President Ferguson Responds to Washington Post
This week, the Washington Post Editorial Board posted a column tearing down the Railway Safety Act of 2026. With that in mind, SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson submitted an op-ed to the Washington Post editorial board today. After reading what the post passed off to the country as facts on your safety, Brother Ferguson wasn’t about to let it be the last word. Please take a moment to read the view from the railroad corporations that the Washington Post put out there, as well as the response your union sent back at them. After reading these two opposite points of view, SMART-TD would like to encourage all our members to drop the Washington Post Editorial Board a line at oped@washpost.com.
Source:Washington Post
March 12, 2026 20:56 UTC
ROTC Students At Old Dominion Subdued And Killed The Shooter Who Killed 1 Person, Wounded 2
LOADING ERROR LOADINGROTC students in an Old Dominion University classroom subdued and killed the shooter who killed one person and wounded two others, the FBI announced Thursday. “There’s still a lot more stuff we have to work out.”Jalloh: Guard service and Islamic State tiesThe suspected shooter, Jalloh, is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone. Jalloh later told the informant that the Islamic State group had asked if he wanted to participate in an attack. He tried to donate $500 to the Islamic State, but the money actually went to an account controlled by the FBI, according to court documents. AdvertisementLocated in coastal Norfolk, Old Dominion University has about 24,000 students, 17,500 of them undergraduates.
Source:Huffington Post
March 12, 2026 20:09 UTC
Brent Crude Oil Briefly Tops $100 A Barrel As Iran Attacks On Shipping Worsen Supply Concerns
Oil prices initially shot more than 9% higher as supply concerns worsened with Iranian attacks on commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has escalated its attacks aimed at generating enough global economic pain to pressure the United States and Israel to end the war. Germany’s DAX lost 0.4% to 23,533.60, while the CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.7% to 7,982.64. AdvertisementSince the start of the war, sharp moves for oil prices have triggered swings up and down for financial markets worldwide, sometimes by the hour. Stagflation fears are rising not just because of higher oil prices but also because of weakness in hiring by U.S. employers.
Source:Huffington Post
March 12, 2026 20:01 UTC
AI money is already influencing the midterms. And more is coming.
Candidates backed by AI companies have found early success — of the 20 candidates in the Texas and North Carolina primaries who received AI funds, including many in competitive, open primaries, only one lost her race. And if people don’t see that AI can be used for social utility, they’re not going to tolerate it,” Carson said. Much of the spending is focused on lawmakers who will have some say in AI regulation or who explicitly want to be involved in the issue. And many companies and leaders, including Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI leader Sam Altman, and smaller companies like C3 AI and Perplexity AI, also contributed to the president’s inaugural fund. “There is a gold rush on,” said one Democratic operative who works for a candidate affected by the AI spending, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to bluntly discuss the impact.
Source:Washington Post
March 12, 2026 19:52 UTC
Senators seek review of Justice Department’s handling of Epstein files
A bipartisan group of senators is asking the Government Accountability Office to examine the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein amid concerns the department has not released all the documents required by law. President Donald Trump in November signed a nearly unanimously passed law mandating the Justice Department make public records related to the late convicted sex offender with narrow restrictions. The department released millions of pages of documents, but Democrats and some Republicans in Congress have raised concerns about how faithfully it complied with the law. Bondi has defended the department’s compliance with the law. A dozen senators — including Merkley, Murkowski and Durbin — wrote in December to Don Berthiaume, the Justice Department’s acting inspector general, to ask him to audit the department’s compliance with the law.
Source:Washington Post
March 12, 2026 19:42 UTC
Video Georgia student charged in teacher's death from prank gone wrong speaks out
Georgia student charged in teacher's death from prank gone wrong speaks out Jayden Wallace issued a statement saying he will live out the remainder of his life honoring his teacher's memory.
Source:ABC News
March 12, 2026 19:27 UTC
Live updates: Suspect in Temple Israel synagogue attack in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, is dead, sheriff says
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel appears on CNN on Thursday, March 12. CNNThe attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township today hits close to home for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. She was at Temple Israel last year to give a presentation about hate crimes and domestic terrorism, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper. The security guards who saw and opened fire on the suspect were “well-trained” and “well-prepared,” the attorney general said. “I think we can absolutely draw a nexus between the war in Iran and the events of today,” Nessel said.
