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Friday, Mar 20th, 2026 -
US Treasurer Brandon Beach says there is 'no profile more emblematic' for the coin than that of 'our serving President, Donald J Trump' The U.S. Mint is moving forward with a gold commemorative coin featuring President Donald Trump after a federal arts commission approved a design Thursday, with Treasury officials citing a legal authority that allows the inclusion of a sitting president despite longstanding ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
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
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
The fog from the Iran war is obscuring the Federal Reserve's view of the U.S. economy. Investors were rattled on Wednesday, when the central bank said it is holding interest rates steady , after Fed Chair Jerome Powell repeatedly underlined the mounting uncertainty caused by the escalating Middle East violence. Stocks slumped during his afternoon press conference, and have continued to drop on Thursday. "The ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
Republican Rand Paul opposed Mullin, but Democrat John Fetterman crossed the aisle to give the nominee a one-vote margin in the Senate Homeland Security Committee. WASHINGTON — A key Senate committee voted 8-7 on Thursday to advance President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The vote in the Senate Homeland Security Committee sends Sen. Markwayne Mullin , ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
After Disney cancelled her season of The Bachelorette , Taylor Frankie Paul is speaking out. The show's latest premiere was initially slated for this Sunday. "Taylor is very grateful for ABC's support as she prioritizes her family's safety and security. After years of silently suffering extensive mental and physical abuse as well as threats of retaliation, Taylor is finally gaining the strength to face her accuser ...
Source: instyle.com
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 -
[1/2] People walk around the Financial District on the morning after Zohran Mamdani's election win in New York City, U.S., November 5, 2025. REUTERS/Angelina Katsanis WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Wall Street bank capital would fall 4.8% under softened rules regulators unveiled on Thursday, freeing up billions of dollars for lending, dividends and share buybacks in a stunning victory for the industry, ...
Source: reuters.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
newly-released photo shows a bearded Duggar, 31, with a somber expression. In the photo, Duggar is wearing a dark grey T-shirt and seemingly has unkempt hair. (The Tontitown Police Department's booking entry lists Duggar as 5'9 and 206 lbs at the time of his arrest.) News broke on Wednesday, March 18, that Duggar involving molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by ...
Source: bradenton.com
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 -
March 19 (Reuters) - A group of federal judges on Thursday publicly denounced a rise in threats against them and their colleagues, including hateful messages aimed at a judge who ruled against part of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration agenda. Five judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents during a virtual event recounted receiving disturbing emails wishing them dead and ...
Source: reuters.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 -
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Sen. Markwayne Mullin, Donald Trump's as Homeland Security secretary, traces his close bond with the president to a scary personal moment in 2020, when Mullin's son suffered a severe brain injury during a high school wrestling match. At a rally later that year, Trump invited the Oklahoma Republican and his son on stage. He afterward asked Jim Mullin, then 15 years old, to sit on his lap ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Winter weather and market constraints put significant downward pressure on new-home sales to start off 2026, according to the latest data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau. The New Residential Sales report for January found that new-home sales fell a whopping 17.6% to a rate of 587,000 (compared to December's rate of 712,000 ). Sales were also down year-over-year by 11.3% ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Mar 19th, 2026 -
The Trump administration's directive to federal immigration agents on the detention and deportation of parents of minor children is clear: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents must accommodate a parent's "efforts to make alternative care arrangements for their minor child(ren) prior to detention." But a report released Wednesday by the Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) ...
Source: truthout.org
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 -
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
Wednesday, Mar 18th, 2026 -
– Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and said they would push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case that has plagued the Trump administration. Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill to try to quell bipartisan frustration over the Justice ...
Source: news4jax.com