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Top News Stories for Thursday, March 12th 2026
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Latino voters helped propel record turnout in last week's Texas primaries — with most voting in the Democratic contest — a trend Democrats are watching closely as they try to reclaim ground with the group and pull off an upset win in the red-leaning state's Senate contest. Over 4.4 million ballots were cast in last week's races, exceeding the 2024 and 2020 presidential primaries. Contributing to the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
As the U.S. military expands its use of AI tools to pinpoint targets for airstrikes in Iran, members of Congress are calling for guardrails and greater oversight of the technology's use in war. Two people with knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, confirmed the military is using AI systems from data analytics company Palantir to identify potential targets in the ongoing ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Dozens of countries have agreed to release a record amount of oil from their emergency reserves to try to tackle supply shortages and soaring prices. All 32 of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) members — including the UK, the US, and many of the world's richest nations — will release 400 million barrels to combat what the group said were challenges "unprecedented in scale". The US-Israel war with ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Seven women from the Iranian national soccer team remain in Australia , an Australian government official said Wednesday, as the rest of their team journeys back to a country at the center of a widening conflict in the Middle East . They had arrived to play in the Asian Women's Cup before the United States and Israel began striking Iran on Feb. 28, and were knocked out of the tournament over the weekend. Six of the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Republicans are heading towards an election season led by a president who just launched an unpopular war in the Middle East that is raising gas prices, writes John Bowden . Sound familiar? D onald Trump is barreling his Republican Party towards a midterm election that could once ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
KANSAS CITY (AP) — Inflation remained stubbornly elevated last month as gas prices rose, but it's a snapshot of consumer prices before a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran sent energy costs soaring . Consumer prices rose 2.4% in February compared with a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday, matching January's increase. Excluding the volatile food and energy, core prices climbed 2.5% from a year ago, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The acquisition includes Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, though financial terms were not disclosed. Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and will integrate the team into Meta Superintelligence Labs. The deal, first reported by Axios and confirmed to TechCrunch, includes Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition adds an "always-on ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The Wizards couldn't stop Bam Adebayo, but the haters sure are trying to bring him down. The Heat star's historic 83-point effort Tuesday — the second-most points scored in a game in NBA history — has led to some Silky Johnson-level of hating from his NBA brethren. 76ers wing Kelly Oubre, whose career-high of 40 points isn't even half of Adebayo's output, all but said he views Joel Embiid's 70-point ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate scheduled for execution Wednesday night for a murder he did not commit or even witness. Charles "Sonny" Burton and five other men robbed an AutoZone in Talladega, Alabama, in 1991, but Burton had left the building before ...
Source: theweek.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The District of Columbia Bar's disciplinary arm has filed ethics charges against Ed Martin, a senior U.S. Department of Justice official in the Trump administration, accusing him of sending a threatening letter to the Georgetown University Law Center. Martin sent the letter to the law school in February 2025 while serving as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. The letter asserted that his ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
FDA worked with GSK to update Wellcovorin labelling for safe, effective use in adult and paediatric CFD-FOLR1 patients. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its approval for the expanded use of GSK's Wellcovorin (leucovorin calcium) tablets to treat cerebral folate deficiency (CFD) in patients with a confirmed variant in the folate receptor one (FOLR1) gene. The approval marks the first authorised ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Iran are scheduled to play against New Zealand, Belgium and Egypt in the World Cup. "Under no circumstances" can Iran compete in this year's World Cup, the country's sports minister has said. The team's participation has been in doubt after US and Israeli forces struck Iran , with Tehran retaliating with attacks on American assets and allies across the Middle East. Follow the latest on the Iran war FIFA boss Gianni ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Steve Travis thought this could be it. "We knew a tornado was close," the 67-year-old Lake Village, Indiana, resident said Wednesday, recalling his turbulent Tuesday. "I was looking out the front door. I saw a dumpster get picked up and moved," Travis added. "I ran in toward my bedroom. When I got to the bedroom, the ceiling fell in." The tornadoes that touched down caused widespread damage to homes and buildings ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
From the very beginning of the DOGE saga, many of us raised alarms about what would happen when a bunch of inexperienced twenty-somethings were handed unfettered access to the most sensitive databases in the federal government with essentially zero oversight and zero adherence to the security protocols that exist for very good reasons. We wrote about it when a 25-year-old was pushing untested code into the ...
Source: techdirt.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The update enables users to generate documents, spreadsheets and presentations using prompts. Google on Tuesday introduced new Gemini-powered artificial intelligence features for Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The update allows users to generate fully formatted documents, spreadsheets, and presentations by pulling data from Gmail, Chat, and Drive. These tools aim to increase productivity by enabling content ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
By Month-over-month existing-home sales were bleak in January, plummeting by 8.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 3.91 million units, according to a report by the National Association of Realtors. These data include the sales of existing (not newly built) single-family homes, condos, and co-ops. Existing-home sales make up more than 90% of housing sales in the U.S., according to the NAR , so they're ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Police in Switzerland said they were investigating whether a bus fire that killed at least six people was started deliberately. Police spokesperson Frédéric Papaux of Fribourg canton or region, said an unspecified "voluntary act" could have caused the fire Tuesday evening in the town of Kerzers, about 15 miles west of the capital Bern. Five people were also injured in the fire, which for locals echoed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
ROME, Ga. (AP) — Democrat Shawn Harris and Republican Clay Fuller advanced to a runoff for Marjorie Taylor Greene's former U.S. House seat in Georgia after no candidate won a majority in Tuesday's special election. President Donald Trump in February endorsed Fuller, a district attorney who prosecutes crimes in four counties, to succeed Greene in Georgia's 14th Congressional District. Greene, once among ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
AP Photo/Josh Reynolds Longtime Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski reportedly boasted that he was essentially immune from consequences because President Donald Trump would pardon him. Lewandowski most recently served as a top aide to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem , and he's expected to leave the department when Noem does at the end of the month. Noem's ouster came days after she was grilled at a ...
