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Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 - With spring break in full swing, airline passengers continued to wait it out at major U.S. airports after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration officers aimed at alleviating long security lines. Trump's executive order on Friday instructed the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA officers immediately, although it's unclear when the impact of that move ...

Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 - Demonstrators march near the Lincoln Memorial after crossing the Memorial Bridge during the "No Kings" national day of protest in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2026. Nationwide protests against U.S. President Donald Trump are expected Saturday as millions of people vent fury over what they see as his authoritarian bent and other forms of cruel, law-trampling governance. It is the third time in less than a year ...

Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 - At least 15 U.S. service members were wounded Friday in an Iranian strike on a Saudi air base that hosts American troops, according to the Associated Press, including at least five in serious condition. The missile and drone strikes targeted Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Air base, located outside the capital Riyadh. A U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, told NPR that some aircraft were ...

Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 - Reading time 3 minutes JD Vance says that UFOs aren't aliens visiting Earth from distant planets. The Vice President thinks they're actually demons. Vance sat down with Benny Johnson, the right-wing influencer who was fired from two different media outlets in the 2010s for plagiarism . Johnson asked the vice president: "Are you going to release the UFO files?" a reference to President Donald Trump's promise in ...

Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 - WASHINGTON — After a rare and dramatic public hearing, a special House Ethics subcommittee on Friday found Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., guilty of 25 ethics charges, capping a three-year investigation into in federal relief funds and funneled some of that to her congressional campaign. , after which lawmakers on the panel deliberated overnight for hours before reaching their decision. ...

Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 - President Donald Trump winkingly referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the "Strait of Trump." Iran has to "open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz," the president said in a speech at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami, Florida, garnering laughs from the crowd. The strait has emerged as a key source of conflict in the Iran war, which is entering its second month. President Donald Trump speaks during ...

Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender. Two of the officers targeted by Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consists of about three dozen officers, most of whom are white ...