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Elon Musk Made an "AI Boyfriend" and I Dated it

Published: March 12, 2026 03:53

This week was so insane. I’m just so glad it’s over! Find out if I stay with AI or let my boyfriend back in the apartment. Also thank you guys so much for supporting me in my youtube journey! I’m trying to figure out my style so lmk what resonates with…

‘Doomsday plane’ performs exercises in Fresno, stoking fears as war escalates

Published: March 12, 2026 02:34

Two months after a so-called Doomsday Plane caused a stir by landing at Los Angeles International Airport, a similar plane sparked fear and speculation when it was spotted performing exercises at Fresno Yosemite International Airport on Sunday. Both…

UN panel says racist hate speech by Trump and other US leaders has led to human rights violations

Published: March 12, 2026 02:32

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed panel of independent experts focusing on racial discrimination says racist hate speech by U.S. President Donald Trump and other American political leaders, along with a crackdown on immigration in the United States, have led to…

Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started

Published: March 12, 2026 02:31

The company, Stryker, said a cyberattack disrupted its “Microsoft environment.” An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a medical tech company in what appears to be the first significant instance of Iran’s hacking an…

Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos

Published: March 12, 2026 02:28

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with images taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out photographers from two subsequent news conferences. The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing…

Iran war disrupts global fertiliser supplies, threatening food security

Published: March 12, 2026 02:27

Iran's blockade of Hormuz disrupts fertiliser exports from Middle East, threatening global food supplies and driving up prices.

US will permanently close the consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, its closest mission to Afghanistan

Published: March 12, 2026 02:26

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department will permanently close the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has been America’s closest diplomatic mission to the Afghan border and was a primary operations and logistics point before, during and after the…

Trump Just Hired… Erika Kirk

Published: March 12, 2026 01:02

How is Erika Kirk qualified to advise the Air Force? Support Tennessee Brando: https://www.patreon.com/tnbrando Download my NEW ALBUM "FABB" on Band Camp https://tennesseebrando.bandcamp.com/album/f-a-b-b NEW MERCH STORE tennesseebrando-shop.fourthwall.com…

‘It Is So Much Worse Than You Thought’: Classified Iran Briefings Leave Democrats Furious

Published: March 12, 2026 01:02

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. There’s always a tinge of performative outrage on Capitol Hill, a tendency to indulge hyperbole and summon more than a little…

Trump keeps telling America he's winning in Iran. He's less clear in explaining how the war ends

Published: March 12, 2026 01:01

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing jittery global markets and drooping poll numbers since launching a war with Iran, President Donald Trump has cycled from calls for “unconditional surrender” to sounding amenable to an end state in which Iran trades one hard-line…

Trump's war on Iran creates an economic storm for consumers and the Fed

Published: March 12, 2026 01:00

A stable inflation reading in February masks new risks from rising energy prices and geopolitical turmoil. Inflation held steady in February — but the latest reading offers little clarity for Federal Reserve officials, who are navigating an increasingly…

Lawrence: Trump's war in Iran shows he doesn't know what he's talking about

Published: March 11, 2026 04:30

MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell looks at Donald Trump’s lying, and his administration's ignorance, when questioned about his war of choice in Iran. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. » Subscribe to MS NOW: https://www.youtube.com/@msnow MS NOW…

No talks, negotiations with US after ‘bitter experience’: Iran’s FM

Published: March 11, 2026 02:15

While US President Trump says the war with Iran could end soon, Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi says negotiation with the US is off the table.

Images taken near Iranian school hit in deadly strikes show fragments of U.S.-made missile

Published: March 11, 2026 02:13

NBC News couldn’t independently verify where the fragments were found or when. Munitions experts said they appeared to be components of an American cruise missile. Evidence continues to mount that the U.S. was responsible for the deadly school strike in…

What Americans think about the war in Iran, according to recent polls

Published: March 11, 2026 02:12

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are divided along party lines on U.S. military action against Iran, according to polls conducted since the war began, with most polls showing opposition is higher than support. Polls suggest that many Americans are worried the…

Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused “Foreign Agent” Set to Go on Trial—With Rubio on the Witness List

Published: March 11, 2026 02:11

David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for the Trump White House, too. He was Marco Rubio’s…

Trump appoints Erika Kirk to Air Force Academy board to continue Charlie's 'legacy'

Published: March 11, 2026 02:11

President Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, to the board of visitors that’s in charge of making U.S. Air Force Academy recommendations to the secretary of war and the president. As of March 10, Kirk is…

Fact check: Trump’s latest false, unproven and contradictory claims about the Iran war

Published: March 11, 2026 02:11

President Donald Trump, pushing back at the suggestion that the US was responsible for a deadly strike on an elementary school in Iran, claimed at a press conference Monday that Iran has Tomahawk cruise missiles. But Trump’s claim was immediately rejected…

Iran war updates: Pentagon says 140 U.S. service members have been wounded as Hegseth vows 'most intense day of strikes'

Published: March 11, 2026 02:11

Oil prices held relatively steady Tuesday after Trump warned that the U.S. would intensify its bombardment if Tehran continues to block …

US senators demand probe into ‘appalling’ attack on girls’ school in Iran

Published: March 9, 2026 22:58

Top Democrats say Minab school bombing that killed at least 170 people ‘must be fully and impartially reviewed’. Top Democratic senators in the United States have called for an investigation into the strike against a girls’ school in southern Iran, saying…

Putin says Russia can supply oil, gas to Europe as energy prices soar

Published: March 9, 2026 22:56

Russian president spoke as oil prices surged past $100 per barrel, reaching levels unseen since start of Ukraine war. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to conditionally supply oil and gas to Europe as the US-Israeli war on Iran…

World reacts to appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader

Published: March 9, 2026 22:55

New supreme leader receives support from Oman, Iraq, Yemen’s Houthis, while the US and Israel make threats. Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has never held a formal position in government, but his appointment as his late father’s successor amid…

Trump wants a war on cartels. Mexico’s president says he should start by combatting guns and addiction

Published: March 9, 2026 22:55

MEXICO CITY — President Trump has deployed military might to fight drug cartels, blowing up dozens of alleged smugglers at sea and helping Ecuador bomb an apparent criminal training camps. In recent days he announced the formation of a “brand-new military…

How ICE officers defied court orders as immigrant arrests soared in Minneapolis

Published: March 9, 2026 22:54

Officers have repeatedly detained people under a reinterpretation of a 1996 law that states that anyone in the U.S. illegally “shall be detained” without bond, indefinitely. MINNEAPOLIS — Jose Avendano tried explaining to the immigration officer yanking…

Is Donald Trump considering a military draft for Iran? What we know

Published: March 9, 2026 22:52

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not dispel fears of a military draft for the war in Iran in an interview appearance over the weekend. Leavitt appeared on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on March 8, speaking about…

New Yorker Skewers Trump And His Caddy Hegseth With Brutal ‘War-A-Lago’ Cover

Published: March 9, 2026 16:47

The president and defense secretary take center stage on the critical front page. Donald Trump is transformed into a World War II-style general for The New Yorker’s latest critical cover. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, is demoted to being the…

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