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Why Are TSA Lines so Long Right Now?
- 3 min read At airports across the United States over the weekend, security checkpoint lines stretched for hours amid an ongoing partial government shutdown. Here's what to know about the TSA line situation as of Monday, March 23: What's the shutdown about? Republicans and Democrats are fighting over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s budget. Democrats are refusing to fund Immigration and Customs ...

Source: townandcountrymag.com
WORLD  
Trump delays strikes on Iran power, energy plants for five days, citing 'very good and productive conversations'
- President Trump announced Monday that the US will not attack any part of Iran's power and energy infrastructure for five days after Washington and Tehran engaged in " very good and productive talks " over the weekend about ending the three-week-old war. "I am please [sic] to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations ...

Source: nypost.com
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Former political rivals take on Trump's push to nationalize voting
- A pair of former political rivals is teaming up again to fight against President Donald Trump's effort to impose federal control over state election functions ahead of the midterms. The Bipartisan American Election Project is the latest effort by Ben Ginsberg and Bob Bauer to advocate for the nonpartisan administration of elections and push back on federal encroachment over an area delegated by the Constitution to ...

Source: news.yahoo.com
WORLD  
Hundreds of flights canceled, delayed at LaGuardia Airport after Air Canada runway collision
- Over 500 flights were delayed or canceled on Monday following the incident at LaGuardia Flight cancellations and delays are increasing at New York City's LaGuardia Airport after an Air Canada Express flight collided with a fire truck while landing late Sunday night. At least 321 flights departing from LaGuardia were canceled as of 4:30 p.m. ET on Monday, while 58 were delayed, according to data from flight tracking ...

Source: foxbusiness.com
Jewish volunteer ambulances destroyed in arson attack in London
- March 23 (UPI) -- Police in London said Monday they were treating the torching of four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community charity overnight as an "anti-Semitic hate crime." The London Fire Brigade, which deployed six engines and 40 firefighters to the incident in the Golders Green area of north London, said gas cylinders inside the Hatzola Trust ambulances exploded, shattering windows in nearby residential ...

Source: upi.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
It Could've Been Worse—but France's Local Elections Are a Warning to the Left
- 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
US   POLITICS  
New York Gov. Hochul begs 'high-net-worth' refugees to return and be taxed
- In 2022, Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul urged Republicans to leave the state and move to Florida. Lots of people took her advice, and not all of them the people she wanted to expel. Earlier this month, she was reduced to begging "high-net-worth" former state residents to move back and pay the expensive tax tab to fund her state's spending choices. It's a rare and glorious sight when politicians shoo those ...

Source: reason.com
BUSINESS   TECHNOLOGY  
Elon Musk plans Tesla-SpaceX chip factory Terafab project - TechBriefly
- The initiative aims to support growing demand for chips used in artificial intelligence and robotics across Musk's companies. Elon Musk announced plans for a chip-building collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX. The initiative, which Musk terms "Terafab," aims to address inadequate semiconductor supply for his companies' artificial intelligence and robotics requirements. Musk stated the project is necessary because ...

Source: techbriefly.com
TECHNOLOGY  
Astrix advances AI agent security platform to govern shadow and enterprise agents
- Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Astrix Security has revealed a major expansion of its AI agent security platform, covering every layer where AI agents operate in the enterprise: from managed AI platforms to shadow deployments running on managed devices, detecting both agent existence and unauthorized access to ...

Source: helpnetsecurity.com
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Trump's Stubborn Demand Could Prolong The TSA Shutdown
- 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? WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is now demanding Congress overhaul election procedures as part of any bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, a request ...

Source: huffpost.com
WORLD   SCIENCE  
Planet trapped record heat in 2025: UN
- 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
Pharmalittle: We're reading about Iran war's impact on pharma supply chain, a Pfizer Lyme vaccine, and more
- Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and invigorating because that oh-too-familiar routine of meetings, deadlines, and the like has returned with a vengeance. You knew this would ...

Source: statnews.com
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US, TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1 bn' deal to end offshore wind projects
- The United States and TotalEnergies on Monday signed an agreement to end the French company's offshore US wind farm projects and redirect those funds towards fossil fuel production, with the US interior secretary saying the deal was worth "nearly $1 billion." US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum made the announcement at the annual CERAWeek conference in Houston, at an event where he appeared alongside TotalEnergies ...

Source: digitaljournal.com
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Kalshi and Polymarket rush to ban insider trading as senators move to curb prediction markets
- NEW YORK (AP) — 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: apnews.com
Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault and ordered to pay $19.25m
- Donna Motsinger alleges she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1972 after he gave her a glass of wine in his limo A California jury found Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault in a civil trial on Monday, awarding Donna Motsinger $19.25m in damages. Motsinger alleged in the case that while working as a restaurant server in 1972, she was drugged and raped by Cosby after he gave her a glass of wine in his limousine. ...

Source: theguardian.com
POLITICS  
Iran war energy crisis equal to 70s twin oil shocks and fallout from Ukraine war, says IEA chief
- Fatih Birol says effect on energy markets of Iran bombings and closure of Hormuz strait not initially understood by world leaders The global energy crisis caused by the war in Iran is equivalent to the combined force of the twin oil shocks of the 1970s and the fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the head of the International Energy Agency has warned. Fatih Birol , the IEA's executive director, said the growing ...

Source: theguardian.com
WORLD  
Cars and homes burnt as Israeli settlers rampage through occupied West Bank | World News
- 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
TECHNOLOGY  
Cybersecurity Staff Don't Know How Fast They Could Stop AI Attacks
- Over half (56%) of IT and cybersecurity professionals have no idea how quickly they could shut down AI systems affected by a cyber-attack or security incident, new research by ISACA has found. Published on 23 March by the global certification body, the research is based on a survey of over 3400 security and digital professionals. Just under a third of respondents (32%) said that they believed they could halt ...

Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Iowa beats No. 1 seed and defending champ Florida in March Madness on Folgueiras' 3 in final seconds
- 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
US  
NHL reporter Jessi Pierce dies with her 3 kids in Minnesota house fire
- March 22 (UPI) -- NHL reporter and podcaster Jessi Pierce died with her three children and their dog in a Minnesota house fire this weekend. "The entire National Hockey League family sends our prayers and deepest condolences to the Pierce family on the passing of Jessi Pierce and her three young children," the NHL said in a statement Sunday. The NHL sends condolences to the Pierce family. pic.twitter.com/SplpV6O5F7 ...

Source: upi.com