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White House border czar Tom Homan confirms ICE deployment to airports Monday
- March 23 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump 's border czar Tom Homan has confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will be deployed to U.S. airports starting Monday, despite strong opposition from unions and Democrats. Homan told CNN's on Sunday that he was working on the plan's execution with acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and Transportation Security Administration Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill. ...

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US won't strike Iran's power plants for 5 days, extending Trump deadline on reopening Hormuz strait
- – President Donald Trump extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz to international shipping, saying Monday that the U.S. would hold off on threatened strikes for five days. In his announcement on Truth Social, Trump also held out the possibility of a resolution to the war — though Iranian officials denied there were negotiations. Trump's turnaround appeared to offer ...

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Pilot and copilot killed in collision between jet and fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport
- NEW YORK – Two people were killed and several others badly hurt when an Air Canada regional jet while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, officials said. The pilot and copilot were killed in the late Sunday night collision, which crushed the nose of the aircraft, while around 40 passengers and crew members were taken to area hospitals, some with serious injuries. Most have since been released from ...

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How Democrats learned to stop worrying and love tax cuts
- With voters' concerns about affordability showing no sign of fading, some Democrats are rediscovering a traditionally Republican tactic for putting money back in people's pockets — cutting taxes. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland proposes effectively ending the federal income tax on individuals making $46,000 or less annually and reducing it for individuals making up to about $60,000 more than that amount. ...

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POLITICS  
France's Socialists secure wins in major cities as far-right struggles for big breakthrough
- France's Socialists tightened their grip on four major cities following municipal elections over the weekend while the far right fell short of a wider breakthrough ahead of the mayoral race on Sunday, succeeding fellow party member in the French capital. The results of the final round of municipal elections showed clear gains for the traditional left and right, and one major win for the far-right in the The vote ...

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Counter-terror police investigating after 'horrific antisemitic attack' on Jewish community ambulances – latest updates
- 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
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Supreme Court hears arguments Monday over late-arriving ballots, a Trump target
- ▶ Follow live updates on the Supreme Court arguments over late-arriving ballots WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a case from Mississippi over whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump . The outcome of the case could affect voters in 14 states and the District of Columbia, which have grace periods for ballots cast by mail, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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WORLD   SCIENCE  
UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
- UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency has warned. The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release, driven by emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide. This record "energy imbalance" heated the ocean to new heights last ...

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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 ...

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Slovenia's president urges talks on future government after tight election outcome
- LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia 's president on Monday urged the country's political parties to start talks on forming a new government as soon as possible after a parliamentary election on the weekend in the European Union country ended with no clear winner and the main players practically tied. Prime Minister Robert Golob's liberal Freedom Movement won 29 seats in the 90-member assembly while the ...

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Robert Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero
- The cult of Mueller foolishly prioritized legal prosecution over political organizing. Bluesky For most of his life, Robert Mueller was a pillar of bipartisan comity, an institutionalist respected by both major US political parties, but in the last decade, he became emblematic of polarized politics. Liberals lionized Mueller as a patriotic public servant who bravely tried to defend the rule of law, while MAGA ...

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Cuba scrambles to restore power after new blackout
- Cuban authorities scrambled Sunday to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an aging infrastructure and a US oil blockade. Some parts of Havana began to have power again, but others were still dark early Sunday, a day after the energy ministry reported a "total disconnection" of the national electric system in the country of nearly 10 ...

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Minnesota Wild reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children found dead in house fire, NHL says
- Cause of the fire that killed Pierce, who had covered the Minnesota hockey team for a decade, is under investigation NHL reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children were killed on Saturday in a weekend house fire in Minnesota , the league announced on its sports website Sunday. Pierce, 37, covered the Minnesota Wild as the correspondent for NHL.com for the past decade. "The entire NHL .com team is devastated and ...

Source: theguardian.com