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Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Moments after House Speaker's stunning move, which he said Donald Trump agreed with, the president signed an executive order to pay TSA workers for now Removed from bookmarks Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson torpedoed a GOP-led deal passed in the Senate to reopen the Department of Homeland Security ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel launched a wave of strikes on Iran early Friday ahead of a planned U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure, while Iran and the United States appeared at a diplomatic impasse, setting the stage for potential escalation as the first month of the Middle East war neared its end. The U.S. has been pushing Iran to start talks on a ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
By The House Ethics Committee said 25 counts of misconduct by South Florida County Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick have been "proven by clear and convincing evidence," after a closed-door vote during the wee hours Friday morning and rare, televised hearing Thursday evening. Ethics Committee staff had accused the Democrat of 27 counts of misconduct. Many of the charges were related to millions of dollars ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Anthropic PBC won a court order blocking a Trump administration ban on government use of the company's artificial intelligence technology, after the Claude chatbot maker argued the move could cost it billions in lost revenue. US District Judge Rita F. Lin issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday, pausing the administration's plan to sever all ties with Anthropic while a legal fight plays out in San Francisco ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. – Tiger Woods showed signs of impairment at the scene of a car crash Friday in which he struck another vehicle and rolled over, authorities said. Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI. The Martin County Sheriff's Office said Woods was not injured. Authorities told media outlets the rollover crash occurred just after 1 p.m. not far from where lives on Jupiter Island. Martin County Fire ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump's signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday. The move would be a first for a sitting president, since traditionally, U.S. paper currency carries the signatures of the Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer, not the president. It's the latest instance of Trump putting his name and ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The super-low mortgage rates of 2020 to 2022 — the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropped below 3% even as inflation shot toward 9% — are one of the factors in this frozen housing market, where sales of existing homes have plunged by nearly 25% from 2019 for the third year in a row, and where mortgage applications have plunged by about 35% from 2019. Homeowners who financed and re-financed a home ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The leaks appear to be authentic, according to a person familiar with the matter. A pro-Iran hacker group claimed to have accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and posted purported contents from the inbox online. Handala, which claimed responsibility in recent weeks for hacks against Stryker and Lockheed Martin in response to the Iran war, circulated images and documents online that they claimed to be ...
Source: nextgov.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Balancing AI Innovation, Security and Governance at Scale Ian Swanson, vice president, AI security products, Palo Alto Networks, and Ravi Krishnamurthy, vice president, AI foundations and responsible AI, ServiceNow Organizations have reached a turning point in AI adoption, with measurable productivity gains and rapid enterprise deployment. But CISOs don't need to choose between speed and security - they can do ...
Source: govinfosecurity.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
A woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her filed a lawsuit claiming the US government and Alphabet Inc. 's Google failed to protect her identity and that of other victims amid the release of millions of pages of records about the disgraced financier. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, claims the Department of Justice violated US law requiring it to remove her personal identifying information ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Netflix subscribers will have to pay more to watch their favorite TV shows and movies after the streaming platform raised its prices. The price hike, implemented this week, raises the cost of the standard plan with ads by $1 a month and the cost of the standard and premium plans by $2 a month, according to pricing posted on its website. Netflix raised its prices by similar amounts in January 2025, when it was ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The Mexican navy said Thursday that it was searching for two boats transporting humanitarian aid for Cuba with nine crew of different nationalities on board. The vessels set sail last Friday from Isla Mujeres in Mexico's southeastern state of Quintana Roo and were due to arrive in Havana on Tuesday or Wednesday this week, the navy said in a statement. It said that there had been neither "communication nor ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near the surface. Only they weren't as active or social as marine biologist Shane Gero had come to expect. "They were just laying there calmly," he said. The researchers launched two aerial drones and started filming. About ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The Democrat campaign to confiscate wealth continued on Thursday when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) introduced the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2026 . The bill comes on the heels of a series of wealth taxes that have been enacted or proposed in states and the halls of Congress in recent weeks. Warren's bill would impose a 2 percent annual levy on household and trust wealth above $50 million and a 3 ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
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 ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Answer: Wikipedia. Here's one website we can now trust not to be full of AI slop: Wikipedia. The informational website has decided that large language models cannot be used to write its articles. Wikipedia relies on a wide-ranging network of largely volunteer editors, and the use of AI to write articles had become a hot-button issue among them. So they put it to a vote, with the majority voting against allowing AI ...
