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Funerals held for Afghans killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul hospital | Pakistan Taliban
Afghans are burying the victims from a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul. The UN says 143 people were killed. Islamabad denies targeting civilians.
Published On 19 Mar 2026
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Eagles acquire veteran Andy Dalton as backup quarterback to Jalen Hurts
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The Philadelphia Eagles made an interesting trade to bring in a backup for starting quarterback Jalen Hurts.
The Eagles acquired veteran quarterback Andy Dalton from the Carolina Panthers in exchange for a seventh-round draft pick, according to multiple reports.
The 38-year-old signal-caller spent the past three seasons with the Panthers, where he mostly served as a backup to Bryce Young, the first overall selection of the 2023 NFL Draft.
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Carolina Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton throws against the Las Vegas Raiders in the first half at Allegiant Stadium. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
But he did take over in 2024 as the team’s starter after first-year head coach Dave Canales didn’t like what he saw out of Young to start the year. Dalton started five games for the Panthers, going 1-4 in that stretch before Young’s return.
Dalton was a starter for nine seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, going 70-61-2 over that span with four straight playoff berths from 2011-14. Unfortunately for Dalton and the Bengals, they were never able to pick up a postseason victory.
After the 2019 season, the Bengals shifted away from Dalton after they drafted Joe Burrow first overall during the 2020 NFL Draft. Dalton was in and out of a starting role in Dallas and with the Chicago Bears in the 2021 season.
He assumed the role full-time with the New Orleans Saints in 2022, going 6-8 over 14 starts before ultimately joining Carolina.
Carolina Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton throws a pass against the Las Vegas Raiders during the second quarter at Allegiant Stadium. (Stephen R. Sylvanie/Imagn Images)
It’s an interesting move for the Eagles considering Tanner McKee, who has played well during the preseason, was Hurts’ backup all last season. While this could be competition for McKee entering training camp, Dalton continues to play with the idea of being on a roster full-time, even if he’s not the starter.
The Panthers signed Kenny Pickett, a former Eagles quarterback, this offseason. As a result, Dalton was expendable.
The Eagles head into the 2026 season with the obvious hope that Hurts is healthy enough for a full 17-game slate and then some. However, he didn’t have the best season under offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo, who caught flak from the rabid fan base as the team struggled.
Carolina Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton before a game against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High. (Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images)
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Philadelphia finished 11-6 before losing to the San Francisco 49ers in the wild-card round at home. Patullo was fired days later, and the Eagles hired ex-Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Sean Mannion to take over the role.
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IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab • The Register
Not all employees are created equally, just ask IBM boss Arvind Krishna, who received a financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 – equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers.
As the triple crown holder – Chairman, CEO and President – Krishna hit annual and longer term incentive targets, according to IBM’s proxy statement. As such, his award leaped compared to the $25.14 million he received in the prior year.
The $1.5 million salary was unchanged, stock awards went up to almost $24 million, options awards were $6.6 million, and non-equity incentive compensation was $5.25 million. The value of his pension went up $42,970 and all other compensation was $601,817.
2025 was seen as a successful year for IBM: revenue grew 8 percent to $67.5 billion, as it “shifted to higher growth areas, with over 75 percent of our business mix in Software and Consulting.”
Software was up 11 percent; hybrid cloud, data and automation grew double digits; and the “cumulative GenAI book of [product] business” reached upwards of $2 billion. The Consulting arm grew only 2 percent but here the GenAI contract pipeline was $10.5 billion, showing customers are on track to spend five times more on IBM advisors to tell them what to do with “AI” than they are on the actual “AI.”
Gross margin for the 12 months was 58 percent – reflecting the higher mix of software sales – up 150 basis points or 1.5 percent year-on-year. And in other metrics that govern Krishna’s pay, IBM reported $13.2 billion cash from operations and $14.7 billion of free cash flow.
It also returned $6 billion to shareholders, and spent $8 billion on ten acquisitions.
