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Mar 3, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump had a searing response Tuesday to the banking industry, saying that banks were trying to "undermine" controversial legislation he has touted. Trump has pushed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins, also known as the GENIUS Act. The bill seeks to create a legal framework for stablecoins, or digital assets whose value is tied to a physical asset like fiat currency or gold. It has support from the crypto industry, which considers the bill an important step toward mainstreaming digital assets.Trump attacked banks, calling them out and claiming that if the United States doesn't act quickly to pass the cryptocurrency bill, China would benefit and make America less competitive. Negotiations between the White House and the crypto and banking industry were underway, with representatives weighing in over the bill's language, according to CoinDesk.He shared the following on his Truth Social platform:"The Genius Act is being threatened and undermined by the Banks, and that is unacceptable — We are not going to allow it. The U.S. needs to get Market Structure done, ASAP. Americans should earn more money on their money. The Banks are hitting record profits, and we are not going to allow them to undermine our powerful Crypto Agenda that will end up going to China, and other Countries if we don’t get The Clarity Act taken care of. The Genius Act was the U.S.A.’s first big step to make the United States the Crypto Capital of the World, and getting The Clarity Act done is the next step to finish the job and, most importantly, keep this big and powerful Industry in our Country. The Banks should not be trying to undercut The Genius Act, or hold The Clarity Act hostage. They need to make a good deal with the Crypto Industry because that’s what’s in best interest of the American People. This Industry cannot be taken from the People of America when it is so close to becoming truly successful. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Mar 3, 2026 - World

A MAGA feud broke out between podcaster Megyn Kelly and conservative guest host of "The View" Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Tuesday. Hasselbeck, who returned to the daytime talk show to fill in for host Alyssa Farah Griffin, delivered criticism of Kelly, The Daily Beast reported. Kelly commented on the war in Iran during her Monday podcast, "The Megyn Kelly Show," about how American troops "should not die for a foreign country." "I don't think those four service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or Israel," Kelly said."If I can just say this, number one: Megyn Kelly’s clip that we ran before saying who those troops died for. How dare you, Megyn Kelly?" Hasselbeck said. "When they are sacrificing their lives in our uniform, how dare you tell them, or their families, or our nation, what they died for?"Kelly had a scathing response for Hasselbeck. "Elisabeth was too weak to handle the ladies of 'The View' and even the morning set on Fox and Friends," Kelly told the Daily Mail in response to Hasselbeck's comments on Tuesday. "She ran from the public square into exile so she could avoid mean people saying unflattering things about her — and there are many to say," Kelly said. But that wasn't her only clap back at her fellow conservative."Now she thinks she’s going to come back for a day and be the arbiter of appropriate conversation around the war we just launched in Iran? Please. No one gives a d--- what this know-nothing has to say," Kelly added.

Mar 3, 2026 - World

Push to give English same status as Māori and NZ sign languages triggers backlash from opposition parties and linguistic expertsA bill to recognise English as an official language of New Zealand has cleared its first hurdle in parliament amid ridicule from opposition parties and linguists who say it is “unnecessary” and “cynical”.The bill seeks to give English, which is spoken by 95% of the country, the same official status as te reo Māori (Māori language) and New Zealand sign language. The bill said the status and use of the existing official languages would not be affected. Continue reading...

Mar 3, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump seems to be "counting on" one of his oldest tricks to "win" his new war in Iran, according to one of his biographers. Throughout his career, Trump has sought to portray himself as a fighter who wins whatever battle he enters, journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, argued in a new op-ed for The Daily Beast on Monday. Trump appears to be trying the same thing in Iran, but doing so could be costly, Wolff continued. "The thesis here, to Trump, was that foreign policy should be what he wanted it to be (people should listen to him, not he to them); it should concentrate on big stuff (results!) and that, whatever we do, we should get something for it; and, most of all, we should always win," Wolff wrote. "He has unilaterally replaced the long-standing foreign policy establishment with a visceral show of his and America’s dominance—pronouncements, threats, and constant musings about what he might or might not do," he continued. "And, most importantly, 'the win.' The idea that we had fought wars that we hadn’t won actually confounds him."On Saturday morning, U.S. and Israeli forces coordinated attacks on more than 100 sites across Iran, which included a bombing operation that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top military and political leaders in the country. Reports indicate six U.S. military members have died as a result of the campaign. Since then, the Trump administration has given multiple reasons for the strikes, including allegations that Iran would have attacked the U.S. if another country like Israel attacked them first. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized the administration's justifications, arguing that they don't rise to the level of an "imminent threat" required for the operation. Wolff argued that the shifting stories point to Trump's desire to tell the public that his administration won something in Iran so he can move on. "He’s counting on being able to sell quick, beautiful victories," Wolff wrote. Read the entire op-ed by clicking here.

Mar 3, 2026 - World

Gulf countries targeted by Iran after the U.S. and Israel attacks were reportedly frustrated by the escalating regional conflict, an analyst revealed Tuesday. CNN's political and national security analyst David Sanger described how Iran's objective is to put financial pressure on the countries allied with the United States and Israel in the fallout over the military strikes, all while midterm elections loom for President Donald Trump. "Look, the Iranians have one big mission here: it's survive," Sanger said. "If they're going to survive, they have to wait out President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. If they're going to wait out President Trump, it means they need to make it painful enough, long enough that he's beginning to get toward the elections. You're beginning to see significant casualties. And it gets back to that question that Steve Witkoff, his chief envoy, asked about a week before the war broke out. During the negotiations, he said, 'The president is curious about why the Iranians haven't capitulated.' Well, the answer is that the whole meaning and purpose of the current Iranian state is to stand in opposition to the U.S., and so it's not as if, even with the loss of the Supreme Leader, that they're just going to say, 'well, this is over.'"He also suggested what other types of attacks could come next from Iran. "They've got other techniques, cyber [attacks]. We haven't begun to see anything here in the United States. I hope we don't. But I wouldn't be shocked if we did."Several Gulf nations, which were not reportedly prepared for the attacks, have also had furious reactions to the conflict behind the scenes, Sanger said. Iran could also be looking at what countries are important to the American economy and aiming to target those economic hubs. "Well, look, the U.S. is their major patron," Sanger added. "You know eight months ago, what were we discussing with UAE? With the UAE, how many data centers we're going to build there? Right. So the Iranian strategy at this point is not necessarily to go after U.S. bases. It's to go after the financial engines of these countries and say the price for sticking with the U.S. is high in public. They have been very supportive of the U.S. so far. In private, they have been raging, angry that they weren't consulted on the start of this war to begin with, right? Many of them didn't even know what the start date was going to be, so they feel like they are sort of collateral damage in President Trump's confrontation with the Iranians, which many of them don't think is timed right."