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As war in Iran persists, rising gas, home heating oil costs hit New England
- The US-Israeli conflict with Iran is taking an increasing toll on New England consumers, as a snarled global oil supply chain has consumers paying dramatically more for gasoline and home-heating fuel than they were before the war broke out. Average Massachusetts gasoline prices have risen nearly 40 cents over the past week, to about $3.31 a gallon, according to AAA , after long hovering below the $3 mark. Heating ...

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Trump ally Lindsey Graham issues threat to Saudi Arabia over Iran war
- In a post on X, Graham said the American embassy in Riyadh was being evacuated due to sustained Iranian attacks on Saudi soil, and expressed frustration that Riyadh had declined to participate militarily despite what he described as a shared interest in defeating Iran. "Americans are dying and the US is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime," he wrote. "Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be ...

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BREAKING: Anthropic's Legal Action Against Trump Admin
- Home » » Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has sued the Trump administration following the Pentagon's announcement last week that it will designate the company and its products as a "supply chain risk" and a threat to national security, additionally banning the use of its products for defense purposes. The two suits, filed respectively in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of ...

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Live Nation reaches surprise settlement with justice department in antitrust case
- Live Nation will pay $280m to states in lawsuit, and Ticketmaster will open parts of platform to rival companies Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster , has reached a surprise settlement with the Department of Justice in its antitrust case just one week after the trial began. Under the agreement, Live Nation will create a $280m settlement fund for states that participated in the lawsuit and Ticketmaster will be ...

Source: theguardian.com
POLITICS  
Photos show TSA lines clogging airports and snaking into parking garages during partial government shutdown delays
- Passengers traveling through Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, and other US airports experienced hourslong delays on Sunday and Monday as spring break travel peaked and the Transportation Security Administration experienced staffing shortages due to the ongoing partial government shutdown . Nearly 2.8 million passengers passed through TSA checkpoints on Sunday, making it the agency's busiest day since January 4. The ...

Source: insider.com
Australia grants asylum to five Iranian women footballers
- Australia has agreed to provide visas to five members of Iran's women's football team , allowing them to stay in the country, as they could face punishment upon their return home for not singing the Iranian national anthem before their first match at an Asian Cup tournament. Australian Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke told a news conference on Monday that he had informed the five members "that they are welcome ...

Source: aljazeera.com
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Homemade bomb hurled during protest outside New York mayor Mamdani's house, police say | US News
- A jar filled with nuts, ‌bolts and screws that was wrapped in black tape with a fuse, then ignited by a counter-protester "could have caused serious injury or death". An improvised explosive device thrown during protests outside New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home could have been deadly, police said.  A jar filled with nuts, ‌bolts and screws, that was wrapped in black tape with a fuse, landed in ...

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Alexander brothers found guilty on all charges in sex trafficking trial
- Jurors in New York City have found the Alexander brothers guilty on all counts in their federal trial on  sex trafficking charges .  The verdict Monday capped  four weeks of testimony  from women who accused the three wealthy brothers — Tal, 39, and 38-year-old twins Oren and Alon — of sexually assaulting them. The brothers were accused of teaming up to drug and rape dozens of women ...

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The Trump administration widens its probe of the 2020 election as it obtains records from Arizona
- PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican leader of Arizona's state Senate said Monday he has handed over records related to the 2020 presidential election to the FBI in the latest sign that the Trump administration is acting on the president's Senate President Warren Petersen said in a social media post that he complied "late last week" with a federal grand jury subpoena for records related to a controversial audit of ...

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WORLD  
Seventh U.S. service member killed in Iran war
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The service member died Saturday night after being seriously injured during an attack on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia A seventh American service member has been killed in the United States war with Iran. The service member died Saturday night after being seriously injured during an ...

Source: independent.co.uk
MEDICINE  
Daily Multivitamin Could Shave Four Months Off Your Biological Age
- New data suggests multivitamins work best for people who are already aging too fast. We all know our chronological age. But inside our nuclei, a different kind of clock is ticking. This is our biological age, a measure of how much our cells have actually weathered over time. It's one of the reasons why some people look much younger than their age . But sometimes, your cells are older than your birth certificate ...

Source: zmescience.com
POLITICS  
U.S. Military Strikes Another Alleged Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific
- Home » » The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced it struck an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific on Sunday, killing 6 men, as part of the Trump administration's "Operation Southern Spear" against "narco-terrorists." In an X post, SOUTHCOM wrote  that "intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged ...

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POLITICS  
Trump's new cyber strategy details more offensive response to cyber threats
- "Unlike other Administrations, the Trump Administration will not tinker at the edges and apply partial measures and ambiguous strategies that neglect the growing number and severity of cyber threats," the strategy said. The White House released its long-delayed national cybersecurity strategy on Friday afternoon, with the seven-page document outlining the administration's priorities for enhancing the nation's cyber ...

Source: washingtontechnology.com
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NBA cancels Hawks' controversial strip club promo night over 'significant concerns'
- The NBA has stepped in to stop a controversial promotional night the Atlanta Hawks had planned to hold, celebrating the city's well-known strip club, Magic City, calling it off after the league said it "heard significant concerns." The Hawks were to hold "Magic City Night" on Monday, March 16, when the Orlando Magic are in Atlanta, to celebrate what the team had described as an "iconic cultural institution," a move ...

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OSU president resigns after a two year tenure
- The president of Ohio State University has resigned after he disclosed to trustees that he had an "inappropriate relationship," the school said in a statement Monday. The president, Walter Carter Jr., who has led the school for two years, said in a statement that the relationship was with "someone seeking public resources" and that he had "made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership to ...

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Investors Bet on AI's Operational Last Mile | PYMNTS.com
- The new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) startups is beginning to look very different from the one that defined the past two years. Instead of racing to build larger, large-scale models, a growing group of companies is focusing on the systems required to make AI usable inside real organizations. This week's funding announcements show how quickly the market is shifting toward infrastructure that helps ...

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POLITICS  
Voice actor from Halo video game tells Trump team to cut him from Iran strike video
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article 'I demand that the producers of this disgusting and juvenile war porn remove my voice immediately,' Steve Downes, voice of Master Chief, says A voice actor, from the popular video game series Halo, has condemned the Trump administration's use of his speech in a clip shared by the ...

Source: independent.co.uk
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Trump vows legislative blockade until SAVE America voter-ID bill is passed
- President Donald Trump vowed to withhold his signature from any bills that reach his desk until Congress passes a controversial voter-ID measure known as the Save America Act. Prominent conservatives are pushing the bill, which would make it significantly more difficult for Americans to vote by requiring proof of citizenship and a photo ID. Democrats plan to kill the bill if it is considered on the Senate floor, ...

Source: cnbc.com