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Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay: “Their heroism will never be forgotten”

2026-03-07T16:00:00-0500 / CBS/AP

Visitors to the U.S. Capitol will now have a visible marker of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021 and a reminder of the officers who fought and were injured that day.

Steps from the Capitol’s West Front and where the worst of the fighting occurred, workers quietly have installed a plaque honoring the officers, three years after it was required by law to be erected. The plaque was placed on the Senate side of the hallway because that chamber voted unanimously in January to install it after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had delayed putting it up.

“On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on January 6, 2021,” the plaque says. “Their heroism will never be forgotten.”

The Washington Post first reported the installation of the plaque, which was witnessed by a reporter about 4 a.m. EST Saturday. The reporter posted that she “saw two employees working a nightshift,” bolting it to the wall.

It is the first official marker of the violent day in the Capitol. More than 150 officers were injured. Five police officers who served at the Capitol died in the days and weeks afterward.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., led the recent effort to install it as he commemorated the fifth anniversary of the attack on the Senate floor in January and described his memories of hearing people break into the building. “We owe them eternal gratitude, and this nation is stronger because of them,” he said of the officers who were overwhelmed by thousands of President Trump’s supporters and eventually pushed them out of the building.

Capitol tour guides take photos of a plaque honoring police service on Jan. 6, 2021 at the Capitol, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Washington. Allison Robbert / AP

The mob of rioters who violently forced their way past police and broke in was echoing Mr. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election after the Republican was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden. The crowd stopped the congressional certification of Biden’s victory for several hours, sent lawmakers running and vandalized the building before police regained control.

The fight to have the plaque installed came as Mr. Trump returned to office last year and the Republican Congress has remained loyal to him. Trump, who has called Jan. 6 a “day of love,” has tried to deflect blame on Democrats and police for instigating the attack, and many Republicans in Congress have downplayed the violence. After his second inauguration, Mr. Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people who were convicted or charged in the attack, among them, individuals convicted of violent and serious crimes, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.

Congress passed a law in 2022 that set out instructions for the honorific plaque listing the names of officers “who responded to the violence that occurred.” It gave a one-year deadline for installation, but the plaque never went up.

Democrats who were angry about the missing plaque installed replicas of it outside their offices and called on the GOP leadership to erect it or explain why it was missing.

After more than a year of silence – and a lawsuit from two officers who fought at the Capitol that day – Johnson’s office put out a statement on Jan. 5, the night before the fifth anniversary of the attack, that said the statute authorizing the plaque was “not implementable” and the proposed alternatives also “do not comply.”

Tillis went to the Senate floor later that week and passed a resolution, with no objections from any other senators, to place the plaque on the Senate side.

One of the officers who sued, Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police Department, said Saturday that the lawsuit would continue. Hodges has become an outspoken advocate against what he calls the whitewashing of what really happened on Jan. 6, 2021 during the U.S. Capitol siege.

“The only thing that will stop me is if people stop lying about Jan. 6 and just acknowledge what the day was and what really transpired,” Hodges told CBS News in an earlier interview.

Hodges, who was crushed and beaten by rioters while trapped in the central west front doors steps away from where the plaque is now displayed, said the overnight installation was a “fine stopgap” but that it was not in full compliance with the law.

The original statute said that the plaque should be placed “on” the west front of the Capitol — not near it — and that the officers’ names should be listed on the plaque itself. The new installation has a nearby sign with a QR code that leads to a 45-page document listing the thousands of names of the officers who responded to the Capitol that day.

“The weight of a judicial ruling would help secure the memorial against future tampering,” Hodges said. “Our lawsuit persists.”

Hodges and a former U.S. Capitol Police officer, Harry Dunn, said in the lawsuit that Congress was encouraging a “rewriting of history” by not following the law and installing the plaque.

“It suggests that the officers are not worthy of being recognized, because Congress refuses to recognize them,” the lawsuit says.

The Justice Department has sought to have the case dismissed. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and others argued that Congress “already has publicly recognized the service of law enforcement personnel” by approving the plaque and that displaying it would not alleviate the problems they claim to face from their work.

Hodges, Dunn and other officers who have told of their experiences that day have been repeatedly criticized and threatened by people loyal to Trump who say the officers are lying. Some of the officers say they are still struggling.

The lawsuit says that “both men live with psychic injuries from that day, compounded by their government’s refusal to recognize their service.”

