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Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The spokesman for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard insisted Friday that Tehran was still building missiles, seeking to counter a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it no longer could. Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini also said the Iran war would go on. A short time later, Iranian state television reported Naeini was killed in an airstrike. "These people expect the war to continue until the enemy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
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Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — The Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) on Thursday greenlit a $1 gold coin featuring President Trump's likeness to commemorate America's 250th anniversary. The proposed design depicts Trump with his fists on what appears to be a table or desk. The words "Liberty" span above the image of the president. The back of the coin features an image of a bald eagle that appears ready to take ...
Source: wfla.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 -
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 -
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it had approved the merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna, the same day that two lawsuits trying to block the deal were announced. Nexstar said last August that it would buy Tegna for $6.2 billion. The deal would create a company that owns 265 television stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia, most of them local ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — WNBA players are having information sessions over the next day or two to learn more about the new collective bargaining agreement that was agreed to in principle early Wednesday morning. Through zoom calls and one-on-one conversations, the players are hearing about some of the details of the transformational new deal that will last for the next seven years with an opt-out after six, according ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
MIAMI — A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to ICE, Royer Perez-Jimenez "died of presumed suicide," although an official cause of death remains under investigation. The death of Perez-Jimenez on Monday is the 46th reported under Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A senior vice president of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others affiliated with the company were charged Thursday with conspiring to smuggle billions of dollars of computer servers containing advanced Nvidia chips to China. The men violated U.S. export controls laws by scheming to divert massive quantities of the high-performance servers assembled in the United States to China between 2024 ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Another pause in the Federal Reserve's interest rate-cutting campaign this week may not have been the news millions of borrowers were hoping for, especially not homebuyers looking for an affordable rate. Improvements in the home loan borrowing space had been significant over the past year, with rates here, on average, down by a full percentage point from January 2025 to January 2026. And many borrowers began the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security presented a softer approach on federal emergency management in his Senate confirmation hearing, rejecting the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency and pledging to undo some of his predecessor's unpopular policies. The remarks by Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday raised hopes among disaster response ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette will not be airing. ABC's parent company, Disney, confirmed its cancellation on Thursday. "In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of The Bachelorette at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family," the company's statement reads, per Deadline . Paul ...
Source: instyle.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
As the US and Israeli war on Iran continues into its third week, the human, economic, and ecological impacts are devastating. Some 3,000 Iranians have been killed , including 165 children in one school strike, 10,000 injured , and 3.2 million displaced. The war has caused a crisis. The World Health Organization has warned that with many oil storage tanks hit, resulting in "black rain" falling on Tehran , there is ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
An undated photo of Jeffrey Epstein released by the Justice Department. (DOJ) An unredacted email appears to reveal testimony that contradicts President Donald Trump's longstanding narrative about Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to Mar-a-Lago. The 2009 correspondence from Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger was substantially redacted in the Justice Department's initial Epstein files release. Representative Dan ...
Source: rawstory.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Kent, the former counterterrorism director who resigned this week over concerns about the Iran war, said Wednesday that he and other senior officials with doubts about the airstrikes "were not allowed" to share them with President Donald Trump. Speaking on Tucker Carlson's show, Kent said the president relied on a small circle of advisers in making his decision to strike Iran. Kent ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Fed officials expected to lower capital requirements for banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase by 4.8% US federal regulators are trying to soften bank requirements, loosening the amount of capital US banks must have, in what would be some of the biggest changes to bank restrictions since the 2008 financial crisis and a huge win for financial institutions. On Thursday, US Federal Reserve officials are ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
The European Central Bank, Bank of England, Sweden's Riksbank and Swiss National Bank all delivered their latest monetary decisions Thursday. The war in Iran has upset the economic equilibrium in Europe, threatening energy supplies, growth and the outlook for inflation. Central banks appeared relaxed in their growth and inflation forecasts for the years ahead but uncertainty over the war in Iran is upending their ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 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? Former reality TV star Joseph Duggar was arrested Wednesday on accusations he molested a 9-year-old girl. Duggar, 31, is accused of having repeatedly engaged in unlawful ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Meta's biggest swing at creating a social network for VR looked like it was dying a quick death in June. Horizon Worlds , a platform that Meta said would be deemphasized for VR in favor of mobile earlier this year, was going to disappear from VR on June 15. And then, yesterday, Meta changed its mind. Sort of. The original news, which broke Tuesday, was a shock to people like me who thought Meta would at ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Dino Geromella / iStock Share Nearly 156,000 more Americans may have died of COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic than officially reported, with disparities by race, education, and other factors, a machine-learning estimates. For the study, published yesterday in , a team led by a Stanford University investigator used machine learning (artificial intelligence) trained on US death certificates to ...
Source: cidrap.umn.edu
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has for months wanted to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. But instead, an investigation by one of his own officials could end up extending Powell's time at the top of the central bank even after his term formally ends May 15. Trump has nominated former Fed official Kevin Warsh to succeed Powell. Yet Warsh's ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
James "Jimmy" Gracey's body was found by police divers and positively identified, the press office for Catalonia's regional police in Barcelona told The Associated Press. BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The body of James "Jimmy" Gracey, a 20-year-old college student from Illinois, was found Thursday in the water off a Barcelona beach, police in Spain said. Gracey's body was found by police divers and positively ...
Source: boston.com
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 -
Federal judges read profane death threats and praised U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' recent comments condemning personal criticism of judges during an unusual forum on Thursday to highlight rising attacks on the judiciary. None of the four judges singled out President Donald Trump or members of his administration, who have railed against judges that have ruled against them. One of the judges on the ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Chavez's family said in a statement that they are devastated by the allegations Removed from bookmarks Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside César Chavez. They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
The world's happiest countries tend to be Nordic and healthy and to have a higher degree of freedom and less inequality. Yet young people in certain regions may be experiencing a decline in well-being. That's the big takeaway of the 2026 World Happiness Report , an annual barometer of global well-being from the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup and other organizations. Finland is the world's happiest ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has temporarily waived a century-old shipping law to help ease the cost of transporting oil, gas and other commodities within the US. The move allows foreign-flagged vessels to transport goods between US ports for the next 60 days, a step taken to ease the movement of energy supplies across the country. "This action will allow vital resources like oil, natural gas, fertilizer, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
More than a year ago, The GEO Group founder George Zoley asked for a meeting with Corey Lewandowski, a close ally of President Donald Trump who had just started a powerful position as a top adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. As a titan of the private prison industry, GEO Group stood to benefit from Trump's mass deportation agenda, which would require the federal government to spend tens of billions ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
reached a surprisingly peaceful resolution Wednesday afternoon: Compass, the country's largest real estate brokerage, dropped its lawsuit against Zillow, marking the end of a The legal volleys kicked off last summer, when Zillow started banning some for-sale listings from its well-trafficked website. A growing number of real estate agents, the search site said, were Compass quickly sued Zillow in federal court over ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Four weeks after surviving a mass shooting at one of their games, the Blackstone Valley Schools co-op team won the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Division II Boys Hockey Championship Wednesday. Defenseman Colin Dorgan lost his mother, brother and grandfather when his father killed them during a game at the David M. Lynch arena in Pawtucket on Feb. 16. The father then died of a self-inflicted gunshot. ...
Source: wbur.org
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Sales of newly built homes in January were 11.3% lower than January 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The median price of a home sold in January was $400,500, a decline of 6.8% year over year. The inventory of homes for sale rose to a 9.7-month supply. Blaine, Minnesota. New homes starting at a half million dollars in Lexington Waters are high efficiency homes and are HOA Maintained. Sales of newly ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Top Gun star Val Kilmer, who was one of the best-paid actors in the 1990s, will play a priest in the forthcoming movie As Deep As The Grave, alongside a Harry Potter actor. Val Kilmer is to posthumously appear in an action-adventure film, a year after his death from pneumonia. The company behind the movie, First Line Films, say it is the first-ever performance enabled by generative artificial intelligence . ...
Source: news.sky.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
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
The states are forcing health plans to provide coverage for abortions as a condition of offering coverage in the state, OCR says. Policy and Legislation Susan Morse The Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights today announced it is investigating 13 states under a federal healthcare conscience law called the Weldon Amendment. The investigation is based on information that the states are ...
Source: healthcarefinancenews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
March 19 (UPI) -- The number of cases of meningitis in Kent has risen to 27, the United Kingdom Health Security Agency reported. There are 15 confirmed cases, and 12 suspected cases , meaning health professionals suspect the illness based on symptoms. Two people have died since the outbreak began: One high school student and a college student at the University of Kent. "What is particularly remarkable about this ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
NORTH SHORE, Calif. – A desert community in southwestern Arizona reached 110 degrees (43.3 C) on Thursday, breaking a record for the highest March temperature recorded in the United States. The record-setting temperature was recorded just outside Martinez Lake, Arizona, in the Yuma Desert, as a winter heat wave scorched the Southwest, according to the National Weather Service. The community is about 145 miles ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Patients with type 1 diabetes face increased dementia risk Adults with diabetes had an elevated risk for dementia, with a higher risk among those with type 1 compared with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in Neurology . "Diabetes mellitus is well known to be associated with elevated dementia risk, but most prior studies have focused on type 2 diabetes or have not clearly distinguished between type 1 ...
Source: healio.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
During a public hearing before Congress on Wednesday, the top U.S. intelligence official asserted that Iran had been working to restart its nuclear program prior to the U.S. and Israel launching a war against it—in contradiction to her written testimony submitted to the same hearing. In her written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, wrote that ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
Lawmakers leave closed-door meeting after AG refuses to commit to honoring subpoena to testify under oath Democrats on the House oversight committee walked out of a closed-door briefing from attorney general Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein files on Wednesday, leaving what California congressman Robert Garcia called "an outrageous fake hearing" after Bondi refused to commit to honoring a subpoena to testify ...
Source: theguardian.com