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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 7th 2026
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Senate blocks war powers measure and House follows suit – now president can bomb Iran free from congressional interference Before US troops invaded Iraq, George W Bush asked Congress to pass a resolution authorizing military force against Washington's longtime nemesis, a request that lawmakers obliged. Twenty four years later, the United States is at war with a different Middle Eastern rival – Iran ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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 -
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
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has announced that Kristi Noem will be replaced as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), marking the first major change to his cabinet since his re-election. Noem, who has overseen Trump's controversial immigration crackdown, will instead serve as a special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, a newly created security initiative. Her removal follows a tense, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Customs and Border Protection official says new process for tariff refunds could be ready in 45 days
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MAE ANDERSON, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Government officials are getting closer to ironing out a refund process for the hundreds of thousands of companies that paid tariffs now deemed illegal. In a filing with the Court of International Trade on Friday, Brandon Lord, executive director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's trade policy and programs ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice released new FBI documents Thursday that describe several interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a young teen. The pages had been withheld from the other documents from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Officials said they were held back because they mistakenly believed they were duplicates. The 16 ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Department of Labor releases closely watched February 2026 jobs report The U.S. economy shed jobs unexpectedly in February as employers pulled back to start 2026 amid economic uncertainty. What are the key findings of the February 2026 jobs report? The Labor Department on Wednesday reported that employers shed 92,000 jobs in February. That figure was well below the expectations of economists polled by LSEG, who ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
Update: The Florida Bar reversed its statement that it was investigating Halligan. . Lindsey Halligan, the former interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia forced to leave in January, is under investigation by the Florida Bar, according to a letter the association sent last month. Halligan, the former interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia forced to leave in January, is under ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Satellite images and eyewitness accounts appear to show evidence of precision strikes as analysts review whether AI and human errors played a role U.S. military investigators reportedly believe American forces were likely responsible for a strike on an Iranian school in Minab , in ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has apologized for bashing the Trump administration in an explosive letter to staffers — even as he gears up to take the Pentagon to court over its blacklisting of his AI firm . The exec said he's sorry for "the tone" of a 1,600-word internal missive that accused the Department of War of targeting Anthropic for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump." "I also want to apologize ...
Source: nypost.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Kyiv accused Budapest of kidnapping seven of its citizens on Friday, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he would use "every means" to pressure Ukraine in an escalating row over stalled Russian oil supplies. Hungary and Slovakia say Ukraine is deliberately delaying reopening a key oil pipeline pumping Russian oil to the two landlocked EU member states, which Kyiv says was damaged by ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Emmanuel Damas died after health care workers in an ICE center run by a for-profit prison company did not adequately treat a toothache, according to his family. A man who was arrested by ICE in Boston and transported to a detention center in Arizona died in custody after not receiving adequate treatment for a toothache, according to multiple reports and a letter sent by lawmakers to officials within the Trump ...
Source: boston.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