Will there be a super El Niño later this year? Here’s what that would mean. - The Washington Post apple.news/A25kpCYJgQsC...

Oil prices were all over the place on Monday, opening at more than $115 before falling closer to $85 by the time the market closed. None of this is good news for the U.S. economy — or even U.S. oil producers. @zeitlin.bsky.social explains: heatmap.news/energy/oil-p...

Oil prices surge past $100 per barrel as Iran war closes world's biggest energy terminals

Gov. Mark Gordon signed the Human Heartbeat Act into law Monday, banning abortions in all but the earliest weeks of pregnancy. Julie Bukhart, president of a Casper clinic that offers abortions, said she's ready to challenge the new law in court.

US stocks recovered steep losses Monday, while oil prices hit the highest level in years and then tumbled after President Donald Trump hinted that the Iran conflict may be near an end. https://cnn.it/4aZvtgy

It comes as oil and gas prices soar, throwing the global economy into turmoil. n.pr/4sAukC4

New evidence challenges Trump claim about deadly girls school strike

For Israel, a failed Iranian state fractured by civil war is preferable to any other outcome. They don’t want to just change the regime in Iran, they want to collapse the state itself. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra... #Palestine #Israel

US considering selling oil from strategic reserve, US energy chief says reut.rs/4rseIj3

Alexander Butterfield "had the heavy responsibility of revealing something he was sworn to secrecy on, which is the installation of the Nixon taping system," John Dean told the AP. "He stood up and told the truth." https://to.pbs.org/40hUFsz

What does a nuclear disaster look like 15 years later? Thomas A. Bass reports for the Bulletin in a new piece supported by @pulitzercenter.org.

An Iranian Kurdish leader says his people are ready to rise up, but need more US support. www.vox.com/politics/482...

Elton John is coming to Toronto this spring to accept the Glenn Gould Prize. Here’s how to get tickets

OPINION: Imagine what women could accomplish if they did not have to contend with misogyny every day.

Trump’s campaign promise, now reality, includes lots of fine print that is confounding taxpayers and companies this filing season. From NYT Business: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/b...

The chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court has declined to issue an order setting limits on how federal agents carry out immigration enforcement in and around state courthouses.

NEW: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the United States and Israel have made the Middle East "insecure" and are responsible for disruptions in oil production and rising oil prices.

The primary aims of AI images targeting Trump's political opponents are, of course, to harass, demean, and discredit them. But they have a secondary effect: to overwhelm the internet with unusable, false, unstable information, and then to mock the idea of finding out what’s true at all.

Trump says Iran war nearly over, warns Tehran against “anything cute” and says he’s considering taking over the Strait of Hormuz.

Denise Balkissoon: We’re living in an age of impunity #Opinion

Rising energy prices threaten cornerstone of GOP midterm pitch

The Government of the Netherlands has decided to deploy the De Zeven Provinciën-class air defense and command frigate HNLMS Evertsen in the eastern Mediterranean from this week until early April 🇳🇱 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992. trib.al/IaitmvJ

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

Prosecutors eventually dropped charges against the two guards on duty the night Epstein died in jail.

Israeli forces advanced in southern Lebanon on Monday, raiding new territory as part of a stated effort to expand a military-controlled buffer zone as it steps up its campaign against the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.

Mojtaba Khamenei takes over Iran as basic services are at risk. For now, people say that groceries are still available in Tehran. But increasingly, they say, the city resembles Gaza after Israel’s attacks

Ohio State president Ted Carter resigned on Saturday because of an “inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business,” according to the university. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/09/o...

Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Florsheim Shoe Company makes Oxford shoes that Trump often wears. Weyco Group, its parent, is suing over Trump's tariffs and seeking a refund.

As we mark 61 years since Bloody Sunday, we find ourselves at another inflection point. Two consequential voting rights developments threaten to undo Selma's legacy. https://bit.ly/46RmviX

When six-year-old Joseph Rodriguez got sick, his mother had to bring him along to her regular check-in at a California ICE office. There, last week, he was immediately detained and quickly deported—all without his hearing aids.

Severe storms and isolated flash flooding are possible following devastating tornadoes that killed six people in Michigan and Oklahoma last week.

For investors, the war is like the invasion of Ukraine all over again

US Senator urges BLS to analyze inflation impact of Middle East conflict reut.rs/4rZ8nMW

Congress should heed the demands of the civil-rights organizations calling for more oversight of the Department of Justice—before it’s too late. https://bit.ly/3P9a2kA

Orbán–Zelensky clash deepens after cash seizure, pipeline dispute, and Kremlin interference fears

Employees across OpenAI and Google support Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon

Key claims in Anthropic's lawsuit against Trump's blanket government ban on its tech reut.rs/4aZlM1H

A lack of trust in America and Israel, internal divisions and the risk of domestic strife all hamper a unified response

Federal agents detained the family, who arrived in the U.S. in 2023 under the Biden administration.

Americans are paying more for gas Monday as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran chokes off a significant route for roughly one-fifth of the world’s petroleum products. The average cost of regular gas in Colorado on Monday was $3.41. A week earlier it was $2.89. By @ashleymurray.bsky.social

Oil prices may undercut the GOP's midterm message. “If you are a Republican and not concerned right now, you are stupid," a GOP lawmaker said.

Trump and Putin discuss end to Iran, Ukraine wars on call

The US Army is looking into ground robots to evacuate wounded troops, drawing lessons from Ukraine, where drones make medical missions dangerous.

A major fire in the heart of Glasgow crippled Scottish train services Monday as firefighters worked to douse the blaze that destroyed a four-story building next to Scotland's busiest railway station. https://to.pbs.org/40hIn3p

The mix of joy and anxiety among the Iranian diaspora in recent days reflects the complicated emotions many feel as violence escalates in the Middle East, especially those whose families fled the theocratic regime that took power after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Local law enforcement and the FBI have been posing one specific question to Nancy Guthrie's neighbors as they press on with their hunt for clues to locate the 84-year-old.