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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 7th 2026
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON – In ducking a vote on authorizing war against Iran this week, Congress ceded its constitutional responsibilities yet again, some lawmakers warned, empowering current and future presidents to launch large wars unilaterally, in a major break with the nation's founding principles. On Friday, Trump added another objective to the list: unconditional surrender by Iran's government, seemingly rejecting ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Global oil prices surged sharply this week as the war involving Iran intensified raising fears of prolonged disruptions to energy supplies from the Middle East. The spike in prices comes a week after the United States and Israel launched major attacks on Iran, escalating tensions into a wider regional conflict. The ongoing hostilities have disrupted key energy routes and facilities, pushing oil and gas prices ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Iran's president rejected a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender on Saturday and apologized for Iran's attacks on regional countries, as Israel and the United States kept up their airstrikes targeting the Islamic Republic. Gulf countries say they have intercepted more ballistic missiles and drones launched from Iran. Saudi Arabia said it stopped four drones attacking the country's massive ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
He's quickly shaken things up. Jackson, a health care executive, is pumping millions of dollars of his own money into an already crowded race and aggressively courting supporters of Donald Trump — even though the president has backed a different candidate. Prior to Jackson's late entrance, the May 19 primary had seemed to be shaping up as a three-way race among Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who is the Trump-endorsed ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
There were times when Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum wasn't sure if he'd make it back to the game that was abruptly taken away from him last season. It made every moment he experienced in his return as special as any he's had so far in his basketball career. His homecoming at TD Garden on Friday night, a 120-100 victory over the Dallas Mavericks marked his season debut almost 10 months after surgery to repair a ...
Source: wbur.org
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gautami Nadkarni, 33, who lives in New Jersey. The following has been edited for length and clarity. org in 2018. My job was to design scalable cloud solutions that would help Google's enterprise customers manage their data and operations. At the time, cloud computing was the thing everyone in the industry was talking about. inner voice" told me to move towards ...
Source: insider.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
In a deeply divided country, journalism is a safeguard. Members make it possible to question authority, investigate impact, and protect democratic accountability beyond the headlines. Already a member? Some officials are trying to eliminate the process of changing our clocks each fall and spring. Here's why it hasn't been implemented yet. This weekend, we spring forward and turn our clocks ahead one hour to kick ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Washington has downplayed reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran about United States targets across the Middle East amid the burgeoning US-Israel war on Iran , first reported by The Washington Post. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Friday, said the US is "tracking everything" and factoring it into battle plans when asked about the reports Moscow was aiding Tehran. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, an assistant professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I've had a no-tech policy in my classroom for years now. But after I realized AI was creating a trust problem between my students and me. I decided to take it a step ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
TOKYO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from the royal line of succession for his "deplorable" actions. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Carney said the actions that have caused him to be stripped of his royal titles "necessitate" his removal from the line of succession . Despite being stripped of his status as prince in October over his close links ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia launched an attack overnight on Ukraine using 480 drones and 29 missiles, that targeted energy and railway infrastructure across the country. Russian missile strikes have killed seven people in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. The number of dead includes two children, the region's governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Mr Syniehubov said the ballistic missile damaged a ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration's embattled vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency — the second time in less than a year that he's departed after controversial decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs for rare diseases. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the news to FDA staff in an email late Friday, saying Prasad would depart at the end of April. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The former Secretary of D.H.S. faced criticism for misspending funds, prioritizing her own self-promotion, and reflexively defending even the most brutal acts of the Trump Administration's deportation efforts. March 6, 2026 Late last March, after being held incommunicado for nearly two weeks in a mega-prison in El Salvador, a group of Venezuelans learned that Kristi Noem, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, ...
Source: newyorker.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Top official at customs agency says total sum held in relation to tariffs is estimated to be about $166bn The US customs agency is preparing a system that will be ready to process refunds on billions of dollars of illegally collected tariffs in 45 days without requiring importers to sue, a court has been told. Brandon Lord, a top official at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said in a filing to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Donald Trump attends a meeting at the UN in New York. REUTERS/Al Drago "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be." According to an interview with a woman conducted by the FBI as part of an i nvestigation into Jeffrey Epstein , those were some of the first words Donald Trump directed at her before he began a sexual assault that ended with Trump reportedly hitting her and pulling her hair. Overshadowed by ...
