Lead: The NFL free‑agency negotiating window opens at noon ET on Monday, and our top‑150 list has been revised to reflect roster moves and expected cuts ahead of the March 11 new league year. The Athletic’s February rankings were updated after franchise tags, re‑signings and late‑winter roster churn; Trey Hendrickson and Malik Willis now headline … Read more
Lead Fighting between the United States, Israel and Iran widened through March 5, 2026, as both Tehran and Washington pledged to press attacks while Gulf partners warned they are exhausting missile interceptors. Iran continued to launch large numbers of drones and missiles across the region; independent and local counts point to more than 1,600 UAV … Read more
Lead: The UK Ministry of Defence has said a Shahed-type drone that struck RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Sunday was not launched from Iran, though the precise launch site and the perpetrators remain unconfirmed. The drone hit a hangar used by American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft and caught fire; officials reported no casualties and no damage … Read more
After a late‑month Supreme Court decision that found duties levied under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) unlawful, former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury officials warned that roughly $175 billion collected through that tariff scheme will likely not reach American consumers. Treasury official Scott Bessent has said the sums are unlikely to be … Read more
Lead: Apple’s macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update has relabeled the M5 family’s high‑performance CPU cores as “super” cores in system utilities, formalizing a naming shift tied to the company’s recent M5 Pro and M5 Max announcement. The change appears in both System Information and Activity Monitor and applies retroactively to Apple’s earlier M5 hardware. This is … Read more
Lead: Pop star Britney Spears was arrested in Ventura County, California, on the night of March 4–5, 2026 on suspicion of driving under the influence, law-enforcement sources reported. The California Highway Patrol detained her at about 9:30 PM and booking records show a jail intake later that night; inmate records indicate she was released in … Read more
Lead Lou Holtz, the coach credited with reviving multiple college football programs and guiding Notre Dame to an unbeaten national championship season in 1988, has died in Orlando, Florida. He was 89. Notre Dame announced his death on March 4, 2026 and said the family issued a statement; the university did not provide a cause … Read more
Lead NFL roster activity has surged ahead of the new league year as teams pursue trades, restructures and releases to reshape lineups. In early March 2026 several headline moves — including the Arizona decision on Kyler Murray and Kansas City’s roster shifts around Patrick Mahomes’ recovery — signaled a busy market. With this year’s free-agent … Read more
Lead: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man returns Tommy Shelby to screens in a 112-minute wartime thriller that opens in select U.S. theaters on March 6 and debuts on Netflix on March 20. Set in 1940 Birmingham amid the Blitz, director Tom Harper and writer Steven Knight frame the film as both a new beginning and … Read more
Lead Since early March 2026, waves of Iranian Shahed loitering drones have posed a growing challenge across the Middle East, prompting expensive missile and radar responses from the United States and its partners. More than 2,000 one-way drones have been launched in recent exchanges, and some have reached targets despite layered, billion-dollar air defenses. Analysts … Read more
Lead: Three men, including David Taylor, the 39-year-old husband of newly elected MP Joani Reid, were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service and have since been released on bail. Arrests were carried out at addresses in London and Wales and police searched several properties in London, East Kilbride and Cardiff. … Read more
Lead: An active winter system is expected to bring a mix of freezing rain, sleet and localized plowable snow to parts of Massachusetts beginning Thursday night into early Friday, with the worst travel impacts concentrated between 9 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Friday. CBS Boston updated its advisory at 8:52 a.m. EST on March 5, … Read more
Lead: On March 5, 2026, authorities in central Utah announced a homicide investigation after three women were found dead the day before in Wayne County. Two bodies were discovered on a hiking trail and a third was located at a residence during the same investigation. Local officials closed schools and advised residents in and around … Read more
Lead Financial Times reports that Revolut has submitted an application to US banking authorities as part of a strategic push into the American market. The move, filed recently according to the report, seeks permission to offer regulated deposit and payment services to US customers. If approved, the licence would allow Revolut to operate under US … Read more
In Brooklyn federal court on March 5, 2026, defendant Asif Merchant testified that operatives tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pressured him to recruit criminals to carry out attacks on U.S. political figures, naming Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Nikki Haley as possible targets. Merchant, a 47-year-old Pakistani businessman, said he handed what he … Read more
