Early Edition: March 12, 2026 A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours.

Today's news roundup:
-UNHCR says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war
-US at fault in strike on school in Iran
-US launches unfair-trade probes to rebuild Trump's tariff pressure
-UN panel accuses Trump of "racist hate speech"
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‘He’s got nothing to gain’: Ex-US envoy says Putin, not Zelenskyy, is blocking a ceasefire With Russian casualties potentially reaching 1.4 million and sanctions cutting into the economy, former US special envoy Keith Kellogg says Putin still has not accepted the core condition for peace:…

Ex-US envoy Kellogg: ceasefire in Ukraine possible "today" — if Putin accepts he's "not going to gain any more land."

Russia: 1.2–1.4M casualties. Economy bleeding. Still no deal. "He's got nothing to gain."
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We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say If regime holds, control of enriched uranium may be ultimate measure of US-Israeli success, insiders say * Middle East crisis – live updates Israel did not have a realistic plan for regime change when it attacked Iran, multiple Israeli security sources have said, with expectations that airstrikes could drive a popular uprising driven by “wishful thinking” rather than hard intelligence. Iran has now survived nearly two weeks of bombing raids and the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Trump is publicly contemplating ending an increasingly costly war. Continue reading...

We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say

It is not the photographer's fault Hegseth isn't photogenic. These people are so full of themselves and unserious. It is disgusting.

This war in Iran is a perfect illustration of the dangers of autocratic rule — and right now we indisputably have the foreign policy of a personalistic autocracy.

Trump got high on his Venezuelan supply, and immediately got the entire world into a completely unnecessary crisis.

I don't have much money but I will give my left kidney to the first person, doesn't even have to be a reporter, to remind this lying twit that she and the orange traitor work for us. This isn't some corporation where they can lock themselves away on the upper floors and ignore the peasants.

As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

Let’s check in on how Trump’s almost over very compete war is going

Iranian oil squeeze tests Trump's war plans "The Iranians f*cking around with the Strait makes him more dug in," a senior Trump official told Axios.

“The Iranians fucking around with the Strait makes him more dug in,”

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Just what the hell did he think they would do when they were attacked??? This entire regime is stupendously incompetent. I hope we make it until they're gone!

3.2 million people displaced. The orange traitor is destroying the world. This entire regime must be tried for crimes against humanity.

Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.

Brynn's crystal ball works better than anyone's. This is where we're headed...

Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown There are rules and world leaders must insist they are honoured in practice and in spirit. After this atrocity in Iran, a more effective tribunal for crimes against children is essential, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown

Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.

It seems all these dictators are nothing more than whiny pussies.

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

The US was isolated in its opposition to the adoption of agreed conclusions at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, recording the only “no” vote at the UN on Monday.

Three more ships struck in the Persian Gulf as Iran warns of oil prices hitting $200 The latest incidents in or near the Strait of Hormuz come shortly after Iran warned the world to prepare for $200 oil prices.

A total of three ships hit overnight with Iran warning oil could reach $200 a barrel.

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In 13 months,the Felon destroyed America! From credible testimony of sexual abuse of a 13 yr.old, to the brutality of🧊 to immigrants, to the murder of Rene Good & Alex Pretti, to ending USAID world wide killing & starving 600,000 human beings, to starting a world war & killing 153 Iranian children.

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CHRIS HAYES: “are you a yes, or no on the supplemental appropriations bill to continue to fund this war?”

SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: “I’m a hell no on any more money for this war.” 🔥

I appreciate Senator Van Hollen’s clear-cut answer here. No gameplaying!

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

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🚨 The Trump admin just gave VA lawyers power to initiate FORCED GUARDIANSHIP over homeless veterans — stripping them of legal autonomy and forcing them into institutions. Nearly 33,000 veterans are unhoused in America. This is despicable.
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Just fully detached from reality here.

US struggles to evacuate American personnel from facilities under fire in Iraq: Officials Some U.S. staff were flown out by the British air force, officials said.

wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...

BREAKING:

This is Beirut right now.

Israel is MASSIVELY bombing Lebanon’s capital in the middle of the night — deliberately wiping out apartment block after apartment block.

Civilian homes. Residential buildings.

No justification. Just pure terror.🤬🤬🤬🤬

Incompetence at the level of Treason

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