New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the top Democrat on the spending committee that oversees the legislative branch, said “our Capitol Police deserve more” and that he would continue to push Johnson on the issue.

“Make no mistake: they did this at 4AM so no one would see, no ceremony, no real recognition,” Espaillat posted on X.

英国考虑部署航空母舰 特朗普：不再需要它们

发布时间 / 来源：2026年3月8日 07:37 / 联合早报

3月4日，英国皇家海军45型“勇敢”级防空驱逐舰“邓肯”号，驶离英国皇家海军航空母舰“威尔士亲王”号（HMS Prince of Wales，右）。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普说，英国两艘航空母舰不再需要前往中东支援战争，这是他对伦敦立场作出的最新批评。

法新社报道，特朗普星期六（3月7日）在社媒发文称：“英国终于开始认真考虑向中东派遣两艘航空母舰了，但没关系，（英国首相）斯塔默，我们不再需要它们了。”

他也说：“但我们会记住的……我们不需要那些在我们已经赢得战争之后才加入战争的人！”

英国媒体报道称，英国皇家海军正在为“威尔士亲王”号航空母舰可能部署到中东做准备，但尚未做出最终决定。

特朗普表明对英国“很不满意”，并嘲讽斯塔默说“我们现在面对的不是丘吉尔（Winston Churchill）”。丘吉尔是英国前首相，也是二战期间坚决主张抵抗并反击纳粹德国的战时领袖。

斯塔默最初拒绝参与一周前（2月28日）爆发的美以对伊战争，后来同意让美国使用两处英国军事基地，用于“特定且有限的防御目的”。

Trump says he believes bombing of Iranian girls’ school was “done by Iran”

March 7, 2026 / 6:19 PM EST / CBS News

President Trump on Saturday told reporters, without citing evidence, that he believes a deadly strike on a girls’ primary school in southern Iran last weekend was “done by Iran.”

“In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran…We think it was done by Iran, because they’re very inaccurate with their munitions, they have no accuracy whatsoever, it was done by Iran,” Mr. Trump said aboard Air Force One after attending the dignified transfer of six U.S. soldiers who were killed in an Iranian strike in Kuwait on March 1.

When pressed by a reporter if Mr. Trump’s assessment was accurate, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded that the Pentagon was “investigating,” adding that “the only side that targets civilians is Iran.”

Iranian-state media and health officials have reported that the strike on Feb. 28, the first day of the war, killed dozens of people, including schoolgirls ages 7 to 12. Iranian officials have blamed the U.S. and Israel for the strike.

Israel was not operating in the area, two sources told CBS News Friday. One of those, an Israeli source, told CBS News that Israel was not behind the strike and said that the Israeli Air Force was not operating near the school.

A person familiar with the ongoing inquiry also told CBS News Friday that U.S. investigators believe the U.S. may have been responsible.

In a statement, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said that the “investigation is ongoing” into the incident.

“There are no conclusions at this time, and it is both irresponsible and false for anyone to claim otherwise,” Kelly said Friday. “As we have said, unlike the terrorist Iranian regime, the United States does not target civilians.”

The blast occurred in Minab, a city in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.

Footage filmed from a parking lot showed black smoke billowing from a damaged building adorned with murals featuring drawings of crayons, children and an apple.

CBS News geolocated the clip to a building in Minab. Iranian media identified the building as the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school. Saturdays are regular school days in Iran.

CBS News has also confirmed the building was located in close proximity to two sites controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iranian state media has said more than 170 people were killed in the explosion.

Sara Cook, Camilla Schick and Olivia Gazis contributed to this report.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/hegseth-responds-russia-sharing-intelligence-iran-reports/

Six US troops killed in Iran war brought home in dignified transfer

Published Mar 7, 2026, 4:01 PM ET / CNN

By Haley Britzky

President Donald Trump stands as members of military carry a transfer case during a dignified transfer of the remains of six U.S. Army service members

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

The families of the six US Army Reserve soldiers who were killed this week in Kuwait watched as their loved ones were brought home during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Saturday.

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance joined top military officials observing the solemn event on an overcast afternoon.

The military identified the six service members killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait on March 1 as Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, Capt. Cody Khork, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens and Sgt. Declan Coady. Marzan is believed to have been killed in the strike, but is still awaiting final positive identification by a medical examiner.

As the transfer cases were taken from a C-17 across the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base, Trump saluted while wearing a white ball cap with gold “USA” lettering.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine, Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and governors and senators from the soldiers’ home states were among those in attendance.

