The Petersburg Post
Top News Stories for Sunday, March 1st 2026
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
Joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prompting waves of retaliatory attacks by Tehran across the region. "If the regime feels threatened, it'll lash out harder than it would if it thought it could ride out the attacks," a geopolitics watcher said. Russia and China will likely refrain from offering Tehran meaningful military aids, beyond rhetorical support. In this article ...
Source: cnbc.com
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
is integrated into national security — and who controls it — Anthropic was officially blacklisted by the Trump administration while OpenAI swooped in to win a new defense contract. On Friday evening, the Pentagon designated Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, barring its technology from use by defense contractors after a transition period. That came just hours after President Donald Trump directed federal ...
Source: insider.com
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic Republic since 1989, is dead at 86
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
Follow live updates as the U.S. and Israel launch an attack on Iran. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its top leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program while crushing democracy protests, has been killed in U.S. and ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
– The by the United States and Israel disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond as countries around the region closed their airspace and key airports that connect Europe, Africa and the West to Asia were directly hit by strikes. More than 3,400 flights were canceled Sunday across seven airports in the Mideast, according to flight tracker Flightradar24. Airports in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
The US-Israeli attacks on Iran have triggered swift retaliatory attacks from Tehran, targeting their assets in multiple Middle East countries, including Israel, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Oman. Analysts are warning of a spike in global oil prices after Iranian officials hinted at shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important maritime routes in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
Washington — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday in a Second Amendment dispute over a federal law that bars unlawful drug users from possessing firearms. The case, United States v. Hemani, is the second involving gun rights that the high court is hearing in its current term, joining a legal battle over a Hawaii law that restricts where concealed-carry license holders can bring their firearms. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The death toll rose to 22 on Saturday from the crash of a military plane carrying 18 tons of new banknotes a day earlier near Bolivia's capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles and scattering bills on the ground, a police commander said Saturday. Another 29 people were injured, mostly passengers traveling on public transportation where the plane crashed. Among the dead are 12 men, ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Bill Clinton has told lawmakers that he "saw nothing that gave me pause" when he spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, as the former president gave closed-door testimony about his relationship with the late sex offender. In a prepared statement on Friday, Clinton told the House of Representatives Oversight Committee that he would not have flown on the late financier's plane if he had known about his alleged sex ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has made a deal with Scouting America that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday would maintain their century-old partnership but refocus the organization away from diversity initiatives and other "woke" policies he accused it of embracing in recent years. Hegseth put heavy emphasis on Scouting America's acceptance of transgender youth, saying the organization will require ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article DHS is blocked from arresting and detaining recently resettled refugees in Minnesota as legal challenges continue A federal judge has blasted President Donald Trump's administration for turning the "American dream into a dystopian nightmare" with Homeland Security's new policy to ...
Source: independent.co.uk