Nation and World
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Russian strike on the Kyiv region kills 4 and wounds at least 15, with peace talks stalled
Mar 14, 2026 8:50 am - A combined Russian missile and drone attack on the Kyiv region killed at least four people and wounded 15, a Ukrainian official said Saturday, after the United States postponed Russia-Ukraine talks due to the war with Iran.
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Pakistan’s president says Afghan Taliban forces crossed a ‘red line’ with drone attacks on civilians
Mar 14, 2026 8:48 am - Pakistan’s president on Saturday warned neighboring Afghanistan’s Taliban government that it had “ crossed a red line ” by launching drone attacks on civilian areas in Pakistan and said the administration in Kabul has brought “grave consequences upon itself.”
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Trump seeks to close $1.6 trillion revenue gap with raft of new tariffs
Mar 14, 2026 8:45 am - The Trump administration this week stepped up its ambitious effort to replace about $1.6 trillion in lost tariff revenue that was eliminated by the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a range of the president's import taxes.
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Tehran claims the US attacked it from the UAE as Iran war enters its third weekMar 14, 2026 8:42 am - Iran urged people Saturday to evacuate the Middle East's busiest port and two others in the United Arab Emirates, openly threatening a neighboring country's non-U.S. assets for the first time as its war with the U.S. and Israel entered a third week.
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US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once
Mar 13, 2026 10:12 am - Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.
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Number on gun used in fatal Old Dominion shooting was obliterated, law enforcement official says
Mar 13, 2026 9:10 am - The shooter who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University on Thursday in an attack being investigated as an act of terrorism had a gun with an obliterated serial number, potentially complicating investigators’ efforts to determine how the man with a previous felony conviction obtained a firearm, according to a law enforcement official.
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Key inflation gauge worsened in January, before Iran war lifted gas prices
Mar 13, 2026 8:11 am - An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
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Man in Michigan synagogue attack lost family members in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says
Mar 13, 2026 8:07 am - A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
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US economy expanded at sluggish 0.7% in fourth quarter, government says, downgrading first estimate
Mar 13, 2026 8:00 am - The U.S. economy, hobbled by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, advanced at an unexpectedly sluggish 0.7% annual rate from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Friday in a big downgrade of its initial estimate.
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Cuban president says talks were recently held with the US to resolve differences
Mar 13, 2026 7:47 am - Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Friday that his government has held recent talks with the U.S., marking the first time the Caribbean country confirms such speculation.