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Top News Stories for Friday, March 13th 2026
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
The United States and Israeli strikes on Iran continue , as Tehran has stepped up attacks to disrupt energy markets, triggering a spike in oil prices. According to Iran's representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, at least 1,348 civilians have been killed as the war entered its 13th day on Thursday. Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has outlined three conditions to end the war: ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
BANGKOK (AP) — The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, topped $100 a barrel early Thursday, just days after it spiked near $120 in the latest jolts to financial markets and the global economy as a whole. Oil prices shot more than 9% higher as supply concerns worsened with Iranian attacks on commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. benchmark crude oil jumped to about ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
The context gap: Why scaling AI requires a shift from IT to business Over the past year, I've had the opportunity to spend time with CIOs and CDAOs across industries and geographies, from Gartner C-level communities to strategic customer partnerships to executive roundtables. Despite differences in maturity, size, and industry, the themes are remarkably consistent. Organizations feel pressure to move faster with AI ...
Source: cio.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
A popular Washington game is to oversell tax cuts to lower-income people. Republicans have excelled at this for half a century. Now Democrats want to play, too. In the most familiar version of the game, a Republican president promises to slash income taxes but ends up mainly doing so for rich people. Ordinary people may get a cut, but it's very small. Thus President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Commentary: Whatever Meta and OpenAI paid, it was too much. Other, better programs can do the same jobs. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Both Moltbook and OpenClaw are irredeemably insecure. The AI business has become downright crazy. First, OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger , creator of the popular, horribly insecure open-source agent framework OpenClaw . Now, ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident. The bombing of the school and its casualties involving ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee said on Thursday that recent incidents involving the government use of a laser-based anti-drone system in Texas put the flying public at risk and government agencies must address serious issues. "These incidents highlighted serious process failures that expose the flying public to unacceptable safety risks," ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
HOUSTON — A day later than its manager originally proclaimed, the United States punched its ticket to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic. The Americans got the help they needed from Italy and could start to relax by the middle innings as Italy routed Mexico 9-1 on Wednesday night, giving the Azzurri the top spot in Group B and assuring the Americans advancement as the second-place team.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article President Trump said he is not fearful that Iran would launch an attack on US soil The FBI reportedly warned California police departments in February that Iran could retaliate against the U.S., if it were to conduct strikes , by using drones aimed at the West Coast, according to ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
By U.S. inflation stayed subdued in the month leading up to President Donald Trump's war with Iran, which has rekindled concerns about resurgent price pressures as energy costs have soared. The consumer price index report showed that inflation steadied at 2.4% in February from the same time last year, matching January's annual increase. On a monthly basis, overall prices ticked up 0.3%. "Core" inflation, which ...
Source: miamiherald.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 -
MIAMI — Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-best scoring effort in NBA history, to carry the Miami Heat to a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night. Adebayo had 31 points in the first quarter, 43 by halftime, and 62 by the end of the third quarter. He finished 20 for 43 from the field, 36 for 43 from the foul line, and 7 for 22 from 3-point range. Adebayo's free throw makes and attempts ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Iran's sports minister on Wednesday raised the possibility that the country's national men's soccer team withdraws from the upcoming World Cup after the U.S. and Israel started a war with his country and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in airstrikes. The U.S. is co-hosting the quadrennial soccer tournament along with Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19. Iran is scheduled to play in Los ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
A tornado struck a home in Lake Village, Indiana, killing an elderly couple. Major storms generated tornadoes that killed at least two people in northwest Indiana and flattened buildings in Kankakee, Illinois, as another bout of rain, hail and strong winds made its way through the region. Several intense supercell thunderstorms swept across northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana on Tuesday, including one ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration's internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint into what it describes as a former Department of Government Efficiency worker's potential misuse of data obtained from the Social Security Administration . According to a document the Associated Press obtained Wednesday, the SSA's inspector general informed the leadership of four congressional ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will launch a wave of tariff-related investigations into more than a dozen U.S. trade partners, the next phase in President Donald Trump's sweeping global trade wars. In a process that is likely to result in a fresh round of tariffs in the near future, the Office of U.S. Trade Representative is opening the formal probes into major trade partners that include the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Expect to see more alerts about suspicious activities across Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta is introducing new tools to help keep users safe from scams. In a blog post detailing the new tools , Meta explained that in 2025 alone, the social platform giant removed more than 159 million scam ads for violating its policies and took ...
Source: zdnet.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 -
Diddy aside, it's not that hard to get a pardon from Donald Trump. The president has used his clemency powers to help out 1,500 January 6 rioters , congressional fraudster George Santos, and a corrupt MAGA sheriff , just to name a few. He pardoned Rudy Giuliani , though it won't help him with his legal troubles, and he hasn't ruled out pardoning Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell . Trump ...
Source: nymag.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
A preliminary military investigation into the bombing of an Iranian girls' school shows that the U.S. was at fault, disproving President Donald Trump's claims that it was Iran's doing. The ongoing investigation determined it was an American Tomahawk missile that struck the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building in the city of Minab on Feb. 28, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The strike killed over ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Amazon is expanding access to its health care virtual assistant, Health AI , the company said on Tuesday. This feature was originally available only to One Medical members, but it will now be available to most customers on the Amazon app and website. It'll be rolled out over the next few weeks, with the goal of making it available to all US Amazon customers. Amazon's Health AI can answer general health care ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB ) - Gas prices across the U.S. and Florida's Suncoast continue to rise as the ongoing conflict in Iran drives swings in crude oil prices, according to AAA. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.57, while diesel is averaging $4.83 per gallon, according to AAA data. In Florida, a gallon of regular gas is averaging $3.70, with diesel reaching $5.04 per gallon. Some gas ...
Source: mysuncoast.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 -
Salesforce warns that a threat campaign is exploiting overly permissive Experience Cloud guest configurations to harvest data from public portals. Salesforce is urging its customers to review their Experience Cloud 'guest' configurations as cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims a new campaign involving data theft and extortion tied to exposed Salesforce environments. The group recently posted screenshots on its leak ...
Source: csoonline.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Britain's government was due Wednesday to publish the first tranche of documents relating to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's controversial appointment of a Jeffrey Epstein associate as UK ambassador to Washington. The release could renew pressure on Starmer who has faced questions about his judgement over his decision to name Peter Mandelson as UK envoy to the United States in late 2024. Government minister Darren ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Florida woman accused of firing gunshots at Rihanna's home in Los Angeles was charged Tuesday with one count of attempted murder and other felony offenses including 10 counts of assault on a person with a semiautomatic firearm. District Attorney Nathan Hochman said that the singing superstar, her partner A$AP Rocky, their three small children and her mother were all on the property at the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com