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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 25th 2026
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
MIAMI — President Donald Trump urged New College Foundation executive director Sydney Gruters, the wife of Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters, to run in Florida's 16th District on Tuesday, endorsing her to replace retiring GOP Rep. "Should she decide to enter this Race, Sydney Gruters has my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, SYDNEY, RUN!" Florida's 16th District is one of three open seats in ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com The White House dispatched squads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) troops to at least 13 airports around the country, and thousands of commuters this week are coming face-to-face with the Trump administration's anti-immigration push. ICE's deployment was telegraphed by both President Donald Trump ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airstrikes battered Iran's capital and Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel's Tel Aviv and sites across the Mideast on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said the United States was in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war. With thousands more U.S. Marines on their way ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Multicloud security and application delivery company F5 Inc. and data security company Forcepoint LLC today announced a new partnership designed to help enterprises secure artificial intelligence across its lifecycle, from foundational data discovery and classification through runtime protection and continuous assurance. The partnership seeks to address the issue whereby, as organizations rapidly deploy AI across ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Stories of survival emerge from deadly New York airport collision as officials investigate its cause
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
NEW YORK – Moments after an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing the pilots and hurling a flight attendant from the aircraft, the passengers took their escape into their own hands. With the smell of fuel in the air and debris dangling from the obliterated cockpit, passengers tore open emergency exit doors, jumped off the plane's wings and then turned around to catch others coming up behind ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Previously approved routers can still be used and sold, while software updates will remain available until at least March 1, 2027. The FCC has officially banned the approval of all new foreign-made network routers due to identified security risks. This ruling deems consumer routers manufactured outside the United States as a significant threat to national security, placing such products on the Covered List, which ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Deliberations began Monday, and jury members found that Meta willfully violated the state's unfair practices act. "We respectfully disagree with the verdict and will appeal," a Meta spokesperson said. In this article Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18, 2026. A New Mexico state court jury on Tuesday held Meta liable for nearly $400 million in civil damages after a trial where ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com forgo its leases to build two wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the federal government would reimburse TotalEnergies as the company invested in natural gas and oil projects in the U.S. Under the "innovative agreement," the Interior Department said in ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
The company confirmed it will discontinue Sora as a consumer app and API, marking a sharp pivot away from one of its splashiest generative video experiments. "We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API," an OpenAI spokesperson said. "As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed open to arguments from the Trump administration that it has a right to turn asylum seekers away at border ports of entry, even if they have ...
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Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Scientists found that the experimental vaccine was more than 70% effective at preventing Lyme disease in a trial of nearly 10,000 volunteers. Reading time 3 minutes Ticks and the many diseases they can spread to people are a growing public health threat. With any luck, though, humanity may soon have a new weapon to use against the dreaded bloodsucking menace. A vaccine tailored to prevent Lyme disease has just ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NASA unveiled a new vision for its near-term future Tuesday, including construction of a complete moon base, a major increase in robotic missions and a nuclear-powered spacecraft to bring a slew of helicopters to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman revealed the plans during a daylong session dubbed "Ignite" held in Washington, characterizing the efforts as ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
NEW YORK — Kalshi and Polymarket, the two biggest prediction market platforms, rushed to institute new industry guardrails and add new surveillance tools on Monday after two key senators announced legislation that could severely curtail the industry's prospects. Kalshi said it would ban political candidates from trading on their own campaigns, and it would preemptively block anyone involved in college or ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday it would suspend special services for members of Congress, citing the impact of a partial government shutdown that has disrupted U.S. air travel. "Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta. Next to safety, Delta's ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A professional cornhole player who is a quadruple amputee has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting. Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of killing a man in the front seat of his car during an argument on Sunday in his hometown of La Plata, Md.— about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. — according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office said in a press release that passengers ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
DoD announces 'interim' policy for journalists decried by newspaper as 'end-run around the court's ruling' The New York Times on Tuesday accused the Pentagon of disobeying a judge's ruling that undid much of the restrictive agreement journalists were forced to sign or lose access to the building. The judge, Paul Friedman, granted an injunction on Friday that overturned much of the language in the "media in-brief" ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's reported plan to slash the state's estate tax exemption threshold to $750,000 highlights a real problem—the US under-taxes inherited wealth. And the plan has triggered a familiar round of backlash. Beneath the reflexive outrage to an admittedly flawed plan lies a central tension: Why does the tax code treat inherited wealth more generously than income earned through work? ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
