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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 18th 2026
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
– Israel said Wednesday it killed another top Iranian official, the third in two days, while Iran lashed out with attacks on its , using some of its latest missiles to evade air defenses and killing two people near Tel Aviv. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib had been killed in an overnight strike and promised that "significant surprises are expected ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
New report examines how increasing uplink traffic from AI devices such as smart glasses will change the way modern networks operate , wireless, video and AI technology research and development company, and market research firm ABI Research explores how the emergence of agentic AI will redefine the demands placed on devices, networks, and cloud infrastructure. The report, titled The Distributed Network ...
Source: aithority.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Amid signs that Republicans may be losing some of the Latino support that the party picked up in 2024, grassroots organizations are stepping in to boost GOP Senate candidates in key races during this year's midterms. The LIBRE Initiative Action, a conservative-leaning Latino political group, is set to endorse Republican Sen. Jon Husted for the Senate seat in Ohio and former Republican National Committee Chair ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Prime members will pay $9.99 for one hour delivery and $4.99 for three hour delivery, while non Prime users face higher fees. Amazon is launching new one-hour and three-hour delivery options across multiple U.S. cities to enhance its competitive stance against instant delivery services such as Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats. The initiative will make over 90,000 items available for rapid delivery, improving ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
No other recurring market event is more important than the Federal Reserve's decision on the Federal funds rate. The Federal Open Market Committee meets eight times a year to decide on interest rates, and its second meeting will conclude today, March 18, with its rate decision set for 2 p.m. ET. Investors are now almost certain that the central bank will hold the Fed funds rate steady at 3.5%-3.75%. After the Iran ...
Source: fool.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Custom-built AI applications are set to cause major headaches for security teams over the coming years, unless they can get involved in projects early on, Gartner has warned. The analyst predicted that by 2028, at least half of enterprise incident response efforts would be devoted to managing the fallout from security issues connected to these apps. "AI is evolving quickly, yet many tools – especially ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
The state of Washington is on the verge of enacting a 9.9 percent tax on income over $1 million. Rhode Island's governor has proposed a 3 percent tax on income above that same level. Lawmakers in New York state are advancing a 0.5 percent tax on income over $5 million. Liberal groups in California and Michigan are pushing for ballot initiatives that would raise taxes on the super-rich in their states. In ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
MIAMI (AP) — Eugenio Suárez and his Venezuelan teammates stood on the stage behind second base with shiny medals draped over their proud chests, belting out their national anthem accompanied by tens of thousands of fans who remained in the ballpark a half-hour after the final out. Back home, people were singing their praises, too. Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic for the first time Tuesday ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
GPT-5.4 mini is available to Free and Go users through the Thinking option in ChatGPT and serves as a fallback for paid users who reach usage limits. OpenAI has launched GPT-5.4 mini and nano models, expanding access to enhanced features for users across its platforms. This announcement comes after the release of GPT-5.4 in early March, which is mainly tailored for professional tasks such as programming and data ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Users can access Personal Intelligence in AI Mode through Google Search, the Gemini app, and Gemini in Chrome. Google is expanding its Personal Intelligence feature to all users in the U.S., making it accessible to free-tier accounts for the first time. Previously, Personal Intelligence was exclusive to paid users and allows the AI assistant to customize responses by connecting with users' Google services, such as ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Virtue AI has announced Agent ForgingGround with built-in Red-Teaming Agents, the first enterprise-scale testing ground designed to continuously evaluate and stress-test AI agents (including multi-agent systems) before, during, and after deployment. As organizations adopt large-scale AI agents, many enterprises are unprepared to manage agent risk. AI agents can call tools, access sensitive data, and execute actions ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com A federal judge in Boston on Monday paused most of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s consequential actions on vaccines, as well as the decisions made by the influential vaccine advisory committee he gutted and remade with handpicked members. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, siding with the American ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Arizona has filed misdemeanor criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the predictions platform of running an illegal gambling and election wagering operation in the state. They're the first criminal charges to have been filed against Kalshi. Kalshi draws distinctions between the event contracts it offers and what sportsbooks and casinos offer. The Kalshi market "Will Iran effectively close the Strait of Hormuz ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
The OpenClaw agent platform gets sandbox isolation and a 'privacy router' to address its security weaknesses. In the few short weeks since OpenClaw became the biggest story in agentic AI, it has been dogged by concerns that it is not secure enough to be safely let loose in enterprises. This week at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced what he believes is the answer: ...
Source: cio.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he would delay his trip to China for "five or six weeks," officially pushing the major summit after administration officials opened the door to the trip's postponement as they focus on the war with Iran. "We're resetting the meeting, and it looks like it'll take place in about five weeks," Trump said, later saying five or six weeks. "We're working with China. They ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Tennessee Teens Sue Elon Musk's xAI Over Child Sexual Abuse Images It's the latest legal challenge against the Grok chatbot's mass creation of nonconsensual sexual imagery of women and girls. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk's company xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence tool Grok undressed photos of them as ...
Source: motherjones.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed Tuesday to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department's sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and the agency's handling of millions of files related to the disgraced financier. Bondi was ordered to appear for a deposition on April 14 by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform after a vote earlier this month that ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
The death toll from a triple suicide bombing in northeastern Nigeria has risen to 25 after blasts struck a market, a major hospital and an overpass in the city of Maiduguri, according to officials. More than 100 others were injured. The blasts happened at about 7:24 p.m. Monday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. The Borno State Police Command said the attacks hit the Maiduguri Monday ...
