

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Peet began to make funeral arrangements for her mother two weeks after she received her first clear scan in January. She was with her mother during her final moments of life.

"I wasn't sure whether my mom knew that she was looking at me or whether I was just a constellation of interesting, disembodied shapes," she remembered. "I said 'howdy doodle' — that's how she often greeted me. But then I realized that she was communing without words, and I followed suit. Time was running out, and, besides, I had already told her everything."

Peet's full essay about her cancer journey and her parents' deaths can be found inThe New Yorker.

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An Underground Railroad museum in upstate New York alleged in a lawsuit Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated its federal grant on the basis of race, pointing to President Donald Trump's efforts to dismantle diversity-focused initiatives.

The Underground Railroad Education Center, located in Albany N.Y., alleges in its lawsuit that the National Endowment for the Humanities' cancelation of a $250,000 grant amounted to viewpoint and racial discrimination, violating the First and Fifth Amendments, respectively.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of New York, calls for the funds to be reinstated.

The suit citedTrump's January 2025 executive orderthat required federal agencies to eliminate any operations supporting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within 60 days. The 40-page brief outlined 1,400 grants that were terminated in early April 2025 "for their conflict with President Trump's EOs and the new agency priorities adopted in their wake."

Nina Loewenstein, a lawyer for the museum, told NBC News that there is "just no legitimate basis" for the grant's cancellation, adding that it is "just explicitly erasing things associated with the Black race."

Loewenstein and the team of lawyers volunteering on the case through Lawyers for Good Government, an organization that provides free legal services for civil and human rights cases, argued that the Underground Railroad Education Center is just one of thousands of organizations that have been unlawfully targeted by the Trump administration.

"Numerous statements of the current Executive Branch leadership reflect overt and coded racism supporting white supremacy and denigrating Black history in America," the lawsuit said.

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It added that the administration "systematically targeted grantees and programs that sought to increase the public's understanding of Black history and cultures."

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday evening.

The Trump administration has targeted museums and exhibits across the United States in an effort to enforce the president's anti-DEI directives. A judge ordered the administration last month torestore a slavery exhibit in Philadelphiaafter pieces of artwork and informational displays were removed at the President's House Site.

The administration also changed which days Americanscan visit national parks for freethis year in a November directive, removing Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth. In August, it called foran expansive review of the Smithsonian's museumexhibitions, materials and operations to ensure they aligned with the president's view of history.

The Underground Railroad Education Center is based in the home of Stephen and Harriet Myers, abolitionists who helped thousands of people escape slavery in the decades leading up to the Civil War, according to the museum's co-founders, Paul and Mary Liz Stewart.

The Stewarts began working on Underground Railroad research in the late 1990s, after Mary Liz, a fifth-grade teacher at the time, heard from her students that they had almost no awareness on the subject despite the deep ties it had to their neighborhood. Since 2004, the couple has worked to restore the home and turn it into a place at the center of the community, hosting tours and activities.

The Stewarts had been working towards funding a $12 million project to construct an interpretive center next to the Myers' residence, as its current operations have outgrown the space. Losing the $250,000 grant from the NEH, they said, caused a major setback for the project.

Mary Liz said the grant "validated who we are as an organization, what we were trying to do. And in turn, sort of said to the to the wider world, this is an organization worth paying attention to."

By Daniel Trotta

HAVANA, March 21 (Reuters) - Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Saturday for the second time in a week amid the U.S.-imposed ‌oil blockade, officials announced, as the communist government struggles to keep the ‌lights on for its 10 million people with decrepit infrastructure.

"At 18:32 (2232 GMT), a total disconnection of ​the National Electric Power System occurred. We will continue to provide updates," the state utility Union Electrica said on social media.

This incident marks the third major power outage this month, as a majority of the system went down on March 4 when ‌a major thermoelectric generating plant ⁠failed. The power grid also went completely offline on Monday for unexplained reasons.

Cuba has experienced a series of major or total ⁠outages in recent years, but two total failures in the space of a week is exceptional.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed an oil blockade on the Caribbean island ​after Washington ​deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January ​3, removing him from the ‌country to face drug-trafficking charges in an early morning raid. Venezuela had been Cuba's most important benefactor, providing oil to its close ally on favorable terms.

Since then, Trump has cut off Venezuelan exports to Cuba and threatened other countries with punitive tariffs if they sell oil to Cuba.

Mexico, the most important oil supplier to ‌Cuba along with Venezuela, has halted its oil ​shipments, while also providing humanitarian aid.

With global oil ​prices surging due to the ​U.S. and Israeli war with Iran, the U.S. has temporarily ‌lifted sanctions on Russian oil products, but ​included an exemption ​that specifically excludes transactions involving Cuba in addition to North Korea and Crimea.

Cuba has long blamed the U.S. trade embargo for economic failures including its ​failing power grid, while ‌Washington in turn has attributed the failures to Cuba's Soviet-style command economy.

(Reporting ​by Daniel Trotta in Havana and Sarah Kinosian in Mexico City; ​Editing by Nia Williams and Paul Simao)

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silvacriticized what he called the return of a colonial approach toward developing nations during a summit in Colombia on Saturday, pointing tothe disposalof ex-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and thefuel blockadeof Cuba.

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"It's not possible for someone to think that they own other countries," Lula said, in an apparent reference to U.S. policy in the region, at a high-level forum with delegates from Africa and a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. "What are they doing with Cuba now? What did they do with Venezuela? Is that democratic?"