Krishna’s C-suite generals did pretty well too. CFO James Kavanaugh received $18.84 million versus $13 million in the prior year, and chief commercial officer (sales bigwig) R.D Thomas was awarded $17.5 million, up from $12.28 million.
As for the average IBMer? Well, let’s say they didn’t reap the same sort of rewards. Compensation for the median employee was $49,630 versus $48,582 in 2024. The relatively low pay – for a tech company – indicates that much of IBM’s workers are based in lower cost countries.
The Reg reported years ago that IBM said about a third of its workforce were located in India and Bangladesh, leading to the name-tag Indian Business Machines. Nothing suggests that direction of travel has changed.
Shareholders for IBM are convening at the annual meeting on April 28th with eight proposals tabled. One proposal that IBM is asking stock owners to vote against, is that there should be a report on AI bias. With such a big GenAI book of business, this is perhaps not surprising. ®
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Qatar expels Iranian attaches after LNG facility strike | US-Israel war on Iran
Qatar is expelling Iran’s military and security attaches after Iranian missiles caused “extensive damage” to Ras Laffan, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility. Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby has details.
Published On 19 Mar 2026
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NCSY leader: Jewish teens combat antisemitism through identity building
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People ask me all the time how we prepare Jewish teenagers to deal with antisemitism, especially after targeted incidents like the one that just occurred in Michigan. They expect me to talk about debate tactics or how to respond to anti-Zionist talking points online.
That is not what we do.
I lead NCSY and the Jewish Student Union, which together reach more than 40,000 Jewish teenagers across North America — the vast majority of them in public high schools, living and learning alongside peers who may have never met a Jewish person before. They face real hostility. Antisemitic incidents in K-12 schools have surged. Since Oct. 7, 2023, the environment for many Jewish students has become markedly more difficult.
Our response to all of it is not a workshop on how to argue back. It is an investment in who these young people are.
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Law enforcement vehicles are seen parked outside Temple Israel guarding the scene in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 13, 2026, after a person identified as Ayman Ghazali drove a vehicle into the building. A 41-year-old man was killed on March 12 after ramming his pickup truck into a synagogue on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, causing a blaze and triggering a huge police response. (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images)
We take teenagers on Jewish retreats and Shabbat experiences where, many of them for the first time, they feel the full weight and warmth of what it means to belong to this people. We connect them to Jewish history — not as a lesson in victimhood, but as an inheritance of survival, creativity and purpose. We introduce them to the richness of Jewish learning, the depth of Jewish values, and the joy — genuine, unhurried joy — of Jewish community.
And something happens to a teenager when that connection takes hold. They stand differently. Not defensively — confidently. They do not need to win an argument with someone who hates them, because they are not defined by the hatred. They are defined by something far older and far stronger.
I think about what “Never Again” really means for this generation. After the Holocaust, it was a warning to the world — a demand that civilization not allow such horror to be repeated. That demand still stands. But for Jewish teenagers living in 2025, “Never Again” has to mean something they can act on every single day. And the most powerful act available to them is not confrontation. It is continuation.
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People hold an Israeli and US flag in front of a large group of anti-Israel protesters march outside The Grove shopping center on Black Friday, carrying a giant banner reading “Shut it Down for Palestine” in Los Angeles, November 24, 2023. (David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images)
To live as a proud Jew — openly, joyfully, unapologetically — is its own answer to every attempt to make Jewish people shrink. The teenager who lights Shabbat candles on Friday night, who knows the blessings by heart, who has danced with friends at a Jewish teen event until midnight, who feels the thread connecting her to every Jewish generation before her — she does not need to be taught how to respond to antisemitism. She already knows who she is. And that knowledge is not something a hateful tweet or a hostile classroom can take from her.
