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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 11th 2026
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
The ongoing Israeli-American war on Iran, for all its complexity and global effects, boils down to a single question: Who can take the pain the longest? A surge in oil prices points to what may be Iran's most effective weapon and the United States' biggest vulnerability in continuing the campaign: Damaging the world economy. Wednesday's major developments include Iranian attacks against across the Persian Gulf and ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former fracking executive, was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets after he posted a striking claim on social media : The American Navy, he wrote, had "successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing." The post on X was deleted minutes later, after "oil prices slid at their steepest pace in years," according to the Wall ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Anthropic says it was blacklisted for opposing autonomous weapons, mass surveillance. Anthropic sued the Trump administration yesterday in an attempt to reverse the government's decision to blacklist its technology. Anthropic argues that it exercised its First Amendment rights by refusing to let its Claude AI models be used for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance of Americans and that the government ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
A New York federal judge ordered a group of states to engage in settlement talks with Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to potentially resolve claims the company illegally monopolized the live event industry. US District Judge Arun Subramanian declined to rule on a request by 27 states and Washington, DC, for a mistrial of the case after the Justice Department reached its own settlement directly with the company. ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Okay, let's get the rules straight. The court's conservative majority has on a regular basis blocked lower court rulings that have stymied President Donald Trump's agenda, sparking criticism from within and outside the judiciary. Jackson, often a vocal dissenter in those cases, forcefully aired her critique of the court's actions in a rare public appearance with Kavanaugh at an event for lawyers and judges held at ...
Source: esquire.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A senior Trump administration official and former acting U.S. attorney for D.C. is under disciplinary review for his role in President Donald Trump's anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative — sparking outrage from the Justice Department, which assailed alleged ethics violations against Ed Martin as a "partisan" effort, and one that unfairly targets Trump and ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Federal judge said prosecutors picked to replace Alina Habba repeated error of bypassing congressional approval Three prosecutors installed by Donald Trump's administration to lead the New Jersey attorney general's office after the president's former personal lawyer was disqualified from the role in December were also illegally appointed, a federal judge has ruled. Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, handpicked the ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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 -
We have another report that Israel used the military power the US underwrites to pressure Donald Trump into a disastrous war in Iran. US military aid to Israel makes Americans — to say nothing of the rest of the world — less safe. Over the weekend, the Washington Post was the latest to publish a claim that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the threat of launching a war with Iran solo as a ...
Source: jacobinmag.com