CBS News Roundup - 03/19/2026 | Evening Update

President Trump says there are no plans to put U.S. troops on the ground in Iran.

Body of missing University Alabama student found in Barcelona.

Long lines persist at airports as the partial government shutdown continues.

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Consider This from NPR - Why ending the war in Iran is getting harder

Three weeks into the US and Israel's war with Iran, the tensions continue to escalate. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the Pentagon would seek additional funding for the war -- to the tune of $200 billion.

Despite mixed messaging on the aims of the war, President Trump says he will decide when the conflict is over. 

But not everyone thinks it will be that easy.

Thomas Wright served as senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council under President Biden. In a recent article in The Atlantic, he argues that any off-ramp in Iran is disappearing, and increases the risk that the US will be involved in a prolonged conflict.


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WSJ What’s News - The Iran War Threatens to Split Trump’s Base

P.M. Edition for Mar. 19. Earlier this week, Joe Kent resigned as the White House's chief counterterrorism officer because he opposes the Iran war. WSJ White House correspondent Natalie Andrews discusses how that’s exposing a fault line within President Trump’s base. Plus, new proposals introduced today by the Federal Reserve would let America’s biggest banks hold billions of dollars less in capital on their books, a win for the banks. And we hear from Journal tech reporter Rolfe Winkler about how Apple, which is behind in AI, still earned hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue last year from it. Alex Ossola hosts.


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State of the World from NPR - A U.S. proposal to disarm Hamas; we hear voices from Iran

NPR has learned that mediators have quietly given Hamas a proposal to hand over all its weapons to ensure Gaza’s reconstruction.

And Iran has imposed a near-total internet blackout as the war with the U.S. and Israel rages on. Some Iranians are sending voice memos to share a glimpse of what life is like inside the country.

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WSJ Minute Briefing - Stocks Pare Early Losses But Close Lower

President Trump says he wouldn’t “put troops anywhere” when asked about moving forces toward Iran. Plus: Tesla shares fall after U.S. regulars expand a probe into the company’s automated driving-assistance system. Katherine Sullivan hosts.


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Motley Fool Money - Micron Revenue Smashes Expectations, but Wall Street Yawns

When companies beat revenue and earnings expectations as much a Micron Technologies did in its most recent quarter, the market often heaps on praise for stellar results. Not this time, though. We’ll get into why as well as Uber Technologies’ deal with Rivian Automotive and Alibaba’s $100 billion in AI revenue target


Tyler Crowe, Matt Frankel, and Jon Quast discuss:


- Micron Technologies earnings

- Is it different this time for memory companies?

- Uber & Rivian teaming up for autonomous vehicles

- Alibaba’s AI targets and investing in international AI plays.


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In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons - Vernita Gray, A Chicago LGBTQ Activist, Never Stopped Fighting For Liberation

In honor of Women’s History Month, In the Loop talks about the life and legacy of Chicago’s Vernita Gray. From when she first learned about the gay liberation movement at Woodstock in the ’60s to her death in 2014, Gray was a pioneer for gay and lesbian rights in Chicago. She and her partner were also the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Illinois. In the Loop learns more about Vernita Gray’s instrumental work in Chicago from Jennifer Brier, distinguished professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and History at UIC. For a full archive of In the Loop interviews, head over to wbez.org/intheloop.

The Journal. - Is Cuba On the Brink of Collapse?

President Trump’s oil blockade is grinding Cuba’s economy to a standstill, spreading unrest and intensifying pressure on the Communist regime. On Monday, the island nation’s obsolete power grid collapsed, causing blackouts across the country and exposing the magnitude of its economic implosion. WSJ’s Vera Bergengruen explains the U.S. pressure campaign and its impact. Jessica Mendoza hosts.

 

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- Trump's 'Donroe Doctrine' on Foreign Policy

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Talk Python To Me - #541: Monty – Python in Rust for AI

When LLMs write code to accomplish a task, that code has to actually run somewhere. And right now, the options aren't great. Spin up a sandboxed container and you're paying a full second of cold start overhead plus the complexity of another service. Let the LLM loose on your actual machine and... well, you'd better be watching.

On this episode, I sit down with Samuel Colvin, creator of Pydantic, now at 10 billion downloads, to explore Monty, a Python interpreter written from scratch in Rust, purpose-built to run LLM-generated code. It starts in microseconds, is completely sandboxed by design, and can even serialize its entire state to a database and resume later. We dig into why this deliberately limited interpreter might be exactly what the AI agent era needs.

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