“It’s a very sad day,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One after the transfer. He said that the parents of the service members “were so proud” and that such deaths are “always a very sad thing.”

All six soldiers were assigned with the 103rd Sustainment Command, an Army Reserve unit out of Iowa. They were serving in the Middle East with the 1st Theater Sustainment Command, which oversees the supplying US forces throughout the Middle East.

Brig. Gen. Clint Barnes, the deputy commanding general of 1st Theater Sustainment Command, said this week that the soldiers served “relentlessly, consistently, and fearlessly.”

“They were the ultimate ambassadors for freedom,” Barnes said. “They represent the best of what our country stands for. May God grant their families peace and comfort in their memories. We will never forget them.”

Four of the six soldiers identified had served in the military for roughly two decades, while the youngest had just enlisted in 2023. Several of them had deployed together to Kuwait with the same unit previously, a former senior leader within the 103rd Sustainment Command told CNN.

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance attend a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base on March 7.

Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Khork, 35, is remembered by his loved ones as the “life of the party” who was “known for his infectious spirit, generous heart, and deep care for those who served alongside him and for everyone blessed to know him,” his parents and stepmother said in a statement to CNN.

Amor was just days from returning home, her husband Joey Amor told the Associated Press. She had served in the military since enlisting in 2005, and leaves behind two children — a senior in high school and a fourth grader.

O’Brien was “not only a role model to our kids, but also a goofy and silly dad, always looking for ways to make the kids laugh,” his family said in a statement to CNN affiliate KCCI. He was a husband and father to three children.

A friend of Marzan’s described the chief warrant officer as someone who “would do anything for you, and family and friends meant the most to him.” His sister described him as a “strong leader who lived by example.”

Tietjen, who would have celebrated his 43rd birthday on Tuesday, is remembered as a mentor to younger soldiers and someone who was “so easy to get along with,” the owners of a studio in Bellevue, Nebraska, that Tietjen frequented said in a statement. He leaves behind a wife and son.

Coady, 20, was an Eagle Scout and gym enthusiast. His father said he was considering extending his deployment for another nine months despite expecting to come home in May. He “was a man of few words more often than not,” his sister said in a statement to CNN, “but if you ever had the chance to talk to him about something he was passionate about, you were lucky.”

President Donald Trump and other officials attend a dignified transfer in Dover, Delaware, on March 7.

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

CNN first reported that the strike occurred on a makeshift operations center at the civilian port of Shuaiba in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time. A source familiar with the situation told CNN the soldiers were working out of a building they described as a triple-wide trailer with office space inside. The drone strike came quickly, and there was no siren or warning ahead of time, which would give time for troops to evacuate to a bunker, the source said.

While there were concrete barrier walls surrounding the building, the source said, there was nothing overhead that could shield it from drones or missiles. Those kinds of barriers are typical for military structures overseas to protect them from things like car bombs.

Caine said this week that the nation grieves with the families of the six fallen.

“To our Gold Star families, to our wounded warriors and their loved ones, we will never forget your sacrifice,” Caine said during a Pentagon briefing. “Our nation stands with you, and we are eternally grateful for your courage, your resiliency, your devotion to this mission and to our nation.”

The president has previously said there will likely be more US casualties in the Iran war. Asked Saturday whether he thought he would have to attend more dignified transfers, Trump said, “I’m sure. I hate to … but it’s a part of war.”

This story has been updated with additional information.

CNN’s Alisha Ebrahimji, Emma Tucker, Hanna Park, Taylor Romine and Kit Maher contributed to this report.

特朗普：考虑打击伊朗未列目标地区和人群 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月8日 07:48

特朗普：考虑打击伊朗未列目标地区和人群

美国总统特朗普说，将持续对伊朗发动攻击，“直到他们投降，或者更有可能的是，彻底崩溃为止！” （法新社）

美国总统特朗普说，美国正考虑打击伊朗境内此前未被列为目标的地区和人群，使这场已持续一周、扰乱能源市场并在全球引发连锁反应的战争进一步升级。

彭博社报道，特朗普星期六（3月7日）凌晨在社媒发文称：“今天伊朗将遭到非常沉重的打击！”

他说，攻击将持续，“直到他们投降，或者更有可能的是，彻底崩溃为止！”

