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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 11th 2026
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The U.S. could have had the schematics for Iran's Shahed drones, but the Trump administration said no. Roughly seven months ago, Ukrainian officials tried to sell the White House the technology to destroy Iran's inexpensive, low-flying drones, going so far as to compile a PowerPoint presentation to sway the admin. The intel was battle-proven: Ukraine has more experience fighting Shaheds than practically any other ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
The company asserts that the administration's actions to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk and order its removal from all federal agencies are retaliatory and not based on risk to national security. In the wake of Anthropic being blacklisted by the federal government, the company has filed a sweeping lawsuit against over a dozen federal agencies and government leaders — including Defense Secretary ...
Source: washingtontechnology.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. . In March 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump said, "Your daughter, she has to be of of age, like above 6 years old." Trump made the comments at the Republican Members Issues Conference in Doral, Florida, while speaking about measures he hoped would become law to limit supposed voter fraud. He appeared to suggest that, without stricter oversight, young children ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Washington — Unscheduled absences among airport security officers have more than doubled during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown, with more than 300 employees leaving the agency since the start of the DHS shutdown, according to internal TSA statistics obtained exclusively by CBS News. TSA officer call-out rates have climbed into double-digit percentages at some airports, including ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply criticized the Supreme Court on Monday for being quick to issue rulings that have temporarily allowed some of President Donald Trump's controversial policies to stand while legal challenges against them play out in the courts. The justices have signed off on the administration's ban on transgender soldiers in the military, the firing of independent agency heads and the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
– The office that enforces ethics standards for attorneys in the nation's capital has accused Justice Department official of professional misconduct for a threatening letter that he sent to last year, when Martin was the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C. Martin was the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia when he warned the Georgetown dean that his office wouldn't hire the private ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
The administration's six-pillar plan prioritizes offensive operations, zero-trust architecture, and private sector coordination to defend networks. The White House has released a comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy aimed at redefining how the United States defends its digital infrastructure and disrupts global cybercriminal networks. The strategy introduces six policy pillars designed to coordinate ...
Source: securitytoday.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
Monday, Mar 9th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article 'I demand that the producers of this disgusting and juvenile war porn remove my voice immediately,' Steve Downes, voice of Master Chief, says A voice actor, from the popular video game series Halo, has condemned the Trump administration's use of his speech in a clip shared by the ...
Source: independent.co.uk