Inside Iran’s workarounds to the internet blackoutIn the midst of war, Iranians are still dealing with the internet blackout limiting their access to loved ones, information and critical news. CNN's Leila Gharagozlou spoke to Iranians who have created networks of communications among themselves in an effort to work around the blackout.
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In striking Iran, the United States isn’t responding to an attack, as when the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor drew the country into World War II. The Trump administration hasn’t presented a formal case for war, as the George W. Bush administration did before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Instead, President Donald Trump and top administration officials have offered a range of rationales for launching Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic. So if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand.” Trump, remarks to reporters, March 3“Somebody asked me a question yesterday — did we go in because of Israel. Well, I got him first.” — Trump, ABC News interview, March 2“Iran tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh.” — Hegseth, remarks to reporters, March 2“We’ve known for a long time that Iran had intentions on trying to kill President Trump and or other U.S. officials.
Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) shared an intriguing theory Thursday behind the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, arguing President Donald Trump had only fired her to shield one senior official — the true “dark heart” of the administration — from accountability. “The dark heart of this administration is not Noem, it’s [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller, and he needs to be next. In so many ways, she’s just a scapegoat in all this.”He added, “Everything she was doing was designed by Miller. In private, Noem reportedly claimed that Miller and Trump had guided her rhetoric about the killings — only for them to leave her high and dry. He’s in retreat in places like Minnesota, because the steel spine of citizens that stood up, real patriots in this country, pushed back against all that.”
A Trump administration official melted down on social media after watching a live CNN report from Iran that he labeled “propaganda.”Frederik Pleitgen, CNN’s senior international correspondent, is reporting from the Middle Eastern country targeted in President Donald Trump’s latest war. He filed an update on Thursday while on a coffee stop as he and his producer were driving to Tehran. CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen posts from Iran. screen grabCNN is the first U.S. network allowed into Iran since Trump surprised the country with military strikes on Feb. 28. “Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is a really bad miscalculation,” Hegseth said on Thursday.
AdvertisementFILE - Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Sept. 20, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. AdvertisementAfter redistricting, Issa flirted with the idea of leaving California to run for Congress in Texas. AdvertisementA national battle to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage is still raging in some states ahead of the November midterm elections. Voters in Texas and North Carolina already have cast ballots in primary elections for U.S. House districts redrawn at Trump’s urging. In his statement, Issa said he was endorsing San Diego County Supervisor James Desmond to succeed him.
In March 2026, a rumor spread that Iran plotted to kill U.S. President Donald Trump after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a March 4, 2026, news conference the U.S. had, in strikes on Iran, killed " the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump." In March 2026, a rumor spread that Iran had plotted to kill U.S. President Donald Trump. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparked it in a March 4, 2026, statement to reporters in which he said "President Trump got the last laugh" (at the 7:16 mark in the video):Also, yesterday, the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed. Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh. The complaint said that in September 2024, the official asked Shakeri to surveil and eventually assassinate Trump.
AdvertisementAfter the initial jubilation in “Tehrangeles” and other local Iranian American communities, with thousands taking to the streets to celebrate the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the tone of some conversations this week grew more sober. Customers sit at Sipp Coffee House across the street from Tochal Market and Damoka rug store on Westwood Boulevard in Los Angeles on Friday. He recognized some Iranian American students inside the makeshift compound, while others lined up outside with counterprotesters. We got to keep our churches.” (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)But he also remembers the nightmare that followed. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)He has lived in Los Angeles since 2000, opening a couple of restaurants.
The proposed law — Senate Bill 995 — aims to empower state authorities by ensuring that private detention centers comply with state health and safety standards through inspections. “This legislation is grounded in a simple principle: If detention centers operate in California, they must meet California standards for safety, dignity and human rights,” Pérez said. AdvertisementThere are currently 68,289 immigrants in detention centers across the U.S. with at least 74% of detainees having no criminal convictions, according to TRAC, a data research organization. (Claudia Elliott)Friday’s announcement comes as the Trump administration looks to increase the number of detention centers across the country. AdvertisementBut looming over the administration is the growing number of immigrants who have died while in the custody of federal immigration authorities.
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Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxHackers targeted an unclassified system that contains information about and related to the communications of people under FBI investigation. US investigators believe hackers affiliated with the Chinese government are responsible for a cyberintrusion on an internal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders, the Wall Street Journal reported on March 6 . The scope and severity of the intrusion are not known, and the investigation is in its early stages, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. The FBI declined to comment. The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
NFL free agency opens Monday, March 9 at noon ET with the official start of the negotiating window. Below, a look at the Giants’ free agents, the moves they are making, potential free agent targets, rumors, signings, news, analysis, trade, and more. Keep it here for all of the up-to-date Giants’ 2026 NFL free agency news. Rumors, potential targetsPlayers released by the GiantsLB Bobby Okereke | [Full story]Giants pending free agents 2026Here are all of the Giants’ free agents heading into the 2026 offseason. Unrestricted free agentsRestricted free agentsWR Bryce Ford-WheatonEdge Tomon FoxLB Zaire BarnesEdge Caleb MurphyExclusive rights free agentsCB Art GreenWR Ryan MillerCB Nic JonesOther Giants roster news
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Advertisement“There was a time, not too long ago, we voted to go into the Iraq war. We voted to go into the Afghan war,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told HuffPost, calling the lack of a vote on Iran “a bad precedent.”“This is a Congress without ambition,” he lamented. And we’ll go, Well, you know, you’re laying the predicate right here [with Iran],” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) acknowledged in an interview with HuffPost. Republican lawmakers — many of them still in Congress now — were livid that he did so without approval from Congress. More importantly, the Trump administration has not taken the possibility of committing U.S. ground troops off the table.
The top federal prosecutor in Miami is spearheading a new initiative targeting Cuban leaders for prosecution, sources familiar with the plan tell CBS News. The group plans to focus on prosecutions involving economic crimes, drugs, violent crimes and immigration-related violations, with a focus on targeting those in the Communist Party leadership, the sources added. The plans for the new working group were reported earlier by the Washington Post. The president told CNN in an interview on Friday that Cuba's communist government was likely to be toppled next. In recent weeks, updated subpoenas that expanded the date range for the documents were issued in the matter.
