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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 28th 2026
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The Department of Homeland Security says Transportation Security Administration employees could receive paychecks as soon as Monday, following a memo signed by President Trump . Trump's unilateral action comes as House Republican leadership rejected the latest deal to end the DHS shutdown. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says House Republicans will not accept a Senate-passed bill to fund the majority of the ...
Source: npr.org
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 ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
March 27 (UPI) -- A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration's attempt to block Anthropic from all government contracts is illegitimate and likely illegal. Northern California U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said in her court order Thursday that the Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" is likely unlawful. She is granting the Trump administration a week to respond ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The golf legend managed to crawl out of his Land Rover after it struck another vehicle and rolled on its side 2-MIN READ Tiger Woods showed signs of impairment and was arrested Friday at the scene of a car crash in which he struck another vehicle and rolled his Land Rover, authorities said. Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said Woods and the person in the other vehicle were not injured. Woods was able to crawl ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The super-low mortgage rates of 2020 to 2022 — the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropped below 3% even as inflation shot toward 9% — are one of the factors in this frozen housing market, where sales of existing homes have plunged by nearly 25% from 2019 for the third year in a row, and where mortgage applications have plunged by about 35% from 2019. Homeowners who financed and re-financed a home ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. After DOJ 'outed' the names of dozens of victims, the search engine giant failed to prevent their information from circulating online, including in AI-generated content, plaintiffs allege Removed from bookmarks A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse accuses Donald ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Female named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf Scientists have managed to film a sperm whale giving birth while other female whales worked together to support the mother and her newborn. A team from Project Ceti, an international effort seeking to understand how whales communicate, was in a boat near a pod of 11 whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The Democrat campaign to confiscate wealth continued on Thursday when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) introduced the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2026 . The bill comes on the heels of a series of wealth taxes that have been enacted or proposed in states and the halls of Congress in recent weeks. Warren's bill would impose a 2 percent annual levy on household and trust wealth above $50 million and a 3 ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Ex-first lady wasn't near 'negligent discharge' and agent is now in hospital while Secret Service investigates incident A US Secret Service agent, working on security detail for the former first lady Jill Biden , shot themself in the leg at the Philadelphia international airport on Friday morning, an agency spokesperson said. The Secret Service special agent suffered a "non-life-threatening injury" after they ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
U.S. President Donald Trump points on the day he addresses military families as U.S. first lady Melania Trump stands nearby during a visit at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S., February 13, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz Senior military officials are concerned that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotions of four Army officers because of their race or gender, according to a new report. President ...
Source: rawstory.com
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) ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
In the past one year, hundreds of people were arrested when they went to immigration courts in regards to the legal asylum cases or citizenship cases. Turns out that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement was lying about having the authority to arrest at immigration courts, a court filing reveals. In a court filing on Tuesday, Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Oestericher of the Southern District of New York revealed ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Social media giants spent more than a decade assuring lawmakers, regulators, judges and the public that their platforms are safe for kids, despite that were causing harm. This week, that campaign hit existential obstacles — after juries in two separate trials declared that the exact opposite was true. "The message is clear," New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, whose investigation resulted in a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages via a new product by Better Home and Finance and Coinbase. The borrower would take out two loans, the second to fund the down payment on the first. The borrower needs to have a Coinbase account, and once the cryptocurrency is put up as collateral, it can't be traded. In this article Fannie Mae will now accept crypto-backed mortgages via a new product by mortgage ...
Source: cnbc.com