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Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 - AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A heated U.S. Senate race in Texas entered its final stretch on Sunday with candidates on both sides of the aisle making final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday's primary, the nation's first big contest of the 2026 midterm elections. is trying to hold on to the seat he has held since first being elected in 2002, but finds himself in the toughest race of his long career against Texas ...

Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 - is integrated into national security — and who controls it — Anthropic was officially blacklisted by the Trump administration while OpenAI swooped in to win a new defense contract. On Friday evening, the Pentagon designated Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, barring its technology from use by defense contractors after a transition period. That came just hours after President Donald Trump directed federal ...

Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, Iranian state media reported. As one of Iran's longest-serving leaders , Khamenei was almost as ubiquitous in Iranian society as his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. And despite the fact Khomeini authored the Iranian Revolution, some say ...

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. ...

Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 - WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton told members of Congress on Friday that he "did nothing wrong" in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and saw no signs of Epstein's sexual abuse as he faced hours of grilling from lawmakers over his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago. "I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong," the former Democratic president said in an opening ...

Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 - The Pentagon is pulling back on plans to cut ties with Scouting America, as long as the nonprofit organization adopts policies that echo new military directives, including eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and banning transgender youth from the Scouts. In a video posted to X Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he had been "very seriously considering" cutting all military support to ...

Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 - The Department of Homeland Security's policy of arresting and detaining refugees that were lawfully admitted to the US is flatly contradicted by the statute the administration says gives it such authority, a federal judge said Friday. Citing the promise to refugees upon admission to the US that they would be allowed to live in peace and achieve the American dream, Judge John R. Tunheim of the District of Minnesota ...