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Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Iran hit a Saudi refinery on the Red Sea and set Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze, sending international oil and gas prices soaring Thursday. The strikes followed an Israeli attack on South Pars, the Iranian part of the world's largest gas field, the previous day. U.S. President Donald Trump said that Israel would not attack South Pars again, but warned on social media ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security presented a softer approach on federal emergency management in his Senate confirmation hearing, rejecting the idea of and pledging to undo some of his predecessor's unpopular policies. on Wednesday raised hopes among disaster response managers that a shift is coming in the administration's approach to the Federal Emergency Management ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
To understand this you need to know about swap rates and the impact of the war in Iran n 16 January, the average rate on a new two-year fixed-rate mortgage was 4.78%, according to the financial data company Moneyfacts . Two months later, it was 5.20%. Between those two dates, the Bank of England voted to keep the base rate at 3.75%. More significantly, though, the US and Israel carried out airstrikes on Iran and a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has temporarily waived a century-old shipping law to help ease the cost of transporting oil, gas and other commodities within the US. The move allows foreign-flagged vessels to transport goods between US ports for the next 60 days, a step taken to ease the movement of energy supplies across the country. "This action will allow vital resources like oil, natural gas, fertilizer, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Many work to reconcile César Chavez's labor rights activist legacy with sexual abuse allegations – Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside César Chavez . They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the widely admired Latino icon. So when Wilcox's daughter called this week to inform them of that were ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
AI takes center stage this year at the RSA Conference, providing CISOs and other security leaders a vital opportunity to address their AI security knowledge gaps. RSA Conference 2026 arrives at a significant inflection point for the cybersecurity industry — one that will see its more than 43,000 attendees and 600-plus exhibitors navigating an agenda that has fundamentally shifted in character. For the first ...
Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England held its main interest rate at 3.75% on Thursday as the sharp oil and gas price hikes following the start of the Iran war have stoked renewed concerns about inflation. The decision was widely anticipated after the United States and Israel started bombing Iran less than three weeks ago. All nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep borrowing costs on hold, ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Democratic Senators Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Cory Booker of New Jersey have brought forward new tax plans that would cut income taxes for lower- and middle-income taxpayers and raise them for the highest-income taxpayers and corporations, prompting some to suggest that the Democratic Party is imitating key Republican talking points. Democrats' long-held ideology usually deters it from implementing measures ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
reached a surprisingly peaceful resolution Wednesday afternoon: Compass, the country's largest real estate brokerage, dropped its lawsuit against Zillow, marking the end of a The legal volleys kicked off last summer, when Zillow started banning some for-sale listings from its well-trafficked website. A growing number of real estate agents, the search site said, were Compass quickly sued Zillow in federal court over ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Apple has released a Background Security Update that addresses a newly uncovered flaw tracked as CVE-2026-20643 , the effects of which span its smartphone, tablet, desktop and notebook product ecosystems. CVE-2026-20643, credited to security researcher Thomas Espach, affects the WebKit browser engine, specifically its Navigation application programming interface (API). According to Apple, the CVE-2026-20643 ...
