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Top News Stories for Saturday, March 28th 2026
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a promised executive action to pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress. Trump signed the action with an eye toward easing long security lines at many of the nation's top airports. "America's air travel system has reached its breaking point," Trump said in the ...
Source: wbur.org
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said he is "very disappointed" with NATO's response to the United States-Israeli war on Iran , accusing the alliance of failing to support Washington despite years of US military spending on its allies. Meanwhile, Iran warned a "heavy price" will be paid after Israeli attacks on nuclear and industrial sites, with Tehran accusing the US and Israel of "playing with fire" by targeting energy ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 -
Tiger Woods arrested for suspected DUI after rolling his car Tiger Woods was released on bail late on Friday, hours after his Land Rover clipped a truck, rolled onto its side and the golfer was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, officials said. Woods had been travelling at "high speeds" on a residential road and, after the crash, showed "signs of impairment", Martin County Sheriff John ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 -
News WebTechExperts / Pixabay US District Judge blocks government ban on Anthropic AI A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from designating the artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and banning federal contractors from using its technology. US District Judge Rita Lin ruled in favor of Anthropic, halting a presidential directive that ordered all federal agencies ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 -
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on March 27 that it is raising prices across its PlayStation 5 lineup, effective April 2. The increases apply to the PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal in the US, UK, Europe, and Japan. This is the second price increase in less than a year. Sony raised prices by $50 across the board in August 2025. The latest round is significantly larger, with some models going up by ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2026 -
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Saturday began implementing a new government regulation approved earlier this month that bans children younger than 16 from access to digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction. With the move, Indonesia became the first country in Southeast Asia to ban children from having accounts on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Everyone's using AI at work, but hardly anyone is seeing real results because we're missing the training and human strategy needed to make the tech actually work. AI conversation has shifted dramatically over the last year. In many cases, we've moved from AI pilots to AI that is really here in production. But how and where its truly driving value is far more complex than most AI-enabled businesses let on. Today, we ...
Source: cio.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump's signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday. The move would be a first for a sitting president, since traditionally, U.S. paper currency carries the signatures of the Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer, not the president. It's the latest instance of Trump putting his name and ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Washington — The House Ethics Committee on Friday said it has found most of the allegations against Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick "had been proven," but said it would wait to recommend any possible disciplinary action until after Congress' upcoming April recess. The Florida Democrat is accused of stealing $5 million in federal pandemic relief funds and using some of the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Last week, the Justice Department seized four domains related to the group that took responsibility for the hack, Handala Removed from bookmarks Leer en Español by a group of "Iran-backed hackers," who published photographs of the FBI director and other documents on the internet. The group, ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Price increases impact both ad-supported and ad-free subscriptions Netflix subscribers in the U.S. can expect to start paying more each month as the streaming giant raises prices across all of its plans. Updated pricing listed on the company's U.S. website shows the ad-supported tier at $8.99 per month, up from $7.99, while the standard plan is priced at $19.99 and the premium tier at $26.99. Fees to add members ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
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 -
The Mexican navy said Thursday that it was searching for two boats transporting humanitarian aid for Cuba with nine crew of different nationalities on board. The vessels set sail last Friday from Isla Mujeres in Mexico's southeastern state of Quintana Roo and were due to arrive in Havana on Tuesday or Wednesday this week, the navy said in a statement. It said that there had been neither "communication nor ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
March 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. Secret Service agent on former first lady Jill Biden 's detail shot himself in the leg by mistake Friday in Philadelphia, the agency announced. Around 8:30 a.m., the agent sustained "a non-life-threatening injury following a negligent discharge while handling a service weapon at the Philadelphia International Airport during a protective assignment," a Secret Service statement issued to ABC ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Hanalei, Hawaii — A helicopter crashed Thursday afternoon off a remote beach of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing three people and injuring two, authorities said. The helicopter was carrying a pilot and four passengers when it crashed at Kalalau Beach, the Kauai Fire Department said. The beach is on the Na Pali Coast on Kauai's north shore. The Coast Guard told CBS News the chopper went down about ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits Wikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous online encyclopedia. In a recent policy change , Wikipedia said that the use of large language models (or LLMs) "often violates" its core principles and will not be allowed. The English language version ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan will begin receiving notices about switching to other ways to repay starting Friday Removed from bookmarks enrolled in a Biden-era repayment scheme have been ordered to pick a new plan or risk being automatically placed on one vastly more expensive. Borrowers enrolled ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Rescuers were locked in a race against time to save the struggling mammal - which had become entangled in nets off the north German coast. A humpback whale that was stranded in shallow water off the north German coast has been set free by rescuers. The whale had been stranded for several days on the Timmendorfer Strand, a popular resort town on the Baltic Sea coastline, with several rescue attempts made amid fears ...
Source: news.sky.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