The Petersburg Post
Top News Stories for Friday, March 27th 2026
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a convulsing stock market, President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to buy himself more time and hold off, once again, on carrying out a threat to obliterate Iran's energy plants over the Islamic Republic's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz . Trump said he was delaying taking potential action because talks aimed at ending the conflict are going "very well," despite the fact ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON -- For over a decade, US lawmakers have promised guardrails for children on social media. They've grilled the chiefs of Meta, Snap, YouTube, and TikTok about the dangers of their sites. They've introduced dozens of child safety bills. Little has come from the noise. But this week, two juries held social media companies accountable for harming young users. In Los Angeles on Wednesday, a jury decided in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate early Friday morning approved Homeland Security funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of the budget impasse that has jammed airports , disrupted travel and imposed financial hardship on workers. ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
March 27 (UPI) -- The signature of President Donald Trump will appear on future paper currency, according to the Treasury Department, which said the move was in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States. "There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
Companies working with the federal government have more time to reassess their exposure to the company's technology and prepare for potential policy whiplash. The Pentagon's attempt to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk was "likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious," a US federal judge wrote in a ruling halting a ban on use of Anthropic's products in defense contracts. In granting Anthropic a ...
Source: cio.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
The Mexican Navy was searching on Friday for two boats that went missing while transporting humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Cuba, authorities and the convoy organizers said. The vessels set sail last Friday from Isla Mujeres in Mexico's southeastern state of Quintana Roo, with nine crew of different nationalities on board, Mexico's navy said Thursday in a statement. But communication with the crew was lost, it ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US federal court upholds Trump detention with no bond policy A US federal appellate court On Wednesday upheld the Trump administration's practice of detaining undocumented immigrants without bond, reversing a lower court decision amid increasingly overcrowded detention centers and administrative courtrooms. The decision aligns with a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Mar 27th, 2026 -
By and Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick's legal team presented her first detailed public defense against allegations of "extensive misconduct" during a six-hour House Ethics Committee hearing Thursday evening. The Democratic lawmaker is also facing criminal charges alleging that she stole Covid relief funds after the state made a $5 million overpayment error to her family's healthcare company. Both the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
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
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
The 10-year Treasury yield continued its wild movements based on alternating headlines on the Iran conflict, but as a result mortgage rates ended the week 16 basis points higher, Freddie Mac found. Processing Content The 30-year fixed rate mortgage reached 6.38% for March 26, up from an average of 6.22% one week earlier, the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey reported. For the same period in 2025, the ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) asking it to collect details on energy use from data centers — and how that use is affecting the grid. The senators urged the EIA "to establish ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Revelation was included in lawsuit challenging practice of targeting people seeking to gain legal status as they leave immigration courts Lawyers for ICE provided false information to justify arresting and detaining thousands of people who had attended immigration courts, according to newly filed court documents. Federal prosecutors said that lawyers for ICE acknowledged that an agency memo from May of last year ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
The International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women and DSD athletes from the female category of events at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and future Games. Kirsty Coventry, the president of the IOC, said the landmark decision had been taken because "it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category". The IOC has also confirmed that all athletes wanting to compete in the female ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
It's not always easy being a fan of streaming services, and Netflix just made it even harder. Along with implementing , including a redesigned mobile app, the company is now increasing the price of all its subscriptions. Notably, this is the second price increase across all the tiers , users can expect to pay one or two dollars more for accessing streaming content, and there's also an additional price increase for ...
Source: bgr.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
March 26 (UPI) -- The Trump administration is again seeking to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge threw out its case against her and grand juries twice declined to indict her last year, according to reports. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is accusing James of alleged homeowners insurance fraud, according too documents obtained by CNN , NBC News and MS News . Pulte ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. US president says he's visiting Beijing on 14-15 May Removed from bookmarks will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on 14-15 May, more than a month later than initially planned. The US president was scheduled to visit China on 31 March but postponed the trip after launching a war against Iran ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court finds media company not liable for customer copyright infringement The US Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a major case on appeal, finding Cox Communications not liable for refusing to terminate contracts with 57,000 customers after the customers were found to have infringed roughly 10,000 copyrighted works. Sony Music Entertainment, along with other music labels, ...
Source: jurist.org
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A man who fled to China after leaving an explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been indicted along with his sister in Florida on federal charges, and their mother has been detained pending deportation for overstaying her visa, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. Alen Zheng, 20, and Ann Mary Zheng, 27, were charged Wednesday in separate federal indictments. ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
One month into his war on Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump is now scrambling to secure something that was not previously insecure—the Strait of Hormuz—turning it into the central thrust of the war's uncertain endgame. Iran, or more specifically its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has taken effective control of the world's most important shipping lane and choke point, through which normally ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Scientists saw a sperm whale giving birth. And then things got weird On July 8, 2023, whale biologist Shane Gero was on a boat off the coast of Dominica when he realized something "strange" was going on. A group of sperm whales known as "Unit A" that he and his colleagues were tracking appeared to be floating calmly near the Caribbean Sea's surface. "That's not the kind of behavior you normally see," Gero recalls. ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Two UK nationals released on bail while Met continues investigation into incident in Golders Green Two men arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack on four ambulances operated by a Jewish charity in north London have been released on bail. The men, aged 47 and 45, who are both UK nationals, were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after the incident in Golders Green. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Coinbase and Better have partnered to enable borrowers to pledge their bitcoin or USDC holdings as collateral for a loan used to cover the down payment on a house. With a crypto-backed mortgage originated and serviced by Better, borrowers get a standard Fannie Mae mortgage on the home as well as a second loan that is secured by cryptocurrency and funds the cash down payment, Coinbase said in a Thursday (March 26) ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations as "a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs." The resolution also urges "the prompt and unhindered restitution" of cultural items — including artworks, monuments, museum pieces, documents and national ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Mar 26th, 2026 -
Nicolás Maduro Heads Back to a US Court, Fighting Charges as Venezuela Moves on Without Him NEW YORK (AP) — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro returns to a New York courtroom Thursday as he seeks to have his drug trafficking indictment thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees . Maduro's lawyer contends that the U.S. is violating the deposed leader's constitutional rights by ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department to testify, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2026. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi may have accidentally handed Democrats a political weapon against President Trump by mistakenly releasing a bombshell Jack Smith memo revealing investigators ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
Justice department and Trump ally Michael Flynn reach settlement over wrongful prosecution suit The US justice department has reached a financial settlement with Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, after he sued the government alleging wrongful prosecution. In 2023, Flynn sued the department for $50m (£37.4m), accusing it of targeting him because of his association with Trump's ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2026 -
March 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Southern Command said it killed four men in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Wednesday, the latest attack by the Trump administration in its aggressive crackdown on narcotics trafficking. The Trump administration has killed at least 163 people and destroyed at least 47 vessels it accuses of trafficking drugs in international waters since Sept. 2, according to a ...
Source: upi.com