Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was giving President Trump "maximum options" and that the war will not be "endless," a day after the president gave mixed signals about progress.
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This page is an archive of main headlines from the US for 11.03.2026.
It displays 100 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.
11.03.2026 ⇢ The Day Iranian Drones Wounded U.S. Troops
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Morning coverage reported the Pentagon's vow of the 'most intense day of strikes' inside Iran, following Defense Secretary Hegseth's announcement the previous day. Early afternoon brought reports of Iranian drone attacks on U.S. forces in Kuwait causing brain trauma, burns, and shrapnel wounds, with the Pentagon announcing 140 troops wounded. Evening reports detailed FBI warnings of Iranian drone plots against California in retaliation, while coverage continued of the destruction of 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz and the humanitarian crisis as nearly 700,000 fled Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
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▶ With fast-moving developments, the conflict in the Middle East can be hard to follow. See the war in maps, graphics and images from the AP.
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The Daily Beast
The president is finding new ways to hype up a bill that is almost certain to be killed in the Senate.
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The percentage of voters with a "great deal" or "quite a bit" of confidence in the court is at the lowest ebb since 2000.
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The Washington Post
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06:02⇢Hormuz Mines Sunk, Lebanon Flees
⌨The newspapers report on the escalating U.S.-Iran conflict, with multiple outlets covering the Pentagon's vow of the 'most intense day of strikes' inside Iran (NPR, Newsweek, Washington Times) and the destruction of 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz (Washington Examiner, The Epoch Times, Newsmax, AP News). Several sources also note the humanitarian crisis as nearly 700,000 flee Israeli strikes in Lebanon (NYTimes, Newsweek, The Intercept).
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The Washington Post
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Attacks and counterattacks continued throughout the Middle East Wednesday. Two cargo ships were struck in the Gulf, as some lawmakers in Washington pressed for answers on the war's rationale.
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Breitbart News
The left-wing government’s plans to scrap jury trials for most cases in Britain cleared a major hurdle on Tuesday as Members of Parliament backed legislation to advance it to the next stage of the lawmaking process.
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The Atlantic
The reasons other U.S. presidents avoided war with Iran are becoming all too evident.
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First Lady Melania Trump’s film, “Melania,” is debuting as the number one movie in the United States on Amazon Prime and became the streaming service’s top entertainment on Wednesday, beating out the hit series “Young Sherlock.”
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Breitbart News
On Tuesday, the Democrat-run State of Washington passed a massive wealth tax. Hours later, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced his move to Republican-run Florida.
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About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.
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New survey data show that many of Donald Trump’s 2024 working-class voters are already wavering. But most aren’t turning to Democrats — they’re dropping out of politics altogether.
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Breitbart News
Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) abrupt conversion to support eliminating the filibuster if necessary to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda lasted for about a cup of coffee.
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The Washington Post
The International Energy Agency announced that it would carry out its largest-ever release of oil reserves — 400 million barrels.
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▶ With fast-moving developments, the conflict in the Middle East can be hard to follow. See the war in maps, graphics and images from the AP.
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The Daily Beast
Scores of U.S. soldiers were gravely injured—but the Pentagon has not been upfront about it.
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The Daily Caller
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The president signaled that the United States is ‘not finished yet’ with Iran and that there would ‘be more of the same.’
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Washington Free Beacon
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The Intercept
Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it.
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EARLIER: INQUIRY FINDS U.S. BEHIND DEADLY IRAN SCHOOL STRIKE
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The president is visiting Kentucky to boost the primary challenger to a congressman he has called a "moron," a "lightweight" and a "loser."
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Tehran has attacked three vessels in the Strait of Hormuz this morning after the U.S. destroyed 16 Iranian minelaying ships.
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The FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran could retaliate for U.S. attacks by trying to launch drones at the West Coast. Could a conflict centered thousands of miles away produce risks on the U.S. mainland?
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A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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Here Are 12 Bills Democrats Just Passed To Trample Gun Rights in Virginia
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The New York Times
Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the investigation, undercutting President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.
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New York Post
Should the NFL approve the sale, the trio immediately would no longer have any ownership stake in the team.
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Los Angeles Times
Ian Prasad Philbrick
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Severe storms slammed parts of the Midwest on March 10 and 11, leaving behind a trail of uprooted trees and smashed cars.
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The Washington Post
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The Washington Post
A federal appeals court has ruled that First Amendment free speech rights apply all the way down to first graders, as the judges weighed in on a tricky case involving a student who wrote a note to a Black classmate trying to say “all lives matter.”
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16:50⇢Iranian Drones Wound U.S. Troops
⌨The newspapers report on escalating U.S.-Iran military conflict, with multiple outlets covering new Iranian drone attacks on U.S. forces in Kuwait causing brain trauma and burns (CBS, ABC News), FBI warnings of Iranian drone plots against California (ABC News), and continued coverage of the 'most intense day of strikes' inside Iran (NPR, Newsweek, Washington Times). Several sources also note the humanitarian crisis as nearly 700,000 flee Lebanon (NYTimes, Newsweek).
