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2026-03-18, 19:40The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is moving away from operations tied to the Iran war and sailing to the US Navy’s base in Crete for repairs after a fire broke out in the ship’s laundry area last week, a US official said. The movement of the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier comes as...
Mullin under microscope by Senate colleagues over temperament, stolen valor and ICE in tense DHS ...
2026-03-18, 19:22A typically friendly setting for one of their own turned tense on Capitol Hill Wednesday with senators grilling Markwayne Mullin for roughly three hours as he vies to become President Donald Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security chief. Republican Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul...
Prosecutors in Kouri Richins’ murder trial couldn’t prove how she poisoned her husband. They didn’t ...
2026-03-18, 19:04During Kouri Richins’ weekslong murder trial, her attorneys repeatedly drove home the crux of their defense – that prosecutors could not prove how the drugs that killed her husband entered his body. Not one of more than 40 witnesses called by the prosecution testified about how Kouri Richins...
7 ways to protect your money from potentially higher inflation and unemployment
2026-03-18, 19:04The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to leave its key overnight lending rate unchanged for the second time this year was expected. But in addition to a disappointing February jobs report and other data, the Fed had to consider a new factor creating economic uncertainty: the attacks on Iran by...
Takeaways from intelligence officials’ testimony amid war with Iran
2026-03-18, 18:28Top Trump administration officials testified publicly Wednesday for the first time since the launch of the Iran war three weeks ago. Officials including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel testified in front of the Senate...
AI probe of aviation close calls leads FAA to limit how helicopters can fly around ...
2026-03-18, 17:51Air traffic controllers will now use radar to actively track helicopters when flying through the flight paths of planes taking off and landing at busy airports, the Federal Aviation Administration said in an order published Wednesday. Chopper pilots had been allowed to take responsibility for visual...
Trump waives Jones Act shipping restrictions in latest bid to ease gas prices
2026-03-18, 17:33The White House is temporarily lifting key limits on the shipping of oil, gas and other commodities throughout the United States, in its latest effort to counter rising energy prices sparked by its war with Iran. The move to waive the Jones Act will allow foreign-flagged ships to transport the...
Heart benefits fade after stopping GLP-1 medications
2026-03-18, 16:21One major benefit of taking injected GLP-1 medications is a sizeable reduction in risk for heart attacks, strokes and other heart problems. However, if people stop taking the medication, those heart benefits are erased. A large new study has found that heart risks begin to return as soon as six...
There are some key ingredients in the recipe for a March Madness upset. Meet the ...
2026-03-18, 16:21In 1984, not long after the NCAA decided to expand its men’s basketball tournament to 64 teams for the upcoming season, Indiana coach Bob Knight suggested that it might be difficult to find 64 “tournament-caliber” teams. Two years later, his third-seeded Hoosiers – owners of the best record in...
Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes repeats as champion of the grueling Iditarod sled dog race
2026-03-18, 16:04Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes cruised to a repeat victory in the Iditarod, the roughly 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) sled dog race in Alaska. Holmes guided his dog team across the finish line Tuesday night in the old Gold Rush town of Nome, a Bering Sea coastal community, after traveling for...
One person dead after cable car gondola crashes down mountain at Swiss ski resort
2026-03-18, 15:46One person has died after a cable car cabin at a Swiss ski resort crashed down a snowy...
Word of the Week: Denying the enemy ‘quarter’ may sound like tough talk, but it ...
2026-03-18, 15:28At a March 13 news briefing about the US-Israeli war with Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed: “We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.” Of the Oxford English Dictionary’s few dozen definitions for “quarter” — covering units of measurement, physical...
The gender gap in caregiver well-being is real. How to fix it
2026-03-18, 15:09Caregiving for an aging parent is not, by design, a simple endeavor. There’s the mountain of practical matters to attend to, including managing doctors’ appointments, seeking diagnoses, and ensuring Mom or Dad is physically safe. While you probably feel sad about your parent’s condition or the role...
Family of US college student missing in Barcelona, Spain, pleads for information
2026-03-18, 14:33An American college student visiting friends for spring break has gone missing in Spain, his family said, adding police there have his phone. James “Jimmy” Gracey, a 20-year-old junior at the...
The decision to strip Senegal of AFCON title shows just how out of touch those ...
2026-03-18, 14:15It was 59 days ago that Senegal captain Sadio Mané lifted the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) trophy above his head, as golden confetti fell around his exhausted Senegalese teammates. It was also 59 days ago that Moroccan players buried their heads in their hands, not wanting to confront the reality...
