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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 8th 2026
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Senate blocks war powers measure and House follows suit – now president can bomb Iran free from congressional interference Before US troops invaded Iraq, George W Bush asked Congress to pass a resolution authorizing military force against Washington's longtime nemesis, a request that lawmakers obliged. Twenty four years later, the United States is at war with a different Middle Eastern rival – Iran ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
The war with Iran has driven up oil prices, taking oil stocks up with them. Brent, the global crude oil benchmark, has rallied about 40% this year, rising from $60 to around $85 per barrel. That has fueled a more than 25% surge in the average oil company stock price this year. Here's a look at whether the rally in oil stocks can last. Oil prices have surged this year due to the growing tensions with Iran, which has ...
Source: fool.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Iran's president rejected a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender on Saturday and apologized for Iran's attacks on regional countries, as Israel and the United States kept up their airstrikes targeting the Islamic Republic. Gulf countries say they have intercepted more ballistic missiles and drones launched from Iran. Saudi Arabia said it stopped four drones attacking the country's massive ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
It's been a month since billionaire Rick Jackson unexpectedly entered the Republican primary for governor in Georgia . He's quickly shaken things up. Jackson, a health care executive, is pumping millions of dollars of his own money into an already crowded race and aggressively courting supporters of Donald Trump — even though the president has backed a different candidate. Prior to Jackson's late entrance, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
There were times when Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum wasn't sure if he'd make it back to the game that was abruptly taken away from him last season. It made every moment he experienced in his return as special as any he's had so far in his basketball career. His homecoming at TD Garden on Friday night, a 120-100 victory over the Dallas Mavericks marked his season debut almost 10 months after surgery to repair a ...
Source: wbur.org
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gautami Nadkarni, 33, who lives in New Jersey. The following has been edited for length and clarity. org in 2018. My job was to design scalable cloud solutions that would help Google's enterprise customers manage their data and operations. At the time, cloud computing was the thing everyone in the industry was talking about. inner voice" told me to move towards ...
Source: insider.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Every spring, millions of people lose an hour of sleep for a reason that has nothing to do with late nights or early alarms. The clocks simply move forward. Daylight saving time returns this weekend across much of North America, bringing the familiar seasonal shift. Many people barely notice it because their phones and computers adjust automatically. Others still remember to change wall clocks, ovens, and car ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Washington has downplayed reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran about United States targets across the Middle East amid the burgeoning US-Israel war on Iran , first reported by The Washington Post. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Friday, said the US is "tracking everything" and factoring it into battle plans when asked about the reports Moscow was aiding Tehran. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, an assistant professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I've had a no-tech policy in my classroom for years now. But after I realized AI was creating a trust problem between my students and me. I decided to take it a step ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon also supported blocking Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from being in line for the throne. The Canadian prime minister has joined a growing list of Commonwealth leaders backing the removal of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession. Mark Carney, who previously served as the governor of the Bank of England, condemned the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least eight people, including two children, were killed and 10 others were wounded on Saturday by a Russian missile that hit a five-story residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack and called for an international response. He said that Russia struck Ukraine overnight with 29 missiles and 480 drones, ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration's embattled vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency — the second time in less than a year that he's departed after controversial decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs for rare diseases. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the news to FDA staff in an email late Friday, saying Prasad would depart at the end of April. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The former Secretary of D.H.S. faced criticism for misspending funds, prioritizing her own self-promotion, and reflexively defending even the most brutal acts of the Trump Administration's deportation efforts. March 6, 2026 Late last March, after being held incommunicado for nearly two weeks in a mega-prison in El Salvador, a group of Venezuelans learned that Kristi Noem, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, ...
