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Top News Stories for Friday, March 27th 2026
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel threatened to "escalate and expand" its attacks on Iran on Friday, even as U.S. President Donald Trump claimed talks on ending the war were going well and gave Tehran more time to open the Strait of Hormuz . Iran, meanwhile, gave no signs of backing down. With stock ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON -- For over a decade, US lawmakers have promised guardrails for children on social media. They've grilled the chiefs of Meta, Snap, YouTube, and TikTok about the dangers of their sites. They've introduced dozens of child safety bills. Little has come from the noise. But this week, two juries held social media companies accountable for harming young users. In Los Angeles on Wednesday, a jury decided in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Senate agreed unanimously early Friday to fund the Department of Homeland Security , but without funding for immigration enforcement and deportation operations. Senators approved the package at 2:20 a.m. by voice vote following a marathon session. The 42-day funding lapse has seen them go without pay, leading many to call out of work and causing long lines at airports. While the measure still ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Companies working with the federal government have more time to reassess their exposure to the company's technology and prepare for potential policy whiplash. The Pentagon's attempt to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk was "likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious," a US federal judge wrote in a ruling halting a ban on use of Anthropic's products in defense contracts. In granting Anthropic a ...
Source: cio.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
By and Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick's legal team presented her first detailed public defense against allegations of "extensive misconduct" during a six-hour House Ethics Committee hearing Thursday evening. The Democratic lawmaker is also facing criminal charges alleging that she stole Covid relief funds after the state made a $5 million overpayment error to her family's healthcare company. Both the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
While conflict continues to brew in the Middle East, mortgage rates continue to rise due to the war's effect on oil prices, according to the latest Freddie Mac data. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey found that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.38% as of March 26, 2026, up from last week when it averaged 6.22%. While elevated, this is still below the 6.65% rate from a year ago at ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
In December, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) took to Instagram, where he proposed freezing the construction of data centers. Now the progressive senator is hoping to turn his social media rant into a law. On Wednesday, Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) announced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act . The bill would prohibit "the construction or upgrading of all ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
US congressional candidate Brad Lander is demanding a congressional investigation and civil rights actions on behalf of hundreds of people who have been "illegally abducted" at immigration courts across the country after the US Department of Justice admitted it has been relying on a lie put forward by federal immigration officials as it defended agents' arrests at courthouses. Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
March 26 (UPI) -- The Trump administration is again seeking to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge threw out its case against her and grand juries twice declined to indict her last year, according to reports. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is accusing James of alleged homeowners insurance fraud, according too documents obtained by CNN , NBC News and MS News . Pulte ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
March 26 (UPI) -- Fannie Mae on Thursday agreed to begin accepting mortgages that are backed using cryptocurrency. The mortgages will be offered by Coinbase and Better Home & Finance, which said the creation of what it calls a first-of-its-kind cryptocurrency-backed mortgage product could allow more Americans to afford homeownership. Although there are companies already offering mortgages backed with crypto-assets, ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
The afternoon matinee of the drama The Jack Smith Files came to us courtesy of Representative Jamie Raskin through a letter he sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi. The records, handed over by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Republican-led panel's probe into former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigations into Trump, show FBI investigators said in a 2023 memo that the classified documents ...
Source: esquire.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Michael Flynn and the Justice Department have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, over his claims of political targeting in a 2017 case in which he initially pleaded guilty . The parties notified a federal judge Wednesday in Florida that they had reached a settlement. The amount was not disclosed. Flynn had sued for $50 million in 2023, alleging ...
Source: nbcnews.com