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Top News Stories for Thursday, March 26th 2026
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Virginia Democrats are putting pressure on Gov. Abigail Spanberger to get their redistricting campaign across the finish line as they grow increasingly worried about losing their April special election — and hurting their chances for flipping the House this November. The aggressive effort to redraw the state's congressional maps, if voters approve the referendum, could deliver Democrats a 10-to-1 seat ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
As juries turn against social media for harming kids, Big Tech's invincibility starts to show cracks
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
For years, parents , teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the first time, juries in two states took their side. In Los Angeles on Wednesday, a jury found both Meta and YouTube liable for harms to children using their services. In ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Key takeaways: The FCC has banned the sale of new foreign-made routers in the US, and this sweeping order applies to virtually every Wi-Fi router currently available in the US market. My expert advice is to hold off on purchasing a new router if you can. Under the current rules, banned routers will no longer receive essential security firmware and software updates after March 1, 2027. The FCC's action ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
March 26 (UPI) -- The Trump administration is again seeking to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge threw out its case against her and grand juries twice declined to indict her last year, according to reports. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is accusing James of alleged homeowners insurance fraud, according too documents obtained by CNN , NBC News and MS News . Pulte ...
Source: upi.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 -
The U.S. can continue to detain immigrants without bond, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday, handing a victory to the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. The opinion from a panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis overturned a lower court ruling that required that a native of Mexico arrested for lacking legal documents be given a bond hearing before an immigration judge. It's the second ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Technology OpenAI Is Doing Everything … Poorly The company's sudden decision to pull the plug on Sora is a sign of deeper trouble. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic March 25, 2026, 7:52 PM ET Save When I opened Sora this morning, I was met with a flood of strange and disturbing AI-generated videos. On OpenAI's video app, I scrolled through fabricated scenes of the Iran war and a barrage of ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago. NASA's announcement Tuesday that it will "pause" work on a lunar space station and focus on building a surface base on the Moon was no big surprise to anyone paying attention to the Trump administration's space policy. But what should NASA do with hardware already built for the Gateway outpost? NASA spent close to $4.5 ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes As tech companies race to build new data centers across the country, Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to pump the brakes. Sanders announced on Wednesday that he is introducing a bill in the Senate that would impose a national moratorium on the construction or upgrading of new AI data center projects until Congress passes AI legislation that "ensures the safety and prosperity of the American people." ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
The US Supreme Court threw out a copyright-infringement verdict against Cox Communications Inc. , dealing a major blow to music industry efforts to hold internet providers responsible for piracy by their customers. Voting unanimously, the justices said Cox couldn't be held liable for failing to shut down the accounts of people who repeatedly downloaded and distributed songs without permission. A federal appeals ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
After weeks of halting talks, a new proposal is materializing on Capitol Hill that aims to fund critical parts of the Department of Homeland Security as travelers across the country deal with long lines and missed flights at airports experiencing TSA officer shortages . But despite optimism from top Senate Republicans, President Trump and Senate Democrats have yet to embrace the emerging framework. For more than a ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
By Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just last week downplayed fears but Wall Street is growing increasingly uneasy as rising energy prices tied to the Iran War threaten to reignite inflation and jolt the U.S. economy into a recession . Economists have sharply raised their recession odds in recent days, warning that an oil-driven inflation shock could complicate the Fed's attempt to balance the risks of higher ...
Source: miamiherald.com
What to know about the safety system that failed to prevent the deadly runway collision at LaGuardia
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
The systems in place at New York's LaGuardia Airport to prevent ground collisions failed to keep an Air Canada jet from smashing into a fire truck that had just pulled out on the runway as the plane was landing. The National Transportation Safety Board will determine what went wrong before Sunday's crash that killed both pilots and injured dozens of others. One of the two air traffic controllers on duty that night ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
UK inflation stays at 3% in February as petrol prices fall and food inflation eases, before Iran war drives up global energy costs From Morrisons said the UK grocery market is "lagging previous expectations" amid pressure on household budgets, as it revealed a 2.8% rise in sales at established stores. Rami Baitiéh , the chief executive of theBradford-based supermarket chain, said: Baitiéh said total ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Talk about an unexpected journey. Soon-to-be-former talk-show host Stephen Colbert is embarking on a new adventure as the lead creative on a new Lord of the Rings movie, titled The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Past . The announcement has divided the Tolkien fandom, many of them apparently unaware of Colbert's bona fides as a lifelong fan and scholar, but this actually feels like a match made in Valinor. At ...
