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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 7th 2026
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON – In ducking a vote on authorizing war against Iran this week, Congress ceded its constitutional responsibilities yet again, some lawmakers warned, empowering current and future presidents to launch large wars unilaterally, in a major break with the nation's founding principles. On Friday, Trump added another objective to the list: unconditional surrender by Iran's government, seemingly rejecting ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
The war with Iran has driven up oil prices, taking oil stocks up with them. Brent, the global crude oil benchmark, has rallied about 40% this year, rising from $60 to around $85 per barrel. That has fueled a more than 25% surge in the average oil company stock price this year. Here's a look at whether the rally in oil stocks can last. Oil prices have surged this year due to the growing tensions with Iran, which has ...
Source: fool.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's president apologized Saturday for attacks on regional countries even as its missiles and drones flew toward Gulf Arab states, indicating that Tehran's political leadership could not exercise full command over Iran's armed forces. He also rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated demands for surrender. President Masoud Pezeshkian, one member of a tripartite leadership ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
He's quickly shaken things up. Jackson, a health care executive, is pumping millions of dollars of his own money into an already crowded race and aggressively courting supporters of Donald Trump — even though the president has backed a different candidate. Prior to Jackson's late entrance, the May 19 primary had seemed to be shaping up as a three-way race among Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who is the Trump-endorsed ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
There were times when Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum wasn't sure if he'd make it back to the game that was abruptly taken away from him last season. It made every moment he experienced in his return as special as any he's had so far in his basketball career. His homecoming at TD Garden on Friday night, a 120-100 victory over the Dallas Mavericks marked his season debut almost 10 months after surgery to repair a ...
Source: wbur.org
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gautami Nadkarni, 33, who lives in New Jersey. The following has been edited for length and clarity. org in 2018. My job was to design scalable cloud solutions that would help Google's enterprise customers manage their data and operations. At the time, cloud computing was the thing everyone in the industry was talking about. inner voice" told me to move towards ...
Source: insider.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 -
Washington has downplayed reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran about United States targets across the Middle East amid the burgeoning US-Israel war on Iran , first reported by The Washington Post. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Friday, said the US is "tracking everything" and factoring it into battle plans when asked about the reports Moscow was aiding Tehran. ...
Source: aljazeera.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. I've had a no-tech policy in my classroom for years now. But after I realized AI was creating a trust problem between my students and me. I decided to take it a step ...
Source: businessinsider.com
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 -
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia launched an attack overnight on Ukraine using 480 drones and 29 missiles, that targeted energy and railway infrastructure across the country. Russian missile strikes have killed seven people in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. The number of dead includes two children, the region's governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Mr Syniehubov said the ballistic missile damaged a ...
Source: news.sky.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
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a one-minute video, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem , decked out in Western riding gear and a cowboy hat, rides a horse through a pine forest near Mount Rushmore. She trumpets her department's hard-line message: "You cross the border illegally, we'll find you." The ad was one of the many times the outgoing secretary made herself the public face of her department. In the end, that ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has announced it will need an additional 45 days to set up a system to process refund requests for the tariffs recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The announcement came on Friday as lawyers representing CBP were called to a closed-door meeting with Judge Richard Eaton from the US Court of International Trade. Eaton had ruled on Wednesday that the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The Justice Department on Thursday released previously unseen documents from the Epstein files that included new summaries and notes from interviews the FBI conducted with a woman from South Carolina who made allegations against the late sex offender and President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News analysis. In a series of 2019 interviews with the FBI, the woman said she was a sexual assault victim of Jeffrey ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
In a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on March 6, the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a month marred by severe winter weather. February was the third time in the past five months that payrolls declined, following a sharp revision showing a drop of 17,000 in December. As stocks sold off following the report, housing economists said the report could indicate headwinds for demand, but said ...
