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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 28th 2026
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Hours-long security lines snarled airports across the U.S. on Friday as TSA officers missed another paycheck during the partial government shutdown, but travel experts say delays could ease within days once workers are paid again. President Trump, who said he recognized the urgency of paying security personnel, on Thursday directed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA workers immediately . On ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Secretary of state speaks as Israel threatens to expand attacks on Iran while Tehran keeps firing missiles at Israel Washington expects its operation against Iran to conclude in "weeks, not months", the US secretary of state has said, despite continuing violence across the region and a threat from Israel to "escalate and expand" its attacks against the Islamic republic. "When we are done with them here in the next ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
A federal judge in San Francisco granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the Trump administration, temporarily blocking the government-wide ban of the artificial intelligence (AI) company's technology. ruling on Thursday, two days after lawyers for both parties appeared in court for a hearing. Lin's ruling is not final; a final verdict could take weeks or months. dispute ...
Source: meritalk.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
By and Golf superstar Tiger Woods was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after he was involved in a rollover car crash on Jupiter Island on Friday, authorities said. Woods is specifically facing charges of DUI with property damage and refusing to submit to DUI testing, Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said in a press conference. He was taken to the Martin County Jail where he will remain for ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump's signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday. The move would be a first for a sitting president, since traditionally, U.S. paper currency carries the signatures of the Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer, not the president. It's the latest instance of Trump putting his name and ...
Source: pbs.org
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 -
Cyber criminals linked to Iran have accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News Friday. The FBI said in a statement that it is "aware of malicious actors targeting" Patel's personal email information and said it has "taken all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks associated with this activity." It also said that the information in question "is ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Balancing AI Innovation, Security and Governance at Scale Ian Swanson, vice president, AI security products, Palo Alto Networks, and Ravi Krishnamurthy, vice president, AI foundations and responsible AI, ServiceNow Organizations have reached a turning point in AI adoption, with measurable productivity gains and rapid enterprise deployment. But CISOs don't need to choose between speed and security - they can do ...
Source: govinfosecurity.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
A woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her filed a lawsuit claiming the US government and Alphabet Inc. 's Google failed to protect her identity and that of other victims amid the release of millions of pages of records about the disgraced financier. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, claims the Department of Justice violated US law requiring it to remove her personal identifying information ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Price increases impact both ad-supported and ad-free subscriptions Netflix subscribers in the U.S. can expect to start paying more each month as the streaming giant raises prices across all of its plans. Updated pricing listed on the company's U.S. website shows the ad-supported tier at $8.99 per month, up from $7.99, while the standard plan is priced at $19.99 and the premium tier at $26.99. Fees to add members ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near the surface. Only they weren't as active or social as marine biologist Shane Gero had come to expect. "They were just laying there calmly," he said. The researchers launched two aerial drones and started filming. About ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
If you've spent any time on social media lately, you've probably seen some chatter about state income taxes. "Red," Republican-governed states are lowering them or eliminating them, and "blue," Democrat-governed states are actually raising them. They say that there are no controlled experiments in economics, but we have had quite a few over the years, from North and South Korea, to East and West Germany, to even ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to former first lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning, according to police. The Philadelphia Police Department said the incident happened shortly before 8:45 a.m. at the airport. Police said preliminary reports indicate the agent accidentally fired his gun while in an unmarked Chevrolet SUV near the 1 PIA Way ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits Wikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous online encyclopedia. In a recent policy change , Wikipedia said that the use of large language models (or LLMs) "often violates" its core principles and will not be allowed. The English language version ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
US defense secretary axed the four officers' names from list to become one-star generals, the New York Times reports Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers – two women and two Black men – to become one-star generals. The remaining promotion list includes about three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, though a few women ...
Source: theguardian.com
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 -
On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury found that Meta had violated state law, misleading users about safety measures and engaging in "unconscionable" trade practices to take advantage of young users, earning it a $375 million penalty. The next day, in a closely watched bellwether trial in California, a jury found that the "negligence" of Google and Meta had been a factor in the past mental-health struggles of a 20-year-old ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
The International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women and DSD athletes from the female category of events at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and future Games. Kirsty Coventry, the president of the IOC, said the landmark decision had been taken because "it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category". The IOC has also confirmed that all athletes wanting to compete in the female ...
Source: theguardian.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 — A US judge pressed the Trump administration Thursday about its basis for barring Venezuela's government from paying former president Nicolás Maduro's legal fees in the drug trafficking case that has put him behind bars in New York. As Maduro and Cilia Flores, his wife and codefendant, looked on in beige jail uniforms, his lawyers argued that the United States is violating the deposed ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
WWSB ) - A brother and sister are now facing federal charges after an explosive device was left outside a gate at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. "We are simply not going to tolerate this type of conduct in the Middle District of Florida," U.S. Attorney Gregory Kehoe said at a news conference Thursday. Federal investigators say the siblings planted the device before fleeing the country. 27-year-old Ann Mary Zheng ...
Source: mysuncoast.com