Source: newyorker.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton it cannot currently comply with an order to refund reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. CBP in a court filing disclosed it had collected about $166 billion in IEEPA tariffs since last year, involving more than 330,000 importers who made more than 53 million entries. The Supreme Court ruled recently that Trump's ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Withheld Epstein files with accusations against Trump released by justice department FBI documents summarising interviews with a woman who made unsubstantiated claims of sexual assault against Donald Trump have been released as part of the US Department of Justice's (DOJ) trove of Epstein files. The release follows reports that the documents were missing from the DOJ's database, prompting Democrats to accuse ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The U.S. shed 92,000 jobs in February, a sharp and unexpected setback for the labor market after economists had forecast an increase in hiring last month. The nation's unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4% last month from 4.3% in January. By the numbers Economists polled by FactSet had predicted a payroll gain of 60,000 last month. February marks the third time in the last five months that the job market has shown ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas said late Thursday he was withdrawing from his reelection race, after having admitted an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide, but he vowed to finish out his term in Congress. He had faced calls from GOP leadership to end his reelection bid, and from others in Congress to resign. "After deep reflection and with the support of my loving ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
A state bar association spokesperson said there is no ethics investigation into Lindsey Halligan under way Former interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan – who was appointed by Donald Trump and led failed prosecutions against two of the president's political opponents – was faced with an ethics investigation by the bar association in her home state of Florida , according to a February letter from the bar ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
American forces were responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to a preliminary assessment by U.S. military investigators. Two U.S. officials told Reuters that investigators believe the deadly strike on the Shajareye Tayabeh girls' school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, was launched by American forces after Donald Trump ordered the launch of "major ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Anthropic PBC has shared an update about its artificial intelligence safety feud with the Pentagon. In a Thursday blog post , Chief Executive Dario Amodei stated that the company has been "having productive conversations" with defense officials. He also addressed several other aspects of the disagreement. Last June, Anthropic PBC won a contract to provide the Pentagon with access to its AI models. The company ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
We're currently living in the age of AI, with the world's biggest nations pouring billions of dollars into the industry, all to come out on top with the most powerful artificial intelligence in this tug-of-war. Much of this development is in the form of AI data centers — large training grounds constantly consuming electricity to keep their AI systems running 24/7. Whether the development of AI ...
Source: bgr.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — An American anti-drone system proven to work against Russian drones in Ukraine will soon be sent to the Middle East to bolster U.S. defenses against Iranian drones, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday. While the U.S. has used Patriot and THAAD missile systems to take down Iranian missiles successfully, there are limited effective anti-drone defenses now in ...
Source: pbs.org
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 -
Actor Daryl Hannah is going public about what she said was a "dramatized portrayal" of her in Ryan Murphy's latest limited FX series, "Love Story." Hannah penned an essay, published Friday in The New York Times , titled "Daryl Hannah: How Can 'Love Story' Get Away With This?" that tackles her frustrations with the way she has been portrayed in the show, which follows the lives and tragic deaths of John F. Kennedy ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- Ukraine 's foreign minister accused Hungary of kidnapping seven Ukrainian state bank employees and stealing the cash and gold they were transporting, and Hungary announced it would expel the bank staff. Ukraine's Oschadbank said on Thursday that two vehicles with seven employees and about $75 million were stopped in Budapest Thursday, and Kyiv has lost contact with the personnel. The vehicles were ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI — The secretary of Miami-Dade County's Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as "Nazi heaven." In WhatsApp conversations leaked to ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Emmanuel Damas died after health care workers in an ICE center run by a for-profit prison company did not adequately treat a toothache, according to his family. A man who was arrested by ICE in Boston and transported to a detention center in Arizona died in custody after not receiving adequate treatment for a toothache, according to multiple reports and a letter sent by lawmakers to officials within the Trump ...
Source: boston.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of contract talks. For four years, Ben Affleck has been running a technology company that nobody in Hollywood knew about. InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup he ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Microsoft has officially confirmed that the next-gen Xbox is called Project Helix and it plays PC games. Microsoft's next console might not be a traditional console at all. With newly appointed CEO Asha Sharma confirming many leaks about the device, here is everything that's been rumored about the future Xbox console. . However, to kick off her tenure, the executive surprised many players by announcing the next-gen ...
Source: vice.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