The News Roundup For March 6, 2026

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Kristi Noem, his pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, was leaving the agency amidst serious questions surrounding funding and the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in cities around the country.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s war with Iran has now claimed the lives of six American. And Iran’s Red Crescent society is saying the death toll in Tehran is well above 1,000.

All politically-inclined eyes were on Texas this week as the state conducted its primaries ahead of the general election. In the Democratic contest, state Rep. James Talerico defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett to earn the left’s Senate nomination. For the Republicans, a stalemate. Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton are going to a runoff — a result that has some GOP strategists wringing their hands.

And, in global news, the world is still searching for answers in the wake of the U.S. and Israeli air strikes that hit Iran last weekend. New satellite images show the bombing of an Iranian elementary school hit more targets than initially believed, killing 165 people. And global leaders are wondering if the federal government’s meetings with Tehran officials ever had any hope of succeeding.

Now, the U.S. is in talks with the Kurdish opposition in Iran in a bid to arm them and spark an uprising against the country’s current government.

Retaliatory Iranian missiles appeared to target Turkey this week, leading to speculation about whether or not European nations might be forced to involve themselves in America’s war with Iran thanks to NATO Article 5.

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0:45.6	The U.S. is back at war in the Middle East.
0:48.8	Why, the administration can't seem to agree on a message.
0:52.4	Here's Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump.
0:54.8	We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
0:58.0	We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
1:02.2	And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks,
1:06.6	we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.
1:09.6	If we didn't hit within two weeks, they would have had a nuclear weapon.
1:14.5	If we didn't do the B2 attack a number of months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon.
1:18.3	And when crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen.
1:23.3	President Trump also admits there will be death and pain before this is all over.
1:29.7	Democratic efforts in the Senate and the House to rein in Trump's powers to strike Iran failed this week.
1:34.4	And yesterday, the president fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Knoem.
1:43.5	She had faced lawmakers' questions this week over the deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and U.S. preparedness at home as the war on Iran escalates.
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