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Top News Stories for Tuesday, March 17th 2026
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Israel has claimed to have killed Ali Larijani , secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and the commander of the internal Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, with no confirmation or denial by Iran so far. Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz made the claim of Larijani's death on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Iranian state media published a handwritten note by Larijani, though it was not clear whether ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Demonstrations at NVIDIA GTC will showcase end-to-end automation from bare metal to production-ready AI cloud services. has expanded its integration with NVIDIA technologies, enabling organizations to deploy secure, production-ready AI Factories at scale. By combining OpenNebula's cloud management and virtualization platform with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and bare-metal lifecycle management ...
Source: aithority.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Crowds gathered on Tuesday outside a drug treatment centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in a bid for news of their loved ones after it was hit in a Pakistani air strike. AFP reporters counted at least 30 bodies being removed from the rubble of the facility and saw medics treating dozens of wounded in the chaotic and smouldering aftermath of the attack on Monday night. The Taliban authorities said the death toll ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
From a surprising heatwave in California to blizzards burying parts of the Midwest and storms rolling over the East Coast, chaotic weather put more than half the nation's population in the path of extreme conditions Monday. Airport delays and cancellations piled up in some of the nation's largest airports, with almost 13,000 flights canceled or delayed across the U.S., and many schools closed early in the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
(Feature Impact) Con tanta información disponible, puede resultar difícil entender qué es el colesterol y por qué es importante. Conocer su riesgo personal de desarrollar enfermedad cardíaca y controlar su colesterol desde una etapa temprana mediante hábitos saludables, exámenes regulares y atención informada es clave para la salud del corazón y del ...
Source: tbnweekly.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
A union representing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers has warned that there's going to be a "breaking point," as an increasing number of U.S. airports are becoming strained as the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues. The New York Times : "Our officers are coming to work, but there's going to be a breaking point sooner or later." lines for TSA security checks ...
Source: bradenton.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Attacks in Maiduguri are among the deadliest in the conflict-battered city in recent history 2-MIN READ Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said Tuesday, . The three blasts, which struck on Monday evening, came after an attack on a military post overnight Sunday to Monday, ...
Source: scmp.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Proofpoint has announced Proofpoint AI Security, the newest security solution that combines intent-based detection, multi-surface control points, and a comprehensive implementation framework to secure how humans and AI agents use AI across the enterprise. Based on the Agent ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Companies House, the UK's official company registry, said its WebFiling service is back online after being shut down on Friday to fix a security issue that may have exposed the personal data of millions of firms. An investigation indicates the flaw was likely introduced during an ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Amazon is speeding up delivery times again. The company announced Tuesday that it is now offering one-hour and three-hour delivery options on more than 90,000 products to cities and towns across the U.S. The faster service comes with a cost: $9.99 for one-hour delivery and $4.99 for three-hour delivery for Prime members; $19.99 and $14.99 for those without Prime. It's the latest in a sometimes-dizzying assortment ...
Source: geekwire.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Hello and welcome back to The Sports Desk! After a few weeks off, we're resuming the newsletter full time, coming to your inbox Monday through Friday, bringing you original reporting, fresh analysis and all the latest happenings in the world of sports. We have an exciting stretch coming up with MLB Opening Day, the NFL draft and the NBA playoffs, just to name a few. But first, March Madness! The men's and women's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Unprecedented changes to routine US immunization recommendations 'arbitrary and capricious', court says The appointment of a controversial slate of vaccine advisers by Robert F Kennedy Jr likely violated federal law, and all votes taken by the committee over the past year have been stayed, a federal judge ruled on Monday. The advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) is not able to meet later this week, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
This Oscar cycle's heavyweight battle is finally over. The politically charged action comedy "One Battle After Another" just managed to outmuscle Ryan Coogler's musically driven vampire thriller "Sinners." It was a 3 hour and 40 minute whirl through cinema and celebration, with Michael B. Jordan winning best actor for "Sinners" and Jessie Buckley winning for "Hamnet," making her the first Irish performer to ever ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer but plans to continue working through her treatment, retaining her place as one of President Donald Trump's closest aides during a period of political turbulence. Wiles, 68, announced on Monday that she had been diagnosed over the previous week. She gave no indication she would pull back from her work as ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Dutch cloud computing infrastructure company Nebius Group NV has secured a colossal $27 billion deal with Meta Platforms Inc. , boosting its stock by more than 14% today. Under the terms of the deal, Nebius will provide Meta with $12 billion of dedicated artificial intelligence compute capacity across multiple data center locations, including what will be one of the world's first large-scale deployments of Nvidia ...