Social media has amplified hatred in ways that would have been unimaginable to previous generations. A piece of anti-Israel propaganda can reach a Jewish kid in suburban Ohio within minutes of being posted. The volume is relentless. But here is what I have observed: the teenagers who are most grounded in their Jewish identity are also the most resilient in that environment. They scroll past the hatred differently. Not because they do not see it, but because it does not destabilize them. Their sense of self is not up for debate.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the city center during a protest against the recent Israeli strike on Lebanon and continued offensives in Gaza, Aug. 3, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pa. (Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images)
After Oct 7, I watched Jewish teens across our network do something that moved me deeply. They did not retreat into silence. They showed up — for each other, for their communities, for their people. They organized. They mourned together. They held onto their Jewish identity not despite the darkness of that moment but because of it. Because they understood, at a level that went beyond argument or strategy, that being Jewish was not something to set aside when it became costly. It was something to hold more tightly.
That is what we are building at NCSY and JSU. Not a generation of teenage debaters. A generation of Jewish youth who are so certain of their worth, so rooted in their heritage and so connected to their community, that antisemitism — as vicious and as loud as it has become — simply cannot reach the core of who they are.
The news will keep covering the hatred. Someone has to cover the response.
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Forty thousand Jewish teenagers are living it. Their answer to antisemitism is not a counterargument. It is a Shabbat table. It is a Jewish summer trip. It is the look on a sixteen-year-old’s face when they realize, maybe for the first time, that being Jewish is not a burden to carry — it is a gift they get to keep.
That is what “Never Again” looks like now. Not a warning. A way of life.
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At least eight killed as Brazilian police carry out lethal favela raid | Crime News
Brazilian police say that raid in Rio de Janeiro targeted a leader of Red Command, a powerful criminal group.
Published On 19 Mar 2026
At least eight people have been killed during a police raid on a neighbourhood in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, continuing a trend of deadly operations in poor favela communities.
Brazilian police authorities said that Wednesday’s raid killed Claudio Augusto dos Santos, a commander of the powerful criminal group Comando Vermelho, or Red Command.
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list of 3 itemsend of listMilitary police chief Marcelo Menezes Nogueira said that the raid resulted in a “major armed confrontation”. Dos Santos and six other suspected criminals were killed, and a local resident was reportedly caught in the crossfire after being taken hostage.
Local witnesses described individuals affiliated with the Red Command retaliating against the raid by blocking roads and setting a bus on fire.
“They boarded, told me to get the passengers off, and set the bus on fire. It all happened very fast,” bus driver Marcio Souza told the news service AFP.
Police said that five people were arrested for alleged acts of vandalism. About 150 military police officers took part in the raid in areas such as Prazeres, Fallet, Fogueteiro, Coroa, Escondidinho and Paula Ramos.
Dos Santos was linked to drug trafficking in the Prazeres favela, and there were 10 warrants for his arrest, according to media reports. Police have accused Dos Santos of involvement in the killing of an Italian tourist, Roberto Bardella.
Wednesday’s operation comes several months after an October police raid killed more than 130 people in the Rio favela of Complexo da Penha, raising questions about the methods of state security forces.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva slammed that raid as a massacre.
Some politicians in Brazil’s left wing slammed Wednesday’s raid as a continuation of the trend towards reckless confrontations between police and organised crime.
“Another day of panic and fear in Rio de Janeiro,” Renata da Silva Souza, a state deputy for Rio de Janeiro, wrote online.
“It is a testament to the police’s lack of preparedness — having carried out an operation in Morro dos Prazeres without planning for the inevitable reaction. The outcome was entirely predictable: the local population caught in the crossfire, streets blocked off and a bus set ablaze.”
Souza added that she had filed a formal complaint to the public prosecutor’s office to seek accountability for the disruption to civilian life and the high death toll.
Politicians on Brazil’s right, meanwhile, have called for greater force to be used against criminals in the country.
“What is truly outrageous is what these criminals inflict upon those who have absolutely nothing to do with their activities,” Rio de Janeiro Governor Claudio Castro posted on social media.
“It is precisely because of such barbaric acts that the State cannot afford to take a single step back. We stand firmly on the side of the police and of law-abiding citizens.”
Media reports have indicated that the Brazilian government is currently trying to dissuade United States President Donald Trump from labelling groups such as Red Command as “foreign terrorist organisations”, a designation formerly used to identify groups that threaten US national security.
