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Airline passengers wait in long lines to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Travelers encounter long waits at some airports as DHS shutdown affects security checkpoints

8:32 PM on Sunday, March 8

Travelers complained of long waits Sunday that in some cases lasted hours at security checkpoints at airports in Houston and New Orleans

US will order nonessential diplomats and families to leave Saudi Arabia as Iran escalates retaliation, officials say

7:33 PM on Sunday, March 8

US will order nonessential diplomats and families to leave Saudi Arabia as Iran escalates retaliation, officials say

President Donald Trump salutes as an Army carry team moves the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, 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, during a casualty return Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Fox News apologizes for showing old video of a hatless Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony

7:12 PM on Sunday, March 8

Fox News has apologized for airing old video of a hatless President Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony as part of its coverage

FILE - Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

A son of Iran's late supreme leader is chosen to replace his father as war rages

6:26 PM on Sunday, March 8

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was named as his successor, had long been considered a contender to the post even before an Israeli strike killed his father and despite the fact he had never been elected or appointed to a government position

A thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility hit by a U.S.-Israeli strike late Saturday in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Crude oil prices surpass $100 a barrel as the Iran war impedes production and shipping

6:19 PM on Sunday, March 8

Oil prices have jumped past $100 a barrel as the Iran war disrupts oil production and shipping in the Middle East

Crude oil prices surpass $100 a barrel as the Iran war impedes production and shipping

6:15 PM on Sunday, March 8

Crude oil prices surpass $100 a barrel as the Iran war impedes production and shipping

FILE - Country singer Joe McDonald plays during the Heros of Woodstock concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1969 Woodstock concert. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

'Country' Joe McDonald, '60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84

5:10 PM on Sunday, March 8

“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday at 84

FILE - National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman speaks with reporters at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 1, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

NTSB member says he was fired without explanation by the Trump administration

4:18 PM on Sunday, March 8

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board says he has been fired without explanation by the Trump administration

US military says a US service member died of injuries sustained during an Iranian attack on US troops in Saudi Arabia

3:37 PM on Sunday, March 8

US military says a US service member died of injuries sustained during an Iranian attack on US troops in Saudi Arabia

In this image taken from video, law enforcement officers respond to Manhattan's Upper East Side as New York City's police said they had identified a "suspicious device in a vehicle,” Sunday, March 8, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Joseph B. Frederick)

Counterprotester threw improvised explosive at anti-Islam event in NYC, police say

3:31 PM on Sunday, March 8

A device thrown by a counterprotester during an anti-Islam demonstration in New York City was an improvised explosive

Family members of retired Lebanese officer Ahmed Shukr, hang posters of him during a gathering outside the headquarters of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, ESCWA, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A retired Lebanese security officer vanishes and his family thinks it was a covert Israeli abduction

12:24 PM on Sunday, March 8

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman

A woman holds up a placard during a protest marking the International Women's Day, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

International Women’s Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

10:24 AM on Sunday, March 8

Women across the world called for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations Sunday marking International Women’s Day

Women march marking International Women's Day on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Photos show women marking International Women’s Day

9:55 AM on Sunday, March 8

Iran players react during their national anthem ahead of the Women's Asian Cup soccer match between Iran and the Philippines in Robina, Australia, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP)

Iran soccer team exits Women's Asian Cup and faces the prospect of a return home

7:32 AM on Sunday, March 8

Iran’s national soccer team has finished the Women's Asian Cup group stage in Australia and now faces a return home to a country embroiled in war

A thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility hit by a U.S.-Israeli strike late Saturday in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump’s ‘roaring’ economy meets a rough start to 2026: What the latest numbers show

7:30 AM on Sunday, March 8

President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth

Norwegian police and technicians attend at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Hans O. Torgersen /NTB Scanpix via AP)

Police in Norway investigate an explosion outside the US Embassy in Oslo

4:38 AM on Sunday, March 8

Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo

Mercedes driver George Russell of Britain celebrates on the podium with his trophy after winning the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Scott Barbour)

George Russell wins Formula 1's Australian GP as Mercedes goes 1-2

10:50 PM on Saturday, March 7

George Russell wins a dramatic season-opening Australian Grand Prix, and Mercedes seals a 1-2 with Kimi Antonelli

South Florida university probes racist group chat tied to a local GOP official

11:05 AM on Friday, March 6

Florida International University has launched an investigation into a group chat linked to a local GOP official that included violent racist slurs, antisemitic comments and misogynistic language

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