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Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Israeli airstrikes pounded the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the US apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic's fleet of warships. Iran launched new retaliatory attacks early Friday against neighboring countries that host US forces. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The latest strikes mark a full week of attacks affecting countries ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has announced that Kristi Noem will be replaced as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), marking the first major change to his cabinet since his re-election. Noem, who has overseen Trump's controversial immigration crackdown, will instead serve as a special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, a newly created security initiative. Her removal follows a tense, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds. It has been two weeks since the Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump's emergency tariffs , but an estimated 300,000 US businesses still have no idea if or when they will receive refunds. Economists have estimated that more than $175 billion was unlawfully collected, and the US could end up owing substantially more than that the longer the refund ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Gonzales admitted Wednesday to having an affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, who worked in his Uvalde office Representative Tony Gonzales has dropped his bid for re-election after admitting to having an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide. The Texas Republican wrote in a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The Justice Department on Thursday released previously unseen documents from the Epstein files that included new summaries and notes from interviews the FBI conducted with a woman from South Carolina who made allegations against the late sex offender and President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News analysis. In a series of 2019 interviews with the FBI, the woman said she was a sexual assault victim of Jeffrey ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
If Democrats expect to flip a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, they'll need all the stars to align. This almost never happens, because politics has a way of scrambling the constellations. But on Tuesday, the first star blinked on. I'm referring to state Rep. James Talarico's victory over Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary. Most political prognosticators agree that Talarico, an eloquent young Democrat who ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
And Anthropic says it will fight back in court. The US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is unlawful and retaliatory. For months, the conversations between Anthropic and the US Department of War were framed, at least publicly, as a negotiation. The San Francisco AI ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The drones Iran is launching at US forces are the same ones Ukraine has fought for years. Ukrainian soldiers say their battlefield experience offers lessons that matter in this fight. Alex Eine, the commander of a small Ukrainian drone unit , said it was "surprising" to see reports out of the Middle East of multimillion-dollar interceptors being used to combat cheap Iranian one-way attack drones. "When long-range ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The latest API update introduces a massive 1 million token context window, allowing the model to process significantly more data while using fewer tokens than previous versions. OpenAI released GPT-5.4 on Thursday, introducing a standard version alongside GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro variants. The company described the model as its most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work. The API version ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The U.S. and Israeli war on Iran has drawn opposition from China and stoked tensions between Beijing and Washington. The military action will set the "mood music" for a high-stakes meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in China, experts say. Before the Trump-Xi summit, top U.S. and Chinese trade officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, are expected ...
Source: cnbc.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
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Addiction affects millions of people worldwide, yet treatments often target only one substance at a time. A medication that could reduce cravings for several addictive substances would mark a major shift in addiction treatment. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that GLP-1 receptor agonists, a group of medicines used to treat type 2 diabetes and ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
By In a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday, executives from seven major tech companies signed a pledge with President Trump to supply their own power for artificial intelligence data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI agreed to the " ratepayer protection pledge " Trump first announced during last week's State of the Union address . The president said the plan will ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Elon Musk takes the stand in a San Francisco courtroom. Elon Musk has acknowledged that the tweet at the center of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter "may not have been my wisest" as the world's richest man defends himself from allegations of market manipulation in court. He told a San Francisco jury on Wednesday that his post was not intended to manipulate Twitter's stock ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Epic and Google have called a truce in their years-long legal battle, with Sweeney promising to stop criticizing Google's app store policies. Reading time 3 minutes Google has finally managed to quiet one of its loudest haters, at least for now. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Google appear to have squashed their years-long legal beef over the company's mobile app store policies, including rules around third-party ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
March 5 (UPI) -- Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday that the department will be pushing for increased nutrition education in medicine. Kennedy made the announcement after having communicated with dozens of medical schools in the last couple of months to increase what doctors learn about human nutrition. Fifty-three medical schools have agreed to start requiring that ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