Source: computerweekly.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Podcasts Trump Is Kicking the Economy While It's Down How the war with Iran could lead to a recession Amr Alfiky / Reuters Save Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 27:06 Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts For the past year or so, economists have remained, if not optimistic about the economy, not alarmed either. Then recently came what economists call a series of "revisions" to ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch With private company defaults running at upwards of 9.2% — the highest rate in years — VC firm Lux Capital recently advised companies relying on AI to get their compute capacity commitments confirmed in writing . With financial instability rippling through the AI supply chain, Lux warned, a handshake agreement isn't enough. But there's another option entirely, which is to ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Top Gun star Val Kilmer, who was one of the best-paid actors in the 1990s, will play a priest in the forthcoming movie As Deep As The Grave, alongside a Harry Potter actor. Val Kilmer is to posthumously appear in an action-adventure film, a year after his death from pneumonia. The company behind the movie, First Line Films, say it is the first-ever performance enabled by generative artificial intelligence . ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
March 19 (UPI) -- Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to temporarily suspend fighting during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, both countries announced days after dozens were killed at a Kabul drug rehabilitation hospital. The pause in fighting will be enforced from midnight Thursday through midnight Tuesday, Attaullah Tarar, Pakistan's minister for Information and Broadcasting, said in a statement . The ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Attorney General Kris Mayes filed criminal charges against Kalshi for illegal gambling and election betting, a first among U.S. states. This article was originally published by Arizona Mirror . Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed criminal charges against the online prediction market company Kalshi, accusing it of operating an illegal gambling business in the state and flagrantly violating a state law barring ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
A group of House Democrats walked out of a closed-door briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Jeffrey Epstein probe late Wednesday, as tensions over the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein case continue to simmer. The faceoff took place one day after the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, subpoenaed Bondi to testify about Epstein next month. Bondi and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article President lately has been fixated on whether it is 'Straits' or 'Strait' of Hormuz but either way, his Truth post botched the execution President Donald Trump appeared to implicitly threaten to leave America's allies to their own devices as far as getting oil moving through a key ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday condemned special interest money that poured into the state ahead of this week's primary , including from a pro-Israel political group that the billionaire and potential 2028 presidential contender once supported. Pritzker, a Jewish Democrat who also spent money to influence races Tuesday, was a donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee before ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
With a little over six weeks before ballots hit mailboxes, a large swath of the California electorate is "largely unenthusiastic" about the crowded field vying to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, according to a new poll from the Institute of Government Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. "I've never seen a gubernatorial election quite like this with so many voters disengaged," Mark DiCamillo, the director ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The Trump administration has offered varying explanations for what prompted its war with Iran pointedly refused to say whether Iran presented an "imminent" nuclear threat to America before the U.S. launched its war, angering Democratic senators during an intelligence hearing on ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA will have its first million dollar players after the league and its players' union reached a deal in principle on a transformational new collective bargaining agreement early Wednesday morning. Specifics still need to be finalized over the next few weeks as lawyers on both sides work on the new CBA. A term sheet should be done in the next day or two. It will then need to be ratified ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
The World Is on Fire. Gas Prices Are Rising. Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote. Instead of ending the Iran war or improving the economy, Senate Republicans are championing Trump's MAGA voter suppression bill. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The world is on fire . Gas prices are rising. The US economy is in shambles. President Trump has bulldozed through his ...
Source: motherjones.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Public health alert as Kent meningitis cases rise An urgent public health alert has been issued after a deadly meningitis outbreak in Kent, with health workers across England urged to look out for signs of infection. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued the alert as a vaccination programme targeting about 5,000 students began at the University of Kent, following an outbreak thought to have originated at a ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Prime members will pay $9.99 for one hour delivery and $4.99 for three hour delivery, while non Prime users face higher fees. Amazon is launching new one-hour and three-hour delivery options across multiple U.S. cities to enhance its competitive stance against instant delivery services such as Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats. The initiative will make over 90,000 items available for rapid delivery, improving ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
MIAMI (AP) — Eugenio Suárez and his Venezuelan teammates stood on the stage behind second base with shiny medals draped over their proud chests, belting out their national anthem accompanied by tens of thousands of fans who remained in the ballpark a half-hour after the final out. Back home, people were singing their praises, too. Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic for the first time Tuesday ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
– Supreme Court warned Tuesday that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and "it's got to stop," two days after called a federal judge who ruled against the administration "wacky, nasty, crooked and totally out of control." As he has done before, Roberts was careful not to single out Trump or anyone else, insisting that the attacks on judges are not from "just any one political perspective." ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2026 -
Union says claims involving young women and minors are serious enough to halt annual tributes and open an inquiry The United Farm Workers union has cancelled celebrations honoring Cesar Chavez, the organization's co-founder, following "troubling allegations" that Chavez was involved in the abuse of young women or minors. "We have not received any direct reports, and we do not have any firsthand knowledge of these ...
Source: theguardian.com