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Top News Stories for Monday, March 9th 2026
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — , has been named his successor, Iranian state TV announced Sunday, as the nine-day war that began with his father's killing took a dramatic turn. The younger Khamenei had long been considered a contender for the post, even before an Israeli strike killed his father. Iran's powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard answers to the supreme leader, and now Khamenei will have the ...
Source: inquirer.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
The device ignited outside the New York City mayor's residence on Saturday contained explosive materials and fragmentation that could have killed and maimed numerous people, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation. A federal terrorism investigation is underway and terrorism charges are pending. Two people from Pennsylvania were arrested outside Gracie Mansion, which is the home of Mayor ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, three big OPEC producers, have cut oil output as they run out of storage space. They are unable to export through the Strait of Hormuz due to Iranian threats against tankers. The U.S. war against Iran has shown little signs of easing. The Islamic Republic named Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as its new supreme leader, according to reports. In this article Crude oil ...
Source: cnbc.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his administration looks to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere even while dealing with five-alarm crises around the globe. Trump encouraged regional leaders gathered at his Miami-area golf ...
Source: military.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
(Bloomberg) -- Arab states along the Persian Gulf contended with a ninth day of incoming missiles and drones from Iran, which said it had the capacity to sustain the war for months. President Donald Trump said the US will consider widening its strikes on Iran in a conflict that's upended energy markets. The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain said they intercepted Iranian attacks overnight into ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump vowed to withhold his signature from any bills that reach his desk until Congress passes a controversial voter-ID measure known as the Save America Act. Prominent conservatives are pushing the bill, which would make it significantly more difficult for Americans to vote by requiring proof of citizenship and a photo ID. Democrats plan to kill the bill if it is considered on the Senate floor, ...
Source: cnbc.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, Malaysian authorities said Sunday, as families pressed for the effort to continue. The Air Accident Investigation Bureau said in a statement that a seabed search conducted by marine robotics company ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
A U.S. service member who was wounded during Iran's initial attacks across the Middle East has died, becoming the seventh American service member killed in action during the military operation against Iran, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). CENTCOM said the service member died Saturday night from injuries received in an attack on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during the Iranian regime's initial attacks on ...
Source: bnonews.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
An explosion at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, early on Sunday may have been a deliberate attack linked to the "current security situation," the country's police force has said. The blast occurred at the embassy compound at around 1 a.m. local time. It caused minor damage but no injuries, police in the Scandinavian nation said. "It's natural to see this in the context of the current security situation and that ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Kyle Schwarber hit a two-run homer and Gunnar Henderson had four hits and two RBIs as the United States rolled to a 9-1 victory over Britain on Saturday night at the World Baseball Classic at Daikin Park in Houston. Team USA improved to 2-0 in Pool B at Houston, while Britain dropped to 0-2. Nate Eaton homered on Tarik Skubal's first pitch to give Britain a quick lead it held until the fifth inning. But his ...
Source: nypost.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old schoolgirls in Soham, died on Saturday following an attack in prison. The 52-year-old suffered significant head trauma after being attacked with a makeshift weapon by another inmate at HMP Frankland on 26 February and had been on life support in hospital. He had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering best ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Moscow struck its neighbour overnight with 29 missiles and 480 drones, President Zelensky said, with hits at 22 locations 2-MIN READ At least seven people were killed and 10 others, including three children, were wounded on Saturday by a Russian missile that hit a five-storey residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack and called ...
Source: scmp.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dali nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru's northern coast, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center. It's a region that has recently been plagued by violence and crime . It wasn't immediately clear who was responsible and a ...
Source: cbsnews.com