Morning Headlines - Friday, Mar. 6, 2026

Start your day informed with today’s must-read headlines from around Wisconsin and the world. And don’t forget to check out our Meme of the Day at the end for a little humor to go with your news!

U.S. and World Headlines

Trump Says He Wants Iran's Leadership Structure Gone And Has Preferences For A 'Good Leader'

President Donald Trump indicated Thursday that he wants to see Iran's leadership structure fully removed and that he has some names in mind for a "good leader."

"We want to go in and clean out everything," Trump told NBC News in a phone call. "We don’t want someone who would rebuild over a 10-year period.

“We want them to have a good leader. We have some people who I think would do a good job,” he added, declining to name anyone.

Trump Says Cuba’s Next: Here’s How It Could Play Out

The Department of Justice on Thursday released three previously withheld FBI interview reports from 2019 related to a woman who made uncorroborated allegations that she was abused by Donald Trump in the 1980s, when she was a minor.

In a statement on social media, the Department of Justice said the interview summaries -- known as FBI 302 reports -- were initially withheld from the January release of millions of pages of DOJ documents related to Jeffrey Epstein because they were believed to be duplicative of other documents.

Amazon Says Hours-Long Outage Was Triggered By ‘Software Code Deployment’

Amazon’s website and shopping app were down for some users on Thursday, leaving consumers unable to check out, access account information or view product prices.

Trouble on the site spiked around 2 p.m. ET, with more than 22,000 users reporting issues two hours later, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks outage reports.

The issues appeared to be largely resolved by 8 p.m. ET. Amazon said the incident was due to “a software code deployment.”

Notorious Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won't Crash Into The Moon After All

The moon will officially be spared from an explosive encounter with a "city-killer" asteroid in 2032, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal.

Collected on Feb. 18 and Feb. 26 with JWST's sensitive infrared instruments, the new observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 allowed NASA astronomers to refine previous estimates of the space rock's trajectory — dropping the chances of a lunar impact from 4.3% to zero.

Instead, the menacing asteroid will pass by the moon at a nail-biting 13,200 miles (21,200 kilometers) from the lunar surface, which is closer than some artificial satellites orbit Earth, according to a March 5 NASA statement.

Tinder Settles $60M Age Discrimination Lawsuit. How To Get Your Payout

Some Tinder users may be eligible for a payout after the popular dating app settled a $60.5 million class action lawsuit out of California over age discrimination.

The lawsuit, filed in 2015, accused Tinder of violating state law by charging older users more for premium subscriptions than younger users. Under the settlement’s terms, Tinder admitted no wrongdoing but instead will pay nearly $61 million to potentially more than 260,000 people.

Wisconsin Headlines

Wisconsin And More Than 20 Other States Sue Trump Administration Over Global Tariffs Imposed After US Supreme Court Decision

Some two dozen states challenged President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on March 5, filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court.

The Democratic attorneys general and governors in the lawsuit argue that Trump is overstepping his power with planned 15% tariffs on much of the world.

Democrats In Wisconsin And Minnesota Urge Release Of Funds For Bridge Replacement

U.S. Democratic senators in Wisconsin and Minnesota are urging Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to release a $1 billion federal grant for replacement of a major bridge connecting Duluth and Superior.

In a March 2 letter, Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin along with Minnesota U.S. Sens. Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar asked Duffy to sign off on an amended grant agreement for $1.05 billion awarded to replace the Blatnik Bridge. In 2024, former President Joe Biden visited Superior to draw attention to funding for the project, which was bolstered by the bipartisan infrastructure law.

Wisconsin Debates AI Interpreters In Courtrooms

Lawmakers are currently discussing a bill that could allow the use of AI interpreters in courtrooms for individuals not proficient in English.

Assembly Bill 377, which proposes making English the official language of Wisconsin, would permit courts to use AI interpreters instead of human translators.

The bill's authors say it addresses a shortage of interpreters and could expand the range of languages and dialects available in courts. However, legal experts and disability advocates have raised concerns about the technology's ability to interpret subtleties and nuances.

Wisconsin Man Who Killed His Parents To Fund Trump Assassination Attempt Gets Life In Prison

A Wisconsin teenager who killed his parents and stole their money to fund his plan to kill President Donald Trump with a bomb dropped from a drone was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.

Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, Donald Mayer, in 2025. Prosecutors dropped seven other charges in a plea deal, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft.

The Bend Deposit And Mining Prospects For Northern Wisconsin

In northern Wisconsin, crews are working around the clock to drill deep into the bedrock. It’s called exploratory drilling, and the goal is to determine if a deposit of copper, gold and other minerals in the rock is rich enough to bring metallic sulfide mining back to the state.

“What we have going on here is the drilling process has just started,” Steve Donohue said.