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What to know about Trump's order to pay TSA officers and its impact on airport security lines
- With spring break in full swing, airline passengers continued to wait it out at major U.S. airports after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration officers aimed at alleviating long security lines. Trump's executive order on Friday instructed the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA officers immediately, although it's unclear when the impact of that move ...

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Tiger Woods Rolls Over His Range Rover and is Charged with DUI in Florida
- By On Friday afternoon, Tiger Woods rolled his Range Rover on a two-lane road he knows well, just outside his Jupiter Island home. Local police say he tried to pass a slow-moving pickup hauling a pressure-cleaning trailer. The pass didn't go as planned. Investigators say Woods clipped the trailer's rear, sending his SUV onto its side. He ended up crawling out through the passenger door. Despite how it sounds, no ...

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Anti-Trump rallies pop up in thousands of U.S. cities for 'No Kings' protest
- Demonstrators march near the Lincoln Memorial after crossing the Memorial Bridge during the "No Kings" national day of protest in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2026. Nationwide protests against U.S. President Donald Trump are expected Saturday as millions of people vent fury over what they see as his authoritarian bent and other forms of cruel, law-trampling governance. It is the third time in less than a year ...

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Yemen's Houthis launch Israel strike, the first time since the U.S.-Israel war began
- The Tehran-backed Houthis said they targeted "sensitive Israeli military sites," marking an escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Israel's military says it intercepted an incoming missile from Yemen. Moves by the Yemeni group to close off the Bab el-Mendeb Strait, a key shipping channel linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, could add to the pressure on global trade caused by the war. In this article ...

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2 from Massachusetts killed in tourist helicopter crash off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai
- A sightseeing company's helicopter crashed near a remote beach off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing three people and injuring two others, authorities said. It was the latest in a series of fatal crashes that has plagued the industry for decades. The helicopter was carrying one pilot and four passengers when it crashed Thursday afternoon just off Kalalau Beach, the Kauai Fire Department said. The ...

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Bank of America agrees to pay $72.5 million to settle Epstein survivors suit
- Bank of America has agreed to pay $72.5 million to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation who allege the bank enabled and profited from his crimes. The lawsuit, filed last year, alleges that the nation's second-largest bank provided banking services to Epstein and his sex-trafficking operation, along with accounts used by victims and associates — among them Ghislaine Maxwell and Leon Black, ...

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WORLD  
Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike, employers say
- Three Lebanese journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday, their employers have said. Ali Shoeib, a reporter for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV, was killed in the town of Jezzine alongside reporter Fatima Ftouni and her brother, cameraman Mohamed Ftouni, both from the channel Al Mayadeen, according to the stations. The strike reportedly hit the journalists' car just ...

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Sony hikes prices for the PS5 and PS5 Pro
- Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on March 27 that it is raising prices across its PlayStation 5 lineup, effective April 2. The increases apply to the PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal in the US, UK, Europe, and Japan. This is the second price increase in less than a year. Sony raised prices by $50 across the board in August 2025. The latest round is significantly larger, with some models going up by ...

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Indonesia starts implementing social media restrictions for children under 16
- JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Saturday began implementing a new government regulation approved earlier this month that bans children younger than 16 from access to digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction. With the move, Indonesia became the first country in Southeast Asia to ban children from having accounts on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, ...

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Vice President JD Vance Says UFOs Are 'One of the Devil's Great Tricks'
- , the second in line to the presidency, is sharing his unconventional, Christian-based theory on life beyond Earth. "I don't think they're aliens. I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion," Vance, 41, told far-right YouTuber in an interview published on Saturday, March 28. "Well, look, I think that celestial beings who fly around, who do weird things to people, I think that the desire to ...

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Pro-Iranian group claims credit for hacking into FBI Director Patel's personal account
- WASHINGTON (AP) — A pro-Iranian hacking group claimed Friday to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents. Many of those records appeared to be more than a decade old. "Kash Patel, the current head of the FBI, who once saw his name displayed with pride on the agency's ...

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Florida Congresswoman Committed 25 Ethics Violations, House Panel Finds
- While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards, the ...

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Epstein victims sue Google and the Trump administration over alleged disclosure of personal information
- KEY POINTS In this article GOOG A tablet screen displays a portrait of Jeffrey Epstein beside the U.S. Department of Justice website page titled Epstein Library, Feb. 11, 2026. A victim of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit Thursday on behalf of herself and other survivors against the Trump administration and Google for allegedly wrongfully disclosing and publishing personal ...

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TECHNOLOGY  
Cato Networks bets on cloud AI-native SASE platform
- AI is breaking the old security model, forcing SASE to evolve for a new era of enterprise risk Secure access service edge platforms are emerging as a potential answer to the growing mismatch between legacy security architectures and modern AI workloads. But closing that gap may require more than modern SASE can handle — instead calling for a true AI-native SASE platform. The SASE market is growing at a ...

Source: siliconangle.com
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Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden accidentally shoots himself in leg at airport
- A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to protect former first lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday, authorities said. Biden was not in the area when the agent was injured during a "negligent discharge" of his firearm Friday morning, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Associated Press. According to initial reports, the agent was ...

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Trump considers renaming Strait of Hormuz after either America or himself — once he evicts Iran
- WASHINGTON — To the victor go the naming rights. President Trump is prioritizing taking control of the Strait of Hormuz as he grows frustrated with the lack of help from allies to force open the crucial waterway. And once Trump ends Iran's reign of terror over the shipping route, he's considering rechristening it the "Strait of America" or even naming it after himself, sources told The Post. "We are taking ...

Source: nypost.com
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Hegseth reportedly removes 2 Black, 2 female Army officers from 1-star promotion list
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of four Army officers — two Black men and two women — to the rank of brigadier general, the New York Times reported Friday. Hegseth's actions are in line with the broader Trump administration's attacks on efforts across the federal government to support and promote the concerns of minority populations — what President Donald Trump and ...

Source: militarytimes.com
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Education Department tells 7.5 million student loan borrowers in "illegal" SAVE plan to prepare for repayment
- More than 7 million student loan borrowers who have been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices beginning Friday with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt, the Education Department said. Borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan, which was struck down by a federal court earlier this month, have been in forbearance since July 2024 as a legal battle played out in courts. Starting July 1, ...

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