Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Trump is claiming negotiations with Iran are underway while US-Israeli strikes on Tehran continue — a contradiction Iran's government has publicly denied. The US has reportedly delivered a 15-point peace plan to Tehran via Pakistan, with high-level talks potentially scheduled for Thursday in Islamabad.
The ongoing US-Israel war on Iran has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, with oil prices dropping on peace-talk speculation while the BlackRock CEO warns that sustained $150-per-barrel oil would trigger a global recession. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared a year-long national energy emergency, with the country now leaning harder on coal to plug the gap.
A New Mexico jury has found Meta liable for misleading consumers about platform safety and enabling child sexual exploitation — the first bench trial to hold the company directly responsible for harms committed on its platforms. Jurors counted thousands of individual violations, arriving at a $375 million penalty.
Democrat Emily Gregory has won a special election in Florida's 87th state house district — the same Palm Beach district that is home to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate — defeating a Republican candidate who carried Trump's personal endorsement. The result is being read as an early referendum on the administration's standing in its own backyard.
A federal judge has openly questioned whether the Department of Defense's decision to label Anthropic a "supply chain risk" — effectively barring the Claude maker from government contracts — is a politically motivated attempt to cripple the company rather than a legitimate security call. Anthropic is suing the Trump administration over the designation, and the judge's skeptical tone at Tuesday's hearing raises the odds of a preliminary injunction.
