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Trump urges world to help open Strait of Hormuz; US Embassy in Baghdad hit

By Maegan Vazquez and Mustafa Salim
Mar 14, 2026 7:13 pm - President Donald Trump on Saturday urged countries to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz, in an attempt to force Iran to reopen it as oil prices surge
From rockets to cancer research, here’s how the number pi is embedded in our lives

By JAIMIE DING
Mar 14, 2026 2:50 pm - Math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day every March 14, the date that represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.
The biggest change to voting in Republican election bill could become a burden for many US voters

By JULIE CARR SMYTH
Mar 14, 2026 8:53 am - Joshua Bogdan was born and raised in the United States. The only time the New Hampshire resident has left the country was for a day and a half in seventh grade, when he went to Canada to see Niagara Falls.
Russian strike on the Kyiv region kills 4 and wounds at least 15, with peace talks stalled

By SUSIE BLANN
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.
Pakistan’s president says Afghan Taliban forces crossed a ‘red line’ with drone attacks on civilians

By MUNIR AHMED and ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN
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.”
Trump seeks to close $1.6 trillion revenue gap with raft of new tariffs

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
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.
Tehran claims the US attacked it from the UAE as Iran war enters its third week

By JON GAMBRELL, SAM MEDNICK, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and SAMY MAGDY
Mar 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.
US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Mar 13, 2026 10:12 am - Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.
Number on gun used in fatal Old Dominion shooting was obliterated, law enforcement official says

By ALAN G. BREED and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
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.
Key inflation gauge worsened in January, before Iran war lifted gas prices

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
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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