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Top News Stories for Friday, March 6th 2026
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Democratic-backed measure that would have forced US to withdraw troops failed by a vote of 212-219 The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a Democratic-backed measure to halt hostilities with Iran, as Republicans cleared the way for Donald Trump to continue the conflict that has drawn in countries across the Middle East, but criticized as having unclear goals. By a vote of 212-219, the House voted to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Many will regard the ex-secretary of homeland security, Trump's first fired cabinet member, as the worst yet seen Kristi Noem once led a dog to a gravel pit and ended its life with the cold precision of a mafia hit. On Thursday, the homeland security secretary confronted the grim truth that she, too, was expendable. Noem became the first cabinet member fired in Donald Trump's second term, a striking contrast to the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting Bluesky Texas has now been home to the most expensive general election Senate campaigns in history. Spending in 2018's contest between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz was just over $100 million ; Cruz's battle with Colin Allred in 2024 topped $160 million . And ...
Source: thenation.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
House Republican leadership is calling on Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, to drop his re-election bid after he admitted to having an affair with a staffer — which would be a violation of House rules. Gonzales faces an ethics investigation into the affair with a former aide, who subsequently died by suicide, and is running in a runoff race against pro-gun activist Brandon Herrera after neither won majority of the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
The Department of Justice, which has been criticized for withholding files about Jeffrey Epstein from the public, plans to release a new batch of documents related to the notorious sex offender "fairly soon," MS Now reported. The development comes a day after the House Oversight Committee approved a motion to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to be questioned about the DOJ's handling of its investigations of ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
A group of 24 states in the United States have sued US President Donald Trump's administration in the first legal challenge to his newly imposed 10 percent global tariffs, alleging that the president cannot sidestep a recent US Supreme Court ruling that invalidated most of his previous tariffs on imported goods by citing new legal authority. The Democratic-led states, including New York, California and Oregon, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
After being charged billions of dollars under President Donald Trump's unlawful tariff scheme, American business owners are now facing the prospect of a lengthy, costly process to obtain refunds—payments that some expect will never arrive. "I'm not holding my breath," Brandon Eley, founder and president of 2BigFeet , a Georgia-based designer and retailer of large-sized footwear, told Reason in an interview ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Seven of the nation's largest tech companies signed President Donald Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge on Wednesday, agreeing to cover the cost of all power needed to fuel their data centers. The CEOs of Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI gathered at the White House to sign the , which Trump first announced last ...
Source: meritalk.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Addiction affects millions of people worldwide, yet treatments often target only one substance at a time. A medication that could reduce cravings for several addictive substances would mark a major shift in addiction treatment. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that GLP-1 receptor agonists, a group of medicines used to treat type 2 diabetes and ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
The suit, filed by the Public Integrity Project, a law firm that seeks to raise the "reputational cost of corruption in America," argues the deal violates a law intended to prevent the spread of Chinese government propaganda and has enriched Trump's allies. That law, signed by then-President Joe Biden in 2024, said that TikTok couldn't be distributed in the United States unless the Chinese company ByteDance found ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
After a brief dip into the fives, mortgage rates ticked back up this week and will likely continue to rise if the conflict with Iran escalates into a prolonged war, economists cautioned this week. "The launch of the conflict in Iran over the weekend and its subsequent escalation has stoked fears of wartime inflation that are driving the 10-year Treasury yield higher, and we expect mortgage rates to follow suit," ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
The Iran war continues to push up prices at the pump, with U.S. consumers now paying about 26 cents more per gallon to fuel their cars than a week ago, according to new data from GasBuddy. As of Thursday morning, the average gasoline price was $3.246 per gallon, the highest level since April 2025. The uptick represents an "unusually strong weekly climb," according to Patrick De Haan, a petroleum expert at ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
March 5 (UPI) -- Three British men arrested on Wednesday for allegedly spying for China have been released on bail, and the wife of one is being investigated by her political party. The three are David Taylor , 39; Matthew Aplin, 43; and Steve Jones , 68. Taylor, who is married to Member of Parliament Joani Reid, is a former adviser to Labour Party Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain, and is a lobbyist for ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By BARBARA ORTUTAY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk continued to defend his actions in the months leading up to his 2022 purchase of Twitter in court Thursday as he faces a class action lawsuit claiming he misled investors and caused them to lose millions of dollars. The civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
The agreement resolves a long-running antitrust dispute between the companies over Google's Play Store policies. Google will reduce its Play Store commissions on in-app purchases to 20% and allow alternative app stores following a settlement with Epic Games. This settlement concludes a multi-year legal dispute concerning alleged anticompetitive practices and reintroduces Epic Games' Fortnite to the Google Play ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
The $599 iPhone 17E kicked off Apple's latest round of product announcements, and the $599 MacBook Neo concluded the flurry. In between, we saw updates to both the MacBook Air and Pro lines, a couple of overdue Studio Display monitor refreshes and a new iPad Air . Whew! It's a lot to keep track of, so I've collected all the news in one place. In reverse chronological order, here are all the new products that Apple ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
