Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis  —  Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won't help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere  —  The White House unsuccessfully tried to arrange calls between President Biden …

Pentagon says Polish proposal to transfer jets to US to give to Ukraine isn't ‘tenable’  —  (CNN)The Pentagon on Tuesday evening dismissed Poland's proposal floated hours earlier to transfer its MiG-29 fighter jets to the United States for delivery to Ukraine.

Mark Meadows Spread Trump's Voter Fraud Claims.  Now His Voting Record Is Under Scrutiny.  —  The former Trump aide listed a mobile home in rural North Carolina as his residence at the same time that he was running operations at the White House.  —  Mark Meadows, the White House chief …

Fox News Poll: McCormick tops Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania GOP senate primary poll  —  A Fox News survey of Pennsylvania GOP primary voters finds McCormick tops Oz by 9 points  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 8  —  Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick has a clear advantage …

Iconic U.S. brands Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's and Starbucks suspend business in Russia  — PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks each said Tuesday they are suspending business in Russia after that country's invasion of Ukraine.  — It's a symbolic move by the iconic U.S. brands …

Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's Ship, Lost in 1915, Is Found in Antarctica  —  Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.  —  The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic …

Why Isn't Brittney Griner the Biggest Sports Story in the Country?  —  The second-best player in every sport is a superstar at a level that 99.999 percent of professional athletes — who are already the elite of the elite of the elite — will never come close to achieving.

Flipping Wrong Switch and Not Hackers Caused Outage in Taiwan  —  Flawed design and poor communication — including an operator's decision to flip a switch marked “Do Not Operate” — were the main causes of an island-wide power outage in Taiwan last week, according to a government investigation.

Dual U.S. / Russian National Charged With Acting Illegally As A Russian Agent In The United States  —  Elena Branson Allegedly Willfully Evaded FARA Registration for Nearly a Decade, Working to Advance the Interests of the Russian Government While Receiving Tasking and Funding from High-Level Russian Officials

Russia Set to Ban Commodity Exports Following Western Sanctions  —  President Putin's decree didn't specify which commodities and countries would be subjected to the export ban  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin is banning exports of certain commodities and raw materials, according to a decree issued Tuesday evening in Moscow.

Johnson blocks vote on antisemitism envoy, meets with truckers instead  —  Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday blocked a vote on the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the Biden administration's antisemitism envoy.  Instead Johnson met with a group of truckers in Washington, D.C. …

Russian Invasion Turns Ukraine's Local Politicians Into Resistance Leaders  —  Governors and mayors fight to keep spirits up and information flowing as they run territorial defense  —  KYIV, Ukraine—Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Ukraine's Mykolaiv region, now facing a Russian advance …

Republicans cheer Russian oil ban and jeer Biden for rising gas prices  —  How Biden's ban on Russian oil could impact supply, gas prices in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are championing President Joe Biden's decision to ban Russian oil imports to the U.S. …

Google to Buy Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant in $5.4 Billion Deal  —  Cybersecurity investments have been hot among tech companies, as they beef up those services for customers amid a surge in cyberattacks  —  Google said it reached a deal to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant Inc. for nearly $5.4 billion …

Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: ‘No two countries run by women would ever go to war’  — “No two countries run by women would ever go to war,” Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Tuesday.  — If half the world were run by women, Sandberg believes the world would be “safer” and “much more prosperous.”

Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels  —  This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.  —  During a rare appearance in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2015 …

Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable … A Republican candidate favored to win a seat in the Michigan House said he tells his daughters to “just lie back and enjoy it” if raped, as he attempted to make an analogy about abandoning efforts …

72-Year-Old Lawyer With AR-15 and ‘To-Do List’ Admits Threatening to Kill Senate Dems  —  GUILTY AS CHARGED  —  A former Pennsylvania attorney charged with threatening to kill Democratic members of the U.S. Senate has pleaded guilty, according to court records.

New York's Russian Restaurants Feel War's Impact  —  Most owners are antiwar, and many of them are from Ukraine.  But customer numbers are down all the same.  —  After Russia invaded Ukraine, Sveta, a small restaurant in the West Village known for its Instagram-friendly cocktails …

Missouri lawmaker seeks to stop residents from obtaining abortions out of state … The pattern emerges whenever a Republican-led state imposes new restrictions on abortion: People seeking the procedure cross state lines to find treatment in places with less-restrictive laws.