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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 4th 2026
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Tuesday's primaries across three states saw incumbents wobble, general election matchups form and runoffs extend intraparty fights. They also highlighted broader lessons about the state of national politics, from President Donald Trump's enduring power over the GOP to the disagreements over ideology, generation and strategy that continue to divide Democrats. In Texas, where the Republican Senate primary is heading ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons DOJ reverses decision to voluntarily withdraw appeal in case against law firms The US Department of Justice (DOJ) revived proceedings against four law firms on Tuesday, continuing its appeal of lower court decisions that invalidated President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms. After filing a motion to drop the consolidated case against law firms Jenner & Block , ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
( NewsNation ) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared victory over inflation, but fresh conflict in the Middle East could put that to the test. The average price for a gallon of gasoline jumped 12 cents Monday — the largest single-day rise since March 2022, according to GasBuddy . A gallon of regular averaged $3.15 as of early Tuesday evening , up from $2.97 last week. The spike ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
The laptop starts at $1,099, marking a $100 increase over the M4 MacBook Air's $999 entry price. Apple announced a refreshed MacBook Air with an M5 chip, contradicting reports that suggested no such reveal was planned. The new model starts at $1,099, a $100 increase from the M4 version's $999 starting price. Apple claims the M5 chip delivers four times faster AI performance than the M4 model and up to 9.5 times ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
The platform plans to detect violations through Community Notes reports and metadata associated with generative AI tools. X will suspend creators from its revenue sharing program if they post AI-generated videos depicting armed conflicts without disclosing AI involvement. Head of product Nikita Bier announced the policy change on March 3, stating first-time violators will lose revenue sharing for 90 days. Repeat ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
(R-N.C.) threatened Tuesday to use aggressive procedural measures to bring Senate work to a standstill if Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fails to respond to his offices' inquiries about an immigration crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina. An irate Tillis, who is retiring this year from the Senate, ripped into Noem during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, saying that he would ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The House Oversight Committee on Monday released full videos of the depositions it took of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. In a combined roughly nine hours of questioning last week -- about 4 1/2 for each -- Republicans and Democrats grilled the Clintons about their relationships with the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The Supreme Court revived a San Diego judge's order Monday and said parents have a right to know about their child's gender identity at school. The decision came in a 6-3 order granting an emergency appeal from lawyers for Chicago-based Thomas More Society. They said the student privacy policy enforced in California infringes on parents' rights and the free exercise of religion. "The parents object that these ...
Source: latimes.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
With thousands of people in the Middle East remaining stranded as the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran continues, we bring you the latest travel advice and expert analysis on how a mass evacuation could play out in practice. More than 1,000 British nationals have arrived back in the UK on commercial flights from the Middle East, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes as an estimated 300,000 Britons are ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Insurance companies are cancelling war risk coverage for vessels in the Middle East Gulf as the widening United States/Israel-Iran conflict disrupts shipping, leaving tankers damaged or stranded and at least two people dead. The conflict entered its fourth day on Tuesday with US and Israeli attacks continuing on Iran, which has retaliated by attacking US assets and other infrastructure in Gulf ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The U.S. Supreme Court has halted an attempt to redraw New York's 11th Congressional District, likely ensuring that the city's lone Republican representative, Nicole Malliotakis , will keep her seat through this year's midterm elections. On Monday, the Court sided with Malliotakis when it issued an emergency stay of a lower court's ruling, which dictated that the boundaries of the congresswoman's district are ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
US president says 'relationship is not what it was' after PM defends decision not to allow use of British bases Donald Trump has criticised Keir Starmer again over the UK's refusal to aid the offensive strikes on Iran, saying the "relationship is obviously not what it was". Starmer had issued his strongest rebuke yet of Trump's action in Iran , saying the UK did not believe in "regime change from the skies" and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
An attorney for Live Nation, Ticketmaster's parent company, pushed back against the government's claim that it is an "unlawful monopoly," stating in court on Monday that it is a "fierce, lawful competitor" in a "competitive market." Live Nation and Ticketmaster "bring enormous joy to people's lives" and "produce great concerts and live events," attorney David Marriott, who represents the company, said in his ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Amazon data centers located in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were damaged this weekend by drone strikes, disrupting the company's cloud services, Amazon reported on its Amazon Web Services status page . Two UAE facilities were directly struck, and a drone strike close to an Amazon facility in Bahrain caused some infrastructure damage. "These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
After spending the better half of last year touring the country to "fight oligarchy," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has introduced legislation to confiscate billionaires' property. On Monday, Sanders introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act . The bill, which was also introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) in the House, would impose a 5 percent annual wealth tax on 938 American ...
Source: reason.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Prosecutors argued Colin Gray gave 14-year-old son, who is accused of killing four in 2024 shooting, access to firearm The father of a teenage boy accused of killing two students and two teachers in a mass shooting at a Georgia high school in 2024 was found guilty on Tuesday of second-degree murder and other charges. After roughly two weeks of testimony , jurors deliberated for just a few hours before convicting ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The jury has found Colin Gray , the man whose teenage son is accused of killing two students and two teachers in a shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School , guilty of second-degree murder and all other charges. On Tuesday, after just a few hours of deliberating and two weeks of witness testimony, the jury announced that they had come to a verdict. Gray was charged with 29 counts, including second-degree ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
The U.S. State Department is urging Americans to leave 14 countries across the Middle East as the Iran war widened Tuesday with Iranian proxies being drawn in and Iran continuing its retaliatory fire. Americans were urged late Monday to "depart now" from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
Three people are now confirmed to have died in the attack, while the gunman - identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne - was also fatally shot by officers at the scene. Tributes have been paid to people killed in a mass shooting at a Texas bar - as it was confirmed a third victim has died. Austin Police announced on Monday evening that Jorge Pederson, 30, had died from his injuries. The other two victims of the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 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, join Huff Already a member? Critics were scratching their heads over Melania Trump 's appearance at the United Nations on Monday, and in particular over her preaching of peace. The first ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
While some factors are out of your control, global health experts say these simple suggestions could help keep you cancer-free. There's some new, promising good news in the fight against cancer. Nearly four in 10 global cancer cases could be prevented—a hopeful takeaway from a sweeping analysis led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its research partner, the International Agency for Research on ...
Source: thehealthy.com
Tuesday, Mar 3rd, 2026 -
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled a reworked agreement with the Pentagon on Monday night governing the Defense Department's use of its AI services, which he says provides stronger guarantees that the military won't use OpenAI's systems for domestic surveillance. The new agreement states that "the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals," according to a post on ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 2nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars' worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit started the next phase in the refund process by sending it to a lower court to sort out. In a court filing Friday, President Donald Trump 's Justice ...
Source: nbcnews.com