US downgraded in democracy index as press freedom concerns grow
2026-03-18, 13:21“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies Institute, or V-Dem, a research group based in Sweden, cites the “suppression and intimidation of...
Sean Penn is awarded (a version of) his Oscar in Ukraine
2026-03-18, 12:09Sean Penn finally got his hands on his third Oscar… sort of. The “One Battle After Another” star, who was a no-show at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday when he won the best supporting actor Oscar for that film, was seen in a video published on social media on Tuesday receiving a makeshift...
Birth control skepticism, teen fertility education center stage at Trump’s women’s health summit
2026-03-18, 12:09Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have conversations with young girls about whether they want to have children one day. “I have these conversations with...
This Olympian defied Iran’s regime. Now he fears for the country’s women’s soccer team.
2026-03-18, 11:51Iranian-born judoka Saeid Mollaei believes members of Iran’s women’s soccer team could be killed or put in prison when they return home after declining to sing the country’s national anthem at the Women’s Asian Cup in Australia. As an athlete who faced a similar decision in 2019 to those soccer...
5 things to know for March 18: TSA staffing shortages, Incoming heat wave, Iran war ...
2026-03-18, 11:32Scientists have long sought ways to slow the brain’s aging, often focusing on drugs and high-tech therapies. But a new study points to a surprisingly accessible solution: a unique diet low in salt and rich in leafy greens may help slow cognitive decline by more than two years. Here’s what else you...
When the EPA rolled back mercury regulations, it left this community in the path of pollution
2026-03-18, 11:14Rainbow trout is a prized catch for fisherman on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, in the high plains of southeastern Montana. “The men in my family like to go fishing; they cook them right there because it’s fresh,” said Charlene Alden, the tribe’s environmental protection director. But there is...
Oil prices hold steady even as Iraq resumes some exports via Turkey
2026-03-18, 11:14Oil prices held steady Wednesday after Iraq clinched a deal to resume some crude exports via Turkey. It’s not a ton of oil, but it’s what amounts for good news these days as the Strait of Hormuz remains largely blocked. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, traded modestly higher at $103.7 a...
US Postal Service will run out of cash within a year without Congress’ help, postmaster warns
2026-03-18, 10:39The head of the US Postal Service has warned lawmakers that the storied 250-year-old agency is at a “critical juncture” and will run out of cash in less than a year unless Congress allows it to borrow more money and charge more for postage. “At our current rate, we’ll be out of cash in less than 12...
His mom’s killing led him to become a cop. He then pressed to reopen her case
2026-03-18, 10:20Trey Robinson was sitting in his car eating baked fish and broccoli when his phone rang. Fresh from a morning run in Atlanta, he was parked outside a seafood restaurant after picking up his lunch. He balanced the warm takeout container on his lap, the aroma of crispy whiting filling the air as he...
DHS has a nearly billion-dollar plan to get immigrants to ‘self deport.’ 72,000 people have ...
2026-03-18, 10:20President Donald Trump has heralded a $915 million incentive program and app as key tools to get undocumented immigrants to voluntarily leave the country, part of a broader push his administration credits with getting 2.2 million people to “self-deport.” But a new document shared internally within...
Trump’s war with Iran is jeopardizing his plan for Fed rate cuts this year
2026-03-18, 09:44The US-Israeli war with Iran, now stretching into its third week, is dashing hopes that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates at all this year. The war has sparked the biggest disruption to oil supply in history, sending energy prices higher and threatening to jack up the cost of nearly...
Quantum pioneers who perfected secrecy receive Turing Award
2026-03-18, 09:09Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 work depended on the hidden, counterintuitive world of quantum physics, which governs the way the...
TSA workers face reality of working without pay as passengers unaware of the shutdown see ...
2026-03-18, 08:50More than a third of the security screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport didn’t show up to work Tuesday, the airport’s general manager said, causing passengers to have to wait in line for up to two hours. Long lines have stretched through different airports this week as...
Iran’s chokehold on Hormuz threatens India’s beloved samosas and chai
2026-03-18, 06:44Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz has sparked global fears of fuel pumps running dry, but in India, it’s also leaving a bad taste in the mouth of some restauranteurs and street stall diners, with samosas off the menu and the ubiquitous chai lacking its usual aroma in parts of the country. The...
Cuban president promises ‘impregnable resistance’ to any US attempt to control island
2026-03-18, 06:08Any attempt by the United States to take control of Cuba would be met with “impregnable resistance,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Tuesday, as power returned to some parts of the island following a nationwide grid collapse. Successive US administrations have sought to isolate Cuba for more...
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