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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 21st 2026
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
For nearly a half-century, U.S. leaders, and perhaps Americans themselves, have viewed Iran as the "ultimate rogue." Tehran's unchanging anti-American ideology combined with a religiously dogmatic leadership have set it apart in the American imagination from other difficult enemies. Just two weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump launched the current war against Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed a ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Lawmakers rolled out a number of proposals this week focused on deploying or reviewing uses of AI, including legislation to leverage the tech in the energy grid and democratize the industry landscape. Counteracting the AI moratorium A coalition of House Democrats put forth legislation that counteracts the AI moratorium proposed by GOP lawmakers following the release of President Donald Trump's new National AI ...
Source: nextgov.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
US Treasurer Brandon Beach says there is 'no profile more emblematic' for the coin than that of 'our serving President, Donald J Trump' The U.S. Mint is moving forward with a gold commemorative coin featuring President Donald Trump after a federal arts commission approved a design Thursday, with Treasury officials citing a legal authority that allows the inclusion of a sitting president despite longstanding ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Two of the Hulu stars took to Instagram on Friday, one day after TMZ released a 2023 video of Paul attacking her ex-boyfriend. Two stars of Hulu's "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" have spoken out against domestic violence Friday, a day after a new video was released showing their castmate, Taylor Frankie Paul, attacking her ex-boyfriend in front of her daughter three years ago . "Domestic violence and abuse of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Trump Administration Sues Harvard, Claiming University Failed To Protect Jewish And Israeli Students
Friday, Mar 20th, 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? BOSTON, March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump 's administration escalated its attacks on Harvard University on Friday, as it sued the Ivy League school to recover ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Monitoring the mortgage interest rate climate on a daily basis is an integral part of the homebuying and refinancing processes. But, this March, it was arguably more important than usual. With multiple items on the calendar with the potential to impact mortgage rates , buyers and owners hoping to refinance needed to be more strategic than usual. Now, however, following new inflation and unemployment reports ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The banking industry is reviewing three proposals totaling more than 1,500 pages released Thursday by U.S. financial regulators aimed at streamlining the bank capital framework. While the full impact remains unclear, an initial review suggests the rules are more tailored than previous efforts. Processing Content The proposals cover Basel III, the global systemically important bank, or G-SIB, surcharge and revisions ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Three people affiliated with server maker Supermicro were charged Thursday in connection with allegations they conspired to smuggle advanced Nvidia chips into China, in violation of U.S. export controls barring their sale to China without a license. The indictment from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York alleges that Wally Liaw, Steven Chang, and Willy Sun conspired to sell $2.5 billion worth of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The extreme conditions are expected to persist and expand east in the coming days. Preliminary readings of sites in Arizona and southern California indicate that the US has suffered its hottest March day on record. Large parts of the southwest of the United States are trapped in a dangerous heatwave, made worse in some places by a heat dome, with temperatures reaching around 43C (110F) at testing sites. The ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Microsoft's Windows boss just sent out a long non-apology to frustrated Windows 11 users, promising big changes. Here's a translation of what you can really expect. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft's customers have been grumbling about Windows 11 since the day it shipped, and lately, those complaints have gotten louder and angrier . They've ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The family of a late University of Alabama student is breaking their silence. Sadly, Jimmy Gracey, a student at the college, died after a night out in Spain. After a search and rescue, authorities found his body in Barcelona. "Our family is heartbroken as we confirm that Jimmy's body has been recovered in Barcelona," the family said in a statement. "Jimmy was a deeply loved son, grandson, brother, nephew, cousin, ...
Source: wideopenspaces.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The Education Department's total student loan portfolio stands at nearly $1.7 trillion Removed from bookmarks Record numbers of student loan borrowers are struggling to make their payments, according to a new report. New Education Department student loan data from the end of last year revealed a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The states filed a temporary restraining order less than a day after the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department signed off on the $6.2 billion deal. California and seven other states filed an emergency motion on Friday to stop the merger of broadcasting companies Nexstar and Tegna, a corporate tie-up that would create the country's largest operator of local television stations. The eight ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The Mexican, who "died of presumed suicide", is the 46th person to die in ICE custody since January 2025 and the second this week. A 19-year-old Mexican has become the youngest person to die in ICE custody since the start of Donald Trump's second term. Royer Perez-Jimenez "died of presumed suicide" on Monday at the Glades County Detention Centre in south Florida, ICE said in a statement, although his official cause ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Here's what parents need to know. By 2 min read Attention, parents: There's a very important recall you need to know about before giving your kids any pain relief medications. What, exactly, is being recalled? On March 2, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall for Strides Pharma's 100-milligram Children's Ibuprofen Oral Suspension. It updated the notice on March 16, giving the recall a Class II ...
