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Sunday, Mar 29th, 2026 - The ongoing funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security crossed into new territory Sunday when it became the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history. The DHS shutdown is now in its 44th day, breaking the previous record when the department and the rest of the federal government went without funding from October until mid-November. This time around, the rest of the federal agencies and ...

Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 - Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thousands gathered Saturday throughout Central Florida for the third wave of national "No Kings" protests launched in opposition to policies of President Donald Trump, with participants citing the recent war with Iran and the ongoing crackdown on immigrants as reasons they joined the crowds. "Things have gotten progressively worse. Everyday there's something else where our ...

Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 - Bank of America has agreed to pay $72.5 million to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation who allege the bank enabled and profited from his crimes. The lawsuit, filed last year, alleges that the nation's second-largest bank provided banking services to Epstein and his sex-trafficking operation, along with accounts used by victims and associates — among them Ghislaine Maxwell and Leon Black, ...

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 - After axing a Biden-era student loan repayment program, the Trump administration is threatening to kick its millions of mostly low-income beneficiaries onto the government's most expensive plan unless they switch to a new one quickly. The Washington Post reported on Friday that the Department of Education was beginning to email the more than 7 million people enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) ...

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 allegations she stole millions in federal relief funds and funneled some of that to her congressional campaign. The secret vote came after Cherfilus-McCormick and her attorney sat for a nearly ...