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Friday will mark two weeks since a retired Air Force major general who previously oversaw a base associated with UFO lore was last seen in Albuquerque, N.M. 

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) issued a Silver Alert for William “Neil” McCasland the day he went missing.

The retired general was last seen by his wife at their house around 11:10 a.m. on Feb. 27, and she reported him missing around 3:07 p.m., according to an updated timeline shared by the BCSO on Thursday afternoon. The BCSO said they “immediately” launched the investigation into his disappearance.

McCasland’s phone, prescription glasses and “wearable devices” were left behind at the residence, the department said. McCasland’s hiking boots, wallet and .38 caliber revolver are believed to be missing, according to the update.

BCSO investigators discovered a U.S. Air Force sweatshirt just over a mile from his home during the search effort last Saturday, which the agency noted has “not been confirmed” to belong to McCasland.

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Emmy-winning journalist and former New York news anchor Ernie Anastos has died at 82, station WABC confirmed.

Anastos' family confirmed his death to WABC, though no further details were shared.

"He was a news legend in New York and throughout the tri-state. He was also a news legend here at Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Tonight, we remember him," WABC anchor Bill Ritter said during the March 12 broadcast. "He was something unique and no matter your politics."

Ritter praised his longtime friend and collhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2026/03/12/ernie-anastos-news-anchor-dead/89126750007/eague for being trusted by viewers, adding that Anastos believed in reporting the truth and facts. He shared a note Anastos sent him two weeks earlier that read "Hi Bill, Love you, and stay happy and healthy. Ernie."

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The Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most vital shipping routes and a chokepoint for about one-fifth of the world's oil, is becoming a flashpoint in the Iran war as explosive-laden boats have attacked fuel tankers, setting ships on fire and killing at least one crew member, according to Reuters.

Iran has warned that commercial ships won’t be allowed through while the fighting continues, a threat that is already changing behavior at sea as shipping companies are backing away from the strait.

Despite U.S. strikes on mine-laying boats, insurers have pulled coverage, traffic has dropped sharply and dozens of vessels are sitting offshore. Even the threat of attacks in the narrow channel is enough to rattle markets and push prices higher.

Here's what to know about sea mines and why they're posing new dangers in the Strait of Hormuz:

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HRRC demands that Israel immediately stop all use of artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions in populated residential areas. The deployment of these weapons risks indiscriminately harming civilians, thereby violating international law. We also call on states that provide Israel with weapons to stop supplying the country with white phosphorus munitions.

On Monday, March 9, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a news release accusing Israel of unlawfully deploying munitions containing white phosphorus, a dangerous chemical substance, over civilian homes in Lebanon. According to images verified and geolocated by HRW, artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions were deployed on March 3 in a residential area of Yohmor, located in southern Lebanon, resulting in fires in at least two homes and one car.

White phosphorus can cause severe and extremely painful burns that are deep and slow to heal. The smoke can also irritate the eyes and respiratory tract, leading to a range of harmful health effects. It can take up to 24 hours for systemic effects to occur and, in severe cases of exposure, these effects can lead to death.

Although white phosphorus is not officially classified as a chemical weapon, munitions containing the substance may be considered incendiary weapons—weapons designed to start fires—and their use may violate international law in some circumstances. 

Under Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), an international treaty that regulates the use of weapons that pose excessive risks to civilians, it is prohibited to “make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons.” However, white phosphorus munitions often have other purposes, such as obscuring or marking targets, and may therefore not always be technically classified as incendiary weapons when used in warfare.

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A man is dead in Michigan after ramming a vehicle into one of the nation’s biggest synagogues that also houses an early childhood center, according to local officials.

The suspect drove into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township outside Detroit, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. Synagogue security staff opened fire on the vehicle, and it ignited. The suspect's cause of death remains unknown.

"As you have no doubt heard, Temple Israel was the victim of a terrorist gunman who was confronted and neutralized by our security personnel who are truly heroes," synagogue staff said in a statement on March 12. "Our teachers followed their training and kept the children safe and calm."

A security guard was struck by the vehicle and was hospitalized but is expected to recover, Bouchard said. No other injuries were reported. Authorities successfully evacuated the temple's school, which was in session when the attack occurred.

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TEHRAN, IRAN—Less than an hour before a deadly airstrike tore through a residential neighborhood in Resalat Square in eastern Tehran late Monday evening, Hassan Sharifi was walking through the area on his way home. He passed by the mid-rise apartment buildings that housed bakeries, shops, cafes, and small grocery stores on their ground floors. When the missile struck, he immediately ran back to the square.

“I didn’t think about myself,” Sharifi, a 40-year-old accountant, told Drop Site News. “I ran toward the collapsed buildings to help whomever I could. I felt that every minute mattered.”

What he found was devastating. The building facades had been blown away. Balconies had collapsed. Windows shattered. Rubble was everywhere. Inside, where families lay buried under the broken concrete, screams began to fill the air.

At least 40 people were killed, according to official reports. Most of the victims were civilians who had been inside their homes when the strike hit, Iranian media reported.

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Elon Musk's AI platform wrongly claimed that footage of a fire in Glasgow was related to an incident in Tel Aviv, and it also confused a video appearing to show oil fires in Iran with a 2017 blaze near Los Angeles. 

Meanwhile, in a dizzying stream of social media posts since the US attacked Iran, Trump has variously called for a mass uprising, demanded the country’s unconditional surrender, claimed that he would be directly involved in choosing Iran’s next leader, suggested that Iran is being beaten to hell, and vowed to widen his target list.

But his most significant post called the assassination of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country”.

This was a chance the Iranian people did not take. They instead came out onto the streets by the thousands to mourn Khamenei while the bombing was taking place.

In addition to that, the killing of the Iranian head of state, in itself an event unique in modern history, might have done the very opposite of what Trump and the “brains” of the operation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had intended.

The assassination of Khamenei might have revitalised and given new direction to the Islamic Republic and the Iranian revolution.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Wednesday that Ukrainian anti-drone experts have begun work on defending Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates from Iranian attacks.

The US and Israel launched a massive air bombardment campaign on Iran on Feb. 28, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and plunging the region into turmoil.

Ukraine – which has now been under attack from Iranian-made Shahed drones and the Russian-made drones modeled on them for over four years – has responded by offering material assistance to the countries bearing the brunt of Iran’s response.

“Three of our teams have gone – strong teams of experts, military personnel, engineers, different people. Today the military are already communicating and already working,” Zelensky told reporters, with his spokesperson later confirming that he was referring to the three Gulf states, according to AFP.

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