Source: goodhousekeeping.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Alexia Moore, who was discharged from the U.S. Army with PTSD, is facing prosecution after allegedly taking drugs to induce a miscarriage while over five months pregnant Removed from bookmarks A Georgia woman has become the first person to be charged with murder under the state's restrictive law banning ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Amazon's second smartphone could forego an app store. Amazon is developing a new smartphone over a decade after discontinuing the Fire Phone, Reuters reported today, citing four anonymous "people familiar with the matter." Reuters said the phone is codenamed Transformer but couldn't confirm what it might cost, how much Amazon has invested into development thus far, or how much Amazon expects to make off the device. ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
TAMPA, Fla. — Jaylen Petty scored 24 points, Christian Anderson added 18 and fifth-seeded Texas Tech beat No. 12 seed Akron 91-71 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. The Red Raiders (23-10) will face fourth-seeded Alabama or No. 13 seed Hofstra in the second round in the Midwest Region on Sunday. Playing without All-America guard JT Toppin, who tore the ACL in his right knee last month, Texas ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Sitting federal judges speaking at a panel discussion Thursday said there are increasing threats against them and their family members and warned about the dangers of such threats becoming "ordinary." The was hosted online by the organization Speak Up for Justice. "What's most problematic is that the extraordinary has become ordinary," said U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of the District of Columbia, according to an ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
News , CC0, via Wikimedia Commons US federal judge blocks declaration excluding gender-affirming healthcare providers from federal funds A US federal district judge said in a hearing on Thursday that he would bar Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) from enforcing a declaration issued last December that condemned "sex-rejecting procedures" on children and adolescents. Judge Mustafa Kasubhai of the US ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded. Jurors in federal court in San Francisco found Friday that Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders when he tweeted that the social network — now called X — had too many fake accounts and tried to back ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 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? OSLO, March 20 (Reuters) - Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit said on Friday she regretted her friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, seeking to contain one ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters' access to the Pentagon, agreeing with The New York Times that key portions of the new rules are unlawful. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C., sided with the newspaper and ruled that the Pentagon policy illegally restricts the press credentials of reporters who ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
A humanoid robot couldn't stop feeling the beat at a California hot pot restaurant where it's employed, leading to a dance frenzy caught on camera that's gone viral. Unfortunately, the dance moves were too much for close proximity; dishes were broken by the dancing bot, and it took several employees to restrain the robot before it could cause further damage to property or the mood. The incident took place at ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Mar. 18, FBI Director Kash Patel admitted the agency has been purchasing data that can be leveraged to track a person's movement and location history. The United States Supreme Court ruled in 2018 (in the case of Carpenter v. United States) that law enforcement agencies must secure a warrant in order to access a person's location data from cellphone providers; however, ...
Source: securitymagazine.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
About 24.3 million Americans were enrolled in healthcare plans within the Affordable Care Act marketplace last year, but a survey released Thursday by KFF found that about 1 in 10 of those people had no choice but to make a difficult and risky calculation at the end of 2025 when ACA subsidies expired due to Republicans ' refusal to support an extension. According to the research, 9% of people enrolled in plans ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
After two powerful storms struck Hawaii over the past week, officials are warning that one of the largest dams on the island of Oahu is at risk of imminent failure. Water was flowing over the top of the Wahiawa dam on Thursday morning local time. Officials issued evacuation notices for two towns, Waialua and Haleiwa, which were already dealing with local flooding but could get inundated if the dam fails. "We've got ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two agents fired from the FBI last year said in a federal lawsuit Thursday that they were terminated "solely" because of their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The two agents, identified as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 in the lawsuit, are part of a broader group of employees fired over the past ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
HHS is looking into the states for 'alleged disregard of, or confusion about' the federal Weldon amendment The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Thursday that it is investigating 13 states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion services. HHS officials said in a news release that the department's office for civil rights (OCR) is looking into the states for ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are increasingly intent on a massive overhaul of the country's elections in time for the 2026 midterms. But an important group of people are warning that's not possible: the professionals who actually run those elections . Around the country, state and local election administrators have been warily eyeing the proposed changes contained in the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Wondering how early to get to the airport as some TSA officers call out sick during a partial government shutdown? There are a few ways for passengers to check security checkpoint wait times before their flights. Security lines are growing longer at some airports, with about 10% of the TSA's roughly 50,000 officers calling out sick on Wednesday. TSA workers have now gone without pay for a 34th straight ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Defense secretary had said relatives of service members killed in refueling tanker crash told him 'do not stop until the job is done' The father of a US military member killed in the Iran war has contradicted Pete Hegseth's claim that bereaved families urged him to "finish" the job in the Middle East. Hegseth, the defense secretary and a former weekend Fox News host, told reporters at a Pentagon briefing on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn't change Stop trying to make "Clovis First" happen; it's not going to happen. A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn't change the big picture as much as the researchers who generated the new date are claiming. University of ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
No Arrests, But Virtual Servers, IP Addresses Seized and Residencies Searched U.S. authorities seized the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack yet recorded in an international police operation that swept up servers underpinning four botnets. The KimWolf botnet, likely with the assistance of the Aisuru botnet, in December 2025 launched an attack against content ...
Source: govinfosecurity.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Meta According to an Instagram post from Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth, Meta is not shutting down VR support for Horizon Worlds after all, which should come as a huge relief to, like, five people. "We have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR," Bosworth said as part of an Instagram Stories Q&A after a fan of the app reached out to say they were ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. While testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem denied that her top aide, Corey Lewandowski , was involved in approving DHS contracts. When ProPublica found internal DHS records contradicting that, a DHS spokesperson reiterated Noem's denial , adding that ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes As robotaxis start hitting city streets around the world, Uber is making moves to ensure it doesn't get left behind. Uber announced Thursday that it is partnering with EV maker Rivian to roll out up to 50,000 unsupervised robotaxis by 2031. As part of the deal, Uber has agreed to invest $1.25 billion in Rivian through 2031. An initial $300 million has been committed following the signing of ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Immigrant parents say they were ripped from their children. ICE ignored policy to keep them together, researchers say Removed from bookmarks A 22-year-old woman was five months pregnant when she arrived on a deportation flight to Honduras. She said she never had a chance to tell Immigration and Customs ...
Source: independent.co.uk