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Top News Stories for Tuesday, March 24th 2026
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Trump administration deploys ICE agents at airports across US United States immigration agents have begun deploying to major airports across the US to help ease long security lines as a government funding standoff leaves many airport security staff off work. The partial government shutdown affects the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), meaning ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
As he left the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices had just heard arguments Monday over whether to prevent states from counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar texted his staff 3,000 miles away. His directive: Get ready to plan how to run November's midterm elections if the high court changes the rules when it issues its decision in June. "The ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Pakistan's military attempting to broker negotiations between US and Iran From It has just gone past 16:35pm in Tehran, and 15:05pm in Tel Aviv and Beirut. Here is a quick recap of events: Lebanon's foreign ministry said Iran's ambassador in Lebanon , Mohammad Reza Sheibani, has to leave by Sunday, declaring him persona non grata. The Lebanese government cited "Iran's violation of diplomatic norms and established ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Zenity has unveiled continuous, contextual security for AI agents, a new approach that transforms how enterprise AI systems are secured and sets the foundation for Guardian Agents. According to Gartner, "Guardian Agents represent the next evolution in AI governance, shifting from ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.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 -
By March 23 (UPI) -- The Trump administration closed a deal with the French energy company TotalEnergies to pay it nearly $1 billion to end construction of wind farms off the shores of New York and North Carolina. TotalEnergies will be paid $928 million after it invests the same amount of money in oil, natural gas and liquefied natural gas production in the United States, the Department of the Interior announced on ...
Source: miamiherald.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 -
March 24 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense has announced new restrictions on reporters, including removing their office space from the Pentagon, after a judge last week struck down a Trump administration policy that threatened journalists' credentials for obtaining unauthorized information. Under the new policy announced Monday, reporters will be required to work from new office space outside the Pentagon but in ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A noted professional cornhole player who is a quadruple amputee is behind bars after authorities said he shot and killed a front seat passenger Sunday night while he was driving in Maryland. Dayton Webber, 27, was behind the wheel when he opened fire on Bradrick Michael Wells during an argument as they were traveling in a car in the town of La Plata, the Charles County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. Webber, ...
Source: nbcnews.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
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
CCTV showed three people setting light to an ambulance in Golders Green in the early hours of Monday morning From Ministers have been urged to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) after reports that an Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility for an attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity paramedic service. The Jewish Leadership Council, an umbrella group for some of the UK's largest ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14, but many Americans took notice only last week, when we started to see huge delays at major airports as many unpaid Transportation Security Administration employees refused to show up to work. Heading into the weekend, there were two paths out of ...
Source: nymag.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The vote makes the Oklahoma Republican senator the newest member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, leading a department facing a variety of challenges and controversies. WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to confirm Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security as the shutdown of the sprawling agency dragged into its sixth week with no end in sight. The vote to confirm Mullin, a Republican ...
Source: nbcnews.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
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Elon Musk, famously a man with big ideas, is building a semiconductor plant vast enough to power those ambitions. Musk on Saturday announced what he calls the "Terafab," a semiconductor manufacturing plant to be located in Austin, Texas, that will produce chips for Tesla vehicles, SpaceX spaceships and Optimus humanoid robots. Currently, Musk's companies rely on other semiconductor manufacturers, including Samsung, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes , a bipartisan pair of U.S. senators is introducing legislation to ban sports betting on prediction markets platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. The legislation follows massive growth experienced by prediction markets due to the sports betting category and increasing controversy over whether such activity is even legal at the state level. Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
This story is republished from STAT , the health and medicine news site that's a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT's free Morning Rounds newsletter here . An experimental vaccine from Pfizer and Valneva reduced the risk of developing Lyme disease by more than 70 percent, according to newly released data. Though results appear to have missed a key statistical bar, the companies said they would still be ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The French left managed to hold on to key cities, but the far right and mainstream right also won key victories—and the intra-left bickering shows no signs of subsiding. Bluesky M arseille —If you're on the left, one way of looking at France's municipal elections is to say they could've have gone worse. Nearly two years after joining forces to create the New Popular Front alliance, France Unbowed (La ...
Source: thenation.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Routers the FCC has already approved can still be sold, but further approvals of foreign-made routers will not be issued. Reading time 2 minutes On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) essentially made it illegal to sell consumer grade routers that aren't made in the U.S. unless they've already received FCC authorization. This policy update, "does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A civil jury in California found Monday that Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $19.25 million. After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found the 88-year-old Cosby liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger. Cosby's attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said in an email that they are disappointed and fully intend ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
At least nine Palestinians have been injured as Israeli settlers rampaged through towns and villages in the occupied West Bank for a second night in a row . A 45-year-old man was shot in the foot late on Sunday during a confrontation with Israeli settlers in Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus, the Wafa news agency reported. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that a 47-year-old Palestinian man was ...
Source: aljazeera.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
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 -
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — 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 President Donald Trump's administration to recognize the controversial explorer. The statue is a replica of one that was tossed into Baltimore's harbor in 2020 during Trump's first term at a time of nationwide protests ...
Source: pbs.org
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Jessi Pierce, a longtime Minnesota Wild reporter and NHL.com contributor, was killed along with her three children in a house fire in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, officials and the league said. The fire was reported at 5:26 a.m. Saturday at a single-family home in the 2100 block of Richard Avenue in White Bear Lake, a suburb northeast of St. Paul, according to the White Bear Lake Fire Department. Neighbors who ...
Source: bnonews.com