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Thousands of U.S. troops deploy to Middle East. And, the latest on DHS funding talks

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news briefing after a weekly Senate Democratic Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 24 in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. is sending thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne to the Middle East. And, congressional Republicans present Democrats with a new deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

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Pentagon orders troops from 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to Middle East

The Lebanese flag is waved amid the rubble of a Lebanese Civil Defence post destroyed in an IDF airstrike in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, on March 24, 2026.

Nearly a month into the war with Iran, the Trump administration is keeping its options open: it says it is pursuing diplomatic solutions with Iran, while ordering thousands of paratroopers to deploy in the Middle East.

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They gave her business a lifeline, then froze all her money

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A murky corner of the financial world is now the fastest-growing source of funding for small businesses. One state, Connecticut, had given these lenders unusual power. That may be about to change.

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A shelter village provides a bridge to permanent housing

Tiny, colorful cabins make up Home Sweet Home Ministries

Shelter villages offer temporary and private places for the unhoused to sleep and store belongings. One of the newest, The Bridge, opened recently in central Illinois.

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How Trump's Iran war objectives have shifted over time

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.

Here is a reminder of some of what he has said - and where the US is now.

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Are you sure you know what 'gaslighting' is?

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Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.

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Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

ICE is among the government agencies that buy commercial data about Americans in bulk.

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

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OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns

FILE - The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cellphone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT

OpenAI said Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app.

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Rubio plans travel to France to sell Iran war to skeptical G7 allies

President Donald Trump walks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to speak with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America's skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.

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Judge says government's Anthropic ban looks like punishment

Pages from the Anthropic website and the company

Tech company Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI system, is suing the Trump administration over the government labeling it a "supply chain risk."

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An air traffic controller was juggling extra roles during the LaGuardia plane crash

Aircraft maintenance workers inspect the wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, just off the runway where it collided with a Port Authority fire truck Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it has concerns about air traffic controllers who work the midnight shift taking on extra work in an airspace as busy as LaGuardia's.

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New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety, violating state law

A recording of Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg

The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million.

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Cuba sends doctors on medical missions. The U.S. isn't a fan

Cuban doctors hold their national flag upon arriving in Honduras for a medical mission in February 2024. Now the doctors are leaving Honduras as the U.S. urges countries to reconsider their agreements with Cuba.

It's a major source of revenue for the island. And it's controversial. Now countries are sending Cuban doctors home in response to pressure from the Trump administration.

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Senate confirms Trump's pick for new role of fraud enforcement at Justice Department

Colin McDonald speaks during his Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing on Feb. 25, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs.

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The Israeli military wants several more weeks to fight Iran war, officials say

An excavator clears rubble from destroyed residential buildings in northern Tehran, Iran, on Monday, as the U.S. and Israel

The Israeli military estimates it would need several more weeks of fighting to complete its war goals in Iran, at a time when President Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war.

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Congress loses a flying perk as DHS shutdown continues

Delta Airlines has announced it is temporarily suspending a specialty services program for members of Congress as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues.

Delta Airlines is temporarily suspending specialty services to member of Congress due to resource constraints from the ongoing shutdown of DHS.

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A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder

Dayton Webber, then 18, pictured at a baseball game in 2016. In the years before his arrest, he shared his experience playing sports — and turning pro in one of them — as a quadruple amputee.

Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of shooting a man in his car during an argument. He has shared his story of becoming a pro athlete after losing his arms and legs to a childhood bacterial infection.

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Will President Trump act on his threat to take Cuba?

New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes conditions in Cuba, why it's vulnerable now — and what regime change would mean — considering the Castro family's entrenchment in the Cuban government.

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Before running for Congress, Bobby Pulido was a Tejano music icon

Bobby Pulido at a campaign event in February.

Pulido has been a mainstay of Tejano music —a genre blending traditional regional Mexican elements with country, pop and conjunto influences — for more than three decades.

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Senate confirms Sen. Mullin as DHS secretary. And, Iran denies U.S. talks to end war

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) testifies during his confirmation hearing to be the next Homeland Security Secretary in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2026, in Washington, DC.

The Senate has confirmed Markwayne Mullin as the next Department of Homeland Security secretary. And, Iran has denied that it's in talks with the U.S. to end the war, which is now in its fourth week.

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Iran fires more missiles at Israel, dismisses Trump's talk as 'fake news'

Israeli security forces take cover during a siren alert while gathering at the site of a Hezbollah missile strike that targeted a bus in the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona on March 23, 2026.

Israeli health officials said Iranian missiles struck four sites across Israel Tuesday, including central Tel Aviv, injuring at least six people. Iranian authorities also said a gas supply line in southwest Iran was struck overnight.

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Kim vows to 'irreversibly' cement North Korea's nuclear status

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a session of the Supreme People

In his speech, Kim expressed pride in the country's rapid expansion of nuclear weapons and missiles in recent years, calling it the "right" choice.

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Asia boosts coal use as Iran war squeezes global LNG supplies

FILE - A worker throws his cigarette on a truck parked in front of a cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China, on Dec. 3, 2009.

Analysts say coal may stabilize supplies for now but they warn that continued reliance on the polluting fuel will worsen air pollution.

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Trump delivers farmers another financial blow with Iran war

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Some of President Trump's policies, the latest being the war in Iran, are testing his support among farmers who are being burdened with higher costs.

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Trump takes aim at windmills despite increasing energy costs

President Trump's mission to fight renewable wind energy comes at a time of rising energy costs.

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As parents age, their children face hard choices about when to take the car keys

Jacqueline Hamilton (left) and her mother, Jan Stubbs, at Hamilton

States have many policies to stop risky older drivers from renewing their licenses. But in practice, it's often adult children who must decide when to take the car keys away from an aging parent.

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Airstrikes may have destroyed Iran's last F-14s, ending a long, strange saga

The final catapult launch of the F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt on July 28, 2006. The U.S. military retired the plane that year.

The F-14 was made famous in Top Gun. The U.S. sold the planes to Iran in the 1970s, only for the two countries to become enemies. Iran kept its F-14s flying for decades in the face of U.S. sanctions.

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ICE deployments created chaos for cities and cost them millions, NPR analysis finds

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Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.

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Denmark holds early elections spurred by Trump's threats to take Greenland

Parliamentary election campaign posters line the streets leading up to the Parliament building in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Denmark's prime minister called early parliamentary elections after gaining a popularity boost from standing up to President Trump over his threat to seize Greenland.

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Morning news brief

Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war in Iran, postponing threatened strikes on its power plants, but Iran denies such talks happened; ICE agents were deployed to U.S. airports Monday.

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