Source: rismedia.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Republican congressman Tony Gonzales had repeatedly denied affair with former aide who later died by suicide Texas Republican congressman Tony Gonzales is ending his bid for re-election but said he will serve out his term, following his admitting , after repeated denials, that he had an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide. Gonzales announced his plan late on Thursday after facing calls from ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The Florida Bar said it mistakenly wrote in a letter last month that it was investigating former Virginia US Attorney Lindsey Halligan. The reversal Friday comes a day after the ethics nonprofit Campaign for Accountability announced having received a Feb. 4 letter from the state's attorney disciplinary authority confirming an "investigation pending" in response to its complaint about Halligan. "The Florida Bar ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
American forces were responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to a preliminary assessment by U.S. military investigators. Two U.S. officials told Reuters that investigators believe the deadly strike on the Shajareye Tayabeh girls' school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, was launched by American forces after Donald Trump ordered the launch of "major ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Defense Contractors May Be Forced to Remove Claude From Pentagon Programs The Pentagon officially designated artificial intelligence developer Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" late Thursday, escalating a weeks-long confrontation between the Trump administration and one of Silicon Valley's most prominent AI companies over how frontier models can be used in military and intelligence operations. The U.S. Department of ...
Source: healthcareinfosecurity.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
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. The two UAE data centers were "directly struck," while the Bahrain site was ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Ukraine is preparing to despatch military drone specialists to Gulf states to help them fend off Iranian-designed drones. Ukraine is preparing to despatch military drone specialists to Gulf states to help them fend off Iranian-designed drones — something the Ukrainian army has been doing since the start of Russia's invasion. The military assault launched in February 2022 spawned a cat-and-mouse game of aerial ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
UK lenders have begun raising mortgage interest rates as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has raised fears that inflation will rise and curb further Bank of England rate cuts. Nationwide has increased rates some of its products by up to 0.25%, while HSBC UK and Coventry Building Society have also said they will increase rates. The increases come after changes to the financial market's view of what the Bank ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
3 min read THE RUNDOWN was always destined to straddle a tricky line between fact and fiction . But now, actress Daryl Hannah is claiming that the creative liberties taken with her character in the show has had a negative impact on her personal life and her reputation in the public eye. Hannah penned a March 6 essay for that criticized her depiction in the FX series. She explained that the "irritating, ...
Source: elle.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- Ukraine 's foreign minister accused Hungary of kidnapping seven Ukrainian state bank employees and stealing the cash and gold they were transporting, and Hungary announced it would expel the bank staff. Ukraine's Oschadbank said on Thursday that two vehicles with seven employees and about $75 million were stopped in Budapest Thursday, and Kyiv has lost contact with the personnel. The vehicles were ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI — The secretary of Miami-Dade County's Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as "Nazi heaven." In WhatsApp conversations leaked to ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Lawmakers are demanding an investigation after a man from Haiti who was seeking asylum in Massachusetts died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Emmanuel Damas, 56, of Dorchester, died March 2 at a hospital in Arizona. He was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025, following an arrest for assault and battery by Boston Police, according to ICE. "He's not a criminal. He ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
AI and filmmaking. He warned against tools that try to replace human creativity. He said AI cannot write Shakespeare. He drew a clear line between what machines can do and what only people can. Affleck was explicit about that distinction. "It's not about text-prompting or generating something from nothing," he said in a with the announcement. InterPositive works differently. It ingests a production's existing ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Microsoft has officially confirmed that the next-gen Xbox is called Project Helix and it plays PC games. Microsoft's next console might not be a traditional console at all. With newly appointed CEO Asha Sharma confirming many leaks about the device, here is everything that's been rumored about the future Xbox console. . However, to kick off her tenure, the executive surprised many players by announcing the next-gen ...
Source: vice.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
With the administration challenging the Court and Congress, independent reporting is the only thing standing between you and the noise. Your membership funds the courage to ask the hard questions. Don't let the truth be sidelined. Already a member? Cuba appears to be next on Donald Trump 's hit list. But not just yet. The president appeared to suggest U.S.-assisted regime change in the communist-run Caribbean ...
Source: huffpost.com