5 min read A trader made nearly $1 million since 2024 from dozens of well-timed Polymarket bets that correctly predicted US and Israeli military actions against Iran, according to an analysis shared with CNN. The bettor won a staggering 93% of their five-figure wagers about Iran, even though the events they predicted were unannounced military operations. The trader had a pattern of prescient bets, including hours ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Beirut, Lebanon – The accusation from Lebanon's prime minister that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is in charge of Hezbollah's operations against Israel comes as relations between the Shia group and the Lebanese government are at their lowest in years. But, according to analysts, that animosity does not mean that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam was incorrect in his analysis of the situation. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
In December, the Egyptian said his relationship with head coach Arne Slot had broken down, adding that it felt like he had been "thrown under the bus" by the Premier League club. Mohamed Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, the club has announced. The 33-year-old has reached an agreement with the Premier League team that will see him close a "remarkable" nine-year chapter at Anfield. In a statement, ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for access to evidence they say they need to independently investigate three shootings by federal officers, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti . The lawsuit claims that the federal government reneged on its promise to cooperate with state investigations after the surge of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis. ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Apple Maps ads will look and work a bit like current App Store ads do. One benefit of most of Apple's hardware and software is that it's relatively privacy-focused and light on advertising, compared to something like modern Windows or the Roku operating system. But ads have still crept into various apps and services over time, and Apple confirmed today that its Maps app would begin showing ads to users in the US ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
March 24 (UPI) -- American Dennis Coyle, who has been held captive in Afghanistan for a year, was released Tuesday after his family pleaded with the Taliban to release him for Eid al-Fitr. The Afghanistan foreign ministry said that after the letter, Coyle "would be pardoned and released" for Eid, the holiday at the end of Ramadan. Coyle, 64, is a linguist from Pueblo, Colo. He has lived in Afghanistan for more than ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
For more than 35 years, Arm Holdings Now that the proliferation of is taking hold, the company is making what is arguably the biggest pivot in its storied history. Arm is making physical silicon for the first time, a move long rumored in the industry. At an event in San Francisco this week, Arm unveiled its first in-house chip, dubbed the Arm AGI CPU. The company says the Arm AGI CPU is "the first production ...
Source: fool.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com The targeting of Iranian missiles at the Diego Garcia UK-US military base on Friday has sent alarm bells ringing in Europe. Diego Garcia is over 2,500 miles (4,000km) from Iran and, if a missile from Tehran can reach there, it could also reach Paris, Berlin or even London. "Previously, we thought Iran's ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
The storage industry has a long and undistinguished history of companies reinventing themselves right before someone else makes them irrelevant. Pure Storage is not doing that. When it announced on February 23 that it was changing its name to Everpure and acquiring AI data intelligence startup 1touch , it was pivoting toward a fight it had already quietly won the right to enter. The distinction matters. ...
Source: cdotrends.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
March 24 (UPI) -- Authorities in Washington, D.C., are hunting for at least two suspects after a U.S. Park Police officer was shot while on undercover duty in the nation's capital. The shooting occurred at about 7:30 p.m. EDT Monday near the 5000 block of Queens Stroll Place SE and the 4600 block of Hillside Road SE, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement . U.S. Park Police Deputy Chief Scott Bretch ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Iran said it is done dealing with the two emissaries President Donald Trump has tasked with leading negotiations in the Middle East. The country, which Trump began striking over three weeks ago, is not keen on any more attempts at negotiations with Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, or Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, both of whom were leading the nuclear negotiations with Iran before the ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here . Massachusetts recently released new data on abortions. And as I reported last week , the numbers signal dramatic changes in national abortion dynamics — and the Bay State's role in that picture — since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. ...
Source: wbur.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Images and videos online showed large plume of smoke and flames billowing out from refinery, but no one was injured An oil refinery fire near the Texas coast was put out on Tuesday and a temporary shelter-in-place order was lifted, hours after a large explosion at the complex shot plumes of smoke into the air, officials said. No one was injured in Monday's explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, about 90 ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
The world's great fish migrations are collapsing – that's a problem for millions of people Hidden beneath the surface of the world's rivers, some of Earth's great animal movements unfold – migrations that rival , in sheer biomass, the famous mass movements of zebra and wildebeest across the Serengeti. For centuries, fish migrations were as predictable as the seasons. Salmon, sturgeon, giant catfish ...
Source: theconversation.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 -
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 -
A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House — the latest effort by the Trump administration to honor the explorer whose legacy has drawn increasing criticism in recent years. The statue is a replica of one that was tossed into Baltimore's harbor in 2020 during Mr. Trump's first term at a time of nationwide protests ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The Senate on Monday night confirmed President Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Mullin advanced out of Senate committee last week after a fiery confirmation hearing. The Oklahoma Republican will take the place of Kristi Noem, whose tenure at the department was mired in controversy. U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ...
Source: cnbc.com