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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 1st 2026
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 ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
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 ...
Source: insider.com
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 ...
Source: theconversation.com
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
– The by the United States and Israel disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond as countries around the region closed their airspace and key airports that connect Europe, Africa and the West to Asia were directly hit by strikes. More than 3,400 flights were canceled Sunday across seven airports in the Mideast, according to flight tracker Flightradar24. Airports in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Mar 1st, 2026 -
The US-Israeli attacks on Iran have triggered swift retaliatory attacks from Tehran, targeting their assets in multiple Middle East countries, including Israel, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Oman. Analysts are warning of a spike in global oil prices after Iranian officials hinted at shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important maritime routes in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
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. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The death toll rose to 22 on Saturday from the crash of a military plane carrying 18 tons of new banknotes a day earlier near Bolivia's capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles and scattering bills on the ground, a police commander said Saturday. Another 29 people were injured, mostly passengers traveling on public transportation where the plane crashed. Among the dead are 12 men, ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Former President Bill Clinton delivered a sweeping denial of any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes during roughly six hours of closed-door testimony Friday before a House committee investigating the disgraced financier's political connections. "I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong," Clinton said in a statement prepared for delivery at his closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York. "I know what I saw, and ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense reached an agreement with Scouting America to continue to support the organization after it committed to end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he had been considering an end to supporting the organization because of "significant cultural changes" it made in the early 2010s. The 116-year-old organization changed its name ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Trump administration's unlawful policy turns 'refugees' American Dream into a dystopian nightmare', judge says A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration policy that allowed immigration authorities to arrest and detain certain refugees in Minnesota, ruling that the government relied on an incorrect interpretation of federal law and unlawfully targeted people who had already been admitted to the US. In an ...
Source: theguardian.com