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Senate votes to fund much of DHS, minus immigration enforcement

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. spoke to reporters on Tuesday during a news briefing following a weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the Capitol.

The Senate approved a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, early Friday. The bill does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

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Judge weighs whether Venezuela can pay Maduro's legal costs in US drug trafficking case

A woman screams during a government-organized event to watch former President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores appear in a New York court on a screen in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 26, 2026.

A U.S. judge pressed the Trump administration Thursday about its basis for barring Venezuela's government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro's legal fees in the drug trafficking case that has put him behind bars in New York.

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A surprise resignation could open the door for an independent to win a Montana Senate seat

Seth Bodnar, the former president of the University of Montana, is now running for Senate as an independent

Two-term GOP Sen. Steve Daines shocked Montana when he announced his retirement. Democrats worry a new independent candidate will split their party's vote.

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The depleted Education Department will move out of its headquarters

The U.S. Energy Department is slated to move into the the Education Department

In August, Education Department employees will relocate to a smaller office roughly a block away, and the larger Energy Department will take over the old headquarters.

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Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's Anthropic ban

Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2021.

The order briefly stops the government from labeling tech company Anthropic a "supply chain risk," calling that "classic First Amendment retaliation."

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Trump says he'll sign order to pay TSA agents as Congress struggles to reach funding deal

Passengers stand in the TSA pre-check line at LaGuardia Airport on Thursday in New York.

It's an extraordinary move that came as senators were reviewing a "last and final" offer to end the funding impasse that has jammed airports and disrupted travel, just as TSA workers faced another missed paycheck Friday.

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The Olympic committee bans trans athletes from women's events, raising many questions

IOC President Kirsty Coventry is shown on a computer screen as she speaks at a live-streamed press briefing Thursday from Lausanne, Switzerland, about the ban on transgender athletes in women

The International Olympic Committee will require all athletes who want to participate in women's events to undergo genetic testing. The policy takes effect for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

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As TSA agents miss another paycheck, what's happening at airports with private security?

At 20 airports around the U.S., security screeners are getting paid as usual despite the ongoing DHS shutdown — because they're private contractors. Will more airports look at privatizing security?

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Trump has deployed ICE agents to the nation's airports. What 's their role?

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The president says ICE agents are being stationed at airports to help reduce long wait times. Here's a look at what they're authorized to do.

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DOJ admits ICE courthouse arrests relied on erroneous information

A man from Venezuela is detained by masked federal agents after his hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on January 28, 2026 in New York City.

Hundreds of immigrants have been arrested at immigration courthouses. It is unclear whether the federal government's admission could lead to some of those arrests being overturned.

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America's first AI-fueled war is unfolding right now in Iran. This is how we got here

Bloomberg journalist Katrina Manson discusses the Pentagon's secretive campaign to build America's AI warfare capabilities and the obsessive Marine colonel behind it. Her new book is Project Maven.

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Suit asks court to force Trump administration to use 'The Kennedy Center' name

Workers react to the media after updating signage outside the Kennedy Center on Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

The motion is part of a lawsuit challenging President Trump and the Center's board, who now refer to the complex as "The Trump Kennedy Center."

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Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize after all

Satirist Bill Maher is this year

There was confusion about whether the satirist would be getting the Kennedy Center's top humor award after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it "fake news." Now it's confirmed.

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Southeast Asia turns to nuclear as Iran war disrupts energy supplies

FILE -Construction workers walk to a data center building under construction in Sedenak Tech Park in Johor state of Malaysia, Sept. 27, 2024.

Analysts say the Iran war energy crisis is also adding momentum to nuclear interest and action in the region.

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Iran rejects U.S. peace plan. And, jury finds Meta, Google to blame in addiction trial

First aid responders are seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Roummane on March 26, 2026.

Iran rejects a U.S. proposal to end the war and counters with a different peace plan. And, a jury finds Meta and Google negligent in a trial over social media's harms.

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Israel and Iran ramp up attacks as Trump insists Tehran wants a deal

People look at a destroyed apartment after a hit of a ballistic missile fired from Iran, left 2 injured on March 25, 2026 in Bnei Brak, Israel.

