The Petersburg Post

Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 - across the Middle East on Sunday morning. The targeted attacks on American assets in the destabilized region are part of Iran 's self-proclaimed 'most intense offensive operation in history,' in retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. Black smoke was seen rising from a US airbase at Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq at sunrise, after the IRGC promised its most ...

Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 - OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Pentagon as the government clashes with rival Anthropic. This agreement will see OpenAI deploy its models on the U.S. Department of War's (DoW) classified network, CEO Sam Altman wrote in a post Friday (Feb. 27) on X.  Altman said two of his company's key safety principles are a ban on using its technology for domestic mass surveillance and "human responsibility for the ...

Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who in more than three decades as Iran's supreme leader turned the Islamic Republic into a regional power, brutally crushing dissent at home, and maintaining unswerving hostility to the United States and Israel, died Saturday during US and Israeli military strikes on his country. He was 86. President Trump announced the death, writing on his Truth Social social-media platform: "Khamenei, one ...

Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 - Washington — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday in a Second Amendment dispute over a federal law that bars unlawful drug users from possessing firearms. The case, United States v. Hemani, is the second involving gun rights that the high court is hearing in its current term, joining a legal battle over a Hawaii law that restricts where concealed-carry license holders can bring their firearms. ...