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Top News Stories for Thursday, March 12th 2026
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
The differences between what Trump and Netanyahu want out of this war are starting to show and complicating how it will end W hen the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran to start a war that is now entering its third week, it was the start of something unprecedented; the first joint Israeli-American war. Even though the US has long been a close military ally of Israel, this has never happened before. Unlike ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
A popular Washington game is to oversell tax cuts to lower-income people. Republicans have excelled at this for half a century. Now Democrats want to play, too. In the most familiar version of the game, a Republican president promises to slash income taxes but ends up mainly doing so for rich people. Ordinary people may get a cut, but it's very small. Thus President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
By U.S. inflation stayed subdued in the month leading up to President Donald Trump's war with Iran, which has rekindled concerns about resurgent price pressures as energy costs have soared. The consumer price index report showed that inflation steadied at 2.4% in February from the same time last year, matching January's annual increase. On a monthly basis, overall prices ticked up 0.3%. "Core" inflation, which ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
A tornado struck a home in Lake Village, Indiana, killing an elderly couple. Major storms generated tornadoes that killed at least two people in northwest Indiana and flattened buildings in Kankakee, Illinois, as another bout of rain, hail and strong winds made its way through the region. Several intense supercell thunderstorms swept across northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana on Tuesday, including one ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
A whistleblower complaint has triggered a federal investigation into claims that a former member of a government cost-cutting team said he had access to sensitive Social Security data and planned to use it after moving to a private sector job. The internal watchdog of the Social Security Administration is examining the allegations, which involve a former software engineer linked to the Department of Government ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Meta's new tools on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp protect users from scams . They use advanced AI systems to analyze text, images, and surrounding context and identify sophisticated scam patterns. Facebook alerts for suspicious friend requests (Source: Meta) The systems detect ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Diddy aside, it's not that hard to get a pardon from Donald Trump. The president has used his clemency powers to help out 1,500 January 6 rioters , congressional fraudster George Santos, and a corrupt MAGA sheriff , just to name a few. He pardoned Rudy Giuliani , though it won't help him with his legal troubles, and he hasn't ruled out pardoning Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell . Trump ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Mar 10th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES – A Florida woman accused of firing gunshots at gated home in Los Angeles was charged Tuesday with one count of attempted murder and 10 counts of assault on a person with a semiautomatic firearm, court records showed Tuesday. The district attorney's office said 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz was charged in the shooting Sunday afternoon outside the superstar's home in the Beverly Hills area. No ...
Source: news4jax.com