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Top News Stories for Monday, March 16th 2026
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
Gulf countries reported new attacks Sunday morning, a day after Iran called for the evacuation of three major ports in the United Arab Emirates, threatening for the first time a neighboring country's non-U.S. assets . Tehran accused the United States of using "ports, docks and hideouts" in the UAE to launch strikes on Kharg Island , home to the main terminal handling Iran's oil exports, without providing evidence, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Click here to browse full transcripts from 2026 of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." And this week on Face the Nation: The consequences of the war in Iran are increasingly reverberating across the globe. The world's oil supply is under intensifying pressure, as Iran threatens to blow up tankers in the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr threatened broadcasters with cancellation of their licenses if they did not "correct course" on news coverage. "Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up," Carr said in a social media post Saturday. "The law is clear. ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
March Madness is upon us. It's Selection Sunday, the day the brackets for the men's and women's NCAA Division I college basketball tournaments are released. The 32-2 Duke Blue Devils, fresh off a 74-70 win in the ACC Tournament championship game on Saturday over Virginia, were named the top overall seed in the men's tournament. On the women's side, the UConn Huskies will enter the NCAA tournament undefeated for the ...
Source: npr.org
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A fifth member of the Iranian women's soccer team who accepted a refugee visa to stay in Australia has left the country, the Australian government said on Monday. The player's departure shortly before midnight on Sunday leaves two of an initial seven squad members in Australia, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke's office said. The Iranian authorities have welcomed the women's change ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
A woman raising two children was among the six U.S. service members killed last week when a refueling plane involved in the war with Iran in western Iraq. Tech Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, hailed from a large family in Bardstown, Kentucky, and was "very, very" proud of her military career, her husband Gregory Pruitt said Sunday. "I'll give you something brief -– in a word, radiant," he said on a phone ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
Powerful storm chain to affect 200 million in US as it carries blizzard conditions, damaging winds and thunderstorms Winter's grip has yet to release as an erratic patchwork of severe weather moved across much of the US, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the upper midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains. As portions of the mid-south readied for thunderstorms, forecasters said the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
T he 98th Academy Awards took over the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night, as Hollywood's biggest names gathered to celebrate the top films and performances of the past year. Hosted for the second year in a row by Brookline native and comedian Conan O'Brien , the ceremony opened with O'Brien dashing through scenes from nominated films dressed as Aunt Gladys, and forced to go onstage as Amy Madigan's ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Mar 14th, 2026 -
3 min read Federal prosecutors charged a lobbyist with trying to extort a former client and his son to recover half a million dollars in debt, according to court filings . Joshua Nass, a lobbyist who worked to obtain a client's pardon from President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday outside his hotel in New York on charges of attempted extortion. Nass, of South Carolina, appeared before a judge in federal court in ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Saturday, Mar 14th, 2026 -
The administration of President Donald Trump has moved to end its prosecution of a United States Army veteran who burned a national flag to protest one of the president's executive orders. Court filings this week show that the Department of Justice has moved to drop the charges against defendant Jan "Jay" Carey, following his motion to dismiss last October. Carey had been charged with two misdemeanours: one for ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Mar 14th, 2026 -
March 14 (UPI) -- An explosion early Saturday at a Jewish school in Amsterdam was a "targeted attack" fueled by anti-Semitism, the city's mayor said. It was the second attack on Jewish institutions in the Netherlands in as many days. A statement from Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said a suspect detonated an explosive device along the outer wall of a school in the neighborhood of Buitenveldert. She said there was ...
Source: upi.com