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Top News Stories for Monday, March 23rd 2026
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Immigration agents will be deployed in US airports beginning Monday, aiming to alleviate soaring congestion at security screenings amid a weeks-long budget standoff over President Donald Trump's mass deportation drive, officials said. Trump announced the extraordinary move in a social media post Sunday morning, sending officials racing to quickly develop a plan. Tom Homan, the president's senior border aide, ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying the U.S. will hold off on striking power plant strikes for five days. Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social site hours ahead of his previous deadline. Trump said the U.S. and Iran have had "very good and productive conversations" that could yield "a complete and total resolution" in the war. Talks will continue ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
NEW YORK – Two people were killed and several others badly hurt when an Air Canada regional jet while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, officials said. The pilot and copilot were killed in the late Sunday night collision, which crushed the nose of the aircraft, while around 40 passengers and crew members were taken to area hospitals, some with serious injuries. Most have since been released from ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
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 -
LONDON — An arson attack on several ambulances from a Jewish volunteer service is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, police in London said Monday. Authorities are searching for three suspects who appear to be seen in CCTV footage pouring accelerant onto the vehicles before igniting them and fleeing. The attack took place in Golders Green, a north London suburb that is home to several synagogues and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
▶ Follow live updates on the Supreme Court arguments over late-arriving ballots WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a case from Mississippi over whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump . The outcome of the case could affect voters in 14 states and the District of Columbia, which have grace periods for ballots cast by mail, ...
Source: apnews.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 -
At least 10 Palestinians have been injured in the latest outburst of violence, triggered by the death of an 18-year-old Israeli settler in a car crash. Israeli settlers have injured at least 10 Palestinians, as well as smashing cars and setting fires, as they rampaged through villages in the West Bank. The violence on Sunday night came after the funeral of Yehuda Sherman, an 18-year-old Israeli settler, who was ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The amount of heat trapped by the Earth reached record levels in 2025, with the consequences of such warming feared to last for thousands of years, the UN warned Monday. The 11 hottest years ever recorded were all between 2015 and 2025, the United Nations' WMO weather and climate agency confirmed in its flagship State of the Global Climate annual report. Last year was the second or third hottest year on record, at ...
Source: digitaljournal.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
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia 's president on Monday urged the country's political parties to start talks on forming a new government as soon as possible after a parliamentary election on the weekend in the European Union country ended with no clear winner and the main players practically tied. Prime Minister Robert Golob's liberal Freedom Movement won 29 seats in the 90-member assembly while the ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Saturday celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who was tapped as a special counsel to investigate Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election and tip the result in Trump's favor. "Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!" Trump wrote on social media, minutes after Mueller's passing ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Cuban authorities scrambled Sunday to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an aging infrastructure and a US oil blockade. Some parts of Havana began to have electricity again, a day after the energy ministry reported a "total disconnection" of the national electric system in the country of nearly 10 million people. The outage comes as ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Cause of the fire that killed Pierce, who had covered the Minnesota hockey team for a decade, is under investigation NHL reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children were killed on Saturday in a weekend house fire in Minnesota , the league announced on its sports website Sunday. Pierce, 37, covered the Minnesota Wild as the correspondent for NHL.com for the past decade. "The entire NHL .com team is devastated and ...
Source: theguardian.com