The left-wing president also criticized the war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran on Feb. 28 and drew a parallel with the Iraq War. "Iran has been invaded under the pretext that Iran was building a nuclear bomb. Where are Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons? Where are they? Who found them?"

Lula said that all countries present had already experienced being plundered for gold, silver, diamonds and minerals. He accused an unspecified "they" of seeking to own developing countries' critical minerals and rare earth deposits.

"After taking everything we had, now they want to own the critical minerals and rare earths that we have," Lula said. "They want to colonize us again."

Washington'shistory of interventionin Latin America goes back a long way — to when President James Monroe claimed the hemisphere as part of the U.S. sphere of influence more than 200 years ago.

While large-scale, overt U.S. involvement in the region mostly petered out after the Cold War, Trump has rekindled the legacy.

Since assuming office last year, Trump launched boatstrikes against alleged drug traffickersin the Caribbean,ordered a naval blockadeon Venezuelan oil exports and got involved in electoral politics inHondurasandArgentina.

And in Brazil, Trump imposeda 50% tariffon Brazilian goods last year, citing a 'witch hunt' trial against the country's former president Jair Bolsonaro. The U.S. has also shown keen interest in Brazil's rare earth deposits.

Then, on Jan. 3, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro, flying him to the U.S. to face drug and weapons charges.

Whilesuch actions have thrilledright-wing leaders across the continent, they have raised fears among left-wing politicians who have voiced grave concerns over what they see as U.S. bullying.

"We cannot allow anyone to interfere and violate the territorial integrity of each country," Lula said Saturday.

Lula, who has saidhe will run for a fourth, nonconsecutiveterm in the upcoming October elections, also criticized the United Nations' inability to stop multiple conflicts around the world.

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"What we are witnessing is the total and absolute failure of the United Nations," said Lula, pointing to the situations in Gaza, Ukraine and Iran and once again calling for reform of the body's Security Council.

The Security Council is mandated in the U.N. Charter with ensuring international peace and security, but it has failed in major conflicts because of the veto power of five permanent members: the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.

There have been decades of efforts to reform the Security Council to reflect the geopolitical realities of the world in 2026, not of the post-World War II era 80 years ago, when the United Nations was established. But they have all been unsuccessful.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has designated a "priority target," echoed Lula's condemnation of the United Nations.

The body "is acting in impotence, and that is not what it was created for. It was created after World War II precisely to prevent wars. And yet, what we have today is war," Petro said.

But the world needs the United Nations to provide climate solutions and curb global warming, Petro said. "The more serious humanity's problems become, the fewer tools we have for collective action. And that path leads only to barbarism."

Petro accused U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio of defending Western civilization and urged him to instead pursue dialogue.

Relatively few presidents and prime ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean attended the summit in Colombia, a sign of the continent's deep divisions.

Those present included the presidents of Brazil, Uruguay, Burundi and Colombia, as well as the prime ministers of Guyana and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, along with deputy ministers, foreign ministers, and ambassadors.

Hughes reported from Rio de Janeiro.

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GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Cameron Boozer scored 17 of his game-high 19 points in the second half to help lead No. 1 Duke past No. 9 TCU for an 81-58 victory in a second-round East Region matchup on Saturday.

Isaiah Evans added 17 points and Dame Sarr scored 14 for Duke (34-2), which advanced to the Sweet 16 against the winner of No. 4 Kansas and No. 5 St. John's. Boozer added a game-high 11 rebounds while Maliq Brown finished with 12 points and nine rebounds for the Blue Devils, who outscored TCU by 19 points in the second half.

Micah Robinson led TCU (23-12) with 18 points, followed by Xavier Edmonds' 12. The Horned Frogs were outrebounded 42-25 for the game, but 24-14 during the second half.

Trailing by four at halftime, TCU opened the second half on a 6-0 run -- including Brock Harding's behind-the-back assist to Robinson -- forcing Duke's timeout with 16:11 remaining.

After Jayden Pierre's layup tied the score at 44, Cayden and Cameron Boozer each completed a 3-point play and Nikolas Khamenia laced a 3-pointer to give the Blue Devils a 53-44 lead at the 11:48 mark.

Harding's triple stopped the run, but Sarr's stepback 3-pointer gave Duke its first double-digit lead at 57-47.

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TCU head coach Jamie Dixon picked up a technical foul with 8:57 left, leading to Cayden Boozer's two free throws and Sarr's third 3-pointer that opened up a 64-50 Blue Devils lead.

Cameron Boozer's dunk and subsequent layup pushed the margin to 18.

The Horned Frogs went nearly five minutes without scoring before Pierre's jumper cut Duke's lead to 70-52 with 4:58 remaining. Brown's dunk extended the lead to 22, icing the Blue Devils victory.

To a warm ovation from the Duke-heavy crowd, Patrick Ngongba II came off the bench early after a foot injury kept him out for five games. He made his first basket at the 15:29 mark of the first half, giving the Blue Devils a 9-7 lead.

TCU went ahead, 12-9, on Robinson's five straight points before Evans' triple stamped a 10-3 Duke spurt. Evans scored 11 straight for the Blue Devils, including a four-point play to give Duke a 27-22 lead.

After Brown's dunk put Duke ahead by eight, TCU trimmed its deficit to two on Tanner Toolson's corner trey with 1:12 remaining. Duke led 38-34 at halftime thanks to Evans' 13 first-half points.

--Jack Batten, Field Level Media