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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 8th 2026
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
— what he calls the "G2," or Group of Two. But China is less enamored with the idea, at least publicly. forums — was introduced in 2005 by American economist C. Fred Bergsten to underscore the importance of communication between the world's two biggest economies. Though it was initially embraced by some policymakers, the idea fell out of favor in Washington amid rising tensions with Beijing, including ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Huge fireballs and clouds of thick smoke erupted over Tehran on Sunday after US-Israeli air strikes hit fuel depots in the city, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed to fight on for months to come. Israel's deadly campaign also reached into the heart of downtown Beirut with a strike aimed at killing "key commanders" in Iran's covert Quds Force in the Lebanese capital on Saturday. Lebanon's health ministry said the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
The United States and Israel are continuing large-scale strikes on Iran, including an attack on an oil depot on Saturday, as the conflict has widened to include the Gulf region as well as Lebanon and Iraq. Iran has said the US will pay for waging war and continued its retaliatory strikes on Israel and US military assets in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, despite Iranian President Masoud ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Warning from Goldman Sachs comes as crude shipping through strait of Hormuz falls further than bank thought Global oil prices could breach the $100 (£74) a barrel mark within days, and reach $150 a barrel by the end of the month, without a solution to the severe disruption in crude flows through the strait of Hormuz, Goldman Sachs has warned. Oil exports via the vital trade route linking the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Kyle Schwarber hit a two-run homer and Gunnar Henderson had four hits and two RBIs as the United States rolled to a 9-1 victory over Britain on Saturday night at the World Baseball Classic at Daikin Park in Houston. Team USA improved to 2-0 in Pool B at Houston, while Britain dropped to 0-2. Nate Eaton homered on Tarik Skubal's first pitch to give Britain a quick lead it held until the fifth inning. But his ...
Source: nypost.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A counterprotester demonstrating against a "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City" event Saturday lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest, police said. Police are investigating the incident that started late Saturday morning when someone from the anti-Islam protest associated ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
– As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded but no visible action to support its Middle Eastern ally. That cautious stance is driven by President Vladimir Putin's focus on Ukraine and his apparent hope that the will play into Moscow's hands by boosting its oil revenues and eroding Western support for Kyiv. Putin sent his condolences to Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
The war with Iran is quickly becoming an economic problem for the United States — and a policy dilemma for the Federal Reserve. Rising oil prices, shipping disruptions in the Middle East and fresh signs of weakness in the U.S. labor market are creating a complicated backdrop just as inflation had begun to show some signs of improvement. For policymakers, the risk is a familiar but unwelcome scenario: higher ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
The U.S. military and its allies across the Middle East are struggling to combat Iran's swarms of cheap attack drones as the war enters its second week . Pentagon officials this past week reportedly conceded in closed-door briefings with lawmakers that waves of Iranian-launched drones are punching through air defenses, leaving American troops and bases in the Persian Gulf region vulnerable to attacks. ...
Source: wfla.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two children were among at least 10 people killed on Saturday in a Russian missile that hit a five-story residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, officials said. Sixteen others were wounded. 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: pbs.org
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 -
Explosion happened in pre-dawn hours at Dalí nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru's northern coast A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dalí nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru's northern coast, according to a statement from the local emergency operations center. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old schoolgirls in Soham, died on Saturday following an attack in prison. The 52-year-old suffered significant head trauma after being attacked with a makeshift weapon by another inmate at HMP Frankland on 26 February and had been on life support in hospital. He had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering best ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Six people are dead following unconfirmed tornadoes in Michigan and Oklahoma on Friday, authorities said. Powerful storms have ripped across Michigan, tearing the roof off a home improvement store, sending parts of a storage building flying and knocking down trees as tornado warnings were issued across the southern part of the state. The Branch County Sheriff's Office said there were 12 reported injuries and three ...
Source: nbcnews.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. At the start of this semester, I bought my students $1 notebooks from Amazon. Instead of submitting typed papers online, they are Around six years ago, I told my students ...
Source: insider.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
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
New Footage Yet Again Contradicts DHS Claims About Its Killing of a US Citizen Body camera video obtained by CBS News in the Ruben Ray Martinez case is another example of the administration misrepresenting lethal action from immigration agents. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Body camera footage newly obtained by CBS News shows the moments leading up to and after an ...
Source: motherjones.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at a school was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes that also hit an adjacent compound associated with the regime's Revolutionary Guard. The Feb. 28 strike, which had the highest reported civilian death toll since the ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection told a judge Friday that it can't comply with his order to begin refunding tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled illegal. On Wednesday, the Court of International Trade ordered the department to begin reimbursing the importers who paid the tariffs created by President Donal Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Axios reported . The Supreme ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Anthropic and the Pentagon clashed over how the military should use AI, another new reality of warfare emerged several thousand miles away: data centers are now targets. This week, Amazon said that three of its data centers in the Middle East — two in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain — had been damaged by drone strikes during the US-Iran war. Amazon Web Services , its cloud division, ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
JAMES HILL and PETER CHARALAMBOUS 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Justice on Thursday released three previously withheld FBI interview reports from 2019 related to a woman who made uncorroborated allegations that she was abused by Donald Trump in the 1980s, when she was a minor. In a statement on social media, the Department of Justice said the ...
Source: yahoo.com