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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 -
It's been a month since billionaire Rick Jackson unexpectedly entered the Republican primary for governor in Georgia . 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, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Every spring, millions of people lose an hour of sleep for a reason that has nothing to do with late nights or early alarms. The clocks simply move forward. Daylight saving time returns this weekend across much of North America, bringing the familiar seasonal shift. Many people barely notice it because their phones and computers adjust automatically. Others still remember to change wall clocks, ovens, and car ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration's embattled vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency — the second time in less than a year that he's departed after controversial decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs for rare diseases. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the news to FDA staff in an email late Friday, saying Prasad would depart at the end of April. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The former Secretary of D.H.S. faced criticism for misspending funds, prioritizing her own self-promotion, and reflexively defending even the most brutal acts of the Trump Administration's deportation efforts. March 6, 2026 Late last March, after being held incommunicado for nearly two weeks in a mega-prison in El Salvador, a group of Venezuelans learned that Kristi Noem, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, ...
Source: newyorker.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Justice department said the files were initially withheld because they were mistakenly categorized as duplicates The US justice department released additional files related to Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, including FBI memos describing interviews with a woman who made uncorroborated allegations against Epstein and Donald Trump . The documents were not included in the justice department's earlier releases of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market is looking brighter this year than it did in a gloomy 2025. The Labor Department is expected to report Friday that U.S. companies, nonprofits and government agencies added 60,000 jobs last month. That would be down from an unexpectedly strong 130,000 in January. But it would mark considerable improvement over the monthly average of just 15,000 new jobs in 2025, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, announced on Friday that he is ending his campaign for re-election after acknowledging an extramarital affair that he had been denying for months. House Republican leadership called for Gonzales to pull out of the race after the House Ethics Committee said it was investigating the three-term member of Congress over the affair and he then admitted to it on a radio ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
The Florida Bar said Friday it is not investigating former Justice Department attorney Lindsey Halligan , walking back an earlier statement saying a probe was underway . In early February, a Florida Bar official responded to a request for a probe into the Trump loyalist over her time in the administration by writing, "We already have an investigation pending." A day after NBC News and other outlets reported on the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
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 -
UK lenders have begun raising mortgage interest rates as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has raised fears that inflation will rise and curb further Bank of England rate cuts. Nationwide has increased rates some of its products by up to 0.25%, while HSBC UK and Coventry Building Society have also said they will increase rates. The increases come after changes to the financial market's view of what the Bank ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Much has been already been said of the portrayal of in Ryan Murphy's hit Hulu show Love Story , a retelling of the ill-fated relationship of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. In the show, Dree Hemingway portrays JFK Jr.'s ex-girlfriend, actress Daryl Hannah—and as various critics and fans alike have noted , Murphy's version of Hannah seems to be suspiciously one-note and pretty unflattering. Now, ...
Source: instyle.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI — The secretary of Miami-Dade County's Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as "Nazi heaven." In WhatsApp conversations leaked to ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Lawmakers are demanding an investigation after a man from Haiti who was seeking asylum in Massachusetts died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Emmanuel Damas, 56, of Dorchester, died March 2 at a hospital in Arizona. He was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025, following an arrest for assault and battery by Boston Police, according to ICE. "He's not a criminal. He ...
Source: cbsnews.com