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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 28th 2026
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced Friday he will hold a House vote on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security on a short-term basis for 60 days. Johnson blasted the Senate-passed bill, which would fund all of DHS except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, calling it "a joke." He placed full blame for it on Democrats, even though Republicans ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
March 27 (UPI) -- An ethics adjudicatory subcommittee found Friday that 25 of 27 charges of ethics violations against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., had been "proven by clear and convincing evidence." "Following the hearing, the adjudicatory subcommittee moved into executive session to deliberate. After careful deliberation that lasted until well past midnight, the adjudicatory subcommittee found that ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
A federal judge in San Francisco granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the Trump administration, temporarily blocking the government-wide ban of the artificial intelligence (AI) company's technology. ruling on Thursday, two days after lawyers for both parties appeared in court for a hearing. Lin's ruling is not final; a final verdict could take weeks or months. dispute ...
Source: meritalk.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
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JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence after his Land Rover traveling at "high speed" on a residential road clipped a truck and rolled onto its side.
Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said Woods was able ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
A woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her filed a lawsuit claiming the US government and Alphabet Inc. 's Google failed to protect her identity and that of other victims amid the release of millions of pages of records about the disgraced financier. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, claims the Department of Justice violated US law requiring it to remove her personal identifying information ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near the surface. Only they weren't as active or social as marine biologist Shane Gero had come to expect. "They were just laying there calmly," he said. The researchers launched two aerial drones and started filming. About ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
If you've spent any time on social media lately, you've probably seen some chatter about state income taxes. "Red," Republican-governed states are lowering them or eliminating them, and "blue," Democrat-governed states are actually raising them. They say that there are no controlled experiments in economics, but we have had quite a few over the years, from North and South Korea, to East and West Germany, to even ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to protect former first lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday, authorities said. Biden was not in the area when the agent was injured during a "negligent discharge" of his firearm Friday morning, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Associated Press. According to initial reports, the agent was ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
US defense secretary axed the four officers' names from list to become one-star generals, the New York Times reports Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers – two women and two Black men – to become one-star generals. The remaining promotion list includes about three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, though a few women ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is giving student loan borrowers enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan an ultimatum: switch to another federal plan or automatically be placed in the most expensive one. There are more than 7 million people in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan , commonly known as Save, which offers lower monthly payments and a faster path to loan forgiveness than other income-driven repayment plans. ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
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 -
Prospective homebuyers who have invested in certain cryptocurrencies will be able to use their holdings as collateral to fund their down payment on a home as part of a new mortgage offering. Real estate services company Better Home & Finance Holding Co. plans to roll out the crypto-backed mortgage sometime in the next three months in a partnership with crypto trading platform Coinbase, the companies said in a press ...
Source: apnews.com