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This page is an archive of main headlines from the US for 19.03.2026.
It displays 208 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.
19.03.2026 ⇢ The Day Iran's Gas Field Became Trump's Red Line
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Morning coverage focused on escalating attacks on Persian Gulf energy infrastructure, with multiple outlets reporting Iran's retaliatory strikes on Gulf refineries and LNG facilities following Israel's attack on the South Pars gas field, sending global fuel prices soaring. Early afternoon brought President Trump's threat to destroy Iran's South Pars gas field if Qatar was attacked again, with outlets covering his ultimatum as a major escalation in military rhetoric. Evening coverage shifted to the Pentagon's $200 billion funding request for the Iran war and Trump's pledge not to deploy ground troops, creating a contrast between financial commitment and military restraint.
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Breitbart News
Former director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Joe Kent is reportedly being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for “allegedly leaking classified information.”
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The Daily Beast
But questions are now being asked about how much the president actually knew.
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Qatar’s state oil giant QatarEnergy said Iranian missile attacks on the country’s industrial site Ras Laffan have caused ‘extensive damage.’
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Mullin is expected to be confirmed as Homeland Security secretary, but ongoing tension with committee chair Paul could create some hurdles.
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One expert told Newsweek of “not only military risks but political and communal ones” if the Lebanese Army confronts Hezbollah.
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The Washington Post
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Deployment of the rapid-response force fuels speculation of boots on the ground, a move many Americans are against.
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New York Post
“It’s tough. We’re doing everything we can to keep our heads up and remain hopeful that we find him safe, but it’s a tough time.”
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The Washington Post
President Trump and the Pentagon were aware that Iran would target the Strait of Hormuz and global energy producers in response to Operation Epic Fury, the nation’s top intelligence officials told Senate lawmakers Wednesday.
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President Trump said that Israel acted alone when it struck the South Pars gas field in Iran. Trump threatened Iran to halt its attacks on Qatar's facilities, or face a "blow up" of their South Pars field.
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As the Senate considers President Donald Trump's stringent anti-voter fraud measure, legal experts say Kansas's offers a troubling case study.
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The Washington Post
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Pro-Israel, AI, and crypto groups saw mixed results across Illinois as outside interests sought to snatch up open seats that favor Democrats.
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After years of maligning teachers unions, Moms for Liberty has joined forces with its former adversaries to push for limits on laptops in classrooms.
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05:25⇢Gas Field Threats and Leak Probes
⌨The newspapers report on escalating military tensions between Israel, Iran, and the United States over energy infrastructure attacks, with multiple outlets covering Israel's strike on Iran's South Pars gas field and President Trump's threat to destroy the field if Iran attacks Qatar again (NPR, AP News, The Epoch Times, HuffPost, Washington Times, Fox News, ABC News). Several outlets also discuss the FBI investigation into former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent over alleged classified information leaks (Breitbart, The Daily Wire, CBS).
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Susanne Paola Antonetta
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The Daily Beast
But questions are now being asked about how much the president actually knew.
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As the Senate considers President Donald Trump's stringent anti-voter fraud measure, legal experts say Kansas's offers a troubling case study.
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New York Post
Just 2% of the top stories featured on Apple News were written by right-leaning news outlets in February.
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Lewandowski, who denies the claims, was an adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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The New York Times
Oil and natural gas prices climbed and European gas prices surged as tit-for-tat attacks on energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf heightened fears that the war would set off an energy crisis.
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Thousands of layoffs are being announced across the U.S. Search our live tracker to see which companies are cutting jobs, where, and when.
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The New York Times
Oil and natural gas prices climbed and European gas prices surged as tit-for-tat attacks on energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf heightened fears that the war would set off an energy crisis.
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The Epoch Times
The agency has arrested over 300 human traffickers and 1,700 child predators over the past year.
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The Daily Beast
The president was quick to blame Israel after it struck Iranian energy infrastructure.
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The Washington Post
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The Daily Beast
Trump suffered a full public meltdown over his war which is spiralling out of control.
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Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors' energy sites Thursday, hitting a Saudi refinery on the Red Sea and setting Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze as it struck back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation that has sent global fuel prices soaring. A ship was set ablaze off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and another was damaged off Qatar.
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President Trump said that Israel acted alone when it struck the South Pars gas field in Iran. Trump threatened Iran to halt its attacks on Qatar's facilities, or face a "blow up" of their South Pars field.