Source: govtech.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
HANALEI, Kauai ( KHON ) – Three people have died after a tourist helicopter crashed off the coast of a beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Officials said the helicopter crashed on a sandbar off Kalalau Beach around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 26. The beach is on the Na Pali Coast on Kauai's north shore, in an area generally only reachable only by hiking or boat. Officials said that the helicopter was ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
BERLIN (AP) — A whale that was stranded for days in shallow water at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany has swum free from a sandbank overnight after a last-ditch rescue effort. But it isn't out of danger yet. An excavator spent Thursday digging an escape channel. The whale then swam through it overnight, marine biologist Robert Marc Lehmann said Friday, German news agency dpa reported. But he cautioned that it ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender. Two of the officers targeted by Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consists of about three dozen officers, most of whom are white ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is giving student loan borrowers enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan an ultimatum: switch to another federal plan or automatically be placed in the most expensive one. There are more than 7 million people in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan , commonly known as Save, which offers lower monthly payments and a faster path to loan forgiveness than other income-driven repayment plans. ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
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? FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Iran appears to be setting itself up as the gatekeeper for the Strait of Hormuz , the world's most important artery for ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
The Justice Department this week conceded to a federal judge in New York it had been incorrectly citing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo to partially justify arrests at immigration courthouses, calling the oversight a "material mistaken statement of fact." Justice Department lawyers disclosed in a letter on Tuesday that a May 2025 ICE memo applies to most courthouses, but not federal immigration courts, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Social media giants spent more than a decade assuring lawmakers, regulators, judges and the public that their platforms are safe for kids, despite that were causing harm. This week, that campaign hit existential obstacles — after juries in two separate trials declared that the exact opposite was true. "The message is clear," New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, whose investigation resulted in a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
The International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women and DSD athletes from the female category of events at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and future Games. Kirsty Coventry, the president of the IOC, said the landmark decision had been taken because "it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category". The IOC has also confirmed that all athletes wanting to compete in the female ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Two UK nationals released on bail while Met continues investigation into incident in Golders Green Two men arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack on four ambulances operated by a Jewish charity in north London have been released on bail. The men, aged 47 and 45, who are both UK nationals, were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after the incident in Golders Green. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Venezuela's former president and his wife Cilia Flores were seized by US military forces in January and deny all charges against them. Venezuela's former president Nicolas Maduro has returned to court in New York, where his lawyer failed to have drug trafficking charges dismissed in a dispute over legal fees. It was the first time Maduro , 63, and his wife, Cilia Flores, 69, appeared in court since a January ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
TAMPA, Fla. ( WJW ) – Sharks off the coast of the Bahamas have tested positive for substances including caffeine, painkillers and even cocaine, according to the findings of a new study on the effects of "contaminants of emerging concern" (CECs) in aquatic environments. The researchers behind the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Pollution , came to these findings after testing the blood ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages via a new product by Better Home and Finance and Coinbase. The borrower would take out two loans, the second to fund the down payment on the first. The borrower needs to have a Coinbase account, and once the cryptocurrency is put up as collateral, it can't be traded. In this article Fannie Mae will now accept crypto-backed mortgages via a new product by mortgage ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
WWSB ) - A brother and sister are now facing federal charges after an explosive device was left outside a gate at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. "We are simply not going to tolerate this type of conduct in the Middle District of Florida," U.S. Attorney Gregory Kehoe said at a news conference Thursday. Federal investigators say the siblings planted the device before fleeing the country. 27-year-old Ann Mary Zheng ...
Source: mysuncoast.com