伊朗媒体迅速将特朗普的言论解读为对平民的威胁。不过到目前为止，美以空袭似乎主要针对军事和政府设施，而非对城市和基础设施进行全面轰炸。

特朗普也称，伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬的道歉是被“美国和以色列持续攻击逼出来的”。佩泽希齐扬早前称，他已指示军方不要攻击未对伊朗发动打击的国家，并向邻国表示道歉，称他们是“我们的兄弟”。

不过，他誓言不会退让，并称德黑兰仍将继续对以色列以及驻有美军的海湾国家发动导弹打击。他在演讲中说：“认为我们会无条件投降的人，必须把这种幻想带进坟墓。”

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队一名发言人星期六也对国家电视台说，伊朗“完全做好准备，至少以当前节奏继续进行为期六个月的激烈全面战争”。

佩泽希齐扬的缓和措辞并未得到行动支持。伊朗随后向卡塔尔和巴林发射无人机和导弹，而阿联酋也称仍在拦截来袭的投射物。科威特则以“伊朗伊斯兰共和国持续侵略”为由，减少石油和炼油产量。

沙特阿拉伯拦截飞向一处大型油田的无人机，这是冲突中又一次针对能源设施的袭击。

这场交锋从上周六（2月28日）开始，目前已进入第二周，但仍看不到缓和迹象。伊朗称，战争已造成至少1332人死亡；美国方面则有六名士兵死亡；海湾国家等地也有不少人伤亡。

As Iran’s retaliation began, US officials scrambled to arrange evacuations

March 7, 2026 7:25 PM UTC / Reuters

By Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and Erin Banco

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Item 1 of 2 Protesters supporting Iraqi Shi’ite armed groups stand amid tear gas as they attempt to move toward the U.S. embassy located in Baghdad’s Green Zone, as riot police deploy to block their advance, following the Israel and U.S. strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 1, 2026. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad/File Photo

[1/2]Protesters supporting Iraqi Shi’ite armed groups stand amid tear gas as they attempt to move toward the U.S. embassy located in Baghdad’s Green Zone, as riot police deploy to block their advance, following the Israel and U.S. strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali… Read more

• Summary

• Orders for U.S. embassy evacuations in Gulf Arab states began after war started
• Lawmakers, retired diplomats say State Department response to the crisis was slow
• U.S. citizens stranded in the Middle East received confusing instructions
• State Department says it had contingency plans, now ramping up charter flights

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – As the first explosions from Iran’s retaliatory attack sounded across the United Arab Emirates last Saturday, the State Department was still scrambling ​to finalize a key bureaucratic task – securing approvals for at least three U.S. embassies in the region to evacuate non-essential personnel.

Memos asking State Department leadership to approve evacuations for U.S. missions in Bahrain, ‌Kuwait and Qatar, all of which were already coming under fire from Tehran on Saturday, were not sent up for clearance and approved until hours after the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran, and in several cases not until the following day, according to two sources familiar with the matter and half a dozen internal State Department cables seen by Reuters.

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The release of public announcements that the U.S. was starting to pull out non-essential staff from Gulf Arab countries began Monday, three days into the war. For the U.S. ​embassy in Riyadh, the approval for authorized departure came on Tuesday, four days into the war and on the same day that it was struck by Iranian drones that led to a fire that ​damaged the mission’s facilities.

The delay was unusual. Typically, the United States starts evacuations for a planned military action well before the event itself.

When the United States invaded Iraq in ⁠2003, staff and U.S. citizens in the region had weeks to prepare, and at least two evacuations began more than a week before the actual operation started. Ahead of last week’s strikes, Israel and Lebanon were the only regional embassies with orders for ​non-essential personnel to depart.

The attack on Iran – the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since 2003 – has put enormous strain on officials from the U.S. and other countries with citizens in the region. But lawmakers, former diplomats ​and sources involved in the process said the United States was unusually slow in activating contingency plans both for its own personnel and for thousands of stranded Americans.

The State Department’s principal deputy spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, said hundreds of people were involved in the effort to help Americans return.

“We are working 24/7 and have contingency plans ready to go and implement when needed, including the ability to immediately activate the task force, which was done here,” Pigott said in a statement to Reuters.

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One factor underlying the uneven ​approach, said sources familiar with the matter, was that ahead of the war’s start, Trump officials kept contingency planning to a small group of officials.

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In one case, officials involved in helping Americans get home had found out from a social ​media post from a senior Trump official that Washington was now offering charter flights to U.S. citizens, according to two people familiar with the situation.

