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MARCH 6, 2026
Former US First Lady, Michelle Obama.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama kept it real during a segment of her "IMO Podcast" with her co-host brother, Craig Robinson, taking a dig at the Trump Administration, saying there is "no way" President Donald Trump's behavior would be accepted if it were her family in the White House acting that way.
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MARCH 6, 2026
A view shows a pressure gauge near oil pump jacks outside Almetyevsk, in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia July 14, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
HOUSTON, TEXAS - U.S. crude oil futures climbed more than 10% on Friday, pulling closer to Brent as buyers sought available barrels, with Middle Eastern supply constrained by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz...
MARCH 6, 2026
Trump said he wouldn’t accept a deal from Iran other than “unconditional surrender.” AFP via Getty Images
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Oil prices surged even further on Friday after President Donald Trump said he would only accept Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” adding to a dismal report on the labor market, fueling another selloff across major U.S. stock indexes as the Dow Jones Industrial...
MARCH 6, 2026
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton it cannot currently comply with an order to refund reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
CBP in a court filing disclosed it had collected about $166...
MARCH 5, 2026
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing Congress on December 8, 1941. - Fotosearch/Archive Photos/Getty Images
It is obviously “war” when two countries attack a third, kill its leader and try to destroy its military, as the US and Israel have done in Iran.
But in the weird way modern American leaders dance around the US Constitution, names get complicated.
The Trump...
MARCH 4, 2026
Donald Trump and Israel’s war with Iran widened well beyond the Middle East on Wednesday as Nato shot down a ballistic missile headed for Turkey and the US sank an Iranian frigate off Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors.
As Britain prepared to send a warship to defend Cyprus and repatriate thousands of stranded nationals in the Middle East, Iran rained missiles and drones...
MARCH 4, 2026
A tanker berthed and unloaded imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port crude oil terminal in Qingdao, China, on November 28, 2025. - CFOTO/Future Publishing/Getty Images
In quick succession, US President Donald Trump has taken out two of Beijing’s closest allies: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The former is now in shackles in a...
MARCH 3, 2026
US President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine salute during a ceremony for the return of the remains of two Iowa National Guard members and a translator killed in an attack in Syria at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on December 17, 2025. (Photo by...
MARCH 3, 2026
Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words "Cyber Attack" in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. financial services industry is on heightened alert for potential cyberattacks amid the unfolding U.S. war in Iran, with firms stepping up monitoring for threats that often rise during periods of...
MARCH 3, 2026
An explosion Monday in Tehran. - Majid Saeedi/Getty
There are countless ways the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran could go wrong. Indeed, commentators seem to have dwelt on little else.
Instead, let’s game out everything going right, if only because that would be a game changer for world energy security and geopolitics.
If Iran, along with Venezuela, is soon ruled by a...
