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Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Transportation Security Administration officers should "begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday," the Department of Homeland Security said. TSA agents, who screen passengers at U.S. airports before boarding, have worked without pay for weeks because of a partial government shutdown. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not wait for Congress to appropriate funds for TSA agents, but that the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Israel warned Friday it will expand its attacks on Iran as Tehran kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab nations. U.S. President Donald Trump delayed his Iran's energy plants over its effective closure of the Israel has moved thousands of troops across the border into Lebanon, where Israeli officials said they want to take control of the entire area south of the Litani River — some 20 miles (about 30 ...
Source: news4jax.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? WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards, the ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in temporarily blocking the Pentagon from labeling the company as a supply chain risk. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin on Thursday said she was also blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump's social media directive ordering all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic and its chatbot Claude. Lin said the "broad ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
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JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence after his Land Rover traveling at "high speed" on a residential road clipped a truck and rolled onto its side.
Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said Woods was able ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
March 27 (UPI) -- The signature of President Donald Trump will appear on future paper currency, according to the Treasury Department, which said the move was in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States. "There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this ...
Source: upi.com
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 -
Photos and other personal documents, many appearing over a decade old, were released by the group Handala 2-MIN READ 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 résumé and other personal documents. Many of those records appeared to be more than a decade old. "Kash ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
There's no shortage of AI-fueled security buzz heading into RSA, like Arctic Wolf's New Agentic SOC and SentinelOne's AI Security Offerings. There's no shortage of AI-fueled security buzz heading into RSA. This week's news cycle proves that "agentic" is officially the word of the moment. Vendors are racing to prove they can operationalize AI. Arctic Wolf, Palo Alto Networks, and SentinelOne are doubling down on ...
Source: channelpronetwork.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Karina Tsui, CNN 2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flag flutters outside the Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., on November 28, 2025. - Nathan Howard/Reuters A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Justice and Google on Thursday over the release of victim-identifying information in files related to ...
Source: yahoo.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 -
Female named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf Scientists have managed to film a sperm whale giving birth while other female whales worked together to support the mother and her newborn. A team from Project Ceti, an international effort seeking to understand how whales communicate, was in a boat near a pod of 11 whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica ...
Source: theguardian.com
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, Hawaii (AP) — A helicopter crashed on a remote beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing three people and injuring two others, authorities said. The helicopter was carrying one pilot and four passengers when it crashed Thursday afternoon at Kalalau Beach, the Kauai Fire Department said. The beach is on the Na Pali Coast on Kauai's north shore. Police said three people died and two others were ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Rescuers used boats and excavators to try to guide 10-metre long sea mammal to deeper waters A humpback whale stranded on Germany's Baltic Sea coast since early this week has freed itself and swum into deeper waters, rescuers said on Friday. A flotilla of vessels were following the weakened animal at a distance, hoping to help guide it into the North Sea and toward the Atlantic Ocean, its natural habitat. The ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Defense secretary reportedly removed the names of officers himself before list of potential promotions went to the White House Removed from bookmarks is reportedly attempting to block four Army officers, two women and two Black men, from a military promotion list to become one-star generals – ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
After axing a Biden-era student loan repayment program, the Trump administration is threatening to kick its millions of mostly low-income beneficiaries onto the government's most expensive plan unless they switch to a new one quickly. The Washington Post reported on Friday that the Department of Education was beginning to email the more than 7 million people enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
With two unprecedented trial defeats, big tech firms face crisis akin to that faced by cigarette makers in the 1990s In the span of just two days, the most powerful social media company in the world faced a more severe public reckoning than it has in years. Jurors in California and New Mexico gave back-to-back verdicts this week that for the first time ever found Meta liable for products that inflict harm on young ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
GENEVA (AP) — Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. "Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Men released on bail over Jewish charity ambulance arson attack Two men who were arrested over the arson attack on Jewish charity-owned ambulances in north London have been released on bail, the Metropolitan Police has said. Four Hatzola ambulances in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green were set alight in the early hours of Monday, in an incident being treated as an antisemitic hate crime. The men, British ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro returns to a New York courtroom Thursday as he seeks to have his drug trafficking indictment thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees . Maduro's lawyer contends that the U.S. is violating the deposed leader's constitutional rights by blocking Venezuelan government funds from being used to pay his legal costs. It's the first time ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Sharks high on cocaine, caffeine and common painkillers have been detected in waters around the Bahamas. The discovery, made by Brazilian scientists, points to rising levels of pharmaceutical and illicit drug pollution even in relatively remote marine ecosystems. The findings, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, are based on blood samples collected from 85 sharks near Eleuthera. Of these, 28 ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Coinbase and Better have partnered to enable borrowers to pledge their bitcoin or USDC holdings as collateral for a loan used to cover the down payment on a house. With a crypto-backed mortgage originated and serviced by Better, borrowers get a standard Fannie Mae mortgage on the home as well as a second loan that is secured by cryptocurrency and funds the cash down payment, Coinbase said in a Thursday (March 26) ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A man who fled to China after leaving an explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been indicted along with his sister in Florida on federal charges, and their mother has been detained pending deportation for overstaying her visa, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. Alen Zheng, 20, and Ann Mary Zheng, 27, were charged Wednesday in separate federal indictments. ...
Source: apnews.com