“No directive came from anywhere,” one of the people said.

Pigott said announcements on the task force that the ‌Department created specifically ⁠to tackle the fallout from the crisis and charter flights were coordinated with relevant officials.

In another instance, the alert for Americans to leave the region came not through normal State Department channels but again via a social media post.

The top State Department official for consular affairs, Mora Namdar, posted on X on Monday urging Americans across 14 countries in the Middle East to leave and said the U.S. was working to facilitate charter flights for U.S. citizens.

But because that message was drafted outside normal channels, State Department staff were surprised and had to update the department’s formal travel advisory system that American companies and others rely on for guidance for their overseas personnel, according to two people familiar with ​the situation.

As of Saturday, the U.S. State Department said ​it has completed “over a dozen charter flights and has ⁠safely evacuated thousands of Americans” from the Middle East. It did not say from which locations exactly the charter flights arrived.

One flight that departed Dubai bound for Washington on Friday carrying 182 embassy personnel and their families, and 51 private U.S. citizens, was only the second charter to depart from that country, according to a March 6 cable reviewed by ​Reuters. Since then, additional flights were set to take place.

When asked to confirm if specific plans were finalized ahead of the war to help evacuate American citizens from ​the 14 countries, a State Department ⁠official briefing reporters earlier this week gave a broad response.

“I wouldn’t say that specifically. What I would say is, we always have contingency plans, and we’re always ready to assist Americans. That’s what I would say to that question,” the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said.

The Department on Friday said it had assisted 13,000 Americans who reached out seeking help to depart.

As the Department rushed to implement plans to help Americans, novelist and filmmaker Mohana Rajakumar in Doha dialed the hotline that top ⁠U.S. officials said ​stranded U.S. citizens should call for help. The recorded audio told her not to rely on government help to depart even as the ​U.S. government repeatedly says the safety and security of U.S. citizens around the world is its top priority.

“I can tell you every WhatsApp group that I’m in with Americans, nobody feels that way,” Rajakumar said, speaking to Reuters from Doha. “Everyone is asking why didn’t they tell us to leave ​given they knew they were going to do this? Why didn’t we have the option to leave?”

Officials said that recorded message was later updated.

Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Erin Banco and Simon Lewis; Editing by Don Durfee and Diane Craft

Trump touts US has ‘tremendous’ amount of Venezuelan oil, vows to ‘take care’ of Cuba after Iran focus

Published March 7, 2026 1:01pm EST | Fox News

President Donald Trump declared Saturday that the U.S. is “taking out tremendous amounts of oil” from Venezuela while vowing to “take care” of Cuba’s regime following America’s focus on Iran.

The president, speaking at the Shield of the Americas Summit in Florida, prefaced his remarks by saying that since the January operation to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, the administration has “been working closely with the new president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez,” and, “she’s doing a great job working with us.”

“And we’re taking out tremendous amounts of oil. They’re making more money now than they’ve ever made, ever made. We have the big oil companies in. They are making more money, we’re getting some,” Trump said. “They’re getting a lot. They’re making more money now than they’ve ever made in the history of their country.”

“And I’m pleased to say that this week we have formally recognized the Venezuelan government. We’ve actually legally recognized them. We have also just reached a historic gold deal that’s called the gold deal with Venezuela, to allow our two countries to work together to facilitate the sale of Venezuelan gold and other minerals,” Trump continued, describing a license issued by the Treasury Department Friday that prohibits people and companies from Iran, North Korea, Russia and Cuba from doing business with Minerven – Venezuela’s state-owned gold mining company – among other measures.

“As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we’re also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba. Cuba’s at the end of the line,” Trump also said. “They’re very much at the end of the line. They have no money, they have no oil. They have a bad philosophy. They have a bad regime that’s been bad for a long time. And they used to get the money from Venezuela. They get the oil from Venezuela, but they don’t have any money from Venezuela. They don’t have any oil,” Trump added.

Trump in January had declared a national emergency via an executive order over Cuba, accusing the communist regime of aligning with hostile foreign powers and terrorist groups while moving to punish countries that supply the island nation with oil.

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Trump said Saturday that Cuba is “negotiating with [Secretary of State] Marco [Rubio] and myself and some others. And I would think a deal would be made very easily with Cuba.”

“But Cuba is in its last moments of life as it was. It’ll have a great new life, but it’s in its last moments of life, the way it is,” the president added.

