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Plumes of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil facility late Saturday linger and merge with the cloudy sky over Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Pentagon says 7th U.S. service member has died in Mideast war after being injured in Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia

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Cars cross the “Paso del Norte” International Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, bottom, and El Paso, Texas, top, Wednesday Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Pentagon and FAA to conduct anti-drone laser tests after earlier deployments closed Texas airspace twice in the last month

By Jaimie Ding and The Associated Press

FILE – This photo provided by the U.S. Department of Energy shows a section of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility in West Hackberry, La. (U.S. Department of Energy via AP, File)

Despite rising prices, Trump downplays need to tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve. ‘There’s a lot of oil out there. That’ll get healed very quickly’

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Cathy Bussewitz, and others

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Gleb Nikitin at the Kremlin, in , Russia, Friday, March 6, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran about U.S. military targets in the Mideast, marking first sign Moscow is getting involved in the war

By Seung Min Kim, Aamer Madhani, and others

San Francisco cheers its native Chinese Olympian Eileen Gu, who headlines parade for the Year of the Fire Horse

By Jaimie Ding and The Associated Press

A 235-kilovolt power line towers over farm buildings near where the local power utility plans to build a 500-kilovolt power line on towers as tall as 240 feet, March 4, 2026, in Sugarloaf, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

It’s not just data centers. New power lines for AI are also stirring local anger and turned one man’s 40 acres of paradise into ‘hell’

By Marc Levy and The Associated Press

Prices are displayed electronically at a QuikTrip convenience store, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, in Greenwood Village, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Trump said the ‘economy is roaring’ but the job market has evaporated, soaring gas prices could boost inflation, and stocks have plunged

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

A view of a desalination plant in the Omani port city of Sur, south of the capital Muscat, on November 27, 2019. – In Sur, water for residents and businesses comes from a large desalination plant along the coast, improving the quality of life for some 600,000 people. But these benefits do not come without a cost, particularly as global temperatures rise with the United Nations saying that 2019 is on course to be one of the hottest three years on record. (Photo by Sultan al-Hasani / AFP) (Photo by SULTAN AL-HASANI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Persian Gulf’s ‘saltwater kingdoms’ rely so much on desalination that damage to the infrastructure could force evacuations

By Annika Hammerschlag and The Associated Press

Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand as a thick plume of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday rises in the sky in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Mideast’s water supply at risk as Bahrain and Iran say their desalination plants were attacked amid expanding war

By Jon Gambrell, Sam Metz, and others

Flames rise from an oil storage facility south of the capital Tehran as strikes hit the city during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign, Iran, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran sends conflicting signals on war, highlighting split between leaders looking to de-escalate vs. hard-liners bent on fighting the U.S. and Israel

By Jon Gambrell, Sam Mednick, and others

An Army carry team moves a flag-draped transfer case with the remains of U.S. Army Reserve soldier Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, of White Bear Lake, Minn., who was killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the U.S. and Israel launched its military campaign against Iran, past President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump during a casualty return, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump grieves with families during return of soldiers killed in war in the Middle East

By Seung Min Kim, Julia Demaree Nikhinson, and others

President Donald Trump speaks at the Shield of the Americas Summit, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump calls on regional leaders at ‘Shield of the Americas’ summit to use their militaries against drug cartels

By Aamer Madhani, Joshua Goodman, and others

FILE – An Iranian Shahed exploding drone launched by Russia flies through the sky seconds before it struck buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

The U.S. is sending an AI-powered anti-drone system to the Mideast as response to countering Iran’s Shahed has been ‘disappointing’

By Emma Burrows and The Associated Press

Gas prices are manually increased in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Regular gasoline is now $3.41 a gallon, up 43 cents since Trump launched his war on Iran, as oil prices soar 36% from a week ago

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

In this satellite image provided by Vantor, damaged drone buildings a the Konarak drone base, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor via AP)

As Trump says military has plenty of munitions for Iran war, Democrats point out U.S. didn’t give Ukraine more interceptors because of low supply

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press