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.

DC ‘freedom convoy’ gets defeated by regular traffic for second day in a row  —  Some vehicles of convoy broke down while others were separated from each other  —  Trucker convoy protest in Washington DC fails as no-one shows up  —  An American truckers' rally inspired by the self-styled …

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

Statement of President Joe Biden on the Return of American Detainees from Venezuela  —  Tonight—two Americans who were wrongfully detained in Venezuela will be able to hug their families once more.  —  We are bringing Gustavo Cardenas and Jorge Fernandez home.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …