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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 11th 2026
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
I wrote in July 2024 about my fear that, emboldened by unconditional U.S. support, Israel might launch a full-scale war against Hezbollah in Lebanon that could drag in the United States. Clearly, I failed to comprehend the scope of Netanyahu's and Trump's barbaric ambitions. I was right about one thing: Israel did invade Lebanon on October 1, 2024, only four days after assassinating Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
March 10 (UPI) -- The average price of a gallon of unleaded gas in the United States hit $3.54 on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues military action against Iran. AAA reports the current average price for fuel is higher across all grades than it was a year ago. Diesel fuel is up more than 10 cents over Monday's average, reaching $4.78 per gallon. Prices are highest on the West Coast, as they typically ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Microsoft has introduced a centralized dashboard to help IT teams monitor AI agents' visibility, permissions, and security risks. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI can seem exciting, especially when it comes to the productivity improvements AI agents provide in the corporate world. But what's rapidly dawning on company and IT leaders is that AI agents are ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The feud between the federal government and Anthropic escalated Monday when the artificial intelligence (AI) company sued the Trump administration over its decision to label the firm a "supply chain risk," arguing the designation – and the resulting ban on its technology – was unlawful. Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits – one in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ...
Source: meritalk.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The company agreed to pay at least $200 million in damages to participating states as part of the deal. Live Nation reached a settlement with the Department of Justice to avoid the breakup of its subsidiary, Ticketmaster. The agreement requires the live entertainment giant to pay at least $200 million in damages to participating states. Live Nation will also implement structural changes to its business practices ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Washington — Senate Majority Leader John Thune made clear Tuesday that an elections bill known as the faces an unlikely path to passage, reiterating his skepticism about the bill's chances as President Trump threatens a legislative blockade until Congress approves the measure. "There are no easy ways to do this," Thune told reporters Tuesday. "Believe me, we've examined all the options." The legislation, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Two more people connected to Iranian football team choose to stay in Australia Australia has confirmed two more members of the Iranian football group have accepted an offer to stay in the country and will be given humanitarian visas. The pair – one player and one member of support staff - have now been reunited with the other five players who were granted visas to stay on Tuesday. They were granted asylum ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Are you going on vacation for Spring Break? Be prepared to face long lines. Travelers are scrambling after airports experienced the effects of a partial government shutdown. These airports included Houston's William P. Hobby Airport and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. Travelers faced longer-than-expected wait times at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints. This left many stressed ...
Source: wideopenspaces.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
All things that go up must eventually come down. NASA expects the Van Allen Probe A satellite to come crashing back to Earth after a 14-year journey through space. The agency predicts that the probe will begin re-entry around 7:45 p.m. ET on Tuesday but says that time may be off by as much as 24 hours, meaning it could come down at any point in the next day or two. Launched in 2012, the Van Allen Probe A is ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh had a dispute over the high court's approach to its emergency docket in a rare, candid discussion during an event Monday night. Jackson, a Biden appointee, signaled that the high court's willingness to side with President Donald Trump most of the time when it comes to the emergency docket, sometimes known as ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday granted clemency to a man on death row who was scheduled to be executed Thursday even though he did not personally kill anyone. Ivey commuted Charles "Sonny" Burton's death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Burton, 75, was convicted of capital murder for the shooting death of Doug Battle during a 1991 robbery. Another man, ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced a new approved use for the drug leucovorin, a synthetic form of vitamin B9 that the Trump administration has touted as a treatment for autism symptoms . But the new approval is not for autism — it's for cerebral folate deficiency, a rare neurological condition characterized by low levels of vitamin B9 in the brain. Contrary to the messages President Donald ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Founder Summit 2026 in Boston: Register Now. REGISTER NOW Topics More from TechCrunch Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing a slew of new Gemini-powered AI capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The new features let users do things like quickly generate fully formatted first drafts, slides, and sheets based on information ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw. Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-esque simulated social network made up of AI agents that went viral a few weeks ago. The company will hire Moltbook creator Matt Schlicht and his business partner, Ben Parr, to work within Meta Superintelligence Labs. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. As for what interested Meta about the work done on ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Sales of existing single-family homes that closed in February ticked up seasonally adjusted from January by 2.5%, making up only a small portion of the 6.2% plunge in January from December, to an annual rate of 3.73 million sales, right along at the deepfreeze levels that began in 2022, according to data by the National Association of Realtors today. Compared to February in (historical data from YCharts): 2025: ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Home » » The Washington, D.C., Bar has begun formal disciplinary proceedings against the Department of Justice's (DOJ) pardon attorney Ed Martin for alleged threats against the First Amendment rights of Georgetown University's law school and for attempting to divert a probe into his conduct while serving as D.C.'s Attorney General last year. Washington, D.C., Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton P. Fox III ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Prosecutor says Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, 3 kids were home when woman charged with attempted murder fired
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna , her partner A$AP Rocky , their three children and her mother were all at home when a woman now charged with attempted murder and many other felony counts is alleged to have fired at the property, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 35, of Orlando, Florida, was charged with attempting to kill Rihanna, along with 10 counts of assault on a person with a semiautomatic ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article A federal judge has disqualified three Justice Department officials from overseeing federal prosecutions in New Jersey , characterising their appointments as an "illegal power grab" by the Trump administration. The scathing 130-page ruling marks the latest escalation in an ongoing ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Federal prosecutors have charged two men accused of throwing improvised explosive devices near Gracie Mansion in Manhattan, alleging they were inspired by ISIS and wanted to carry out an attack bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint, filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan, charges 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi with attempted provision of ...
Source: bnonews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
It's not every day that Apple launches an all-new laptop. Sure, we get improvements, sometimes big ones, on the laptops that it already has — and those are often very exciting. But even in the shift to Apple silicon, Apple has so far avoided actually launching new lines of MacBooks. Until now, that is. The is the long-awaited "cheap" MacBook — the one designed to eat Microsoft's lunch and serve as the ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Earlier this month, the White House unveiled "President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America," which outlined the administration's priorities in cybersecurity and was intended to ensure that the United States remains unrivaled in cyberspace. "This strategy communicates the Trump Administration's cyber vision and approach to the American people, to Congress, to our partners in industry and allies across the ...
Source: news.clearancejobs.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Tommy DeCarlo, who became the lead singer of classic rockers Boston for nearly 20 years based on a Myspace tribute to the band's original singer, has died. DeCarlo's children, Annie, Talia and Tommy Jr., said in posts on his Facebook and Instagram pages that their father, who had been struggling for months with brain cancer, died Monday. They said, "He fought with incredible strength and courage right up until the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Ukraine has dispatched drone interceptors and military personnel to Jordan as Middle Eastern countries fend off Iranian strikes on infrastructure and United States military assets during the US-Israel war on Tehran. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that a Ukrainian team departed on Friday for Jordan, which has US military assets at its Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. The move followed a request on Thursday from the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar, 14, and Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, who performed in Washington over the summer, were placed in immigration detention last month Teenage mariachi musicians who once performed on Capitol Hill have been released from Immigration and ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Someone fired shots at the U.S. consulate in Toronto early Tuesday morning, authorities said, though there were no reports of injuries or damage. "The shooting that took place at the U.S. consulate early this morning is an absolutely unacceptable act of violence and intimidation aimed at our American friends and neighbours," Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a social media post . "I'm glad to see that the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Marc Abraham: "During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country." Every year, we have a blast covering a fresh crop of winners of the Ig Nobel prizes. After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, this year and will continue to be held in a European city for the foreseeable future. The reason: concerns about the safety of international ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