But increasingly, the Trump administration has applied the label to criminal networks and drug cartels across Latin America, placing them in the same category as organisations like al- Qaeda.
Critics warn that the use of the “foreign terrorist organisation” label has been used to promote militarised action against criminal groups across Latin America.
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Bizarrely dressed suspect arrested as millionaire found dead in beach home
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A bizarrely dressed suspect is suspected of killing a 92-year-old millionaire developer inside his Southern California beachfront home, then barricading inside for hours during a SWAT standoff, according to authorities.
Police in Hermosa Beach say officers were called to a residence in the 500 block of The Strand just after 12:30 p.m. Saturday for a welfare check after the elderly resident had not been seen for several days.
What began as a routine call quickly escalated when officers entered the home with a property manager and encountered an uncooperative individual inside who claimed to be armed and barricaded themselves, according to the Hermosa Beach Police Department.
SWAT teams from multiple agencies, along with crisis negotiators, responded to the scene and worked for hours to secure a peaceful surrender. The suspect was taken into custody roughly seven hours after the initial call.
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The suspect, wearing a black suit and tie, fedora and sunglasses, surrendered to police after around seven hours. (Kevin Cody/EasyReaderNews.com)
After obtaining a search warrant, officers located an adult male dead inside the home.
The victim was identified as 92-year-old Demetrius Doukoullos, a longtime developer who lived alone at the beachfront property, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. The office lists the cause of death as deferred, pending further investigation. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau has taken over the investigation.
Law enforcement sources told NBC4 Los Angeles that the victim’s body showed signs of decomposition when it was discovered inside the residence.
Los Angeles County jail records identify the suspect as Elanor Beaulieu, 39, who is listed as male. The suspect is being held on suspicion of murder with bail set at just over $2 million. Records also show prior bookings under the name Robert Phillip Simmons.
Beaulieu was arrested while wearing a black suit and tie, a black fedora and black sunglasses.
Elanor Beaulieu was arrested while wearing a rather unusual outfit reminiscent of the Blues Brothers.
The relationship between the suspect and the victim remains unclear, and investigators have not publicly identified a motive.
In a neighborhood Facebook group, a person claiming to live in the building said concerns were raised after the resident had not been seen for about a week and a strong odor was coming from the home. Those claims have not been independently verified.
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner for additional details, including the victim’s official identification, cause of death and any known connection between the suspect and the victim.
Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send story tips to stepheny.price@fox.com.
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Wall Street falls as Fed keeps rates steady amid rising oil prices and Iran war
A trader works, as a screen broadcasts a press conference by US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell following the Fed rate announcement, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, US, March 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: Brendan McDermid
Wall Street ended sharply lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held US interest rates steady and projected only a single rate cut for the year as officials took stock of economic risks from surging oil prices and the US and Israeli war with Iran.
New projections from US central bank policymakers showed the Fed’s benchmark overnight interest rate would fall by just a quarter of a percentage point by the end of this year, with no hint of timing.
Major stock indexes extended declines after Fed Chair Jerome Powell held a news conference and reiterated the uncertainty the war creates for the economic outlook.
Economists had not expected the Fed to change its interest rate.
“The Fed is on hold. With inflation running above target and the economy running above trend, and elevated uncertainty about the path of the Iran war, there is no argument for easing policy,” said Michael Rosen, chief investment officer at Angeles Investments in Santa Monica, California.
“The bigger challenge for the Fed, exacerbated by the war, is balancing its dual mandate of full employment and low, stable inflation. Should the war persist and oil prices remain high, it will cause economic slowing. But easing monetary policy would be a mistake as that would only fuel inflation.”
Earlier, the US Labor Department said the Producer Price Index rose 3.4% year-on-year, exceeding economists’ 2.9% forecast, with prices at risk of accelerating further as the Middle East conflict lifts shipping and oil costs. Brent crude extended gains and reached near $110 a barrel after an Iranian news agency reported that some facilities belonging to Iran’s oil industry in South Pars and Asaluyeh were attacked.
The S&P 500 declined 1.36% to end the session at 6,624.70 points, its lowest close in nearly four months. It is now down about 3% in 2026.
