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Democrats’ newfound unity faces a test after US and Israeli strikes on Iran

By STEVEN SLOAN
Mar 02, 2026 4:53 pm - The Democratic Park, often beset by ideological division, has largely been unified in opposition to President Donald Trump's hardline immigration tactics. But the U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran could test the durability of that cohesion.
Who will be Iran’s next supreme leader after the killing of Khamenei?

By JULIA FRANKEL
Mar 02, 2026 3:11 pm - Iran's leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment.
Bill Clinton tries to distance himself from Epstein in videos released from his testimony last week

By STEPHEN GROVES
Mar 02, 2026 3:00 pm - Videos of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering questions about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Monday by a House committee investigating the late financier.
After a storied civil rights career, Jesse Jackson headed home to South Carolina to lie in state

By JEFFREY COLLINS
Mar 02, 2026 2:49 pm - The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. never stopped fighting for civil rights around the world. This includes South Carolina, the state where he was born and raised, and where he first experienced state-sanctioned racial discrimination.
Gunman was not on the FBI’s radar before he opened fire on a crowded Texas bar, authorities say

By JIM VERTUNO and LEKAN OYEKANAMI
Mar 02, 2026 2:47 pm - The gunman who opened fire outside a crowded Texas bar and killed two people in an attack that wounded 14 others was not on the radar of authorities before the shooting, federal and local investigators said Monday.
National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might ‘disparage’ America

By Karin Brulliard, Brady Dennis
Mar 02, 2026 1:24 pm - Managers have flagged several hundred displays and materials at hundreds of national park locations since last summer in response to administration orders to scrub sites of “partisan ideology,” descriptions that “disparage” Americans, or materials that stray from a focus on the nation’s “beauty, abundance, or grandeur.”
A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red on Tuesday across several continents

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN
Mar 02, 2026 11:47 am - A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse — and there won't be another until late 2028.
Limited flights from UAE begin as governments seek to extract citizens from Middle East

By KELVIN CHAN and ADAM SCHRECK
Mar 02, 2026 8:07 am - Several international airlines cautiously resumed a small number of flights from the United Arab Emirates on Monday, providing the first opportunity for travelers stranded by sweeping airspace closures to leave the country after the U.S. and Israel bombarded Iran, and Iran struck back at targets across the Middle East.
Hegseth addresses strikes in Iran and says this conflict is 'not endless'

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Mar 02, 2026 7:43 am - WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday spoke to widening concerns that the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by...
War in the Mideast widens as Trump says strikes on Iran could last several weeks

By JON GAMBRELL, MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY
Mar 02, 2026 7:28 am - Israel and the United States pounded Iran on Monday in a campaign that U.S. President Donald Trump said would likely take several weeks. Tehran and its allies hit back against Israel, Gulf states and targets critical to the world’s energy production.

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