Peter Alexander announced on Saturday during the weekend “Today” broadcast that he is leaving NBC News after a long run splitting duties between the network’s White House coverage and co-anchoring the Saturday edition of “Today.” Alexander has spent 15 years on the White House beat and has been a regular on “Today” weekends since 2018, … Read more
Lead: U.S. expeditionary forces are moving into the Middle East as the White House pursues parallel diplomacy aimed at ending the war with Iran. Thousands of marines from the 31st and 11th amphibious expeditionary units have been repositioned from Asia, and roughly 2,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne are en route. Senior officials, including Secretary … Read more
Lead: At 26, David Lyon noticed two symptoms—blood in his stool and a sharp pain when standing—that led to a July 2021 emergency-room referral and, three days later, a diagnosis of Stage IV colorectal cancer that had already spread to his liver. Treated with three years of chemotherapy, colon resection in July 2022 and a … Read more
Lead On the evening of March 28, 2026, residents of L’Isle-aux-Coudres, a small island in Quebec’s St. Lawrence River, held their annual Mid-Lent (Mi-Carême) masked festivities. Participants visited homes, bars and community halls wearing wigs, pillows and elaborate masks, performing jigs and music to avoid recognition. The rite, rooted in medieval French practice, endures here … Read more
Lead: On March 28, 2026, an Iranian missile-and-drone strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia injured 12 U.S. service members, two critically, U.S. officials said, as the monthlong war that began on February 28 widened across the region. The attack also damaged at least two KC-135 refueling aircraft and came amid new Houthi … Read more
Lead On Friday, March 28, 2026, the US House approved a Republican-authored stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for eight weeks after rejecting a bipartisan Senate compromise. The House vote passed 213 to 203 and keeps funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border patrol … Read more
Four weeks into the war with Iran, President Donald Trump’s public mix of conciliatory rhetoric and escalatory actions has deepened unease among Republican lawmakers, administration aides and regional partners. Trump has publicly alternated between pushing for a rapid diplomatic resolution and authorizing thousands more U.S. troops to the region, while declining to define a clear … Read more
Organizers say millions of people across the United States and abroad plan to join the third nationwide No Kings day of action on Saturday, March 28, staging more than 3,000 events in all 50 states and in 16 countries. The coalition behind the mobilization — including Indivisible, the 50501 movement, labor unions and local grassroots … Read more
Lead: On March 23, 2026, Brent crude suffered a sudden, 15%-plus intraday plunge to about $96 a barrel before prices snapped back above $100 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a five-day pause on an ultimatum to strike Iranian power plants — a pause Tehran immediately denied. The episode exposed how engineering limits in storage, … Read more
Lead On March 28, 2026, travelers at several U.S. airports faced unprecedented TSA screening delays amid a partial federal government shutdown, forcing some passengers to miss flights and rebook. Waits topped four hours in some locations, while other airports reported near-normal processing times. Airlines have announced temporary waivers at affected hubs but are not universally … Read more
Lead As the U.S.-Iran war approaches the one-month mark, the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint that normally carries around one-fifth of the world’s oil — has seen daily transits fall roughly 90% to 95%, trapping hundreds of tankers in the Persian Gulf. A surge in drone and missile strikes and sharply higher marine insurance … Read more
Lead As the March 2026 escalation around the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted shipping and pushed fossil-fuel costs higher, European farms face a looming fertiliser shock. Around one-third of global fertiliser trade is stalled and roughly one-fifth of oil flows through the strait, magnifying price spikes for natural gas used in synthetic nitrogen production. Some … Read more
On Saturday, March 28, 2026, Pope Leo XIV made a historic one-day visit to Monaco — his first foreign trip of 2026 and his first papal journey in Europe outside Italy. The pontiff flew by helicopter from the Vatican, was received at the Prince’s Palace by Prince Albert and Princess Charlene, and greeted crowds waving … Read more
Lead: NASA’s Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center in Houston will manage Artemis II, the first crewed lunar mission since 1972, currently targeting an April 2026 launch window. From this decades-old concrete complex, teams will monitor trajectory, life support and propulsion as four astronauts loop beyond the Moon and return roughly 10 days later. … Read more
Conservative activists and politicians gathered in Dallas on the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as Republicans parsed fractures over U.S. strikes on Iran and rallied around former President Donald Trump’s agenda. The conference, held Saturday, took place one month after the United States began strikes against Iran and marked the first … Read more
