Duchess Meghan-Prince Harry Oprah interview, NBA All-Star Game: 5 things to know this weekend

Senate to continue voting on changes to Biden’s coronavirus relief bill

The Senate will continue to consider changes to President Joe Biden's COVID-19 stimulus bill on Saturday, continuing an all-night session in which they voted on proposed amendments to the $1.9 trillion measure. For nearly 12 hours Friday, senators negotiated over proposed changes to the massive package’s unemployment benefits. Much of the impasse focused on Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., a moderate Democrat who expressed interest in plans from Republicans and Democrats — but ultimately supported a Democratic compromise deal to extend a weekly $300 unemployment benefit through August. The legislation, dubbed the American Rescue Plan, would send out a new round of $1,400 stimulus checks, $350 billion to help cash-strapped states and cities, and $130 billion for schools confronting the coronavirus pandemic.

• Do states and cities 'need' Biden's $350 billion in direct COVID-19 relief? It depends where you're asking

• Democrats want to send $350B to cities and states with Biden's COVID-19 relief bill, but Republicans see it as wasteful

Meghan and Harry sit down with Oprah for their first US TV interview

For the first time ever, Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry will appear in an interview on American TV — and it’s with no other than Oprah Winfrey. Promos for the two-hour-long interview have already created quite the buzz. Will the couple spill some royal secrets? What’s next, now that they’ve called it quits with the crown? Winfrey promises that "there is no subject that's off-limits," and that some revelations are "shocking." "Oprah With Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special" airs on CBS this Sunday at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST.

• Duchess Meghan questions palace's role in 'perpetuating falsehoods' about the couple in Oprah promo

• Meghan wins legal fees from tabloid in privacy lawsuit; judge rejects publisher's appeal

• Prince Philip undergoes successful heart procedure, will remain in hospital for treatment, rest

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Team LeBron vs. Team Durant: NBA All-Stars meet in Atlanta

The NBA’s All-Star Game is this Sunday, but because of an injury, Eastern Conference captain Kevin Durant will miss the game in Atlanta. As for LeBron James, he’ll try to remain undefeated in his 4th season as an All-Star captain. The players will have to navigate through pandemic rules this year, and events will happen on a single day instead of three. The last shot of Sunday’s affair will be worth $300,000 for either the Thurgood Marshall College Fund or United Negro College Fund, the NBA said in revealing how an estimated $3 million in charitable donations from the contest will be distributed. The organizations, which support historically Black colleges or universities, will be the primary benefactors, each guaranteed $500,000 in scholarship funding before the game even starts and with an additional $750,000 at stake during the game.

• Taking a halftime look at the good, the bad and the ugly of the NBA season

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Pope Francis, Iraqi Shiite leader deliver unifying message in historic meeting

Pope Francis met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior clerics in Shiite Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf on Saturday to deliver a message of peaceful coexistence, urging Muslims to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority.In a statement issued by his office after the meeting, al-Sistani affirmed that Christians should “live like all Iraqis, in security and peace and with full constitutional rights.”Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday and met with senior government officials on the first-ever papal visit to the country, aimed at promoting his call for greater fraternity among all peoples. It is also his first international trip since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and his meeting Saturday marked the first time a pope had met a grand ayatollah.

15 fights in one night: UFC 259 should be one for the record books

Considered by many MMA fans as one of the biggest events in recent memory, UFC 259 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday, with a total of 15 fights on the lineup. The event touts three five-round championship fights on its billing. In the main event, Jan Blachowicz (27-8 MMA, 10-5 UFC) puts his light heavyweight title on the line against middleweight champion Israel Adesanya (20-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC), who will attempt to become the UFC’s latest two-division champ. In the co-feature, women’s bantamweight and featherweight champ Amanda Nunes (20-4 MMA, 13-1 UFC) puts her 145-pound title up against challenger Megan Anderson (10-4 MMA, 3-2 UFC). The main card streams on ESPN+ pay-per-view (10 p.m. ET) following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.

• Jon Anik, UFC’s lead play-by-play voice, details challenges preparing UFC 259's historic 15-fight lineup

• Megan Olivi: Working UFC 259 broadcast 'a good distraction' from husband Joseph Benavidez's fight

Contributing: The Associated Press

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