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As the conflict in the Middle East continues to roil global markets, investors are searching for signs of a turnaround.However, today on CNBC, Altaf Kassam – EMEA Head of Investment Strategy and Research at State Street Global Advisors – provided a sobering reality check.While historical precedents suggest that markets often rally before a conflict officially concludes, Kassam warned that the current geopolitical and economic landscape – defined by a direct military confrontation with Iran – may not follow the traditional “snap-back” script.Instead, a persistent “risk premium” is expected to hang over US stocks long after the guns fall silent.The ‘fear…

Kat Rosenfield, a culture writer for the Free Press, joins “CBS Saturday Morning” to preview the 98th Academy Awards and discuss her new novel, “How to Survive in Woods.” The Free Press is a Paramount publication.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Armed FBI agents executed a search warrant at a home in Michigan overnight Thursday, believed to be in connection with the synagogue attacker who rammed a vehicle into a Jewish house of worship earlier in the day.Video shows agents outside a brick home in Dearborn Heights, a city in Wayne County, using a long battering tool to break a front window before making entry. Law enforcement told WJBK/FOX 2 Detroit they were conducting a search warrant.The raid came hours after a suspect rammed a vehicle into Temple Israel, a large Reform synagogue…

NewsFeedThe Vatican envoy to Lebanon visited the town of Qlayaa, after priest Pierre al-Rahi was killed in what authorities described as Israeli artillery shelling earlier in the week. Hostilities between Israel and Lebanon have been escalating, killing up to nearly 700 Lebanese people.Published On 14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Virginia’s Democratic senators aren’t budging from their position against funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without reforms, despite a deadly shooting involving a suspect with links to ISIS.Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., have both consistently voted with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and their colleagues against the GOP’s attempts to reopen the agency in their push for stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).Senate Republicans have warned of the necessity to reopen DHS out of concern about an increase in…

Jurgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers, has died.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two Florida teens accused of plotting a gruesome “blood ritual” killing at their high school laughed about their mugshots and cracked jokes about jail in the back of a patrol car, newly revealed video shared by prosecutors shows.Lois Olivios Lippert, 14, and Isabelle Aurelia Valdez, 15, of Altamonte Springs were arrested Jan. 22 after authorities received a tip that a student known as “Jimmy” was planning to kill a classmate at Lake Brantley High School, according to the Altamonte Springs Police Department arrest report.Investigators later identified “Jimmy” as Valdez.In the cruiser video…

NewsFeedA strike on the heavily fortified United States embassy compound in Baghdad caused a fire and damage to the complex. It is the second attack on the embassy since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28.Published On 14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

With oil markets paralyzed by the war between the U.S. and Iran, the Trump administration is weighing a military operation to escort ships through a vital maritime chokepoint — a massive undertaking that experts say could already be in the preparatory stages.Since the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran began two weeks ago, more than a dozen attacks have been reported against oil tankers and other cargo ships in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Iranian officials have openly threatened ships that pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that connects the Persian Gulf with the world’s oceans.Fearing…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. figure skating star Alysa Liu revealed extensively why she decided to withdraw from the upcoming World Championships following her successes at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. At a press conference at her Oakland celebration rally on Thursday, Liu said she wanted to go to worlds, but had too many prior commitments. “There’s so many commitments I have and activities that are overlapping with worlds, and also I don’t have much time training,” Liu said. “So I can’t be doing worlds. I don’t think I’d put out my best performance.”   Alysa Liu of Team…