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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 21st 2026
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is weighing whether to send possibly thousands of U.S. troops into Iran as he looks for a way to achieve some of his key goals and end the war, according to the two current U.S. officials, two former U.S. officials and another person familiar with the discussions. Any deployment of ground troops into Iran would carry increased risk but also a potential strategic value of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The framework includes seven AI policy recommendations for Congress that attempt to balance consumer protections with advancing AI development. The White House unveiled a new artificial intelligence policy framework on Friday that features seven guiding recommendations to support the administration's policy recommendations for Congress. The National Policy Framework for AI's seven pillars are Protecting ...
Source: washingtontechnology.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — A federal arts commission on Thursday approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing President Donald Trump's image to help celebrate America's 250th birthday on July 4. The vote by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members are supporters of the Republican president and were appointed by him earlier this year, was without objection. It clears the way for the U.S. ...
Source: npr.org
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 -
3 min read The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of US laws barring exports to that country without a license. Yih-Shyan Liaw, known as Wally; Ruei-Tsang Chang, known as Steven; and Ting-Wei Sun, known as Willy, were charged with conspiring to violate export control laws, ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
A burst of unusual March heat is hitting the United States this week and into next, busting previous monthly heat records by wide margins. While heat is most acutely felt by people exposed to it, graphics and charts convey the scale of this extreme event. Let's start with records already broken, in some cases by huge margins. California and Arizona have seen daily highs surpass 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The company plans to scale back Copilot's pervasive integration after user complaints, removing unnecessary entry points from apps like Notepad and Photos while keeping genuinely useful features. For years, Windows critics have described the operating system as unnecessarily big and bloated. Microsoft might not be able to slim down Windows 11 overnight, but it's still putting it on a diet. The goal is to make ...
Source: pcworld.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
BARCELONA, Spain — James "Jimmy" Gracey, a college student from Elmhurst who was found dead after going missing while in Barcelona on a break, was likely the victim of an accident, Spanish regional police said Friday. Gracey's body was found Thursday afternoon in the waters off a beach, near where he was last seen outside a Barcelona nightclub with his friends early Tuesday. A spokesperson for Catalonia's ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The federal government's student loan program has operated under the same roof for 45 years. That just changed. The Trump administration announced March 19 that it is transferring management of the nation's nearly $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio from the Department of Education to the Treasury Department The move, formalized in a 17-page interagency agreement, is the largest single step yet in ...
Source: bradenton.com
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 -
Nearly 90,000 bottles of children's ibuprofen are being recalled because they may contain a foreign substance, according to a notice issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The recall affects Children's Ibuprofen Oral Suspension, a pain reliever that comes in liquid form. The product was manufactured in India by Strides Pharma for Taro Pharmaceuticals. The medication is intended for ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
A Georgia woman is facing a murder charge after police say she took pills to induce an abortion in violation of a state law that prohibits most abortions. The woman, Alexia Moore, was arrested on March 4, months after she was rushed to the emergency room with abdominal pain, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. During an investigation, police learned that Moore allegedly took misoprostol, a drug that induces ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market. more than a decade after bailing on the dismal Fire Phone , Amazon is giving the smartphone a second try. Reuters reports that Amazon's Devices and Services unit is working on a smartphone—dubbed Transformer—with Amazon's ...
Source: wired.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Iowa State forward Joshua Jefferson sprained his left ankle in the opening minutes of the second-seeded Cyclones' 108-74 rout of No 15 seed Tennessee State on Friday, leaving the All-American's status in question for the rest of the NCAA Tournament . The Cyclones' second-leading scorer and top rebounder did not appear to be touched as he drove the lane for an open layup. But his entire 240lb body came down on his ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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? A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Thursday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overstepped his authority when he declared that gender-affirming care for minors was ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding that he did not "scheme" to mislead investors. The civil trial in San Francisco centered on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
While the future queen's ties to Epstein were already reported, new documents showed a more extensive relationship. Norway's crown princess says she regrets her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, insisting in a tearful interview she was "manipulated and deceived". The release of files related to the late sex offender has sent shockwaves around the world, revealing his ties to prominent people, including Crown ...
Source: news.sky.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 -
The incident, which surfaced in a video posted on Chinese social platform Xiaohongshu, highlights growing concerns about the real-world safety of robots operating in public spaces. What followed was a chaotic scene. The robot began swinging its arms uncontrollably, smashing plates and sending chopsticks and dishware flying across the table. At least three staff members rushed in to stop the machine, struggling to ...
Source: interestingengineering.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 -
Politics A Serious Senate Debate About an Unserious Bill The most pressing question about the SAVE America Act is not whether it's going to pass, but why President Trump and his allies are so determined to see the Senate put up a bill that's doomed to fail. Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg Save T he United States has launched a war in Iran. Soaring gas prices are pounding an economy that many Americans already ...
Source: theatlantic.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 -
VR will be on life support while mobile remains the focus, though. The dream of the metaverse may have died for now, but Meta has decided it's not completely giving up on the VR experience in Horizon Worlds, the virtual worlds service that it originally envisioned as the first step toward said metaverse. The news was announced via the Instagram account of Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth. "We have decided, just today ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The key aide to outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called the accusations 'absolutely false' and denied any wrongdoing Removed from bookmarks the top aide of outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem , sought payments from companies seeking contracts with the Department of Homeland Security, ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
March 19 (UPI) -- Uber Technologies said it plans to invest $1.25 billion into Rivian Automotive to launch 50,000 autonomous robotaxis around the world, the company announced. Uber or its fleet partners will buy 10,000 autonomous versions of the Rivian R2 electric vehicle with the option to buy 40,000 more starting in 2030, a press release said . Rivian shares rose in premarket trading Thursday by about 10%, CNBC ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Dozens said they weren't given chance to arrange care for their kids after being deported at short notice, study shows The Trump administration is deporting a significant number of parents without asking them if they have children or allowing them to decide whether to bring their children with them, in apparent violation of its own policies, a major report has found. In interviews with dozens of parents deported to ...
Source: theguardian.com