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New York Post
Just 2% of the top stories featured on Apple News were written by right-leaning news outlets in February.
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07:32⇢Gulf Refineries in Flames
⌨The newspapers report on escalating attacks on energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, with multiple outlets covering Iran's retaliatory strikes on Gulf Arab refineries and LNG facilities following an Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field, which has sent global fuel prices soaring (NPR, AP News, ABC News, NYTimes, Newsmax, Washington Examiner, Common Dreams, HuffPost). Several outlets also discuss the political fallout, including President Trump's threats and public statements about the conflict (NPR, The Daily Beast, Washington Times).
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Just 2% of the top stories featured on Apple News were written by right-leaning news outlets in February.
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Since World War II, the U.S. has rarely, if ever, attacked so many places. “All war. All the time. Everywhere,” one source put it.
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Just 2% of the top stories featured on Apple News were written by right-leaning news outlets in February.
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Israel launched a widespread strike on Iran's world-largest gas field, triggering retaliation from Tehran against key energy sites across the Gulf.
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President Donald Trump said that Israel carried out a strike on Iran's South Pars Gas Field and warned that any further retaliation targeting Qatar would trigger a massive U.S. response. If Qatar's liquefied natural gas infrastructure is targeted again, "the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before," Trump said in a post.
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The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk.
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The president is calling for combatants to halt attacks on oil infrastructure as the war threatens the global economy.
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President Trump is threatening to “massively blow up” a major gas field in Iran if the Islamic Republic launches any more attacks on Qatar’s gas facilities.
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As Iran retaliates for an Israeli strike on the South Pars gas field, one analyst warns the war is "now hitting the plumbing of the global energy system."
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The Atlantic
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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The late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to reckon with the project’s fundamental limits.
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09:04⇢Trump's Gas Field Ultimatum
⌨The newspapers report on escalating military threats and energy market disruptions from the Iran conflict, with multiple outlets covering President Trump's threat to destroy Iran's South Pars gas field if Qatar is attacked again and the resulting spike in global energy prices (NBC News, USA Today, CBS, NYTimes, Washington Times, Newsmax, HuffPost, NPR, AP News). Several outlets also discuss the political fallout of these threats and the ongoing war (The Atlantic, The Intercept, ABC News).
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth boasted Thursday that Iranian leadership positions are now “temp jobs” thanks to the US and Israel rapidly taking out the Islamic Republic’s top brass.
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President Trump has threatened to “massively blow up” the South Pars gas field if Iran continues attacks on Qatar’s energy sites.
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The teen, Luis Emmanuel Valencia Ponce, was charged with attempted murder and assault following terrifying random attack in East Elmhurst.
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President Trump started a war with no clear end in sight. If his predecessors' experiences are an indication, conflicts don't bode well for presidential approval ratings.
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President Trump called on all parties to the Iran war to halt attacks on oil infrastructure as rising prices threatened the global economy.
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Susanne Paola Antonetta
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The teen, Luis Emmanuel Valencia Ponce, was charged with attempted murder and assault following terrifying random attack in East Elmhurst.
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Israel is again invading Lebanon and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. With Israel determined to crush all forms of resistance, Lebanon has been dragged into a war it did nothing to start.
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Addressing reports the Pentagon is seeking the extra Iran-related funding, Hegseth said, ‘Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys.’
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Susanne Paola Antonetta
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Former director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Joe Kent is reportedly being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for “allegedly leaking classified information.”
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The Washington Post
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday confirmed reports that the Defense Department is asking Congress for upwards of $200 billion to support the ongoing military operations in Iran.
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10:45⇢Hegseth's Two Hundred Billion Dollar Ask
⌨The newspapers report on the Pentagon's request for $200 billion in additional funding for the Iran war, with multiple outlets covering Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's confirmation of the funding ask and his statement that 'it takes money to kill bad guys' (AP News, The Epoch Times, USA Today, Washington Times, ABC News, Fox News). Several outlets also discuss the political implications of the ongoing conflict, including its potential impact on presidential approval ratings (NPR, The Atlantic, The Intercept).
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Americans must anticipate an AI-fueled economic power grab by the left, Breitbart News social media director and author Wynton Hall warns in his new book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI.
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The Daily Beast
Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination passed out of committee despite a hostile confirmation hearing.
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Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.
