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By Amy Langfield

March 01, 2026

By Amy Langfield

March 01, 2026

 
 

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Today, Israeli strikes rock Tehran as Iran’s counterattacks widen after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; families describe what it’s like to live in a Texas detention center; and the Trump administration is in a public clash with Anthropic over artificial intelligence technology.

 

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People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israeli strikes rock Tehran as Iran’s counterattacks widen after the killing of the supreme leader

An enormous explosion rocked Iran’s capital Sunday as the Israeli military said it was striking targets in central Tehran. Earlier, Iran fired missiles at an ever-widening list of targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel. Read more.

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Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed. But he was hardly an outlier. ICE has been holding hundreds of children and their parents at the Dilley detention facility, many for well beyond the 20-day limit set by longstanding court order. When Dilley opened in 2014, most families held there had just crossed from Mexico. But since the Trump administration reopened it last spring, the number of children and parents held there has risen sharply. Many are families who have lived in the U.S. for several years, uprooting children in what both families and experts say is often a traumatizing experience. Read more.

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Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety

The Trump administration on Friday ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology and imposed other major penalties, escalating an unusually public clash between the government and the company over AI safety. Anthropic had said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that its AI chatbot Claude would not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon said it was not interested in such uses and would only deploy the technology in legal ways, but it also insisted on access without any limitations. Read more.

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