March 8, 2026 6:55 am
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his administration looks to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere. Trump encouraged Latin American leaders gathered at his Miami-area golf club on Saturday to take military action against drug trafficking cartels and transnational gangs. He said those groups pose an “unacceptable threat” to the hemisphere’s national security. Trump said “the only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing the power of our militaries.”
March 8, 2026 6:47 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East. Oil prices surpassed $90 a barrel Friday. The conflict has left ships that carry roughly 20 million barrels of oil a day stranded in the Persian Gulf. That disruption and damage to key oil and gas facilities in the Middle East has led to an interruption in the supply of oil and gas. The fallout is ratcheting up what consumers and business will pay for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, with some drivers already feeling it at the pump.
March 7, 2026 7:58 am
Emergency responders were called to an accident on Route 40 west, just past the Kopper Kettle Restaurant at 7:30 am Saturday. Washington County 9-1-1 confirmed that a vehicle struck a hillside, rolled over and landed on its wheels. Route 40 was closed in the area. The driver of the vehicle was flown to Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment.
March 7, 2026 6:54 am
Washington County 9-1-1 dispatchers confirmed that an accident occurred just after 6:30 Saturday morning on Interstate 70 east. The one vehicle accident happened at mile marker 1 near the West Alexander exit ramp. No injuries were reported and no lane restrictions were needed. No other details about the driver are available.
March 7, 2026 4:25 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region. That’s according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter. The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that the U.S. intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran what to do with the information. Still, it’s the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran a week ago.
March 7, 2026 4:27 am
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to gather with Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club on Saturday. The gathering comes as his administration is trying to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening its focus on the Western Hemisphere even as it deals with five-alarm crises elsewhere. The gathering, dubbed the “Shield of the Americas” summit, comes just two months after Trump ordered a military operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Looming even larger is Trump’s decision to join with Israel to launch a war on Iran one week ago. The leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago are set to attend.
March 7, 2026 4:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released videos showing the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent in Texas last year call into question assertions by the Department of Homeland Security that a driver intentionally rammed an agent with his car. The footage released Friday comes nearly a year after the death of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez. His death was the earliest of at least six fatal shootings by federal agents since a nationwide immigration crackdown was launched in President Donald Trump’s second term. A friend who was riding in the car with Martinez told investigators the driver had not intended to harm federal officers but panicked because he feared getting arrested for driving while intoxicated.
March 7, 2026 4:19 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say that at least seven people have been killed and 10 others, including three children, have been wounded by a Russian missile strike on a five-story residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Saturday’s attack and called for an international response. He said that Russia struck Ukraine overnight with 29 missiles and 480 drones, targeting energy facilities in Kyiv and other central regions and damage reported in at least seven other locations across the country. In Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast, emergency workers were still combing the rubble in the morning, looking for survivors.
March 7, 2026 6:56 am
HONG KONG (AP) — A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based company that has lost control of two critical ports on the Panama Canal says it is seeking $2 billion of compensation in damages from Panama over its “illegal” takeover of the ports. Panama Ports Company, a unit of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings, said in a statement it is demanding the sum under international arbitration proceedings that it had already started. Panama’s government last week seized control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports on each end of the Panama Canal, after the country’s Supreme Court declared earlier that a concession allowing the Panama Ports Company to run the pair of ports was unconstitutional.
March 7, 2026 1:37 am
It is almost time to spring forward. This weekend will once again mark Daylight Saving Time when we lose an hour of sleep but there will be more sunlight. The time change occurs on March 8th at two a.m. in most areas of the U.S. You’ll need to re-set any manual clocks, most microwaves, ovens, car radios, or anything not connected to the internet before you go to bed on Saturday night. Otherwise, when you wake up, your phone won’t match those devices. It isn’t anything in nature that sets the date of Daylight Saving Time. Instead, it was set by law. The government first instituted standard and daylight saving times as part of the Standard Time Act of 1918. “Federal oversight of time zones began in 1918 with the enactment of the Standard Time Act, which vested the Interstate Commerce Commission with the responsibility for establishing boundaries between the standard time zones in the U.S.,” the U.S. Department of Transportation said. “This responsibility was transferred from the Interstate Commerce Commission to DOT when Congress created DOT in 1966.”
