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Top News Stories for Monday, March 23rd 2026
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Weekend travelers: 'Insane,' 'pandemonium,' 'shouldn't have to deal with this' Airport security delays amid the partial government shutdown have created weekend travel nightmares, with massive TSA lines choking terminals across the country, unpaid officers calling out in growing numbers, and President Donald Trump vowing to send U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to airports to try to stem the ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
• Iran's threat: Iran says it will retaliate across the Middle East and "irreversibly" destroy critical infrastructure and energy sites, if US President Donald Trump carries out a threat to "obliterate" Iran's power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz is "fully open" within 48 hours. • Strikes on Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned Iran after a missile attack on the southern ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Saturday celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who was tapped as a special counsel to investigate Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election and tip the result in Trump's favor. "Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!" Trump wrote on social media, minutes after Mueller's passing ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Cuban authorities scrambled Sunday to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an aging infrastructure and a US oil blockade. Some parts of Havana began to have electricity again, a day after the energy ministry reported a "total disconnection" of the national electric system in the country of nearly 10 million people. The outage comes as ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Washington — As voters gear up for the midterm elections in November that will decide control of the House and Senate, the Supreme Court is set to weigh Monday whether states can count mail ballots that are postmarked by, but arrive after, Election Day. The dispute before the high court, known as Watson v. RNC, involves Mississippi's deadline for late-arriving mail ballots and whether its law — and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
A beloved NHL reporter who covered the Minnesota Wild died in a house fire Saturday along with her three young children. The NHL confirmed the death of Jessi Pierce and her children earlier Sunday. "The entire National Hockey League family sends our prayers and deepest condolences to the Pierce family on the passing of Jessi Pierce and her three young children," said a statement on X. The White Bear Lake Fire ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2026 -
Witnesses describe coordinated raids in which homes and vehicles were set on fire and several Palestinians injured Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank , setting homes and vehicles on fire and wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as coordinated raids on communities. The violence, reported across at least half a dozen locations overnight from ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Mar 21st, 2026 -
People in hard-hit areas of Oahu and Maui told to evacuate with still more rain expected over the weekend As Hawaii endures its worst flooding in more than 20 years, officials urged people in hard-hit areas to "LEAVE NOW". That warning early on Saturday came after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago, and still more was expected over the weekend. Muddy floodwaters ...
Source: theguardian.com