The Nasdaq declined 1.46% to 22,152.42 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.63% to 46,225.15 points.
All of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes declined, led lower by consumer staples, down 2.44%, followed by a 2.32% loss in consumer discretionary. AMD gained 1.6% after agreeing with Samsung Electronics to expand their strategic partnership on memory chip supplies for AI infrastructure. Nvidia dipped 0.8% after securing Beijing’s approval to sell its second-most-powerful artificial intelligence chips in China.
Micron Technology tumbled 4.3% in extended trade after the memory chipmaker projected quarterly sales above Wall Street expectations and said it was boosting its fiscal 2026 capital expenditure plans.
Asset manager Apollo Global Management rose 2.1%, rebounding from sharp losses in the previous week on private credit quality concerns. Lululemon surged 3.8% after the yoga-wear maker’s quarterly results. Founder Chip Wilson, who is in a proxy battle with the company, said lead director David Mussafer’s decision to exit the board was “a step in the right direction”, and reiterated the need for a “substantial” board refresh. Macy’s jumped 4.7% after the department store chain said it expected a comparatively smaller impact from tariffs in the second half of the year and beat quarterly profit estimates.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones within the S&P 500 by a 5.2-to-one ratio.
The S&P 500 posted 17 new highs and 15 new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 42 new highs and 218 new lows.
Volume on US exchanges was relatively light, with 19.4 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 19.8 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.
Published on March 19, 2026
Senate Republicans block Democratic bid to limit Trump Iran war powers
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Senate Republicans blocked yet another bid by Senate Democrats to handcuff President Donald Trump’s war authorities in Iran, in what could be an avalanche of similar moves to break through the GOP’s floor takeover.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., triggered one of several war powers resolutions Senate Democrats have tucked away in their bid to compel Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to testify publicly on Trump’s war in Iran.
Booker told Fox News Digital before the vote that he was not thinking “about this in politics” or breaking through the GOP’s floor tactics, but instead to refocus on issues that Trump promised to deal with on the campaign trail.
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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and five other Senate Democrats are planning to dominate the Senate floor with war powers votes, unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth publicly testify on the war in Iran. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“We need to focus on what the issues of the people are, and put before them a president who promised to bring your prices down and keep us out of wars, who is now bringing us into more wars and driving up our prices as a result,” Booker said. “The question is, what should Congress do as a result?”
But, like Sen. Tim Kaine’s, D-Va., attempt earlier this month, Republicans rallied behind the president to block the bill.
Still, Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and nearly every Senate Democrat to curtail Trump’s use of the military in the Middle East. Only Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., broke from Democrats to kill the resolution.
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President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) depart a Friends of Ireland luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 17, 2026. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It likely won’t be the last war powers resolution to hit the floor this week, given that a cohort of Senate Democrats have four others teed up. Their resolutions would direct an immediate end to fighting with Iran and removal of forces in the region.
Republicans have pushed back against Democrats’ demands that Rubio and Hegseth appear on the Hill for hearings and argued that they have consistently briefed lawmakers in classified settings and spoken with the media about the war.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has lauded the administration’s continued strikes in Iran, told Fox News Digital that he believed Democrats’ continued use of war powers resolutions was “an abuse of the process, and I’m tired of it.”
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Sen Lindsey Graham, Member of the US Senate, speaks to the people during the demonstration for human rights in Iran at Theresienwiese during the 62nd Munich Security Conference (Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)
“I think they’re impeding the war effort. We’ve spoken on this,” Graham said. “I find it to be cheap politics.”
Still, Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz has emerged as a flashpoint in the conflict, with concerns over oil prices and possible ground troop involvement rising.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that the nation’s war planners were doing a “masterful job” and kneecapping Iran’s offensive capabilities, and that Trump was well within his authority as president to carry out Operation Epic Fury.
“The Strait of Hormuz, obviously, is an issue that we’re all paying a lot of attention to,” Thune said. “But I feel confident that the administration and those who are leading our military efforts there ultimately will be successful in getting things open up there.”
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