US companies added the most jobs since November last month, adding to evidence of some stabilization in the labor market. Private-sector payrolls increased 63,000 in February after a downward revision to the prior month, according to ADP Research data out Wednesday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 50,000 advance. The report points to a labor market that's slowly finding its ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Technology A Technology for a Low-Trust Society Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different. Illustration by Lucy Naland. Source: Alamy. March 5, 2026, 3:06 PM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 11:39 A few hours before Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address, Republican sources told the PBS correspondent Lisa Desjardins that the speech would break ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Home » » Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new initiative on Mar. 5, 2026, to encourage medical schools to expand their nutrition education programs in the upcoming fall as part of an agreement with the Trump administration. Secretary Kennedy and Education Secretary Linda McMahon reached the agreement as part of the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" initiative . Prior ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
By and A majority of the Miami-Dade Republican Party's executive board has voted to request the resignation of the party's secretary over a racist group chat, according to the party's chairman, but they may need the state party's buy-in to actually oust him. The ambiguity about Secretary Abel Carvajal's future in the party comes amid outcry over a group chat he created after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
By Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times Trader Joe's, Ralphs and others have recalled some frozen food products amid concerns they may be contaminated with glass. The recalls come weeks after Monrovia, California-based Trader Joe's recalled batches of its private-label chicken fried rice with best-by dates between Sept. 8 and Nov. 17 due to glass. Trader Joe's on Tuesday expanded the recalls to include vegetable fried rice ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday set its lowest economic growth target since 1991 at the opening of its annual national congress, in what some economists interpreted as a reflection of pragmatism as a weak domestic economy bites. Beijing also released the full draft of its five-year plan up to 2030 outlining its economic and political policy priorities, with a focus on boosting self-reliance in areas like ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Quality camera, good software and long battery life, but you should just buy the Pixel 9a instead he latest smartphone in the lower-cost A-series Pixel line shows what makes Google phones so good, while undercutting the competition on price. The problem is that it differs little from its predecessor, which is still on sale. Priced from £499 (€549/$499/A$849), the Pixel 10a is more like a second edition ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Flaws in the web management interface give unauthenticated attackers remote root access. Cisco has handed security teams one of the largest ever patching workloads affecting its firewall products, including fixes for two 'perfect 10' vulnerabilities in the company's Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. Overall, the March 4 release , the first of its semiannual firewall updates for 2026, addresses 25 ...
Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Nothing has taken the wraps off a trio of products including the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, the more affordable Phone (4a) and the over-ear Headphone (a). All three products come with Nothing's usual touches of stark, minimalist design with transparent materials, affordable prices and more punctuation than you'll find in the British Library. Better yet, they all come in pink. The Phone (4a) Pro will start at ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Iran used low-cost Shahed-136 drones to overwhelm Gulf air defenses after U.S.-backed airstrikes. The drones are cheap and easy to produce, while interceptors can cost millions. Russia's wartime use in Ukraine helped prove the drones' battlefield effectiveness. A Shahed-136 drone is displayed at a rally in western Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2026. In the aftermath of the Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran, ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Airline confirms Feb. 27 contract update as Starlink expansion boosts in-flight connectivity If you blast a video without headphones on a United flight, you could lose your seat. United Airlines confirmed to FOX Business that it updated its Contract of Carriage to add headphone language under Rule 21, or the airline's "Refusal of Transport" section, giving the carrier authority to deny boarding or remove passengers ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2026 -
Rising sea levels caused by climate change may be significantly higher than previously thought, according to a new study, which says a "methodological blind spot" led researchers to underestimate existing coastal water levels. The revelation suggests that higher seas threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government officials believed, with elevated risks for already vulnerable communities. The ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
By Things weren't going well for Jonathan Gavalas last fall. His wife wanted a divorce. He was facing a domestic violence charge. The mortgage wasn't being paid. But then he fell in love. With a chatbot. The 36-year-old couldn't get over how real the Gemini A.I. chatbot seemed. He was her "king." She was his "queen." He paid $250 a month for a premium version of the A.I. program, so he could speak to her, and hear ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Transcript Audio A new report says Catholic clergy in Rhode Island abused hundreds of children for decades as church leaders minimized the scandal. According to the report, more than 300 children were molested and assaulted by at least 75 different clergy members over 70 years. William Brangham discussed the investigation with Ann Hagan Webb, a survivor of clergy sexual abuse and an advocate for other survivors. ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Lou Holtz never met an opponent that couldn't beat him. Somehow, he squeaked out nearly 250 wins and a national title while cementing himself both as one of the most lovable and unlikable characters in college football — a one-of-a-kind iconoclast in a profession brimming with originals. The pint-sized motivator who restored greatness at Notre Dame and demanded it everywhere else he went died in Orlando, ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
The Patriots plan to release wide receiver Stefon Diggs, a league source confirmed Wednesday. The news comes in the lead-up to the start of free agency, in which the Patriots could pursue an upgrade at the position. Potential targets include Mike Evans, Alec Pierce, and Wan'Dale Robinson. A trade for a top wideout, such as A.J. Brown , also remains a possibility. The Patriots signed Diggs to a three-year, $69 ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a at a command center in Kuwait were released Wednesday by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa. The soldiers identified Wednesday were Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, and Maj. Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa. The six members of the Army Reserve, who worked in logistics and kept ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Mar 4th, 2026 -
Pop star Harry Styles says he is still grappling with the death of his former One Direction bandmate and friend Liam Payne . "I think there was a period when he passed away where I really struggled," Styles said in an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe posted Wednesday. "I have such strong feelings around my friend passing away." Payne was 31 when he fell from a third-floor balcony on Oct. 16, 2024 . His sudden ...
Source: nbcnews.com