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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 4th 2026
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Incumbents in both parties are under pressure in the first 2026 midterm primaries, as voters in North Carolina, Texas and Arkansas weigh in on the debates within their parties and set the stage for the battle for control of Washington this fall. Rep. Dan Crenshaw fell first, with conservative state Rep. Steve Toth projected to best him for the Republican nomination in Texas' 2nd District, where he accused Crenshaw ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Justice Department lawyers are heading to court today to defend President Donald Trump's attacks on law firms after the administration backtracked on a move to drop out of those fights. DOJ wants a judge to throw out an American Bar Association lawsuit challenging what the group calls Trump's "law firm intimidation policy." The suit stems from a series of executive orders that targeted certain firms last year, and ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Barely a week after President Donald Trump hailed falling gas prices as one of his economic triumphs, his actions are sending the cost per gallon back up. The war Trump launched with strikes on Iran has spread across the Middle East, where of the world's oil is produced. Gas prices spiked almost immediately, undercutting a key data point in Trump's argument to skeptical Americans that the economy is soaring. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
The laptop starts at $1,099, marking a $100 increase over the M4 MacBook Air's $999 entry price. Apple announced a refreshed MacBook Air with an M5 chip, contradicting reports that suggested no such reveal was planned. The new model starts at $1,099, a $100 increase from the M4 version's $999 starting price. Apple claims the M5 chip delivers four times faster AI performance than the M4 model and up to 9.5 times ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
X said it would "continue to refine" its policies and product to ensure the platform "can be trusted during these critical moments." Social media platform X announced Tuesday it would suspend creators from its revenue sharing program for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of armed conflicts without disclosing they were artificially made, the company said. The policy change, announced by an executive of the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
March 3 (UPI) -- Democrats and Republicans grilled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her handling of the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., called her leadership a "disaster" and told her she should resign. "What we've seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Hillary Clinton lost it on MAGA lawmakers Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert as the former first lady's Epstein deposition went off the rails. Clinton's deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday was released on YouTube by the GOP Oversight Committee on Monday. The upload revealed the moment Clinton, 78, stormed out of the meeting when it was revealed that Boebert, the U.S. representative for Colorado's ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The United States Supreme Court issued a decision yesterday, in Mirabelli v. Bonta , that expands parental rights regarding gender identity transition by their child. The lawsuit involves allegations that California, through its unique law, required public schools to only permit disclosure of a student's gender transitioning status to the student's parents if the student consented. A set of parents were not told ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Some flights from the Middle East resumed in the wake of the strikes on Iran — but the process hasn't been without confusion. Fourteen Etihad Airways flights departed Abu Dhabi on Monday, even as the airline said operations remain suspended. Emirates, in neighboring Dubai , also announced it would operate a "limited number of flights." However, more missile threats forced diversions that night, or early ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Insurance companies are cancelling war risk coverage for vessels in the Middle East Gulf as the widening United States/Israel-Iran conflict disrupts shipping, leaving tankers damaged or stranded and at least two people dead. The conflict entered its fourth day on Tuesday with US and Israeli attacks continuing on Iran, which has retaliated by attacking US assets and other infrastructure in Gulf ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The U.S. Supreme Court has halted an attempt to redraw New York's 11th Congressional District, likely ensuring that the city's lone Republican representative, Nicole Malliotakis , will keep her seat through this year's midterm elections. On Monday, the Court sided with Malliotakis when it issued an emergency stay of a lower court's ruling, which dictated that the boundaries of the congresswoman's district are ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article 'It's very sad... we love the UK,' US president said as row deepens over Britain's involvement in Iran conflict has lambasted his relationship with Britain under Sir Keir Starmer, saying he is "very sad" to see it is "obviously not what it was". The prime minister granted ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The Justice Department and dozens of states attacked Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary over allegations that the company illegally monopolized much of the market for live music, as a trial over a major clash more than 15 years in the making got underway Tuesday in New York City. "The concert ticket industry is broken," Justice Department lawyer David Dahlquist told jurors in his opening ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry's vulnerability to conflict. The company's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, said late Monday that two data centers in the United ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Proposed legislation targets 938 individuals and promises $3,000 payouts to families earning under $150K Progressive lawmakers Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are targeting the billionaire class with a massive new tax proposal that seeks to seize trillions from the nation's wealthiest individuals to fund a sweeping government spending spree. Announced Monday, the "Make Billionaires Pay ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Georgia school shooting suspect's father convicted of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he's accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Tuesday. Jurors took less than two hours to find Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta. Gray is one of a number of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
ATLANTA — Over the past two weeks in a Georgia courtroom, prosecutors portrayed Colin Gray as ignoring obvious warning signs as his son Colt careened toward catastrophe. The teenager had bursts of anger and nursed an obsession with school shooters. Instead of getting help, the father gave him an assault-style rifle as a Christmas gift and let him keep it in his room. On Tuesday, a jury deliberated for less ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Americans in the Middle East have been struggling to leave the region amid the Iran war, with multiple U.S. embassies saying they cannot help. On Tuesday, the fourth day of the war, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Capitol Hill that more than 1,500 people are still asking for assistance. State Department official Dylan Johnson on X that the department has contacted "nearly 3,000 Americans abroad," and that it ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Three people are now confirmed to have died in the attack, while the gunman - identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne - was also fatally shot by officers at the scene. Tributes have been paid to people killed in a mass shooting at a Texas bar - as it was confirmed a third victim has died. Austin Police announced on Monday evening that Jorge Pederson, 30, had died from his injuries. The other two victims of the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
With the administration challenging the Court and Congress, independent reporting is the only thing standing between you and the noise. Your membership funds the courage to ask the hard questions. Don't let the truth be sidelined, join Huff Already a member? Critics were scratching their heads over Melania Trump 's appearance at the United Nations on Monday, and in particular over her preaching of peace. The first ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Nearly half of all new colorectal cancer cases now occur in adults younger than 65, signaling a major shift in the demographics of the disease, according to new data published Monday by the American Cancer Society. "This was always a disease that was Grandpa's disease," said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer of the American Cancer Society. But among people 65 and older, colorectal cancer rates have been ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it T here are a lot of things that AI can do. It can sort out your shopping list, and it can keep your kids entertained when they're mutinous by spinning up a tailor-made bedtime story for them. It can make you more efficient at work, and can help our government ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 2nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars' worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit started the next phase in the refund process by sending it to a lower court to sort out. In a court filing Friday, President Donald Trump 's Justice ...
Source: nbcnews.com