The war in the Middle East ramped up on Thursday as Israel launched a wave of strikes targeting Iranian infrastructure, and Iran fired rounds of missiles at central Israel.

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Trump's attacks on offshore wind could hurt infrastructure spending across the economy

Wind turbines off the coast of Rhode Island. Supporters say offshore wind projects are a valuable resource for meeting rising power demand and ensuring electric reliability.

President Trump has tried to kill offshore wind's future in the U.S. But industry analysts say the attacks could hurt business confidence across the U.S. economy.

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It's Equal Pay Day. Women have lost ground for the second year in a row

Women working full-time, year round, earn an average of 81 cents for every dollar men working full-time, year round make.

The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025.

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Decades ago, a Maryland sailor burned his winter socks. Now it's a spring tradition

After reciting his "Ode to the Equinox," Annapolis poet laureate Jefferson Holland, right, holds his burning sock high as the crowd cheers to kick off the sock-burning tradition at the Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park on Saturday.

In Annapolis, Md., people gather each year to usher in the warmer weather by burning their socks. The springtime tradition is the unofficial start of the Chesapeake Bay sailing season.

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A $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals could actually lead to closures and cuts

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States are rolling out plans for their share of a $50 billion fund established by Congress to improve rural health care. In some states, the money may provoke rural hospitals to cut services.

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Hoping to unseat Collins, Maine Democrats battle it out in an expensive US Senate primary

Combat veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner in Sullivan, Maine in 2025; Maine Gov. Janet Mills in National Harbor, Md. in 2023. Both Platner and Mills are Democrats vying to defeat Sen. Susan Collins, who is running for a sixth consecutive term in Maine.

As June's primary election nears, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between factions in their own party.

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Iran rejects U.S. peace proposal and lays out its own conditions, the Army's 82nd Airborne Division readies to deploy to Iran, jury finds Meta and Google liable in social media addiction trial.

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Melania Trump shares the spotlight with a robot at an education and technology event

First lady Melania Trump arrives, accompanied by a robot, to attend the "Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit," with other first spouses, at the White House, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Washington.

The robot accompanied the first lady to the White House East Room for the final day of a summit she had convened with counterparts from around the world through her Fostering the Future Together global initiative.

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UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans

FILE - The United Nations logo is seen inside the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations.

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War with Iran disrupts fertilizer exports as U.S. farmers prepare for planting season

Matt Ubel, standing on his farm near Wheaton, Kansas, motions to the fertilizer spreader he

Gulf states are major fertilizer producers, and the war with Iran has triggered a 25% price hike just as struggling U.S. farmers are planting corn.

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OpenAI's Sora app may be going away, but its legacy will be the spread of AI video slop

Barely six months after its launch, OpenAI is ending an app that could generate AI video at the click of a button.

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Doctors worry about FDA scrutiny of RSV shots to protect babies

An electron microscope image provided by the National Institutes of Health shows human respiratory syncytial virus virions, colorized blue, and antibodies against an RSV protein, colorized yellow.

The antibody shots are about 80% effective at preventing babies from ending up in intensive care because of RSV. The drugmakers behind them maintain they're safe.

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Travelers are facing the longest TSA wait times in history

People wait in long TSA security lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in the Queens borough of New York, Monday, March 23, 2026.

Wait times are exceeding four hours at some major airports, leading TSA officers to call out at rates of 40 to 50%, according to TSA Deputy Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill.

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Greetings from Turkey's border with Iran, where Iranians let loose on the dance floor

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Iranians escaping hardship and war are shaking it off to Persian, Arabic and Turkish tunes in this disco in eastern Turkey.

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Jury holds Meta and Google liable for role in young woman's mental health issues

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, leaves the Los Angeles Superior Court after testifying in the social media trial tasked to determine whether social media giants deliberately designed their platforms to be addictive to children, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 18, 2026.

The verdict marks the end ofthe first-ever jury trialover whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.

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