Nation and World
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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.
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Trump administration allows for Russian oil sales as energy prices soarMar 13, 2026 7:43 am - The Trump administration on Thursday night temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil shipments in an effort to calm markets and stem the economic fallout from its war on Iran, which has sent crude prices spiraling upward.
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Trump says US bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network
Mar 13, 2026 6:57 am - President Donald Trump said the U.S. bombed military sites Friday on an island vital to Iran's oil network, while an American official said 2,500 more Marines and an amphibious assault ship are being sent to the Middle East nearly two weeks into the war with the Islamic Republic.
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US military refueling plane crashed in Iraq, killing 6
Mar 13, 2026 6:53 am - All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran are dead, the U.S. military said Friday, after their plane crashed in western Iraq.