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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 8th 2026
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
— what he calls the "G2," or Group of Two. But China is less enamored with the idea, at least publicly. forums — was introduced in 2005 by American economist C. Fred Bergsten to underscore the importance of communication between the world's two biggest economies. Though it was initially embraced by some policymakers, the idea fell out of favor in Washington amid rising tensions with Beijing, including ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Israel on Sunday struck southern Lebanon, Beirut and an oil storage facility in Tehran as the war in the Middle East keeps escalating, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised "many surprises" for the next phase of the conflict. Iran also hit a desalination plant in Bahrain. Earlier Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a U.S. airstrike damaged an Iranian desalination plant on Qeshm Island, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Bahrain says the latest Iranian attacks on the country have damaged a water desalination plant and injured three people as Tehran continues its air campaign against its Gulf neighbours. In a statement on X, the Bahraini Ministry of Interior said an Iranian drone attack on Sunday morning damaged the desalination plant, which processes seawater to supply freshwater to residents. "The Iranian aggression randomly bombs ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Warning from Goldman Sachs comes as crude shipping through strait of Hormuz falls further than bank thought Global oil prices could breach the $100 (£74) a barrel mark within days, and reach $150 a barrel by the end of the month, without a solution to the severe disruption in crude flows through the strait of Hormuz, Goldman Sachs has warned. Oil exports via the vital trade route linking the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
Kyle Schwarber hit a two-run homer and Gunnar Henderson had four hits and two RBIs as the United States rolled to a 9-1 victory over Britain on Saturday night at the World Baseball Classic. Team USA improved to 2-0 in Pool B at Houston, while Britain dropped to 0-2. The Red Sox' Nate Eaton homered on Tarik Skubal's first pitch to give Britain a quick lead it held until the fifth inning. But his teammates couldn't ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A counterprotester demonstrating against a "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City" event Saturday lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest, police said. Police are investigating the incident that started late Saturday morning when someone from the anti-Islam protest associated ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Mar 8th, 2026 -
– As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded but no visible action to support its Middle Eastern ally. That cautious stance is driven by President Vladimir Putin's focus on Ukraine and his apparent hope that the will play into Moscow's hands by boosting its oil revenues and eroding Western support for Kyiv. Putin sent his condolences to Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
In a deeply divided country, journalism is a safeguard. Members make it possible to question authority, investigate impact, and protect democratic accountability beyond the headlines. Already a member? Some officials are trying to eliminate the process of changing our clocks each fall and spring. Here's why it hasn't been implemented yet. This weekend, we spring forward and turn our clocks ahead one hour to kick ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East. The conflict, in which nearly every country in the Middle East has sustained damage from missiles or drone strikes, has left ships that carry roughly 20 million barrels of oil a day stranded in the Persian ...
Source: pbs.org
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
The U.S. military and its allies across the Middle East are struggling to combat Iran's swarms of cheap attack drones as the war enters its second week . Pentagon officials this past week reportedly conceded in closed-door briefings with lawmakers that waves of Iranian-launched drones are punching through air defenses, leaving American troops and bases in the Persian Gulf region vulnerable to attacks. ...
Source: wfla.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two children were among at least 10 people killed on Saturday in a Russian missile that hit a five-story residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, officials said. Sixteen others were wounded. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack and called for an international response. He said that Russia struck Ukraine overnight with 29 missiles and 480 drones, ...
Source: pbs.org
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
TOKYO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from the royal line of succession for his "deplorable" actions. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Carney said the actions that have caused him to be stripped of his royal titles "necessitate" his removal from the line of succession . Despite being stripped of his status as prince in October over his close links ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Some of those in surgery have required amputations and treatment for shrapnel wounds - with one victim saying the blast felt like "the sound system had suddenly been turned off". A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured at least 33 people, including teenagers. The explosion occurred in the early hours of Saturday at the Dali nightclub in Trujillo - a province along Peru's northern coast. The region has recently ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old schoolgirls in Soham, died on Saturday following an attack in prison. The 52-year-old suffered significant head trauma after being attacked with a makeshift weapon by another inmate at HMP Frankland on 26 February and had been on life support in hospital. He had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering best ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
Six people are dead following unconfirmed tornadoes in Michigan and Oklahoma on Friday, authorities said. Powerful storms have ripped across Michigan, tearing the roof off a home improvement store, sending parts of a storage building flying and knocking down trees as tornado warnings were issued across the southern part of the state. The Branch County Sheriff's Office said there were 12 reported injuries and three ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, an assistant professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I've had a no-tech policy in my classroom for years now. But after I realized AI was creating a trust problem between my students and me. I decided to take it a step ...
Source: businessinsider.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
Saturday, Mar 7th, 2026 -
New Footage Yet Again Contradicts DHS Claims About Its Killing of a US Citizen Body camera video obtained by CBS News in the Ruben Ray Martinez case is another example of the administration misrepresenting lethal action from immigration agents. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Body camera footage newly obtained by CBS News shows the moments leading up to and after an ...
Source: motherjones.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
TEHRAN — Nearly a week after airstrikes hit an elementary school in southern Iran , killing more than 170 people and leaving witnesses to find the severed limbs of children in the rubble, there have been increased international demands to know who was responsible and how the tragedy could happen. The strikes, in the town of Minab, came in at the very start of the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign on Saturday. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
Home » » U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told a Court of International Trade judge on Mar. 6, 2026, that it is not capable of complying with his order to refund import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump last year, which the Supreme Court recently ruled as illegal. In a court filing on Friday, Brandon Lord, the executive director of CBP's trade policy and programs directorate, said the ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
clashed over how the military should use AI, another new reality of warfare emerged several thousand miles away: data centers are now targets. This week, Amazon said that three of its data centers in the Middle East — two in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain — had been damaged by drone strikes during the US-Iran war. The two UAE data centers were "directly struck," while the Bahrain site was ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Mar 6th, 2026 -
March 6 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice released new FBI documents Thursday that describe several interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a young teen. The pages had been withheld from the other documents from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Officials said they were held back because they mistakenly believed they were duplicates. The 16 ...
Source: upi.com