Source: bnonews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
March 17 (UPI) -- Kouri Darden Richins, the Utah woman who published a children's book about grief, has been found guilty of his murder. Richins, 35, was found guilty of all charges -- first-degree aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery and insurance fraud -- in the death of Eric Richins, 39, of a fentanyl overdose. Eric Richins died on March 4, 2022 , in their home in Kamas, Utah, near Park City. ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
U.S. diesel prices have surged 34% to $5.04 per gallon since the U.S. attacked Iran. Diesel is essential to the U.S. economy. The fuel is used in trucks, trains and barges that transport goods to market. Gas prices, meanwhile, have surged 27% to $3.79 on average since the war started. A sign displays the prices of diesel fuel at a BP gas station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, US, on Monday, March 9, 2026. U.S. diesel ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Home » » The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration's efforts to end legal protections under a program that has allowed people fleeing war and other humanitarian crises around the world to live and work in the U.S., including Haiti and Syria. The justices issued a brief order on Mar. 16 stating that they would take several cases challenging the administration's push to ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
FDA investigating E. c oli outbreak linked to raw cheese Raw cheese products are the "likely source" of an ongoing outbreak of Escherichia coli that has sickened at least seven people, including young children, according to the FDA. The agency said raw cheddar cheese from the California-based Raw Farm has been linked to Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7, or STEC, a strain of the bacteria that can cause severe ...
Source: healio.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
by creating a new combined team for its commercial and consumer Copilot products, under a new executive. The company is also moving Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to its superintelligence team, focused on building frontier AI models. Microsoft's many Copilot products have been a source of confusion for customers, and the company has been trying to address that by creating a cohesive experience across ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts warned Tuesday that personal attacks on Supreme Court justices and lower court judges are "dangerous" and said hostility directed toward specific jurists has "got to stop." "Judges around the country work very hard to get it right and if they don't, their opinions are subject to criticism," Roberts said during an event at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free . This week's newsletter includes stories on: Trump Issues Housing Affordability Executive Order This past Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at reducing barriers to affordable housing construction. "Layers of unnecessary regulatory barriers, slow permitting processes, and onerous mandates at all levels of government have delayed ...
Source: reason.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
HAVANA (AP) — Officials in Cuba reported an islandwide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to crumble. The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X noted a "complete disconnection" of the country's electrical system and said it was investigating, noting there were no failures in the units that were operating when the grid ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
It marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month and has seen repeated cross-border clashes, as well as airstrikes inside Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan accused Pakistan of killing at least 400 people in an airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital late Monday. It marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month and has seen ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world's most powerful particle smasher, Europe's CERN physics laboratory announced Tuesday. The new particle has been named "Xi-cc-plus". Scientists hope the particle — which is similar to a proton but four times heavier — will reveal more about the strange behaviour of quantum mechanics. All the matter ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Motorists are paying sharply higher fuel prices since the outbreak of the Iran war , despite the U.S. being the world's largest oil producer. Why? After all, as of 2023 (the latest data available), the U.S. churned out roughly 13 million barrels of crude a day, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). That compares with roughly 10 million barrels from the world's No. 2 and No. 3 ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Leqaa Kordia, along with her family and legal team, celebrated on Monday when the 33-year-old Palestinian was released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after over a year in detention — but they also pointed to the battles ahead as President Donald Trump's administration continues to crack down on immigrants and critics. "We are elated and relieved that Leqaa can finally return home to her family in ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America has tentatively settled a lawsuit claiming it ignored suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein while he was sexually abusing hundreds of girls and women. The proposed settlement was revealed in filings in Manhattan federal court on Monday, the same day that billionaire financier Leon Black was originally scheduled to be deposed in the case. Terms were not ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
GENEVA (AP) — The public wrangling between Iran, FIFA and U.S. President Donald Trump over the narrative of playing in the World Cup shifted on Tuesday to Mexico where President Claudia Sheinbaum seemed open to a suggestion by Islamic Republic diplomats that Iran's games in June be moved to her country. The Iranian ambassador and embassy in Mexico City said the country was negotiating with FIFA to move Iran's ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New Miami Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan now has a blockbuster trade under his belt in his first three months managing the team's roster. The Dolphins sent standout wide receiver Jaylen Waddle to the Denver Broncos on Tuesday, according to a league source. In return, Miami gets Denver's first-round pick, at No. 30. The Dolphins are also netting an extra ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Several " Cesar Chavez Day" activities are reportedly being canceled across the country amid allegations made against the late labor leader and civil rights activist. The Cesar Chavez Foundation said in a statement that it was aware Chavez had been accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior with women and minors during his time as president of the United Farm Workers of America. "We are deeply shocked and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff and a longtime confidante of President Donald Trump, has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, the president announced Monday. "She's going to be in great shape. The prognosis there is excellent, beyond excellent," Trump said, sitting next to Wiles, 68, at a news conference. She will continue to work while she receives treatment, he said in an earlier statement.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol head who became the face of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, will retire at the end of the month, two Customs and Border Protection officials told NBC News. Bovino was removed from his role as CBP commander at large in January and returned to his role as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro, California. The move came after the deaths of two U.S. citizens, ...
Source: nbcnews.com