Source: mediaite.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran. A primary school in Minab struck in the first day of U.S.–Israel attacks against Iran on March 5, 2026. investigation determined in its preliminary findings that the United States conducted an attack on an Iranian elementary school that killed at least 175 people, most of ...
Source: theintercept.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Three years after its $3.9 billion bet on One Medical, Amazon is deploying its healthcare AI assistant across its main website and shopping app, in a direct challenge to OpenAI's ChatGPT Health and Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare. Amazon has opened its Health AI assistant to all US customers, removing the requirement to be a One Medical member or a Prime subscriber to access the product. Previously available only ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The tools also identify deceptive links so that suspicious posts and ads can be removed more quickly. Meta announced new AI tools to identify impersonators of brands and celebrities and detect deceptive links for quick takedown. The company is adding new alerts on Facebook for suspicious friend requests, WhatsApp for device linking requests, and Messenger for suspect accounts. Meta aims to increase verified ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The Trump administration announced new trade investigations of China, Mexico, the European Union and more than a dozen other economies, with the goal of replacing President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, which were recently ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. The probes, which are likely to be expanded to more nations, will be conducted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, U.S. Trade Representative ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter , and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory . Editor's note: GeekWire publishes guest opinions to foster informed discussion and highlight a diversity of perspectives on issues shaping the tech and startup community. If you're interested in submitting a guest column, email us at tips@geekwire.com . ...
Source: geekwire.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Salesforce has warned users of an uptick in threat actor activity targeting Experience Cloud customers' who have accidentally enabling overly permissive guest user configurations. Salesforce stressed that the attacks were not the result of any known flaws in its product but rather the result of misconfigurations during the setup process. Exploitation of these misconfigurations appears to be the work of the ...
Source: computerweekly.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The FBI warned the police departments in California of possible surprise drone attacks from Iran, ABC News reported. The alert was sent at the end of February as the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28. The alert said they had no information on what the target could possibly be, or the timing or anything else. "We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! While the lapse in funding at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues, officials have announced that the Global Entry program has resumed. A DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement the program was "reactivated" on Wednesday at 5 a.m. ET, "as DHS continually evaluates measures it can take amidst the Democrats' continued shutdown of the ...
Source: foxnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! With deepfakes becoming more common , YouTube has expanded access to its AI-driven likeness detection system to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates. The step an earlier rollout of the tool to creators in the company's Partner Program. AI video ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Bright macaws don't belong on Peru's dry coast. They're rainforest birds, built for humid lowlands, not cold mountain passes and desert air. But a new analysis of ancient DNA suggests that centuries before the Inca Empire, people were capturing Amazonian parrots , carrying them across the Andes alive, and keeping them long enough on the coast for the birds to grow new feathers. The ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Newly released documents also show Peter Mandelson was offered highly classified briefings before formal vetting was complete Keir Starmer overruled officials who warned of a "reputational risk" in making Peter Mandelson US ambassador, despite being handed a dossier of evidence about the peer's relationship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, documents reveal. The disclosure in newly released files will raise ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
March 11 (UPI) -- A cargo vessel was set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz in the early hours of Wednesday after being hit by an unknown projectile, British maritime authorities said. The Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Operations center said in an alert that the vessel had issued an SOS and the crew were evacuating after it was struck about 11 nautical miles north of Oman's Musandam Peninsula. UKMTO said the incident had ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth's radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday. The roughly 1,323-pound spacecraft, known as the Van Allen Probe A, is projected to plunge through the atmosphere at approximately 7:45 p.m. EDT, based on predictions from the U.S. Space Force. Although it will be an uncontrolled re-entry — meaning NASA has no way to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners. Buying a cheap laptop is easy. You just go to Best Buy or Newegg or Amazon or Walmart or somewhere, you pick the cheapest one (or the most expensive one that fits whatever your budget is), and you buy it. For as little as $200 or $300, you can bring home something new (as in, "new-in-box" not as in, "was released recently") that will power ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Ivanna Lisette Ortiz of Florida, 35, allegedly fired 10 shots with a semiautomatic firearm into Beverly Hills home A 35-year-old Florida woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly fired shots into the Beverly Hills home of Rihanna on Sunday. Ivanna Lisette Ortiz was charged on Tuesday with one count of attempted murder, 10 counts of assault on a person with a semiautomatic firearm and three ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh had a dispute over the high court's approach to its emergency docket in a rare, candid discussion during an event Monday night. Jackson, a Biden appointee, signaled that the high court's willingness to side with President Donald Trump most of the time when it comes to the emergency docket, sometimes known as ...
Source: foxnews.com