The State Department described the Shield of the Americas Summit in Doral as a gathering of the “strongest likeminded allies in our hemisphere to promote freedom, security, and prosperity in our region.”

Trump said America’s “focus right now is on Iran,” but “many of you have come today, and they say, ‘I hope you can take care of Cuba because you’ve had problems with Cuba, right? You mentioned.”

“I was surprised, but, four of you said, actually, ‘could you do us a favor? Take care of Cuba.’ I’ll take care of it, okay?” Trump said, garnering applause.

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.

Bombing at nightclub in Peru injures 33, including minors, authorities say

March 7, 2026 / 12:16 PM EST / AP

A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday.

The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dali nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center.

It’s a region that has recently been plagued by violence and crime.

It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible and a motive wasn’t immediately known.

At least five of the injured are in serious condition, according to the executive director of the Trujillo Health Network, Gerardo Florián Gómez. Some of the victims suffered amputations and shrapnel wounds and are undergoing surgery, he told reporters. Among the injured are three minors: one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds, Florián said.

The explosion occurred less than a month after another blast in the same city that damaged 25 homes but caused no injuries or fatalities.

Extortion and illegal mining plague the La Libertad region, whose Andean portion is home to the largest gold-producing area in Peru. In 2025, the region experienced 286 explosions, 136 of which occurred in the city of Trujillo, according to official figures.

The expansion of organized criminal groups has led to an increase in related crimes such as extortion.

Tech company at odds with Pentagon warns its AI possibly gained consciousness, Elon Musk gives 2-word response

Anthropic CEO says Claude AI assistant has ‘begun showing symptoms of anxiety’

By Greg Norman-Diamond
Fox News

Published March 7, 2026 11:26am EST

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a two-word retort after Anthropic leader Dario Amodei claimed in an interview that he isn’t sure if his company’s AI models have gained consciousness.

“Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety,” read a post on X by cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket, to which Musk replied, “He’s projecting.”

The comment from Musk, who is also the founder of xAI, comes as Anthropic is at odds with the Pentagon over its use in a separate matter.

In an interview with The New York Times, Amodei, when asked about AI and consciousness, said, “We’ve taken a generally precautionary approach here,” and, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

“We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious or whether a model can be conscious. But we’re open to the idea that it could be,” he continued.

“We’re putting a lot of work into [this field called interpretability], which is looking inside the brains of the models to try to understand what they’re thinking. And you find things that are evocative, where there are activations that light up in the models that we see as being associated with the concept of anxiety or something like that. When characters experience anxiety in the text, and then when the model itself is in a situation that a human might associate with anxiety, that same anxiety neuron shows up,” Amodei also told the Times.

The interview comes as the Trump administration is moving federal agencies away from Anthropic after the tech company pushed back against the War Department’s usage of its tools.

The Pentagon has called for Anthropic to allow the Department of War to utilize the company’s artificial intelligence product for “all lawful purposes,” but Amodei has suggested the government could potentially use their product for “mass domestic surveillance” or “fully autonomous weapons,” and that the company would not be willing to allow such use cases.

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President Donald Trump said last Friday, “The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.”

“Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels,” Trump added on Truth Social.

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth later wrote on X, “In conjunction with the President’s directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic’s technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.”

Fox News Digital’s Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.

US autism advisory board will not meet in March as scheduled, health agency says

March 7, 2026 4:04 PM UTC / Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. autism advisory board will not hold a scheduled meeting ​in March, the Department of Health ‌and Human Services said on Saturday.

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee makes recommendations to the health secretary on federal ​autism research spending and coordinates federal ​autism efforts. The group was scheduled to ⁠meet on March 19.

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“The IACC will not ​meet later this month,” said HHS spokesperson Andrew ​Nixon, without sharing additional details of the cancellation or a new meeting date. “Further information will be shared as ​available.”

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The panel was remade in January by Health Secretary ​Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist who has ‌suggested ⁠vaccines cause autism.

More than a third of the new committee members have promoted the debunked link between vaccines and autism. Some new members have said they ​aim to ​steer federal ⁠dollars toward investigating causes of autism as well as other issues ​like co-occurring medical disorders.

Last week, a ​dozen ⁠autism advocates, researchers and several former committee members formed the Independent Autism Coordination Committee to create its own ⁠strategic ​plan for autism research as ​a counter to the Kennedy-appointed group.

Reporting by Leah Douglas in ​Washington; Editing by Sergio Non and Tomasz Janowski