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Lead: On 8 March 2026, airlines and governments coordinated a large-scale repatriation effort after regional airspace instability left thousands of international travelers stranded across Gulf transit hubs. Carriers including Qatar Airways, Emirates, Etihad and IndiGo operated a combined 60 repatriation flights from the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia to destinations such as the UK, US, … Read more

Lead Last week in Washington, the U.S. Defense Department summarized the military aims of President Trump’s campaign against Iran as focused on preventing Tehran from projecting power beyond its borders. Publicly, strikes have hit ballistic missile, drone, nuclear and naval programs; publicly available analyses show a rising share of targets tied to internal security forces … Read more

Lead: A new study in Scientific Reports reports that the region of weakest gravity on Earth lies beneath Antarctica and that extremely slow rock motions deep in the planet’s mantle largely produced this “gravity hole.” Researchers led by Alessandro Forte and Petar Glišović used global earthquake recordings and physics-based models to map the anomaly and … Read more

March 8, 2026 — Over the weekend Gulf states reported fresh damage to infrastructure as Iranian missiles and drones struck regional sites, and Iranian state media announced a replacement for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates said air defenses were engaging … Read more

Lead Apple this week released MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, but industry reporting says a distinct M6-based MacBook Pro is expected later in 2026 with several features new to the Mac. The machine is rumored to introduce touch input as an optional second input method, an OLED panel across … Read more

Lead Representative Dan Crenshaw said viral misinformation and a culture of online clickbait were decisive factors in his March 2026 primary loss to state Rep. Steve Toth, arguing that baseless attacks drowned out his record and explanations. Crenshaw, a fourth-term congressman from Atascosita, was defeated by a roughly 15-point margin in a district that spans … Read more

Lead China’s top diplomat framed Beijing as a stabilizing force on March 7, 2026, urging an immediate ceasefire as the Middle East war around Iran continues to escalate. Speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of China’s legislature in Beijing, Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for parties to return to the negotiating table to … Read more

Lead: In Washington, President Donald Trump entered 2026 promising a ‘‘roaring’’ economy, but new data through February show job losses, a sharp rise in gasoline prices and weaker markets that undercut that claim. Official reports show a gain of 130,000 jobs in January followed by a loss of 92,000 in February and a December revision … Read more

Published: March 8, 2026 at 10:04 am The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, lies roughly 300 metres below the surface and contains gypsum crystals up to 11 metres long. The chamber has been nicknamed the “Sistine Chapel of crystals” for its overwhelming scale and beauty. Geological conditions that produced the formations also created extreme … Read more

Lead — On March 8, 2026, hours after Israeli and American airstrikes struck targets in Iran, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (I.R.G.C.) moved into neighborhoods across Tehran and other cities. Eyewitness reports and short videos showed plainclothes militiamen armed with Kalashnikovs manning checkpoints, searching cars and mobile phones, and deploying anti‑riot vehicles in … Read more

Lead Jon Rahm produced a closing-round 64 to win the LIV Golf event in Hong Kong, defeating Thomas Detry in the final standings. The 64 included eight birdies and two bogeys and secured Rahm his third LIV Golf victory and his first in the series since 2024. Detry finished second after a 67 in the … Read more

On March 8, 2026, Saturday Night Live opened with a C-SPAN–style press briefing in which Colin Jost appeared as a fictionalized defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, lampooning the escalating U.S.-Iran confrontation. The sketch, hosted by Ryan Gosling with musical guest Gorillaz, turned tense geopolitical headlines into broad physical and verbal parody, including a gag in which … Read more

Lead: Bahraini authorities said an Iranian drone struck a desalination plant on Sunday in a strike that damaged infrastructure but left water supplies operational, intensifying fears that civilian utilities are being targeted as the Iran–Israel–US conflict spreads across the Gulf. The attack came amid renewed Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilities and growing rhetoric from … Read more

Lead On March 8, 2026, Death Valley National Park experienced a superbloom that has transformed its famously barren basins into swathes of pink, purple and yellow. Park officials say this is the most dramatic display the park has seen since 2016, driven by wetter-than-normal conditions last fall and early winter. The bloom is most vivid … Read more

Lead On Friday morning CNBC veteran Rick Santelli, 69, reacted with visible surprise to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ February employment report after the agency reported a loss of 92,000 payroll jobs and a rise in the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent. The report also included downward revisions to prior months that reduced previously reported … Read more