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Susanne Paola Antonetta
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The Daily Beast
Critics are calling it “the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system.”
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The Epoch Times
European and Japanese leaders condemned Iranian attacks, warning of global energy disruption and pledging support to keep the vital Hormuz shipping route open.
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The Washington Post
An Israeli-led airstrike on Iran’s South Pars gas field triggered a massive Iranian counterattack on Thursday, with Tehran targeting energy infrastructure across the Gulf with scores of ballistic missiles and drones.
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The New York Times
The president will take questions alongside the Japanese prime minister, as energy prices soar after strikes on Persian Gulf oil and gas facilities.
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The New York Times
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could release more oil from its reserves as it scrambled to avert a sustained energy crisis set off by the war.
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The Intercept
The academy’s oversight board records show leaders dismantling DEI to align with Trump directives. Critics warn the military is becoming “a Christian nationalist praetorian guard.”
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The New York Times
The president is taking questions alongside the Japanese prime minister, as energy prices soar after strikes on Persian Gulf oil and gas facilities.
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12:06⇢Gulf Energy Sites in Flames
⌨The newspapers report on escalating attacks on energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, with multiple outlets covering Iran's retaliatory strikes on Gulf energy sites following an Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field, which has sent global energy prices soaring (AP News, The Epoch Times, Washington Times, NBC News, Newsweek, USA Today, CBS, NYTimes). Several outlets also discuss President Trump's meeting with the Japanese prime minister and his statements about the conflict (ABC News, Fox News, NYTimes, HuffPost).
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He toyed with their hopes, raising expectations he never meant to fulfill.
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The Epoch Times
European and Japanese leaders condemned Iranian attacks, warning of global energy disruption and pledging support to keep the vital Hormuz shipping route open.
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Shirin Ali
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The Washington Post
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The Daily Beast
The attack on the Qatari facility is set to exacerbate energy prices that have already skyrocketed under Trump’s war in Iran.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to confirm the funding request, saying "It takes money to kill bad guys."
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Follow our live blog as oil jumps to $118, Trump vows no ground troops and the Iran war fuels a widening energy crunch.
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The risky lending business has been booming, but now its problems are becoming increasingly visible on Wall Street and beyond.
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Iran executed a 19-year-old champion wrestler in a public hanging Thursday along with two other people who were arrested during the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters in January. 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi was executed by the…
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The New York Times
Speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump vowed to lower oil prices even as new strikes on Gulf energy sites drove them to record highs.
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Rand Paul's Anger at Markwayne Mullin Is Justified
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The Washington Post
Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment to succeed his father as Iran’s supreme leader is unlikely to settle the question of who ultimately holds power in post-war Tehran.
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The Washington Post
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Gas prices hit an average of $3.90 a gallon nationwide and global oil prices surged after Israel attacked a critical Iranian natural gas field.
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“Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys,” said Pete Hegseth, when asked about the funding request.
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Iranian attacks have knocked out 17% of Qatar's liquefied natural gas export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy's CEO said Thursday. The repairs will sideline 12.8 million tons per year of LNG for three to five years.
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The Daily Beast
A very public call to overthrow the Russian leader came from an unlikely source—and within a matter of hours, that source was locked up.
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14:04⇢Trump's No-Troops Vow
⌨The newspapers report on President Trump's pledge not to deploy ground troops to Iran despite escalating conflict and a Pentagon request for $200 billion in additional war funding (NBC News, Newsweek, USA Today, Washington Examiner, ABC News, The Intercept). Multiple outlets also cover the execution of a 19-year-old champion wrestler in Iran and internal power struggles following attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure (NY Post, Washington Times, The Epoch Times, Newsmax).
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Six nations called for international law to be respected in Gulf as they announced potential joint efforts to reopen the Straits of Hormuz.
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The Daily Beast
A U.S. F-35 was struck by suspected Iranian fire despite Trump’s repeated boasts.
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Iranian attacks have knocked out 17% of Qatar's liquefied natural gas export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy's CEO said Thursday. The repairs will sideline 12.8 million tons per year of LNG for three to five years.
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California's Billionaire Tax Won't Save Hospitals
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Chason Gordon
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Trump jokingly referred to the initial strikes on Iran to the attack on Pearl Harbor while seated next to Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
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The Epoch Times
The president made the comments during a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to the White House for discussions regarding the war in Iran.
