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Top News Stories for Tuesday, March 24th 2026
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 -
As he left the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices had just heard arguments Monday over whether to prevent states from counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar texted his staff 3,000 miles away. His directive: Get ready to plan how to run November's midterm elections if the high court changes the rules when it issues its decision in June. "The ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Hopes rose that the Iran war could begin winding down as U.S. President said that his government was holding productive talks with Tehran, but fighting showed no signs of slowing and Iran denied there were talks. Trump extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, saying the U.S. will for five more days to allow U.S. envoys to hold talks with a "respected" Iranian leader. Iranian ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
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Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Stories of survival emerge from deadly New York airport collision as officials investigate its cause
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
NEW YORK – Moments after an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing the pilots and hurling a flight attendant from the aircraft, the passengers took their escape into their own hands. With the smell of fuel in the air and debris dangling from the obliterated cockpit, passengers tore open emergency exit doors, jumped off the plane's wings and then turned around to catch others coming up behind ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The Interior Department announced Monday the US would reimburse TotalEnergies for the amount it paid in leases for offshore wind projects during the Biden administration Removed from bookmarks The Trump administration will pay almost $1 billion for a French energy company to abandon plans to build wind ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
March 24 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense has announced new restrictions on reporters, including removing their office space from the Pentagon, after a judge last week struck down a Trump administration policy that threatened journalists' credentials for obtaining unauthorized information. Under the new policy announced Monday, reporters will be required to work from new office space outside the Pentagon but in ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
A county sheriff's office in Maryland said Monday that professional cornhole player who's also a quadruple amputee fatally shot a passenger in the front seat of a car he was driving during an argument. Dayton James Webber, 27, was arrested and charged as a fugitive from justice by police in Albemarle County, Virginia, the Charles County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. Charles County is seeking his extradition ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Mar 24th, 2026 -
Effective AI systems often require data that runs afoul of traditional data management standards. Evolving those standards to suit AI means adopting new practices and policies — and new investments. Getting data right for AI is essential for CIOs to deliver successful outcomes from AI initiatives. That part is clear. What's less clear is what that process entails given the nature of AI data use — and ...
Source: cio.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
LONDON — Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer emergency service in London were set on fire in an arson attack early Monday, the police said, adding that they were investigating it as an antisemitic crime. No injuries were reported, and the fires were extinguished, the police said. The attack on the ambulances, which the police said in a statement belonged to the nonprofit service Hatzola, came ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Under a proposal pitched to Trump, Republicans would offer to reopen all of DHS except ICE and fund the controversial enforcement agency under a separate party-line budget bill. WASHINGTON — On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., discussed an off-ramp with President Donald Trump to reopen TSA and end the long lines and delays at airports . It would fund all of the Department of Homeland ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
President Trump has called news coverage of the Iran war "criminal" and "unpatriotic," while his FCC chairman threatens broadcasters' licenses. Support journalism that holds power accountable. Become a HuffPost member today. Already a member? WASHINGTON ― The U.S. Senate confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to lead the Department of Homeland Security amid a growing crisis within the agency over ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The Earth is close to breaching the key warming threshold of 1.5C - beyond which increasingly severe and compounding climate impacts are triggered. The Earth's climate is in a "state of emergency", according to the United Nations which has warned it is more out of balance than at any other time in observed history. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is the UN's weather agency, predicted that ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Elon Musk took the stage over the weekend to announce a new partnership between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI to build a $25 billion chip-making factory in Austin, Texas, called Terafab. Acknowledging Samsung, TSMC and other chipmakers, Musk said the Terafab project needs to get off the ground because existing semiconductor partners aren't making chips fast enough. If built, Terafab would be the largest ...
Source: cnet.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Two U.S. senators want to curb prediction markets' involvement in the sporting world. To that end, the lawmakers are set to introduce legislation that would bar entities regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from listing contracts related to sporting events, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (March 23). This bill would cover the prediction-market exchanges ...
Source: pymnts.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
While the results represent hope in fight to prevent Lyme, they could also be a source of controversy An experimental vaccine from Pfizer and Valneva reduced the risk of developing Lyme disease by more than 70%, according to newly released data. Though results appear to have missed a key statistical bar, the companies said they would still be approaching regulators in hopes the vaccine would be approved. The ...
Source: statnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
The French left managed to hold on to key cities, but the far right and mainstream right also won key victories—and the intra-left bickering shows no signs of subsiding. Bluesky M arseille —If you're on the left, one way of looking at France's municipal elections is to say they could've have gone worse. Nearly two years after joining forces to create the New Popular Front alliance, France Unbowed (La ...
Source: thenation.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
Routers the FCC has already approved can still be sold, but further approvals of foreign-made routers will not be issued. Reading time 2 minutes On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) essentially made it illegal to sell consumer grade routers that aren't made in the U.S. unless they've already received FCC authorization. This policy update, "does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
A woman who accused Bill Cosby of sexually abusing her more than five decades ago was awarded $19.2 million by a Southern California civil jury Monday, an attorney for the plaintiff said. Punitive damages are still pending in the 2023 lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica by Donna Motsinger, who accused him of sexual battery, alleging that he abused a server whom he met at a Northern ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
At least nine Palestinians have been injured as Israeli settlers rampaged through towns and villages in the occupied West Bank for a second night in a row . A 45-year-old man was shot in the foot late on Sunday during a confrontation with Israeli settlers in Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus, the Wafa news agency reported. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that a 47-year-old Palestinian man was ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a "major, major threat" because of the Iran war. "No country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues to go in this direction," Fatih Birol said at Australia's National Press Club in Canberra on Monday. The crisis in the Middle East, he said, has had a worse impact on oil ...
Source: apnews.com
Iowa beats No. 1 seed and defending champ Florida in March Madness on Folgueiras' 3 in final seconds
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alvaro Folgueiras told Bennett Stirtz he'd be ready for the ball, and he delivered in the clutch. Folgueiras nailed a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds remaining and Iowa eliminated defending national champion Florida, sending the top-seeded Gators home with a 73-72 victory on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Under first-year coach Ben McCollum, the Hawkeyes reached the Sweet 16 ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Mar 23rd, 2026 -
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to recognize the controversial explorer. The statue is a replica of one that was tossed into Baltimore's harbor in 2020 during Trump's first term at a time of nationwide protests ...
Source: pbs.org
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Jessi Pierce, a longtime Minnesota Wild reporter and NHL.com contributor, was killed along with her three children in a house fire in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, officials and the league said. The fire was reported at 5:26 a.m. Saturday at a single-family home in the 2100 block of Richard Avenue in White Bear Lake, a suburb northeast of St. Paul, according to the White Bear Lake Fire Department. Neighbors who ...
Source: bnonews.com