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Graham’s asinine rhetoric about the Iran war is making it more difficult for the Trump White House to develop a coherent message on the subject.
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Iran warned Wednesday it could wage a long, economically destructive war with the U.S. and Israel as it effectively closed off transit through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump, in contrast, said the conflict would end "soon," promising "great safety" for vessels.
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The New York Times
More than 600 people were killed in Lebanon and over 800,000 were displaced, officials there said. Repeated drone attacks killed several in Iran’s capital.
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According to an estimate the Pentagon shared with Congress, the U.S. used up billions of dollars in munitions in the first two days of the war.
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CINCINNATI—President Donald Trump said Operation Epic Fury in Iran is “way ahead of schedule” while visiting a pharmaceutical development and manufacturing site in Ohio on Wednesday.
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The Washington Post
President Trump said Wednesday the war against Iran is turning out to be “easier than we thought” and predicted that soaring oil prices will plummet again, as the conflict threatens to upend his focus on the economy in a midterm election.
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The strike on an elementary school killed at least 175, many of them children, raising questions as to whether the military’s use of AI-enabled targeting was a factor.
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The Daily Beast
The pedophile’s accountant was deposed by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
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Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.
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NBC News
Cornyn, who spent years defending the filibuster, is locked in a competitive GOP runoff in Texas against Ken Paxton, who has aligned with Trump on the issue.
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How long can Iran keep shooting missiles? How long can everyone else keep shooting them down?
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CINCINNATI—President Donald Trump said Operation Epic Fury in Iran is “way ahead of schedule” while visiting a pharmaceutical development and manufacturing site in Ohio on Wednesday.
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The Washington Post
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The victim – an aspiring model allegedly sexually abused by Epstein since age 16 in 2005 – shared the shocking claims in an interview with feds in January 2020, five months after the convicted sex offender’s jail-cell suicide.
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Virginia's Impending 'Assault Firearm' Ban Is Logically and Constitutionally Dubious
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The victim – an aspiring model allegedly sexually abused by Epstein since age 16 in 2005 – shared the shocking claims in an interview with feds in January 2020, five months after the convicted sex offender’s jail-cell suicide.
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18:39⇢Strait of Hormuz Under Siege
⌨The newspapers report on escalating U.S.-Iran military conflict, with multiple outlets covering the 'most intense day of strikes' inside Iran (NPR, Newsweek, Washington Times), Iranian drone attacks on U.S. forces in Kuwait causing brain trauma and burns (CBS, ABC News), and the destruction of 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz (AP News, Washington Examiner, The Epoch Times). Several sources also note the humanitarian crisis as nearly 700,000 flee Israeli strikes in Lebanon (NYTimes, Newsweek, The Intercept).
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▶ With fast-moving developments, the conflict in the Middle East can be hard to follow. See the war in maps, graphics and images from the AP.
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Breitbart News
A Trump administration official told Breitbart News that Chinese officials have now threatened to detain Panamanian-flagged vessels in China, something that could disrupt global commerce and represents retaliation against Panama for recent developments taking control of the two ports on either end of the Panama Canal out of the hands of a Hong Kong company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.
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The Daily Beast
An Epstein victim provided details in an FBI interview released by the Justice Department.
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The move follows an earlier announcement by the International Energy Agency, whose member nations pledged to make 400 million barrels of oil available.
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The probes could result in fresh tariffs on imports from 16 major trade partners, including China and the European Union.
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Said the president on Wednesday: "I filled it up once and I'll fill it up again, but right now we'll reduce it a little bit, and that brings the prices down."
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The New York Times
The Defense Department told Congress that the estimate excluded many costs, so a total was expected to be far higher. Fighting in the Middle East showed no sign of letup.
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The Washington Post
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Meanwhile, Iran took credit for attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. gas prices reached a national average of $3.59 a gallon.
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The Washington Post
The Pentagon is pouring billions of dollars into new technologies that can survive, and excel, in that extreme cold, with an eye toward potential Arctic combat. The goal is to close an Arctic capabilities gap with adversaries Russia and China.
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Breitbart News
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr discussed the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing deregulation initiative during a policy discussion hosted by Breitbart News on Tuesday, March 10, outlining an effort that he said has already removed more than a thousand regulations and reduced hundreds of pages from the agency’s rulebook as part of a broader review of federal communications rules.
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“We’re extremely vulnerable to drone attacks,” Velicovich said. “We’re not prepared for this.”
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23:48⇢The War's First Billion-Dollar Week
⌨The newspapers report on escalating U.S.-Iran military conflict, with multiple outlets covering the first week's $11.3 billion cost (AP News), Trump's investigation of Iranian drone threats (Fox News), and continued coverage of U.S. service member injuries in Kuwait (CBS). Several sources also note rising Israel-Hezbollah tensions with evacuation notices in Beirut (ABC News).