Source: esquire.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Meta will lay off several hundred people across Reality Labs, social media, recruiting and sales on Wednesday (March 25), The Information reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. The company employed more than 78,000 people as of the end of 2025, according to the report. Wednesday's layoffs will be in addition to the 1,500 job cuts Meta made in its Reality Labs business in January and the cuts that impacted 5% ...
Source: pymnts.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age They are humankind's best friend, and now ancient DNA analysis has revealed that the enduring bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years. The groundbreaking research, published in the journal Nature, pushes back the oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs by 5,000 years, revealing ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
By Bill Lukitsch, Christopher Vondracek, The Minnesota Star Tribune Delta Air Lines is temporarily pulling back some special perks meant to ease travel for members of Congress amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. The Atlanta-based airline, which runs its second-largest U.S. hub from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said Tuesday that it would suspend some of its tailored services for congress ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Houston airport wait times reach over four hours amid US travel chaos Travellers across the US are facing unusually long lines at airports, with some of the worst delays reported in Houston, where security wait times have stretched beyond four hours amid a partial government shutdown. Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents continue to miss paychecks and call out of work, leaving large gaps ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout The deal, Amazon's second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company's portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home has a new entrant. Amazon has acquired Fauna ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it carried out a strike Wednesday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people, as the Trump administration pushes forward with a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America while waging a war against Iran . The latest attack brings the number of people who have been ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Washington — The Justice Department has reached a settlement with former Trump national security official and right-wing activist Michael Flynn after he sued the department, alleging that he was wrongly prosecuted during the first Trump administration. The retired three-star general sued the Justice Department in 2023 for $50 million in damages, alleging the government"improperly and politically" targeted him ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
A federal judge in San Francisco raised her concerns at a court hearing over the Pentagon's decision to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, suggesting it might be retaliation for the company's stance on artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. In this latest development of the ongoing dispute between Anthropic and the federal government, lawyers for both parties appeared before U.S. District Judge Rita ...
Source: meritalk.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
( KTLA ) — United Airlines has unveiled new cabin designs with premium seating that will give passengers more space to stretch out on long-haul flights. The airline announced that "United Relax Row" will have new custom-designed seats with adjustable leg rests that can be raised or lowered to create a lie-flat space similar to a couch. "The entire row is alllllll yours," United said in an X post Tuesday. ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
It was the evening of Aug. 9, 2019 — and Noel, a rookie corrections officer, was conducting the 10 p.m. inmate count on Epstein's tier at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the 12-story federal detention facility in downtown Manhattan. Epstein, arrested July 6, 2019, on federal sex-trafficking charges, was in cell 220 on the L tier of the Special Housing Unit, lying on a mattress on the floor beside his ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to obtain withheld evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who committed three separate shootings — two of them fatal — during their brutal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
White House is defending US authority to turn away asylum seekers when officials deem the border too overburdened US supreme court justices indicated sympathy on Tuesday toward Donald Trump's administration in its defense of the government's authority to turn away asylum seekers when officials deem US-Mexico border crossings too overburdened to handle additional claims. The legal dispute centers on a policy called ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Mohamed Salah has announced he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, bringing to a close one of the greatest careers in the club's storied history. In an agreement with Liverpool , the Egypt international will depart on a free transfer this summer despite having 12 months remaining on his contract. Salah's deal is worth about £500,000 a week with performance‑related bonuses so, from a financial ...
Source: theguardian.com