2026.03.19
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lsandersonThanks to an art class and his trusty iPad, editorial cartoonist Steve Sack is back
The Pulitzer Prize winner, who thought he was done working when he lost use of his right hand, is drawing new cartoons for MinnPost and Substack readers.
by Eric Ringham
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/03/thanks-to-an-art-class-and-his-trusty-ipad-editorial-cartoonist-steve-sack-is-back/
Some Minnesota seniors are advocating for a law change that would allow them to have real happy hours at nursing homes and other facilities, reports Session Daily. State law currently bars alcohol from being served in nursing homes. Via MinnPost
https://www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily/Story/18994
The war on Iran cost the US $12.7bn by day six. Here’s how it’s been spent – in charts
Now, the total is likely to have exceeded $18bn and counting. Where are America’s war dollars going, in a war that was never declared in the first place?
Will Craft, Andrew Witherspoon and Joseph Gedeon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/19/us-iran-war-cost
Middle East war: why attacks on gasfields like South Pars are a major escalation
Strike was first time a fossil fuel energy production facility has been hit. But why is it significant and who does it affect?
Peter Beaumont
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/middle-east-war-why-attacks-gasfield-south-pars-are-a-major-escalation
US and Israel’s strategy to kill Iran’s top figures may prove counterproductive
Peter Beaumont
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/us-and-israel-strategy-to-kill-irans-top-figures-may-prove-counterproductive
Trump news at a glance: president’s war on Iran is putting billions on the US till
US spent $11.3bn on bombs in the first six days of the US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran – key US politics stories from 18 March 2026 at a glance
Guardian staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/trump-news-latest-updates-today
Lawmakers and community leaders react to ‘indefensible’ César Chávez sexual abuse allegations
New York Times report leads to multiple cancellations of events meant to celebrate the late labor organizer
Coral Murphy Marcos and Michael Sainato
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations
Dolores Huerta says she was abused by César Chávez: ‘My silence ends here’
UFW co-founder published her statement after sharing her story publicly for the first time with the New York Times
Coral Murphy Marcos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/dolores-huerta-cesar-chavez-abuse-allegations
Democrats walk out in protest over ‘outrageous fake’ Epstein briefing from Pam Bondi
Lawmakers leave closed-door meeting after AG refuses to commit to honoring subpoena to testify under oath
Robert Mackey and agencies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/pam-bondi-epstein-briefing-democrats
Tulsi Gabbard tells Senate panel US strikes on Iran are strategic success
National intelligence director says Iran’s conventional military projection capabilities had been ‘largely destroyed’
Joseph Gedeon in Washington and George Chidi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/tulsi-gabbard-iran-war-senate-hearing
Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans
Admission came during questioning at Senate intelligence committee worldwide threats hearing
Robert Mackey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/kash-patel-fbi-location-data
New York high school student released after 10 months in ICE facility
The detention of Dylan Lopez Contreras, 20, of Venezuela, a freshman in the Bronx, sparked national outrage
Maanvi Singh
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/new-york-high-school-student-released-ice
Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck
Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proof’
Dara Kerr
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires
‘Absolutely transformative’: Willem de Kooning exhibition uncovers raw intensity of early work
A Princeton University Art Museum show captures the urgent power of the iconic abstract expressionist’s 1945-50 breakthrough years
Veronica Esposito
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/18/willem-de-kooning-breakthrough-years-exhibit
GLP-1 diabetes drugs could stop anxiety and depression worsening, study finds
Drugs such as semaglutide may be useful for mental health conditions associated with diabetes, authors say
Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/18/glp-1-type-2-diabetes-drugs-semaglutide-anxiety-depression
Molecule in python blood could pave way for new obesity drugs, scientists say
Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of side-effects’ of GLP-1 drugs
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/19/molecule-python-blood-metabolism-obesity-weight-loss-drugs-research
Ancient skeleton unearthed in France is latest to be found sitting upright
Scientists trying to work out why Gauls chose to bury some of their dead in seated position facing west
Agence France-Presse in Dijon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ancient-skeleton-discovered-sitting-upright-in-france
Possum found nestled in with plush toys at airport gift shop in Tasmania
A brushtail possum was found peering out among the toy kangaroos and dingoes in a retail store in Hobart’s airport, delighting staff and customers
Jack Larkin and Australian Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/19/possum-hobart-airport-gift-shop-soft-toys
Buzz kill: US breweries shutter as fanfare over craft beers appears to fade
Covid-related downturns and reductions in alcohol consumption have taken a toll on a once booming industry
Eric Berger
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/mar/19/us-beer-breweries-closing
A new way to hang picture frames without leaving nail holes – tested
HangNailz promise the strength of a nail from an almost-invisible drywall hole that requires no patching. We stabbed some in our walls to find out
John Brandon
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2025/oct/08/hang-frames-without-nails-damage-hangnailz
A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall review – the National Trust’s LGBTQ history revealed
It’s recently been accused of turning ‘woke’ – but the institution has been gay since the beginning, argues this deeply researched book
Stephen Smith
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/19/a-queer-inheritance-by-michael-hall-review-the-national-trusts-lgbtq-history-revealed
Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a will-they-won’t-they queer romance
Two women fall into and out of each other’s lives over decades, in a moving examination of love and choices
Joanna Briscoe
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/18/almost-life-by-kiran-millwood-hargrave-review-a-will-they-wont-they-queer-romance
‘Prince laughed like a kid as I painted “Free” on his stomach’: Steve Parke’s best photograph
‘The art director wanted it to read “1999”. But Prince wasn’t having that. So the next thing I knew, I was writing “Free” on him with my fingers in cold paint’
Interview by Dave Simpson
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/18/prince-free-stomach-steve-parkes-best-photograph
The Pulitzer Prize winner, who thought he was done working when he lost use of his right hand, is drawing new cartoons for MinnPost and Substack readers.
by Eric Ringham
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/03/thanks-to-an-art-class-and-his-trusty-ipad-editorial-cartoonist-steve-sack-is-back/
Some Minnesota seniors are advocating for a law change that would allow them to have real happy hours at nursing homes and other facilities, reports Session Daily. State law currently bars alcohol from being served in nursing homes. Via MinnPost
https://www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily/Story/18994
The war on Iran cost the US $12.7bn by day six. Here’s how it’s been spent – in charts
Now, the total is likely to have exceeded $18bn and counting. Where are America’s war dollars going, in a war that was never declared in the first place?
