Trump News for Friday, March 6, 2026

Noboa's government gave Cuba's diplomats 48 hours to leave Ecuador, though it did not provide an explanation.

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The licence follows a push from US President Donald Trump to open Venezuela's resource sector to outside investment.

Airwars says first days of US-Israeli Iran strikes 'hit significantly more targets than any campaign in recent decades'.

Nintendo isn't the first company to sue and it probably won't be the last.

Lionel Messi has been criticised for meeting US President Donald Trump and applauding his latest brief on the Iran war.

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Ghalibaf says Iran's fate will not be decided by 'Epstein's gang' as Trump pushes for role in choosing supreme leader.

Nintendo of America is suing the US government over President Trump's tariffs and is demanding a "prompt refund, with interest" of any duties that it has paid, according to a complaint filed in the US Court of International Trade, as reported previously by Af…

USA figure skater Amber Glenn won't be taking her team gold medal to the White House any time soon ... as the 26-year-old said she would decline an invitation to meet President Donald Trump at the Oval Office. Glenn shared her stance in an…

Agency says process being worked out to mediate disbursement of $166bn in tariff costs to more than 330,000 importers.

We’ve been covering the ongoing saga of the Trump administration’s attempt to destroy Anthropic for the sin of having modest ethical guidelines around its AI technology. The short version: Anthropic said it didn’t want its AI making autonomous kill decisions …

Completion of two-day POW exchange one of few tangible results as peace talks stall amid Middle East turmoil.

The Mario company wants its money back with interest according to a newly filed lawsuit

DHS has built a national police force with massive surveillance capabilities — which it could use to interfere with our elections. The post Surveillance, Propaganda, Intimidation: Dems Need to Wise Up That ICE Is a National Security Threat appeared first on T…

ABC News' Will Ganss breaks down the new movies and shows to look out for this weekend.

Justin Sun has been eager to promote crypto offerings related to the President.

Amazon MGM Studios’ Melania will begin streaming on Prime Video on March 9, following its January 30 theatrical release. The documentary from director Brett Ratner, which featured “behind-the-scenes access to the first lady during the critical weeks before th…

ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblowers — told ICE agents they don’t need judicial warrants to arrest p…

Some of Washington's allies have been critical and will not join the conflict.

The Defense Department alledgedly experimented with OpenAI models through Microsoft even when the company’s policies prohibited military use.

The healthcare sector was hit the hardest , while tariff-exposed sectors remained stagnant .

Acetaminophen use among pregnant women in the ER dropped following the White House's autism announcement last September.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with CBP, have been deployed as a dominating police force by the Trump administration. Since 2025 they’ve snatched both immigrants and US citizens and killed dozens of people. So when customers of a marketing syst…

The administration has laid out a buffet of reasons for Operation Epic Fury—take your pick.

The average American paid $3.32 for a gallon of regular gas on Friday, according to AAA. That's the highest since August 2024.

Paul Krugman said a spike in the price of wholesale gasoline futures is bad news for President Trump and his party ahead of the midterm elections.

Plus, has the president persuaded Americans to back his war?

U.S. crude oil prices soared 9% on Friday.

Experts say Trump must offer 'tangible economic benefits' to Latin America to curb China's growth in the region.

We are now staring down the stagflationary barrel while the threat of recession rises. The jobs market is bad to mediocre, and Trump and Israel’s war with Iran has guaranteed us more inflation thanks to the oil shock.

With studios merging and slashers becoming controversy catalysts, cinema needs to be considered a political tool.

Iranian Kurds weigh risks of fighting government, uncertain of US and Israeli support for any uprising.

US president stakes out maximalist war aims as conflict wreaks havoc across the region amid rising death toll.

Françoise Mouly speaks with the artist Barry Blitt about his cover for the March 16, 2026, issue of The New Yorker.

Israel has been launching dozens of strikes across the country including in the Hezbollah stronghold in the city.

Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court' AI giant Anthropic says that it has "no choice" but to sue the US government after being officially designated a supply chain risk to national security.…

The Trump administration's jumbled reasoning for war with Iran is part of the strategy

Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad The Trump administration is reportedly planning new restrictions on GPU exports, aimed not only at controlling who gets them, but at driving AI investment back into the U…

France, Spain and Australia are among the countries to deploy military assets to the Middle East after Cyprus attacks.