Source: rawstory.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 in February while the rate of unemployment climbed to 4.4%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Health care employment experienced one of the biggest declines of any major employment category, falling by 28,000. The BLS said physicians' offices lost 37,000 jobs due to strikes. For the 12-month period ending in February, health care added an average ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, announced on Friday that he is ending his campaign for re-election after acknowledging an extramarital affair that he had been denying for months. House Republican leadership called for Gonzales to pull out of the race after the House Ethics Committee said it was investigating the three-term member of Congress over the affair and he then admitted to it on a radio ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The Florida Bar said Friday it is not investigating former Justice Department attorney Lindsey Halligan , walking back an earlier statement saying a probe was underway . In early February, a Florida Bar official responded to a request for a probe into the Trump loyalist over her time in the administration by writing, "We already have an investigation pending." A day after NBC News and other outlets reported on the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at a school was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes that also hit an adjacent compound associated with the regime's Revolutionary Guard. The Feb. 28 strike, which had the highest reported civilian death toll since the ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Defense Contractors May Be Forced to Remove Claude From Pentagon Programs The Pentagon officially designated artificial intelligence developer Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" late Thursday, escalating a weeks-long confrontation between the Trump administration and one of Silicon Valley's most prominent AI companies over how frontier models can be used in military and intelligence operations. The U.S. Department of ...
Source: healthcareinfosecurity.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
clashed over how the military should use AI, another new reality of warfare emerged several thousand miles away: data centers are now targets. This week, Amazon said that three of its data centers in the Middle East — two in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain — had been damaged by drone strikes during the US-Iran war. The two UAE data centers were "directly struck," while the Bahrain site was ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Ukraine is preparing to despatch military drone specialists to Gulf states to help them fend off Iranian-designed drones. Ukraine is preparing to despatch military drone specialists to Gulf states to help them fend off Iranian-designed drones — something the Ukrainian army has been doing since the start of Russia's invasion. The military assault launched in February 2022 spawned a cat-and-mouse game of aerial ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
UK lenders have begun raising mortgage interest rates as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has raised fears that inflation will rise and curb further Bank of England rate cuts. Nationwide has increased rates some of its products by up to 0.25%, while HSBC UK and Coventry Building Society have also said they will increase rates. The increases come after changes to the financial market's view of what the Bank ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
3 min read THE RUNDOWN was always destined to straddle a tricky line between fact and fiction . But now, actress Daryl Hannah is claiming that the creative liberties taken with her character in the show has had a negative impact on her personal life and her reputation in the public eye. Hannah penned a March 6 essay for that criticized her depiction in the FX series. She explained that the "irritating, ...
Source: elle.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The incident further inflamed tensions between Hungary and Ukraine, which are embroiled in a bitter feud over Hungary's access to Russian oil through a pipeline that crosses Ukrainian territory. Hungarian authorities have detained seven Ukrainian citizens, including a former intelligence officer, and seized two armored cars carrying large amounts of cash across Hungary on suspicion of money laundering, officials ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI — The secretary of Miami-Dade County's Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as "Nazi heaven." In WhatsApp conversations leaked to ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Lawmakers are demanding an investigation after a man from Haiti who was seeking asylum in Massachusetts died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Emmanuel Damas, 56, of Dorchester, died March 2 at a hospital in Arizona. He was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025, following an arrest for assault and battery by Boston Police, according to ICE. "He's not a criminal. He ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of contract talks. For four years, Ben Affleck has been running a technology company that nobody in Hollywood knew about. InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup he ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes The cat's out of the bag. The next Xbox console is codenamed "Project Helix" and won't just play past and future Xbox-only games, but also run every title built for PC. Asha Sharma, Microsoft's recently installed CEO of gaming , shared on X the company's "commitment to the return of Xbox" and added that the next-gen console will "lead in performance." Great start to the morning with Team ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 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. Already a member? Cuba appears to be next on Donald Trump 's hit list. But not just yet. The president appeared to suggest U.S.-assisted regime change in the communist-run Caribbean ...
Source: huffpost.com