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Top News Stories for Wednesday, March 25th 2026
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
The feud between California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has escalated after Bonta asked a court to stop Bianco's investigation into alleged election fraud. In a 70-page petition filed with California's 4th District Court of Appeal on Monday, Bonta wrote that "the Sheriff's misguided investigation threatens to sow distrust and jeopardize public confidence" in upcoming elections. The ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Trump administration deploys ICE agents at airports across US United States immigration agents have begun deploying to major airports across the US to help ease long security lines as a government funding standoff leaves many airport security staff off work. The partial government shutdown affects the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), meaning ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Multicloud security and application delivery company F5 Inc. and data security company Forcepoint LLC today announced a new partnership designed to help enterprises secure artificial intelligence across its lifecycle, from foundational data discovery and classification through runtime protection and continuous assurance. The partnership seeks to address the issue whereby, as organizations rapidly deploy AI across ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MORGAN LEE SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico jury determined Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms, a verdict that signals a changing tide against tech companies and the government's willingness to crack down. The landmark decision comes after a ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
NEW YORK — Kalshi and Polymarket, the two biggest prediction market platforms, rushed to institute new industry guardrails and add new surveillance tools on Monday after two key senators announced legislation that could severely curtail the industry's prospects. Kalshi said it would ban political candidates from trading on their own campaigns, and it would preemptively block anyone involved in college or ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Delta Air Lines is suspending special services it usually offers to members of Congress as passengers at some airports wait for hours in security screening lines during the partial U.S. government shutdown. Absences have soared among TSA officers working without pay amid the funding impasse, leading to staffing shortages and chaos at U.S. airports. Delta said Tuesday that it will temporarily halt "specialty ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Dayton Webber, 27, accused over shooting death of Bradrick Wells in Maryland, reportedly after argument inside car A Maryland man who made history as the first quadruple amputee to compete in the professional televised American Cornhole League has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing a passenger in his car during an argument. Dayton Webber – who became a champion cornhole player after losing his ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
DoD announces 'interim' policy for journalists decried by newspaper as 'end-run around the court's ruling' The New York Times on Tuesday accused the Pentagon of disobeying a judge's ruling that undid much of the restrictive agreement journalists were forced to sign or lose access to the building. The judge, Paul Friedman, granted an injunction on Friday that overturned much of the language in the "media in-brief" ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's reported plan to slash the state's estate tax exemption threshold to $750,000 highlights a real problem—the US under-taxes inherited wealth. And the plan has triggered a familiar round of backlash. Beneath the reflexive outrage to an admittedly flawed plan lies a central tension: Why does the tax code treat inherited wealth more generously than income earned through work? ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Minnesota officials on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its refusal to cooperate with state investigators probing the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents earlier this year, as well as the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who was wounded but survived. Agents with the US Department of Homeland Security and its immigration agencies descended on Minnesota's Twin Cities and surrounding ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Apple on Tuesday announced that it will begin to allow advertisers to target customers on Apple Maps , starting in the U.S. and Canada later this summer. The ads will be available to any size business that has a physical location and has already created a business listing on Apple Maps. Users, meanwhile, will see the ads appear next to relevant search results. The ads are part of a ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, anti-abortion rights advocates have continuously pursued laws and court cases to make access to abortion more difficult. A report published Tuesday finds those efforts haven't worked in one basic way: The number of abortions in the country hasn't budged. "There were an estimated 1,126,000 abortions provided by clinicians in the U.S. in 2025 — that's pretty much ...
Source: npr.org
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The Senate on Monday night confirmed President Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Mullin advanced out of Senate committee last week after a fiery confirmation hearing. The Oklahoma Republican will take the place of Kristi Noem, whose tenure at the department was mired in controversy. U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ...
Source: cnbc.com