Source: siliconangle.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 -
Washington — President Trump said Monday that he's requested to delay his trip to China because of the war with Iran, now in its third week. He said during an Oval Office event that he "was speaking to China" and indicated he'd "love to" go, "but because of the war, I want to be here. I have to be here, I feel." "We've requested that we delay it a month or so. And I'm looking forward to being with him," ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
WTI, the primary U.S. oil benchmark, spiked on Sunday night when the futures market opened, hitting a high of $102.57 per barrel. However, it erased those gains on Monday, closing below $95 per barrel on reports that several countries had agreed to provide naval escorts for oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. Even with that dip, WTI is up nearly 70% this year due to the escalating conflict with Iran. The U.S. is ...
Source: fool.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Three Tennessee teenagers launched a lawsuit today against Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok for allegedly generating sexually explicit deepfake images of them without their consent. Earlier this year, X Corp. met with widespread criticism after reports emerged saying there had been a proliferation of deepfake sexualized images being promulgated on various platforms, images generated by people using the Grok chatbot. ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
The BBC has urged a court to dismiss Donald Trump's multi-billion dollar lawsuit against it, arguing that a Panorama episode - which edited together different sections of a speech he gave - never aired in the US. "It wasn't available to watch in the US on iPlayer, online or any other streaming platforms," a BBC spokesperson said on Monday. "We have therefore challenged jurisdiction of the Florida court." President ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Outspoken Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino is retiring from federal service at the end of this month, after being pulled away from a high-profile role leading immigration raids in major U.S. cities, two sources directly familiar with his decision told CBS News on Monday. Over the past years, Bovino, a longtime Border Patrol official, has been serving as the chief patrol agent of the El Centro sector along the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
E. coli illnesses in Florida, Texas and California of the deadly E. coli form have been linked by investigators to cheese from the Fresno, California, company Raw Farm, the FDA announced Monday morning. But, Raw Farm CEO Mark McAfee says the FDA is "Jumping to misleading and early conclusions without evidence." There have been five people sickened in California, one in Florida and one in Texas from Sept. 1 through ...
Source: bradenton.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 2 minutes As if launching the $600 MacBook Neo to near-universal praise , refreshing the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lineups with M5 and M5 Pro/M5 Max chips , releasing two Studio Displays ( including the XDR model with HDR and 120Hz ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Utah author Kouri Richins convicted of aggravated murder by fentanyl poisoning Listen to this article Estimated 7 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Utah woman who wrote a children's book about coping with grief after her husband's death was convicted of ...
Source: cbc.ca
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gas prices in Florida and across the country continue to rise as the war in the Middle East enters its third week. On Sunday, March 15, average gas prices across the state reached $3.72, the highest since August 2023, AAA said, and a few cents higher than the current national average. The most recent report from AAA found that prices have surged 84 cents in just 12 days, compared to a ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
University of Oxford A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our Solar System – one that stores large amounts of sulphur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have been published today (16 March) in . The exoplanet (a planet that orbits a star outside the Solar System), known as L 98-59 d, orbits a small red star about 35 light-years from Earth. Recent ...
Source: eurekalert.org
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
An Afghan immigrant who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan died less than 24 hours after being detained in Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement , a U.S. advocacy group and a family friend said Sunday. Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, died of unknown causes on Saturday, a day after he was taken into custody outside his apartment complex in the Dallas suburb of Richardson. In a statement on Sunday, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
American voters' feelings on Israel and the Palestinian territories have shifted dramatically in recent years, in a sea change that is transforming the Democratic Party and shaping its primaries. A new NBC News poll underscores the depths of the shift. More registered voters view Israel negatively than positively, a change from a few years ago. The change has been especially pronounced among independents and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a visit at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque REFILE - CORRECTING LOCATION FROM "HEBRON, KENTUCKY" TO "CINCINNATI, OHIO". President Donald Trump unfurled a 492-word attack on the U.S. Supreme Court over its decision to strike down his tariffs. The 79-year-old president aired his grievances in a lengthy Truth Social ...
Source: rawstory.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Former Bears first-round pick Justin Fields is expected to get an intriguing opportunity with the Chiefs as he continues to trying to prove himself as a starting quarterback. The Jets were finalizing a trade Monday to send him to Kansas City for a 2027 sixth-round pick, ESPN reported, and he could get a chance to start as Patrick Mahomes works back from a torn ACL. As the team waits for Mahomes, who is in question ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Sunday, Mar 15th, 2026 -
In a rare move, two films tied for the best live-action short film Oscar — something that's happened only six times before. "The Singers," directed by Sam A. Davis and produced by Jack Piatt, and "Two People Exchanging Saliva," by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata, won the coveted Academy Award on Sunday evening. Kumail Nanjiani, who presented the award, made sure to make it clear that he wasn't joking ...
Source: nbcnews.com