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Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned abruptly on Tuesday in protest of President Donald Trump 's war in Iran, now in its third week, lobbing unproven ...
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Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's plan to tear down vaccines has been stopped dead in its tracks by a federal judge in Massachusetts—for now, at least. This week, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued a ruling in favor of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups currently suing RFK Jr. and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Murphy temporarily ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he would delay his trip to China for "five or six weeks," officially pushing the major summit after administration officials opened the door to the trip's postponement as they focus on the war with Iran. "We're resetting the meeting, and it looks like it'll take place in about five weeks," Trump said, later saying five or six weeks. "We're working with China. They ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
U.S. diesel prices jumped above $5 a gallon on Tuesday, marking the highest level since December 2022, as the strain on global energy markets from the war with Iran continues to ripple through the American economy. Diesel prices reached $5.04 a gallon, up from $4.78 a week ago and from $3.65 over a month ago, according to data from AAA . Diesel prices are rising as the war in the Middle East constrains the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Same-day delivery not fast enough for you? Amazon is revving up its delivery service by offering one- and three-hour options in cities across the U.S., the e-commerce giant said Tuesday. The move better positions Amazon to compete with big-box stores, local drugstores and other retailers that have responded to the growth in online shopping by leaning into faster delivery in recent years, GlobalData retail analyst ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
SailPoint has announced the launch of SailPoint Shadow AI Remediation, the latest component of its real-time AI governance and security framework. This solution enables organizations to discover, monitor, and secure the use of unauthorized AI tools, known as "shadow AI," helping to mitigate the security and compliance risks associated with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. As employees turn to AI ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Prediction market Kalshi said Tuesday (March 17) that a lawsuit filed by the Arizona attorney general is meritless and that the company looks forward to fighting them in court. The company's comments came after Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced in a Tuesday press release that she filed criminal charges against the companies behind the prediction market platform, KalshiEx LLC and Kalshi Trading LLC. In ...
Source: pymnts.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
A new class-action lawsuit, filed on Monday by three teenage girls and their guardians, alleges that Elon Musk's xAI created and distributed child sexual abuse material featuring their faces and likenesses with its Grok AI tech. "Their lives have been shattered by the devastating loss of privacy, dignity, and personal safety that the production and dissemination of this CSAM have caused," the filing says. ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's top security official and the head of the Revolutionary Guard's Basij militia were both killed in overnight strikes in a blow to the country's leadership, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday, while Tehran defiantly fired new salvos of missiles and drones at its Gulf Arab neighbors and Israel. Both security official Ali Larijani and Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani were ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
KEY POINTS In this article @CL.1 @LCO.1 Fire and plumes of smoke rise from an oil facility in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, March 14, 2026. Altaf Qadri | AP A fresh wave of attacks on the United Arab Emirates' energy infrastructure has ramped up concerns over prolonged supply disruptions amid the Iran war. It comes after the world's largest ultra-sour gas development was struck by a drone, a fire broke ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world's fastest-growing open-source agent platform. OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in roughly an hour. Within weeks it had become one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in GitHub history, an AI agent that anyone could run locally, capable of ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Woman who self-published book about coping with grief after husband's death convicted in his killing
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Kouri Richins, a Utah real estate agent who self-published a children's book about coping with grief after her husband's death, was found guilty of aggravated murder in his killing for slipping five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail he consumed. It took jurors just under three hours Monday to convict Richins of murder and other felony charges in the March 2022 death of ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
By For Federal Reserve policymakers, the Iran War creates a familiar but uncomfortable dilemma: inflation risks driven by energy shocks at the same time economic growth may be weakening. If oil prices remain elevated and supply disruptions persist, Fed officials could find themselves with few viable options : holding interest rates higher to contain prices even as the job market softens. The updated forecasts or ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Lawmakers on both sides of aisle have criticized justice department's improper redaction of information Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has been formally subpoenaed to appear before a House panel to answer questions about the justice department's handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and its release of the Epstein files. The move came amid growing criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
FDA investigating E. c oli outbreak linked to raw cheese Raw cheese products are the "likely source" of an ongoing outbreak of Escherichia coli that has sickened at least seven people, including young children, according to the FDA. The agency said raw cheddar cheese from the California-based Raw Farm has been linked to Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7, or STEC, a strain of the bacteria that can cause severe ...
