Lead: The Houston Texans and defensive end Danielle Hunter have agreed to a one-year contract extension worth $40.1 million, according to multiple reports. The deal follows a previous one-year pact signed last season and keeps Hunter among the highest-paid edge rushers in the league. Hunter, 31, has played two seasons in Houston and was named … Read more
On March 5, 2026, Lev Parnas announced he will seek the U.S. House seat in Florida’s 27th Congressional District as a Democrat, challenging Republican Representative María Elvira Salazar. Parnas, 54, a Ukrainian‑born naturalized U.S. citizen, made the announcement in a campaign video and a Substack post, saying his experience inside Donald Trump’s orbit motivated the … Read more
Israel launches massive strikes on southern Beirut after evacuation order Lead: Israel carried out large-scale airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on 5 March 2026, hours after ordering more than 500,000 residents to evacuate immediately. The military said it was targeting Hezbollah positions; the evacuation order covered neighborhoods that include hospitals and government offices … Read more
Representative Tony Gonzales announced on March 5, 2026, that he will not run for another term in Congress after growing bipartisan pressure tied to revelations about his interactions with a former district staffer. The decision follows the public release of text messages showing Gonzales pursued a relationship with Regina Santos-Aviles in 2024; Santos-Aviles died by … Read more
Rising monthly auto payments are pushing potential buyers to delay or abandon new-car purchases across the United States, a shift that dealers and analysts say is already damping industry sales. At the end of last year the average monthly payment for a new vehicle was $774, while the average new-car price approached $50,000. Early 2026 … Read more
Director Michael Bay has filed a civil suit after accusing two women of causing extensive damage to his Bel Air estate in a hit-and-run incident first reported in September 2024. According to legal documents obtained by TMZ and filed on March 5, 2026, Bay says a 2016 Cadillac ATS drove over the curb, tore through … Read more
Lead: On Mar. 5, 2026 in Denver, Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James recorded the 15,838th field goal of his career, overtaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time leader in made field goals. The milestone came with 12.3 seconds left in the first quarter when James hit a turnaround baseline jumper over Nuggets forward Zeke … Read more
Lead: New research mapping Antarctica’s grounding line finds the continent lost nearly 5,000 square miles of grounded ice since 1996—an area equivalent to about ten times the City of Los Angeles. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used three decades of satellite imagery to quantify where ice sheets have … Read more
The final Oscar voting window closed at 5 p.m. PT, and the ballots make clear the outcome is far from settled: Academy members’ anonymous submissions reveal a two-film duel at the center of the season. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another dominate many categories, but voter behavior—late viewing, split loyalties … Read more
Lead: The US Department of Defense has formally designated Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, a move announced as effective immediately and prompting the AI company to say it will sue. The designation bars use of Anthropic technology for defense contracts while leaving non-defense commercial relationships intact, according to company statements. CEO Dario Amodei said Anthropic … Read more
In late February and the first days of March 2026, a U.S. Army Central memo reviewed by CBS News indicates Iranian-aligned actors likely located and tracked American troops who had been moved off base as part of force-protection measures. On March 1, a drone strike at the Shuaiba port in Kuwait killed six U.S. service … Read more
Senate Democrats on March 5, 2026, blocked for the third time a stopgap spending measure intended to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, insisting they would not approve funding without new limits on immigration enforcement. The procedural vote fell 51–45, short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill. Democrats sought visible-identification rules for … Read more
Lead: An international team has produced the most complete, high-resolution map of cold molecular gas at the center of the Milky Way, using ALMA after a four-year campaign. The map focuses on the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), the dense, turbulent region around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* roughly 4 million times the mass of … Read more
Lead On March 5, 2026 (10:26 PM UTC; updated March 6, 2026 at 2:31 AM UTC), Asia-Pacific markets oscillated as the prolonged conflict in the Middle East continued to dictate risk appetite. Stocks pared earlier losses while the dollar weakened and investors sought shelter in gold; oil moved lower on the session. The MSCI Asia … Read more
Lead In a recent hands-on preview of Sword Art Online: Echoes of Aincrad, the game revealed itself as a single-player, anime-styled action-RPG that deliberately wears MMO trappings. The demo put me into a quest called The Lost Log inside the Town of Beginnings and highlighted a first-for-series change: you create your own character rather than … Read more