March 5 (UPI) -- Drones struck a passenger terminal at Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan International Airport on Thursday, while Iran denies involvement in the attacks. Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its president are blaming Tehran for the attacks, which injured at least two people at the airport terminal. A second drone fell near a school in the village of Shakarabad in the district of Nakchivan. Azerbaijani ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Apple Inc. this week unveiled a new series of products, including the iPhone 17e, M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, and MacBook Neo, alongside updated MacBook Pro models and new Studio Displays. The announcements outline a strategic expansion of Apple's product lines, focusing on AI integration across its M-series chips and introducing more budget-friendly options to compete in various market segments. On Monday, Apple ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
If a person dies, according to the new rule, all bets related to them will be paid out at the odds that existed just before they died or their death was "reasonably anticipated by market participants." The rule goes into effect March 17, according to the notice. by the way it divided the $55 million wagered on Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ouster after his targeted killing by Israel and the US. Previously, ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Airline confirms Feb. 27 contract update as Starlink expansion boosts in-flight connectivity If you blast a video without headphones on a United flight, you could lose your seat. United Airlines confirmed to FOX Business that it updated its Contract of Carriage to add headphone language under Rule 21, or the airline's "Refusal of Transport" section, giving the carrier authority to deny boarding or remove passengers ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
'High-quality growth' target of 4.5-5% outlined at Two Sessions as Chinese premier talks of complex situations at home and abroad China has set its target for GDP growth to a record low of 4.5-5%, the first time since 1991 that the figure has dropped below 5%, reflecting an economic strategy that is shifting away from export-led growth to a model that leaders hope will be more resilient to external shocks. Li ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
By Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times Trader Joe's, Ralphs and others have recalled some frozen food products amid concerns they may be contaminated with glass. The recalls come weeks after Monrovia, California-based Trader Joe's recalled batches of its private-label chicken fried rice with best-by dates between Sept. 8 and Nov. 17 due to glass. Trader Joe's on Tuesday expanded the recalls to include vegetable fried rice ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
A federal judge blocked Florida's Republican Gov. from enforcing his executive "decree" against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), concluding that the order to designate the group a "terrorist organization" violated the First Amendment and "bears all the hallmarks of unconstitutional coercion." In a 30-page order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a preliminary injunction, writing ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Announced at its own launch event in London, Nothing's new Phone 4a and Phone 4a Pro are once again turning heads with their eye-catching designs that rage against the clean, minimalist aesthetic found on iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones. The Phone 4a, which Nothing has teased for weeks , is the less expensive of the two phones, starting at £349 (about $465) and €349 (about $404). ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Networking giant Cisco has released 25 joint security advisories covering security patches for 48 vulnerabilities in across its Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software products. The security advisories were published on March 4 and are included in a bundled publication . The most critical flaws, CVE-2026-20079 and ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Lou Holtz, the College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Notre Dame to its last national title in 1988, died Wednesday. He was 89. Holtz spent parts of five decades as a college football head coach, leading four programs to Top 25 finishes and six schools to bowl games, an NCAA record. While he didn't last a full season in his lone stint in the NFL with the New York Jets in 1976 and he was dogged by controversy ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Gemini allegedly called man its "husband," said they could be together in death. A man killed himself after the Google Gemini chatbot pushed him to kill innocent strangers and then started a countdown for the man to take his own life, a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Google by the man's father alleged. "In the days leading up to his death, Jonathan Gavalas was trapped in a collapsing reality built by Google's ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Transcript Audio A new report says Catholic clergy in Rhode Island abused hundreds of children for decades as church leaders minimized the scandal. According to the report, more than 300 children were molested and assaulted by at least 75 different clergy members over 70 years. William Brangham discussed the investigation with Ann Hagan Webb, a survivor of clergy sexual abuse and an advocate for other survivors. ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
By releasing Diggs, New England is saving nearly $17 million in cap space this offseason. The New England Patriots are reportedly looking for a new top wide receiver. According to The Athletic's Dianna Russini , the Patriots are releasing veteran wideout Stefon Diggs , parting ways with the four-time Pro Bowler after just one season. Diggs made the most of his one year in Foxborough — serving as Drake ...
Source: boston.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Harry Styles is breaking his silence on Liam Payne's death . During his March 4 interview on Apple Music's The Zane Lowe Show , the singer opened up about his late One Direction bandmate for the first time since his death, speaking about how "difficult" his loss was and the hardest part about grieving publicly. Payne died in October 2024 , after falling off a hotel balcony in Argentina. Over a year later, Styles ...
Source: bustle.com