Source: healio.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
It marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month and has seen repeated cross-border clashes, as well as airstrikes inside Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan accused Pakistan of killing at least 400 people in an airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital late Monday. It marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month and has seen ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Maiduguri, Nigeria — At least 23 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in suspected suicide bombings Monday night that targeted Maiduguri city in northeastern Nigeria, police said Tuesday. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the conflict-battered city in recent history. Residents and emergency services earlier told The Associated Press that three explosions were reported in crowded places in ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Home » » The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration's efforts to end legal protections under a program that has allowed people fleeing war and other humanitarian crises around the world to live and work in the U.S., including Haiti and Syria. The justices issued a brief order on Mar. 16 stating that they would take several cases challenging the administration's push to ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? President Donald Trump about the U.S. Supreme Court over in a post published on his Truth Social platform late Sunday night. Legal and political science experts say the ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes This summer, the world's most powerful particle collider will go into hibernation. But before that, it's delivering some last-minute discoveries: the common proton's weightier sibling. In a statement today, CERN's Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) Collaboration—the Swiss institution's specialty unit in matter-antimatter research —announced the discovery of an entirely new ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
HAVANA (AP) — Officials in Cuba reported an islandwide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to crumble. The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X noted a "complete disconnection" of the country's electrical system and said it was investigating, noting there were no failures in the units that were operating when the grid ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Travelers wait at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. A senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday that if a government funding standoff continues, it may force the shutdown of some smaller airports in the coming weeks owing to a shortage of security personnel. The partial ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Processing Content Bank of America has reached a settlement to resolve a proposed class-action lawsuit filed last year by a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who accused the bank of enabling his sex-trafficking operation. BofA is the third major bank, after JPMorganChase and Deutsche Bank, to reach settlements with victims of Epstein who claimed the big banks failed to report suspicious activity in their accounts. But the ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
On March 13, multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in unmarked vehicles surrounded Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal in front of his home in Texas as he prepared to drive his children to school. The 41-year-old father of six children, who had served alongside the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan, died in ICE custody the next day, leaving his family in shock, and U.S. veterans ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Roberts did not name Donald Trump, but US president has decried 'corrupt judges' who ruled against him The chief justice of the United States, John Roberts , said on Tuesday that hostility directed in personal terms at judges is "dangerous, and it's got to stop". The comment came just days after Donald Trump 's latest social media broadside against judges who have ruled against him and his administration. Roberts ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Microsoft is reconfiguring the various teams working on its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) offering. In a message on the company blog Tuesday (March 17), CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft would merge the commercial and consumer parts of its Copilot system into one effort. "This will span four connected pillars: Copilot experience, Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 apps, and AI models," he wrote. "This is how we ...
Source: pymnts.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Fifa is unwilling to switch Iran's World Cup matches to Mexico despite the country's football federation claiming it is in discussions with the world governing body about moving their games outside the United States. Iran are due to play two fixtures in Los Angeles and one in Seattle but their participation in the tournament has been placed in doubt by America's joint airstrikes on the country with Israel. Donald ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
The Denver Broncos have reportedly traded for Miami Dolphins receiver Jaylen Waddle, a move that would add offensive firepower to a team that fell one win short of the Super Bowl last season. ESPN reports that the Broncos will send first-, third- and fourth-round picks in this year's draft to the Dolphins in return for Waddle. The Broncos will also receive Miami's fourth-round pick as part of the deal. If the deal ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
On March 13, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order entitled " Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction ." The Order directs multiple federal agencies to examine and revise existing federal regulations and guidelines to reduce regulatory burdens on housing development and specifies rules and programs that should be "revised," "reformed," or "eliminated," consistent with applicable ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
ALVARADO, Texas — A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses was freed Monday after a year in custody. Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March. Her detention ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
If you want to spend $1,300 on a phone, it might as well be this one. Samsung is nothing if not consistent. Just as it has for many years, the company is starting the year with a new generation of Galaxy S phones. Rumors about remixing the lineup did not pan out, so there are still three versions of the phone—the . It's the Ultra, with its whopping $1,300 price tag, that makes up the largest chunk of Samsung ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Washington state has beaten California and New York in their race to soak the rich. On Thursday, the state Legislature passed a " millionaires tax " along party lines . Starting in 2028, household income over $1 million will be subject to a 9.9 percent income tax.* The money raised from this duty will allow the state to eliminate sales taxes on diapers, over-the-counter drugs, and select hygiene products; ...
Source: reason.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Proposed settlements would terminate leases for wind farms in New York and North Carolina The White House is reportedly preparing to pay nearly $1 billion to an energy giant to abandon major offshore wind projects, moving from legal challenges to direct financial settlements. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Wiles, 68, praised by president as 'one of the strongest people I know', to continue working while having treatment Susie Wiles , the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer but plans to continue working while undergoing treatment. The 68-year-old revealed on Monday that the illness had been detected in the past week. Both she and Donald Trump struck an ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Meta has inked a deal to spend up to $27 billion on AI infrastructure provided by Dutch company Nebius. The deal includes $12 billion of dedicated capacity and up to $15 billion of additional available compute capacity over a five-year period. Meta said it's planning capital expenditure of up to $135 billion related to AI this year. In this article In an aerial view, a billboard advertising an artificial ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article A 2024 Panorama episode gave the impression that Trump had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol The BBC has warned of a "chilling effect" on "robust reporting on public figures and events" from US President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit. The corporation filed a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol head who became the face of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, will retire at the end of the month, two Customs and Border Protection officials told NBC News. Bovino was removed from his role as CBP commander at large in January and returned to his role as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro, California. The move came after the deaths of two U.S. citizens, ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
March 16 (UPI) -- The Kansas City Chiefs agreed to trade a sixth-round pick in the 2027 NFL Draft to the New York Jets in exchange for quarterback Justin Fields, a league source told UPI on Monday. The trade is pending a physical. Fields started nine games last season for the Jets. The Jets signed the No. 11 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft to a two-year contract last off-season. He will now back up Chiefs star ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
AP Photo/Alex Brandon Support for Israel among Democrats has plummeted by more than 50% since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel's subsequent war against Gaza, according to NBC News. A new NBC News poll found that positive views towards Israel among Democrats dropped from 34% in 2023 to just 13% in 2026. More than four times as many Democrats (57%) reported feeling negative towards Israel, while 30% said ...
Source: mediaite.com
Monday, Mar 16th, 2026 -
TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) - Florida gas prices continue to climb at the fastest pace in four years, AAA says. Over the past 12 days, the state average rose 84 cents, adding about $12 to the cost of filling an average-sized gas tank. Sunday's average reached 3.72 dollars per gallon, the highest daily average price since August 2023, AAA said in a news release. Compared to recent benchmarks, Sunday's state average is: 27 ...
Source: mysuncoast.com