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Top News Stories for Tuesday, March 17th 2026
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fears of a global energy crisis rose Monday as the war in the Middle East raged on, with more U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital and Israel's bombardment of Lebanon. An Iranian drone strike temporarily shut Dubai's airport, a crucial global travel hub, underscoring the threats to the world economy. Since the United States and Israel attacked Iran more than two weeks ago , Tehran has ...
Source: military.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
UConn edged UCLA as the No. 1 overall seed in women's NCAA Tournament when the bracket was announced Sunday night. Having the top spot in March Madness didn't really matter to Huskies coach Geno Auriemma as he looks to lead the team to another undefeated season with the school's 13th national championship. "We have been in that situation before, not that much different than being a No. 2 ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
One Battle After Another was the big winner at this year's Oscars, but just like Gwyneth Paltrow's dress, blink, and you could miss some of the best bits of the ceremony if you were not paying attention. One Battle After Another led the night, taking six Oscars, including best picture, best director and best supporting actor. Sinners followed in second place, with four wins, then Frankenstein with three, but of ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, President Donald Trump announced on social media on Monday. In a post on his Truth ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record The five-year agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies and will involve one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia's new Vera Rubin chips. Nebius shares surged 14% in pre-market trading. Meta has signed a new long-term AI infrastructure agreement with Dutch neocloud operator Nebius ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent overhaul of the nation's childhood vaccine schedule — a major blow to his vaccine agenda. The ruling stems from a lawsuit the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and other medical groups brought against the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that Kennedy's changes to vaccine recommendations and to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
The 98th Academy Awards honored films from 2025, with One Battle After Another winning six Oscars including Best picture and Best director for Paul Thomas Anderson. The 98th Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars 2026, recognized achievements in cinema from 2025. "One Battle After Another" received six awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson, and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn, ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
US president had earlier hinted trip could be put on hold if President Xi does not help unblock the strait of Hormuz Trump has asked to delay his planned visit to Beijing by about a month due to the Iran war, after earlier hinting he might put the trip off if his prospective hosts do not help to unblock the strait of Hormuz. The US president's summit with China's leader, Xi Jinping, was meant to take place at the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that the U.S. is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz. "We've let that happen to supply the rest of the world," Bessent said. Tanker traffic through the strait has plunged as the Islamic Republic attacks commercial ships in the Persian Gulf. Oil prices have surged in response since the start of the war. In this article The United States is allowing ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Spring may be almost here, but it might not feel like it for millions facing alerts for wintry weather, including heavy snow, possible tornadoes and high winds. More than half a million customers were without power early Monday as a wide-ranging pattern of severe weather spread across large parts of the country, according to poweroutage.us . Almost 30 million people are under winter alerts, including blizzard ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. El Sindicato de Maestros de Chicago (CTU) tiene la intención de llevar a cabo lo que equivale a una huelga de un día el 1 de mayo y está solicitando el apoyo oficial del alcalde y de la junta escolar para que los estudiantes puedan faltar a la escuela y participar. El miércoles, la Casa de Delegados, compuesta por 730 ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article A 2024 Panorama episode gave the impression that Trump had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol The BBC has warned of a "chilling effect" on "robust reporting on public figures and events" from US President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit. The corporation filed a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia — Another member of the Iran women's soccer team who accepted a refugee visa to stay in Australia has decided to return to her homeland, a sport official said Monday. That leaves two of an initial seven squad members who'd accepted asylum as sticking with their original decisions. The Iranian women's soccer team had yet to reveal plans to leave Malaysia when most of the seven ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Teens sue Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is facing a lawsuit from teenagers who say the company facilitated child pornography by allowing the creation of sexually explicit images of them. The lawsuit against xAI was filed Monday in a federal California court by three young women whose images and videos were altered by a Grok user without their ...
Source: bbc.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
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Apple has announced an update to its over-ear headphones with the AirPods Max 2, that will be available to order late March 2026. This product reveal comes on the heels of several recent Apple announcements, ranging from the Apple's AirPods Max 2 looks the same as the USB-C version released in September 2024, as it also comes in midnight, starlight, orange, purple, and blue colors. On the inside, ...
Source: bgr.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Nvidia is now expecting to generate $1 trillion in revenue through 2027 from its Blackwell and Vera Rubin platforms, CEO Jensen Huang said at the annual GPU Technology Conference in California. The revenue expectation is up 200% from the $500 billion in revenue through 2026 that the company previously projected in last year's GTC. "A trillion dollars is an enormous amount of infrastructure; ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Latest observations of L98-59d, about 35 light years from Earth, suggest it could be different to anything seen before Astronomers have identified a planet composed of molten lava, suggesting the existence of an entirely new category of liquid planet. The distant world, known as L98-59d, is about 1.6 times the size of Earth and orbits a small red star 35 light years away. Astronomers initially thought the planet ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? An asylum-seeking father of six who fought alongside the U.S. military in Afghanistan died this weekend less than 24 hours after he was detained by federal immigration agents ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Companies House , the UK's business registrar, has successfully rebooted its online WebFiling service after it emerged that a previously-unknown cyber security issue exposed various data on companies and people associated with them to other logged-in users. The flaw – which appears to have arisen during a WebFiling update last year – was never accessible to the general public and only logged-in users in ...
Source: computerweekly.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Support for Israel has dropped across the board among US voters over the last three years, with particularly steep declines among Democrats and independents, according to a poll commissioned by NBC News. Overall, the poll conducted by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies found that 32% of registered US voters view Israel positively, while 39% see the country in a negative light. This is a drastic ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Sunday night was yet another one of those nights President Donald Trump spent very online, sending out long missives on TruthSocial critiquing the media coverage of the war in Iran and boosting conservative pundit Mark Levin amid an internet fight between him and Megyn Kelly. The perpetually legally challenged Trump also went after one of his favorite political targets, dedicating two lengthy posts to criticisms of ...
Source: nymag.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
NEW YORK — The New York Jets have agreed to a trade that will send quarterback Justin Fields to the Kansas City Chiefs, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Monday. The Jets will receive a sixth-round draft pick in 2027 for Fields and pick up $7 million of his guaranteed $10 million salary for this upcoming season, the person told the AP on condition of anonymity because the teams ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
A tie at the 2026 Oscars on Sunday marked a rare moment for the movie awards ceremony — the seventh time in the academy's history that two awards were given for one category. As Kumail Nanjiani took the stage to announce the winner for Best Live-Action Short at the 98th annual Academy Awards, the actor and comedian exclaimed: "And the Oscar goes to ... it's a tie. I'm not joking. It's actually a tie." The ...
Source: cbsnews.com