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The Latest: Iran threatens UAE ports as war enters its third week 03/14/2026 03:29pm • Iran on Saturday threatened for the first time to attack infrastructure of a neighboring country, urging people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates that Tehran claimed were ���legitimate targets��� because the U.S. military used them for attacks. The escalation sharpened global Tehran claims the US attacked it from the UAE as Iran war enters its third week 03/14/2026 03:03pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran urged people Saturday to evacuate the Middle East's busiest port and two others in the United Arab Emirates, openly threatening a neighboring country's non-U.S. assets for the first time as its war with the U.S. and Israel entered a third week. Tehran said t A seat at the table, but no vote yet for a Democratic lawmaker in the Kennedy Center board showdown 03/14/2026 02:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A federal judge ruled on Saturday that a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump's plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations. But the judge is not forcing the board to let Ohio What to know about attacks at Old Dominion University and a Michigan synagogue 03/14/2026 09:59am • Communities were left reeling from attacks that unfolded less than two hours apart at a Michigan synagogue and at Old Dominion University in Virginia, violence that officials said would have been bloodier without intervention from residents. In Virginia, a former Army National Guard member who serv The biggest change to voting in Republican election bill could become a burden for many US voters 03/14/2026 08:47am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Joshua Bogdan was born and raised in the United States. The only time the New Hampshire resident has left the country was for a day and a half in seventh grade, when he went to Canada to see Niagara Falls. Even so, that did not mean proving his U.S. citizenship in last fall's Opposition leader Bobi Wine says he left Uganda after going into hiding after disputed election 03/14/2026 08:23am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Saturday he fled the country to escape a military search for him in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election. Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, went into hiding shortly after the Jan. 15 presidential election. Before recent attack, Michigan synagogue had been bolstering its security 03/14/2026 07:51am • The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus by hiring a seasoned police lieutenant as its security director and holding active shooter training. That beefed up security, which came The Latest: US is deploying Marines to Middle East as it pounds Iran 03/14/2026 12:19am • About 2,500 U.S. Marines are being deployed to the Middle East as American and Israeli strikes keep pounding Iran and the Islamic Republic keeps attacking Persian Gulf shipping and energy infrastructure. As Iranian threats choke global oil shipments, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said ���we ha Anti-Muslim rhetoric rises among Republicans with little pushback from GOP leadership 03/14/2026 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Anti-Muslim rhetoric from some Republicans in Congress intensified this week against the backdrop of the Iran war, with multiple lawmakers ��� including one who said ���Muslims don���t belong in American society��� ��� drawing condemnation from Democrats for their remarks but lit Trump says US bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran's oil network 03/13/2026 11:43pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said the U.S. bombed military sites Friday on an island vital to Iran's oil network, while an American official said 2,500 more Marines and an amphibious assault ship are being sent to the Middle East nearly two weeks into the war with the All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says 03/13/2026 07:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed while supporting operations against Iran are dead, the U.S. military said Friday. U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said the crash in western Iraq on Thursday followed an unspecified incident inv Moscow businesses struggle as Russia restricts cellphone internet services 03/13/2026 03:03pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Many foreign websites were blocked Friday on mobile phones in central Moscow under restrictions that have gripped the Russian capital for more than a week, derailing the routine of millions of residents and slamming businesses that rely on cellphone internet. Russian authorities have Key inflation gauge worsened in January, before Iran war lifted gas prices 03/13/2026 01:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs. Prices rose 2.8% in January compared with a year earlier, the Commerce Depart Iran soccer team pushes back on Trump comments, says 'no one can exclude' it from the World Cup 03/13/2026 07:50am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Pushing back on U.S. President Donald Trump���s comments, Iran's national soccer team says ���no one can exclude��� it from playing in the men's World Cup in the United States. Instead, a post on the team's official Instagram account Thursday suggested maybe the U.S. team should be e Iran war disrupts energy supplies as Iran's new leader resolves to keep fighting 03/13/2026 01:15am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran���s secretive new leader issued his first public statements Thursday, resolving to keep fighting, promising more pain for Gulf Arab states and threatening to open ���other fronts��� in a war that has already disrupted world energy supplies, the global econom