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Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
The United States has temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil, a boost to the Kremlin as Washington tries to contain energy prices sent soaring by the American-Israeli assault on Iran. President Vladimir Putin's team welcomed the move to ease penalties that were imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine , and pushed Friday for the U.S. to go further. The decision caused dismay in Europe, where officials feared ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
As the Iran war drags on and the death and devastation grow, I keep returning to a three-minute clip from a Republican presidential debate in February 2016. That debate took place a few days before Jeb Bush was set to hit the campaign trail for the first time with his elder brother, former President George W. Bush. Citing that scheduled appearance, moderator John Dickerson asked Trump about a 2008 interview, in ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KIM TONG-HYUNG and ADAM SCHRECK SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. military says a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq , killing four of its six crew members. The U.S. Central Command , which oversees the Middle East, said the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in "friendly airspace," and ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded and "likely disfigured." Khamenei took over Iran's leadership following his father's death. The younger Khamenei has not been seen or heard from publicly since the war started, leading to speculation about his whereabouts and health condition. Meanwhile, four of the six crew abroad a US military KC-135 refueling ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month. If the effort succeeds, congressional Democrats warn in a study out Friday, the administration's import taxes will cost American households an average of $2,512 in 2026, up 44% from $1,745 in tariff costs last year. And this at ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
Harris County, Ga. offers lush hiking trails and game lands, sports facilities, rodeo grounds, and a top-tier school system, all about 90 miles southwest of Atlanta. So the surge of transplants who have fled the traffic-choked sprawl of the capital region for more spacious homes in the Appalachian foothills wasn't a surprise to Harris County Manager Clark Harrell. More homes also means more property tax revenue for ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalized US citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article One critic claimed that the legislation will negatively impact 'low-income voters, students, seniors, women, and Black and Brown Floridians' in Florida passed a bill on Thursday requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, while also limiting forms of ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Old Dominion shooter convicted of Islamic State ties released from prison just 2 years before attack
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
Court documents show less than two years after Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was released from prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State, he opened fire in a classroom at Virginia's Old Dominion University on Thursday before ROTC students subdued and killed him. The shooting that left one person dead and another two injured has raised questions about why Jalloh, who the FBI identified as the gunman, was imprisoned and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
University of Cambridge study finds AI-powered toys can misread emotions and respond inappropriately to children It was all going well. Charlotte, five, was chatting with an AI soft toy called Gabbo at a London play centre about her family, her drawing of a heart to represent them and what makes her happy. She even offered a couple of kisses to the £80 toy with a face like a computer screen. It was when she ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 -
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — One grew up in rural Haiti amid the poverty and violence of his beautiful but troubled Caribbean nation. The other grew up in Michigan as a self-described "blue-collar farm kid" from Middle America. Both became pastors in Springfield, Ohio. Both share a goal inspired by their faith: supporting the city's Haitian migrants who fear deportation under President Donald Trump's ongoing ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Bill would target housing affordability by giving local governments incentives to make it easier for companies to build single-family homes. Ban on investors buying single-family homes is being pushed by President Trump, but homebuilding groups and some lawmakers oppose the restriction. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told lawmakers the bill will need to go through further negotiations and changes ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
The average mortgage rate remaining at or around the low 6% range continues to spur buyer activity, but economists warn it may not be enough to create a much-needed market shift in the face of ongoing economic uncertainty and wartime market volatility. The average mortgage rate ticked up 11 basis points to 6.11% this week, according to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), released by Freddie ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Google is introducing a new Gemini AI feature to the Google Maps app on Thursday called Ask Maps. Described as a "conversational experience," the feature allows users to interact naturally with the app -- asking follow-up questions, rephrasing queries and exploring new prompts -- similar to Gemini for Home devices . While Google Maps has long offered route-based voice navigation, Ask ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NASA plans to roll back to the pad as early as next week for the Artemis II mission to fly crew around the moon, which could set up a shot to launch as soon as April 1. "All the teams polled 'Go' to launch and fly Artemis II around the moon, pending completion of some of the work before we roll out to the launch pad," said NASA's Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
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Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Gov. Gavin Newsom said there was no imminent threat to the state, despite a warning from the FBI that Iran could send drones to the West Coast in retaliation for Newsom said drone issues "have always been top of mind." "We've been aware of that information. ... It's all about a posture of preparedness for worst-case scenarios," said Wednesday. The FBI recently warned police ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
By Costco built its business around a fairly simple promise. People pay for membership, and they get the lowest possible prices the chain can deliver. The warehouse club offers the lowest prices of all major chains, according to a recent Consumer Reports study . The data showed that the warehouse club charged an average of 21.4% less than Walmart, which was used as the baseline for the report. "Prices were ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Currently available in the U.S. for users 18+ via waitlist, it aims to help prepare for doctor visits while emphasizing it's not a doctor replacement. Ready to let AI pore over your medical records? Claude and ChatGPT are already doing it, and now Microsoft's Copilot is ready to review your chart. Copilot Health is a "separate, secure space" within the Copilot app that "makes sense of your information" from a ...
Source: pcworld.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Thenovi AI Ltd. , a company developing an interaction infrastructure for artificial intelligence agents, today announced the launch of its developer platform that connects coding agents for shared conversations. As more coders adopt AI agents, they have begun to specialize them into different roles: planning, review, integration and testing. This is because, in many cases, developers discovered certain models have ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
A red fox that sneaked onto a cargo ship off the coast of Southampton has successfully made it thousands of miles across the Atlantic and is now in the care of the Bronx Zoo in New York. The zoo said on Wednesday that the fox - a two-year-old male weighing roughly 11lb (5kg) - is currently in the Animal Health Center with animal and veterinary teams. "Once the veterinary team determines that the fox is healthy, the ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies. Now a pair of studies published today in Astronomy and Astrophysics argue that the sun did not make this journey alone . The telltale sign of the sun's galactic journey is its chemical composition, says Tokyo Metropolitan ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
Danish chef René Redzepi has resigned after historic allegations of physical and psychological workplace abuse emerged in the lead up to Noma opening a pop-up restaurant in Los Angeles. The head chef of world-renowned restaurant Noma has been forced to step down over allegations of bullying and abuse. René Redzepi, who founded the three Michelin star restaurant, announced that he would resign in a ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Mar 12th, 2026 -
A preliminary investigation into the airstrike on a girls' elementary school in Iran that killed at least 175 people, mostly children, has found that the U.S. likely created target coordinates for the strike using outdated military maps. The U.S. military has yet to formally state that the U.S. was directly involved in the massacre. However, The New York Times reports that a preliminary military investigation into ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Outside groups are already spending more than $5 million in hopes of unseating GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a May primary after President Trump called for his defeat. So far, federal campaign finance records show that anti-Massie forces have dominated much of the outside spending picture in the Kentucky contest where the congressman is facing a pro-Trump challenge from Ed Gallrein, whose campaign website ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Mar 11th, 2026 -
Two people have been killed in tornadoes in the Midwest region of the United States amid a spate of extreme weather, according to authorities. At least four tornadoes touched down as intense "supercell" thunderstorms swept across northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). "Supercells" are the rarest form of thunderstorms. They are known to be ...
Source: aljazeera.com