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Oil prices jump and markets slide as Iran names new supreme leader and digs in

By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY
Mar 09, 2026 7:07 am - Oil prices surged and stock markets slid Monday after hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen to succeed his late father as Iran's supreme leader. His appointment, and new strikes on regional oil infrastructure, signaled that Iran was digging in 10 days into the war launched by the United States and Israel.
'Country' Joe McDonald, '60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84

By HILLEL ITALIE
Mar 08, 2026 6:09 pm - NEW YORK (AP) — “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that becam...
International Women’s Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

By The Associated Press
Mar 08, 2026 4:14 pm - Women across the world called for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs and celebrate progress toward female empowerment during even...
Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran US media agency, voiding layoffs

By Scott Nover
Mar 07, 2026 7:25 pm - A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.
Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime

By John Hudson and Warren P. Strobel
Mar 07, 2026 6:00 pm - A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials say has “only just begun.”
Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m.

By Olivia George
Mar 07, 2026 5:56 pm - The police officers were taunted and beaten. Some were knocked unconscious and dragged down stone steps, tear gas stinging their throats, to chants of “U.S.A! U.S.A!” on Jan. 6, 2021, as hundreds, then thousands, swarmed the citadel of American democracy.
Oil and gas prices rapidly rise as Iran war shows no signs of letting up

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
Mar 07, 2026 5:51 pm - 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.
Trump grieves with families during return of soldiers killed in war in the Middle East

By SEUNG MIN KIM and JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON
Mar 07, 2026 5:45 pm - President Donald Trump on Saturday joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base at the dignified transfer for the six U.S. soldiers killed in the war in the Middle East.
A nightclub bombing in Peru injures 33, including minors, authorities say

Mar 07, 2026 3:53 pm - A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday.
At least 10 killed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv as Russian missile hits apartment building

By SUSIE BLANN
Mar 07, 2026 3:50 pm - 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.

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