Will Craft, Andrew Witherspoon and Joseph Gedeon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/19/us-iran-war-cost
Middle East war: why attacks on gasfields like South Pars are a major escalation
Strike was first time a fossil fuel energy production facility has been hit. But why is it significant and who does it affect?
Peter Beaumont
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/middle-east-war-why-attacks-gasfield-south-pars-are-a-major-escalation
US and Israel’s strategy to kill Iran’s top figures may prove counterproductive
Peter Beaumont
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/us-and-israel-strategy-to-kill-irans-top-figures-may-prove-counterproductive
Trump news at a glance: president’s war on Iran is putting billions on the US till
US spent $11.3bn on bombs in the first six days of the US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran – key US politics stories from 18 March 2026 at a glance
Guardian staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/trump-news-latest-updates-today
Lawmakers and community leaders react to ‘indefensible’ César Chávez sexual abuse allegations
New York Times report leads to multiple cancellations of events meant to celebrate the late labor organizer
Coral Murphy Marcos and Michael Sainato
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations
Dolores Huerta says she was abused by César Chávez: ‘My silence ends here’
UFW co-founder published her statement after sharing her story publicly for the first time with the New York Times
Coral Murphy Marcos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/dolores-huerta-cesar-chavez-abuse-allegations
Democrats walk out in protest over ‘outrageous fake’ Epstein briefing from Pam Bondi
Lawmakers leave closed-door meeting after AG refuses to commit to honoring subpoena to testify under oath
Robert Mackey and agencies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/pam-bondi-epstein-briefing-democrats
Tulsi Gabbard tells Senate panel US strikes on Iran are strategic success
National intelligence director says Iran’s conventional military projection capabilities had been ‘largely destroyed’
Joseph Gedeon in Washington and George Chidi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/tulsi-gabbard-iran-war-senate-hearing
Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans
Admission came during questioning at Senate intelligence committee worldwide threats hearing
Robert Mackey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/kash-patel-fbi-location-data
New York high school student released after 10 months in ICE facility
The detention of Dylan Lopez Contreras, 20, of Venezuela, a freshman in the Bronx, sparked national outrage
Maanvi Singh
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/new-york-high-school-student-released-ice
Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck
Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proof’
Dara Kerr
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires
‘Absolutely transformative’: Willem de Kooning exhibition uncovers raw intensity of early work
A Princeton University Art Museum show captures the urgent power of the iconic abstract expressionist’s 1945-50 breakthrough years
Veronica Esposito
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/18/willem-de-kooning-breakthrough-years-exhibit
GLP-1 diabetes drugs could stop anxiety and depression worsening, study finds
Drugs such as semaglutide may be useful for mental health conditions associated with diabetes, authors say
Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/18/glp-1-type-2-diabetes-drugs-semaglutide-anxiety-depression
Molecule in python blood could pave way for new obesity drugs, scientists say
Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of side-effects’ of GLP-1 drugs
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/19/molecule-python-blood-metabolism-obesity-weight-loss-drugs-research
Ancient skeleton unearthed in France is latest to be found sitting upright
Scientists trying to work out why Gauls chose to bury some of their dead in seated position facing west
Agence France-Presse in Dijon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ancient-skeleton-discovered-sitting-upright-in-france
Possum found nestled in with plush toys at airport gift shop in Tasmania
A brushtail possum was found peering out among the toy kangaroos and dingoes in a retail store in Hobart’s airport, delighting staff and customers
Jack Larkin and Australian Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/19/possum-hobart-airport-gift-shop-soft-toys
Buzz kill: US breweries shutter as fanfare over craft beers appears to fade
Covid-related downturns and reductions in alcohol consumption have taken a toll on a once booming industry
Eric Berger
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/mar/19/us-beer-breweries-closing
A new way to hang picture frames without leaving nail holes – tested
HangNailz promise the strength of a nail from an almost-invisible drywall hole that requires no patching. We stabbed some in our walls to find out
John Brandon
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2025/oct/08/hang-frames-without-nails-damage-hangnailz
A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall review – the National Trust’s LGBTQ history revealed
It’s recently been accused of turning ‘woke’ – but the institution has been gay since the beginning, argues this deeply researched book
Stephen Smith
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/19/a-queer-inheritance-by-michael-hall-review-the-national-trusts-lgbtq-history-revealed
Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a will-they-won’t-they queer romance
Two women fall into and out of each other’s lives over decades, in a moving examination of love and choices
Joanna Briscoe
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/18/almost-life-by-kiran-millwood-hargrave-review-a-will-they-wont-they-queer-romance
‘Prince laughed like a kid as I painted “Free” on his stomach’: Steve Parke’s best photograph
‘The art director wanted it to read “1999”. But Prince wasn’t having that. So the next thing I knew, I was writing “Free” on him with my fingers in cold paint’
Interview by Dave Simpson
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/18/prince-free-stomach-steve-parkes-best-photograph