3 min read Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz , the world's most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue. The mining is not extensive yet, with a few dozen having been laid in recent days, the sources said. But Iran still retains upward of 80% to 90% of its small boats and mine layers, ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
AI tools can boost productivity, but companies need to be wary of overdoing it. That's according to a new study published in the Harvard Business Review, which surveyed 1,488 full-time U.S.-based workers in large companies across a variety of industries. The study found that a small but noticeable number of workers report experiencing mental fog, headaches, and slower decision-making, or what the authors call "AI ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt Tuesday clarified that US Navy did not escort a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz at this time but added that it remains an option that the president will utilize if and when necessary. Hours before Leavitt's press conference, US energy secretary Chris Wright claimed that the US military provided protection for an oil tanker traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. But teh ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The FBI has obtained election audit records from Maricopa County, Arizona , following a grand jury subpoena, as part of its efforts to relitigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential contest, despite multiple reviews of that race demonstrating that no widespread fraud occurred . In a rare but by no means impossible outcome, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party nominee for that year's election, defeated then-incumbent ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Make no mistake, the only person this war is good for is Benjamin Netanyahu Amid the contradictions and denials surrounding the Iran conflict, one admission from the US secretary of state Marco Rubio may offer the clearest insight yet into how the war began, says Donald Macintyre ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Anthropic's Claude Code Review is a new tool, available as a research preview beta for Team and Enterprise plans, that sends a team of AI agents to examine every pull request. "We needed a reviewer we could trust on every PR. Code Review is the result: deep, multi-agent reviews that ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Monday about oysters and clams that could be contaminated with norovirus and were sent to nine states, including California, Florida and New York. The shellfish caution covers "certain raw oysters" harvested by Drayton Harbor Oyster Co. and Manila clams harvested by Lummi Indian Business Council from Feb. 13 to March 3, the FDA said in a statement . The potentially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
that Nvidia has been pitching 'NemoClaw' to Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike ahead of Jensen Huang's keynote on Monday. NVIDIA has spent the past several years becoming the indispensable hardware backbone of the AI industry. According to a new report, it may now be trying to become the software backbone too. The chipmaker is reportedly developing an open-source platform for enterprise AI agents, ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
A trio of wealthy brothers was found guilty of federal sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan on Monday in a grand-slam verdict convicting them of each count they faced in a 10-count indictment. The jury deliberated for three days before announcing a verdict for former luxury real estate brokers Tal Alexander, 39, and Oren Alexander, 38 , as well as for Oren's twin, Alon Alexander, a former executive in his parents' ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
March 9 (UPI) -- A daily multivitamin may slow biological aging -- the rate at which our bodies age on a cellular level -- significantly, especially for people biologically older than their actual age. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham found that daily cocoa extract and multivitamin slowed biological signals that are predictive of mortality, they write in a study published in the ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
Walter 'Ted' Carter Jr says he 'made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership' The president of the Ohio State University has resigned following the disclosure of an "inappropriate relationship" to the college's board of trustees. In a statement , Walter "Ted" Carter Jr, who had led the university since 2024, said that he "made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
"Wake up, daddy's home," Robert Downey Jr., playing the role of Iron Man, says at the beginning of a video posted to the White House's X account Friday. In the post, the clip kicks off a high-energy mashup of scenes from popular movies and TV shows cut together with real-world footage of U.S. military strikes against Iran. The video was one of six posts Friday on the White House's social media accounts that ...
Source: militarytimes.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
By The Miami Dolphins announced Monday morning that they're releasing quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, ending a six-year relationship that featured some exhilarating highs but some exasperating lows, and several significant injuries along the way. Miami must pay Tagovailoa $54 million guaranteed this season, a figure that could be offset by a deal with a new team. If he signs a one-year, $1.3 million minimum deal with a ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
The NBA has called off the Atlanta Hawks' plans for a night celebrating the city's famed Magic City strip club, saying it did so because of "concerns" from many across the league. The Hawks announced the plan last month, saying the team would pay tribute to an "iconic cultural institution" with food – including the club's famous lemon pepper wings – along with a live music performance by Atlanta native ...
Source: theguardian.com