Lead: Brent crude oil climbed above $100 a barrel early Thursday, days after a near-$120 spike, as renewed Iranian attacks on commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz intensified global supply worries. U.S. benchmark crude rose to about $94 a barrel while markets from Tokyo to New York reacted with selling and volatility. The International … Read more
Lead: The United States announced a plan to release 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve next week, to be delivered over about 120 days, as crude prices surged above $100 a barrel on Thursday. The move follows a broader International Energy Agency decision to free 400 million barrels from member emergency stocks after … Read more
Lead: René Redzepi, the chef who co-founded and ran Copenhagen’s Noma since 2003, announced his departure on March 11–12, 2026, after new reporting and social-media accounts detailed allegations of staff abuse from roughly 2009 to 2017. The resignation follows widespread online attention and protests that coincided with Noma’s 16-week pop-up opening in Los Angeles. Redzepi … Read more
Republican and Democratic senators in Washington spent Wednesday sparring over how to fund the Department of Homeland Security, with negotiations stalled as the department’s partial shutdown — which began on Feb. 14 — enters its fourth week. The impasse has left many of the department’s roughly 260,000 employees working without pay and produced long security … Read more
Italy rolled to a 9-1 victory over Mexico on Wednesday at Daikin Park in Houston, eliminating Mexico and ensuring the United States advances to the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals. Italy finished Pool B undefeated at 4-0, while the U.S. moves on as the pool runner-up after its 8-6 loss to Italy on Tuesday. The Americans … Read more
Team USA secured a place in the 2026 World Baseball Classic quarterfinals on Wednesday after Italy beat Mexico, finishing pool play that set the knockout matchups for Houston and Miami. Canada clinched Pool A by defeating Cuba 7-2, while Italy completed an undefeated 4-0 run by routing Mexico 9-1. Meanwhile, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela … Read more
On March 11–12, 2026, Morgan Stanley and asset manager Cliffwater LLC restricted withdrawals from large private credit vehicles after redemption requests far exceeded those funds’ permitted windows. The moves affected Cliffwater’s $33 billion flagship private credit fund and Morgan Stanley’s North Haven Private Income Fund, which holds nearly $8 billion. Cliffwater allowed redemptions equal to … Read more
Lead: Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta said on March 11, 2026 in Owings Mills, Md., that he was “gutted” after the team backed out of a trade to acquire five-time Pro Bowl pass rusher Maxx Crosby from the Las Vegas Raiders. The deal, which would have sent two first-round picks to Las Vegas and … Read more
José Antonio Kast was inaugurated as Chile’s president on March 11, 2026, in Valparaíso, marking a decisive rightward shift in the country’s politics. Kast, a long-time far-right figure, captured a December runoff with more than 58% of the vote and succeeds leftist Gabriel Boric after a four-year term. He has framed his incoming four-year administration … Read more
Researchers report that a specific gut bacterium, Parabacteroides goldsteinii, increases in older mice and contributes to age-related memory decline. In experiments described in Nature, young (2-month-old) mice co-housed for one month with old (18-month-old) mice acquired older animals’ microbiomes and showed marked short-term memory loss. Introducing P. goldsteinii alone into young mice reproduced the deficit, … Read more
Lead Atlassian announced cuts of roughly 1,600 roles—about 10% of its workforce—on 12 March 2026 as it restructures to accelerate investment in artificial intelligence. The company also said its chief technology officer will step down at the end of March and be succeeded by two designated AI-focused leaders. Shares rose more than 4% in extended … Read more
Lead: At the GDC Festival of Gaming, Xbox executives disclosed the first technical outline for their next console, codenamed Project Helix. Jason Ronald, VP of Next Generation, said the system is being co-designed with AMD and targets a major jump in rendering and simulation capability. Microsoft said alpha developer hardware will begin reaching studios in … Read more
Lead: In her new memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli recounts a passionate extramarital relationship with director Martin Scorsese during the mid-1970s that coincided with escalating cocaine use. The liaison unfolded while they worked on the 1977 musical New York, New York, at a time when Minnelli was married to Jack Haley … Read more
Grammarly and Superhuman have moved to halt an AI feature that presented writing edits as being “inspired by” named experts after pushback from journalists and other creators. The contested tool — launched in August as an “Expert Review” agent — drew on third‑party language models and public material to surface suggestions attributed to identifiable writers. … Read more
Lead On March 11, 2026, the U.S. Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to permit the administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States. The emergency filing seeks to overturn a federal district court injunction that blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Feb. 3 decision to end … Read more