Source:CNN
March 12, 2026 18:58 UTC
Farmer Warns Trump’s War Will Raise Grocery Prices
LOADING ERROR LOADINGAn Illinois corn and soybean farmer condemned President Donald Trump’s war with Iran on Wednesday, warning Americans that the conflict will surge grocery prices. It’s just that simple,” John Bartman told MS Now anchor Stephanie Ruhle. In addition to QatarLNG’s halt in production, Iran’s blockage of the Strait of Hormuz has prevented other countries in the region from exporting nitrogen products, like nitrogen fertilizer, according to the outlet. “There’s workers right now that are sitting that want to go to work, and we farmers want those people to go to work,” Bartman said, “and we need new equipment right now. And I wish this administration would get their act together, and so that we as farmers can make some money.”
Source:Huffington Post
March 12, 2026 18:55 UTC
Putin's 'Hidden Hand' Likely Aiding Iran In Its War Against Donald Trump, UK Says
John Healey was speaking from the UK’s military headquarters in London hours after drones hit a base used by western forces in Iraq. AdvertisementHe said British officers told him drone pilots from Iran and Iranian proxies were adopting tactics “from the Russians”, and telling them how to fly them. Iran has been supplying Russia with Shahed drones – long-range weapons Moscow has regularly deployed against Ukraine – for years. Meanwhile, Trump announced on Monday that he would “take sanctions off” some countries until the Strait of Hormuz is up and ready again. AdvertisementTehran has effectively closed the strait of Hormuz, which carries a fifth of the world’s oil supply, by targeting ships on waterway.
Source:Huffington Post
March 12, 2026 18:51 UTC
Kash Patel Announces FBI's New Training Partner — And It's A Kick In The Head
LOADING ERROR LOADINGHailing the pairing as “historic,” FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that UFC fighters will teach mixed martial arts to FBI trainees and senior staff at the bureau’s academy in Quantico, Virginia, this weekend. White is working with the White House to host a UFC event there in June. FBI Director Kash Patel, pictured behind Dana White and Donald Trump at a 2025 UFC event in Miami, has announced a training seminar with the MMA organization. “I have tremendous respect for the FBI and the work they do every day to protect this country,” White said in the release. “Our UFC fighters are some of the baddest men and women on the planet and they are heading to Quantico to train the best FBI agents in mixed martial arts.
Source:Huffington Post
March 12, 2026 18:47 UTC
Cop Having 'Mild Anxiety Attack' Took Ambulance Sent For Man Dying From Police Shooting: Report
AdvertisementBut the report raised questions about what took place after the March 31 shooting, which left Best, who was Black, bleeding with severe internal injuries. The first ambulance called to take Best to the hospital arrived at the scene at 6:02 p.m., about 14 minutes after the shooting. The report by Inspector General Eliot Prescott did not say whether the delay in waiting for another ambulance contributed to Best’s death. A witness pointed officers to two men in an SUV and said they had a gun, the report says. AdvertisementAfter the shooting, the family’s lawyer, Crosland disputed that Best had a gun and claimed he was instead holding a vape pen.
Source:Huffington Post
March 12, 2026 18:26 UTC
Clive Thompson wrote about coding with AI agents. “Software ...
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Source:New York Times
March 12, 2026 18:23 UTC
Robert Irwin on talking to his dad who died when he was two
Robert Irwin on talking to his dad who died when he was twoRobert Irwin tells Anderson Cooper about the moments he feels closest to his dad, “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin. Watch the full episode of All There Is at cnn.com/allthereis or wherever you get your podcasts.
Source:CNN
March 12, 2026 17:46 UTC
Renewed scrutiny of New Mexico ranch once owned by Jeffrey Epstein
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Source:CNN
March 12, 2026 17:45 UTC
Too Much TV: If I Ran CNN
Conservatives don’t trust CNN and the more the network leans into its shift towards the right, the more audience it sheds. I believe that the future for CNN is to look back at what made it successful in the early days. If I ran CNN, I would approach it as if I were running a start-up news channel rival with very limited resources. * CNN will debut a new original series, Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Saturday, April 11th. (LMN)* Mama June: From Hot to Not Season Premiere (WE tv)* That Night (Netflix)* This Farming Life Season Premiere (BritBox)* Twisted Yoga (Apple TV)
Source:CNN
March 12, 2026 17:45 UTC