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OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some of the wealthiest titans of the big tech industry, and the overhanging …

The Pokémon Company has released a statement objecting the use of a Pokémon Pokopia meme by the Trump administration. Read more

Iranian Kurd fighters ready for a ground operation ‘if opportunity arises' after Iran attack

Inter Miami and Messi were honoured at the White House, where Trump boasted the US military’s might.

Ukraine, which has years of experience in downing Russia's Iran-made drones, wants to assist the US and Israel.

President Trump has fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and named Sen. Markwayne Mullin as her replacement. And, the Justice Department released some missing Epstein files.

US CENTCOM said Precision Strike Missiles were used in Operation Epic Fury.

The former DHS secretary's firing shows women are disposable to Trump — no matter how hard they try to please him

House Speaker Mike Johnson continued to argue that the U.S. is not at war with Iran following the failed war powers resolution vote in the House on Thursday.

Rachel Reyes' son, 23-year-old American citizen Ruben Ray Martinez, was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent nearly one year...

Iran knows it likely cannot win the current war, but the regime in Tehran can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict. Ishaan Tharoor on Iran’s asymmetrical warfare.

Intercept senior editor Ali Gharib discusses the human and political toll of the Israel–U.S. war on Iran with Séamus Malekafzali. The post Trump’s War to Nowhere appeared first on The Intercept.

ABC News correspondent and veteran Stephanie Ramos says Kuwait "has always been known as the cush deployment," which is why the attack that killed six U.S. service members "hits close to home."

Video shows pastors praying over US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office amid US strikes on Iran.

Ukraine has won back some territory this year for the first time since 2023 amid claims of soaring Russian losses.

Anthropic has dethroned OpenAI atop the US app stores on the heels of its CEO Dario Amodei's refusal to back down to the Pentagon.

A rambling Donald Trump let slip why he humiliated his secretary of state on live TV by comparing him to “handsome” soccer stars. The president, 79, welcomed...

After losing multiple attempts to sue a New York–based doctor, the anti-abortion AG is now going after providers in Austria and the Netherlands.

Files summarise a woman's accusations against Trump over alleged sexual encounter when she was aged between 13 and 15.

Since India took over as chair, the normally outspoken BRICS grouping appears to be more cautious.

"I think I speak for all of us when I say we wish Kristi luck in her brand new, completely made up job," Jimmy Kimmel said

Most of the costs are not budgeted for, meaning the Pentagon will need to request more funding soon, researchers say.

Wealthy travellers are paying up to $200,000 to charter flights out of the region.

"It was a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for the tone of the post," Dario Amodei said in a statement on Anthropic's website.

Trump said Mullin will lead the Department of Homeland Security while Noem assigned as special envoy.

After six days of US-Israeli attacks on Iran, the conflict is escalating as regional tensions rise.

The DOJ has released three previously withheld FBI interview reports from 2019 related to a woman who made uncorroborated allegations against President Donald Trump.

The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately."

Microsoft says Anthropic's AI tools can remain on its platforms after lawyers reviewed the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine will provide the US with specialists and resources to protect against the drones in its fight in the Middle East.

We should all know by now that this iteration of the Trump administration absolutely loves using pop culture imagery, including that of video games, to help message its horrible policies. Want to gloat about ICE terrorizing American cities and generally pissi…

The US House of Representatives has joined the Senate in killing a war powers resolution for the war in Iran.

The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said his company has had "productive conversations" with the Pentagon even as a lawsuit appears to be on the horizon.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that the company doesn't "get to make operational decisions" about how its AI technology is used by the Pentagon, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting ahead China’s government has again made reducing reliance on imported digital technology a major goal.…<!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitep…

India sees itself a security provider in the Indian Ocean. On Wednesday, it couldn't save even its own guest.

Ahmad Vahidi takes command of Iran's Revolutionary Guards as the country battles a devastating US-Israeli assault.

Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says 'no reason why we should negotiate with the US' as Washington is untrustworthy