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Top News Stories for Tuesday, March 24th 2026
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
ICE agents deploy to major US airports as security queues stretch for hours US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have deployed to major airports across the country, helping to fill the void as thousands of security staff who are going without pay refuse to work. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are increasingly absent, having not received pay in weeks due to a partial government ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz to international shipping, saying Monday that the U.S. would hold off on threatened strikes against Iranian power plants for five days. In his announcement on Truth Social, Trump also held out the possibility of a resolution to the war — though Iranian officials denied there ...
Source: pbs.org
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
A Republican sheriff in California who's running for governor seized more than 650,000 ballots from election officials last week, saying he is investigating potential fraud in last year's election. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said a group of citizens conducted their own "audit" of California's 2025 special election results in the county, and he claimed that the election workers' tally of ballots received ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Two pilots have died after a passenger plane collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport. Photos from the scene showed the plane tilting backwards with its cockpit almost sheared off. The fire truck was on its side, surrounded by debris, wreckage and warped metal. Authorities said 41 people had been taken to hospital, with 31 later discharged but others suffering serious injuries. Here's what we ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
LONDON — Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer emergency service in London were set on fire in an arson attack early Monday, the police said, adding that they were investigating it as an antisemitic crime. No injuries were reported, and the fires were extinguished, the police said. The attack on the ambulances, which the police said in a statement belonged to the nonprofit service Hatzola, came ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
France's Socialists tightened their grip on four major cities following municipal elections over the weekend while the far right fell short of a wider breakthrough ahead of the mayoral race on Sunday, succeeding fellow party member in the French capital. The results of the final round of municipal elections showed clear gains for the traditional left and right, and one major win for the far-right in the The vote ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
With voters' concerns about affordability showing no sign of fading, some Democrats are rediscovering a traditionally Republican tactic for putting money back in people's pockets — cutting taxes. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland proposes effectively ending the federal income tax on individuals making $46,000 or less annually and reducing it for individuals making up to about $60,000 more than that amount. ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Elon Musk's next moonshot: The $20B "largest chip manufacturing facility ever" Elon Musk has previously promised the arrival of fully autonomous Teslas and ultrafast Hyperloop transport – both of which are yet to materialize. For his next trick, the galaxy's richest earthling plans to build an enormous chip manufacturing plant that will positively dwarf every other such facility on the planet. Musk believes ...
Source: newatlas.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Cisco today at the RSA Conference (RSAC) extended its cybersecurity portfolio to secure artificial intelligence (AI) agents while at the same time employing AI to automate security operations. At the core of that effort are extensions to the Cisco Duo identity and access management (IAM) platform that make it possible to discover them and apply security policies via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway and the ...
Source: securityboulevard.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump rejected a deal to end the government shutdown that would have allowed TSA employees to start getting paid again, insiders have revealed. White House aides and Republican Senate colleagues urged the chamber's Majority Leader John Thune to approach Trump with a new proposal on Sunday, as he was in the throes of threatening Iran with hellfire—before on Monday morning. The agreement would ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The annual State of the Global Climate report by the United Nations ' top meteorological agency was released Monday, marking the first time the authors of the report have included the Earth's energy imbalance as a key indicator of the climate emergency . The World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) inclusion of the imbalance only provides more evidence of what scientists have been warning for decades: The ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and invigorating because that oh-too-familiar routine of meetings, deadlines, and the like has returned with a vengeance. You knew this would ...
Source: statnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JENNIFER McDERMOTT The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy. TotalEnergies has agreed to what's essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Two U.S. senators want to curb prediction markets' involvement in the sporting world. To that end, the lawmakers are set to introduce legislation that would bar entities regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from listing contracts related to sporting events, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (March 23). This bill would cover the prediction-market exchanges ...
Source: pymnts.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
A woman who accused Bill Cosby of sexually abusing her more than five decades ago was awarded $19.2 million by a Southern California civil jury Monday, an attorney for the plaintiff said. Punitive damages are still pending in the 2023 lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica by Donna Motsinger, who accused him of sexual battery, alleging that he abused a server whom he met at a Northern ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The world is facing a worse energy crisis than the twin oil shocks of the 1970s and the fallout of the Ukraine war combined, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned. Speaking at a media event in Australia on Monday, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said the energy crunch prompted by the US-Israel war on Iran exceeded the 1973 and 1979 oil shocks and gas shortages stemming from Russia's 2022 ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
RAMALLAH, West Bank — At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a night earlier. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the wounded in Deir al-Hatab included a 45-year-old man shot in the foot and a woman suffering from smoke inhalation. Videos ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Agencies should reach out to potential industry partners about their artificial intelligence needs now, even if they have no immediate plans for the technology, because preparation will take years of upgrades and training. Most agencies are aware they must make extensive upgrades to their IT infrastructure before deploying AI, which explains why some are hesitant to act. Despite the fact that 55% of organizations ...
Source: fedtechmagazine.com
Iowa beats No. 1 seed and defending champ Florida in March Madness on Folgueiras' 3 in final seconds
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alvaro Folgueiras told Bennett Stirtz he'd be ready for the ball, and he delivered in the clutch. Folgueiras nailed a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds remaining and Iowa eliminated defending national champion Florida, sending the top-seeded Gators home with a 73-72 victory on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Under first-year coach Ben McCollum, the Hawkeyes reached the Sweet 16 ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
A beloved NHL reporter who covered the Minnesota Wild died in a house fire Saturday along with her three young children. The NHL confirmed the death of Jessi Pierce and her children earlier Sunday. "The entire National Hockey League family sends our prayers and deepest condolences to the Pierce family on the passing of Jessi Pierce and her three young children," said a statement on X. The White Bear Lake Fire ...
Source: nbcnews.com