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Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 - Immigration agents will be deployed in US airports beginning Monday, aiming to alleviate soaring congestion at security screenings amid a weeks-long budget standoff over President Donald Trump's mass deportation drive, officials said. Trump announced the extraordinary move in a social media post Sunday morning, sending officials racing to quickly develop a plan. Tom Homan, the president's senior border aide, ...

Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 - In 2022, Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul urged Republicans to leave the state and move to Florida. Lots of people took her advice, and not all of them the people she wanted to expel. Earlier this month, she was reduced to begging "high-net-worth" former state residents to move back and pay the expensive tax tab to fund her state's spending choices. It's a rare and glorious sight when politicians shoo those ...

Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 - 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 ...

Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 - ▶ 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, ...

Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 - 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 ...

Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 - Robert Mueller III, who led the FBI in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks—overseeing its rapid modernization as an intelligence and counterterrorism organization—died on March 20 after a yearslong battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 81. A jut-jawed former Marine and federal prosecutor, Mueller was widely respected across party lines for his fidelity to the rule of law and his patrician dedication to ...

Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 - 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 ...