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Wynton Hall’s new book Code Red: The Left, The Right, and The Race to Control AI includes a sobering look at the rapidly evolving danger of autonomous weapons, which look to change warfare in the Twenty-First Century as profoundly as nuclear weapons did in the Twentieth — and it will be far more difficult to keep the AI genie bottled than it was to restrain the proliferation of nuclear bombs.
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NPR has learned that mediators have quietly given Hamas a proposal to hand over all its weapons to ensure Gaza's reconstruction.
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The New York Times
President Trump vowed to do whatever it takes to lower oil prices, and his Treasury secretary floated lifting some sanctions on Iranian oil.
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A body was recovered from the Mediterranean sea yards from where missing University of Alabama student James Gracey went missing while on spring break in Barcelona.
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Christina Cauterucci
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The Washington Post
A U.S. industrial base built on complex precision weapons and solid rocket motors is starting to look elsewhere as modern conflicts demand high-volume, low-cost tools.
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The hearing went deathly silent after Tulsi Gabbard was asked about the goals of the US-Israel strikes.
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The Israeli prime minister said Trump "always makes his decisions on what he thinks is good for America."
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The U.S. military has accelerated the deployment of thousands more Marines and sailors to potentially help reinforce its troops fighting against Iran, officials tell Newsmax.
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16:29⇢Trump's Pearl Harbor Parallel
⌨The newspapers report on President Trump's statements about the Iran war, with multiple outlets covering his pledge not to deploy ground troops and his comparison of initial strikes to Pearl Harbor while meeting with Japan's prime minister (The Epoch Times, USA Today, NBC News, Newsweek). Several outlets also discuss the Pentagon's $200 billion funding request for the conflict (ABC News, The Intercept, Daily Caller, Newsmax).
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The former Trump press secretary confirmed that she was asked to leave the restaurant.
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The Trump administration previously attempted to prosecute the former FBI director in a separate matter but the case was dismissed.
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The U.S. military has accelerated the deployment of thousands more Marines and sailors to potentially help reinforce its troops fighting against Iran, officials tell Newsmax.
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Used in combat for the first time, the powerful GBU-72 bombs can reach fortified missile and command sites deep underground.
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Breitbart News
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ostensibly released a defiant written statement on Wednesday, vowing to retaliate for the death of security chief Ali Larijani.
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The Washington Post
President Trump on Thursday told Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that her country has been supportive of the U.S. military action in Iran, contrasting it with European leaders who have largely remained quiet or critical of the operation.
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The Washington Post
American communities spent the past few decades memorializing Cesar Chavez in their roads, schools, a National Park Service site and even a U.S. Navy ship. Now the rush is on to erase them.
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Radar data from FlightRadar24 indicates that the passenger plane cleared the FedEx charter by just 300 to 325 feet.
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If the U.S. follows through on its threats to bomb the oil assets on Kharg Island, the war would likely escalate and oil prices would increase exponentially.
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President Trump said he told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he disapproved of the attack. But Israeli officials said the Americans were informed beforehand.
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20:23⇢Bunker Busters Over Tehran
⌨The newspapers report on escalating U.S.-Iran military actions, with multiple outlets covering new U.S. strikes using GBU-72 bunker-busting bombs on Iranian targets and Trump's threats against Kharg Island oil assets (USA Today, NPR, Newsmax). Several outlets also discuss Iran's retaliatory threats following the death of security chief Ali Larijani and reports of an F-35 being struck by Iranian fire (Breitbart, ABC News, Fox News).
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The combined entity will become the largest operator of local TV stations in the country.
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Follow our live blog as oil jumps to $118, Trump vows no ground troops and the Iran war fuels a widening energy crunch.
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Netanyahu said late Thursday that, at Trump's urging, Israel will halt attacks on Iran's South Pars gas field. This, as the war puts pressure on global oil and gas pricing and supplies.
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The models on the beloved gameshow — known as “Barker’s Beauties” — say the atmosphere behind the scenes grew so toxic it became unbearable.
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Breitbart News
During an interview in Dallas, Texas, Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said he would vote against Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security, saying he would oppose any nominee unwilling to dismantle Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which he called a “secret police force.”
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Investigators in the U.S. search for motives in three recent instances of targeted attacks, and whether they are related to the war in Iran.
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In the past week, U.S. officials have confirmed two separate amphibious ready groups have been dispatched to the region amid ongoing fighting with Iran.
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