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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 22nd 2026
Saturday, Mar 21st, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel's defense minister threatened a surge in attacks against Iran on Saturday and Britain condemned Iran for targeting a joint U.K.-U.S. base in the Indian Ocean as the war in the Middle East entered its fourth week. The Iranian attack on the Diego Garcia air base — located about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from Iran — suggested Tehran has in its stockpile ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Mar 21st, 2026 -
For some time now, right-wing forces have been attacking gender-affirming health care for transgender individuals, and especially for trans youth. Those attacks ratcheted up seriously in December, when the Trump administration proposed rules designed to ban gender-affirming care for young people , with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr . flatly calling such care "malpractice." The medical community promptly and ...
Source: commondreams.org
Saturday, Mar 21st, 2026 -
We're a couple of headstrong Trump moves away from a full-blown market panic. Sign up for the Surge , the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week's edition of the Surge, Slate's politics newsletter, which is about to crack this Strait of Hormuz thing any day now. Once again, the "haters" spent all week talking about the ...
Source: slate.com
Saturday, Mar 21st, 2026 -
The unique nature of the April special election and the state's recent redistricting history have presented challenges for Democrats, even as they hold a financial edge in the race. After putting an aggressive redraw of the state's congressional map before voters, some Virginia Democrats are growing uneasy about its prospects for passage one month out from the special election. Virginia Democrats entered 2026 ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
The Trump administration on Friday released its national policy framework for regulating artificial intelligence , and critics said it gave Silicon Valley a massive gift by coming out in favor of barring state regulation of the technology . Specifically, Big Tech critics pointed to the framework's recommendation that the federal government preempt state laws regulating AI that could otherwise "act contrary to the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
A federal commission tasked with approving designs for coinage has approved a 24-karat gold coin featuring President Donald Trump, flouting precedent regarding commemorating living presidents and possibly violating federal law. The coin, formally meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States, shows Trump standing behind a desk , ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
A teenager who was arrested in January after being stopped for a traffic violation in Florida is now believed to be the youngest person to have died in immigration detention under the second Trump administration, after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement notified Congress of the 19-year-old's death this week. Royer Perez-Jimenez was found unresponsive by a detention officer at Glades County Detention Center in ...
Source: truthout.org
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 -
A federal judge has struck down some of the Defense Department's strict controls on how journalists with access to the Pentagon are allowed to report — ending a policy that caused many news outlets to leave the Pentagon. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman sided with the New York Times and a reporter at the newspaper, Julian E. Barnes, who sued in December, arguing the new Pentagon policy violated the First ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
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 -
March 20 (UPI) -- Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit said she was "manipulated and deceived" by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in her first interview about the relationship that lasted years. Mette-Marit, who is married to Crown Prince Haakon, had a long-term friendship with Epstein, as shown in their emails released in the Epstein files in February by the U.S. Department of Justice. She said in the interview ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are increasingly intent on a massive overhaul of the country's elections in time for the 2026 midterms. But an important group of people are warning that's not possible: the professionals who actually run those elections . Around the country, state and local election administrators have been warily eyeing the proposed changes contained in the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. 'No, I didn't say anything along those lines,' Charles Simmons told NBC News in an interview Thursday Removed from bookmarks The father of a dead U.S. serviceman has denied claims by Pete Hegseth that he told the Defense Secretary to "not stop until the job is done" – referring to the war in Iran ...
Source: independent.co.uk