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Lead: A bright meteor crossed southeastern Texas on Saturday afternoon, breaking apart over the Houston area and producing sonic booms heard across the region, NASA reported. The agency says the event occurred at 4:40 p.m. local time, first visible near Stagecoach and fragmenting roughly 29 miles above Bammel. Early estimates put the object at about … Read more

Lead Late on Sunday night, March 23, 2026, Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, struck a Port Authority fire truck on Runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport, killing the two pilots and injuring dozens of people. The jet had arrived from Montreal with 72 passengers and four crew and came … Read more

Lead On March 23, 2026, global crypto markets surged after U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington would postpone strikes on Iranian power plants for five days, briefly easing escalation fears tied to the Middle East conflict. Bitcoin climbed from below $68,000 overnight to trade above $71,000 in early U.S. hours before paring gains after a … Read more

Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukraine-born entrepreneur who bought OnlyFans in 2018 and led its rapid expansion, has died aged 43, the company confirmed. OnlyFans said he “passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer” and asked for privacy for his family. Under Radvinsky’s ownership the platform grew into a major digital marketplace known for adult … Read more

Lead Intel’s Core Ultra 5 250K Plus arrives as a $200 desktop CPU aimed squarely at value-minded gamers and mainstream builders. Launched as part of Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh “Plus” family, the 250K Plus pairs a unique 6-performance + 12-efficiency core layout with a larger 30 MB shared L3 cache and higher die-to-die interconnect speeds. … Read more

Lead: On March 23, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were dispatched to several major U.S. airports as travelers faced unusually long security lines amid a partial federal shutdown. The surge in wait times has been tied to elevated absences and resignations among Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers after the agency went without regular … Read more

Lead President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States has been negotiating with Iran and that U.S. strikes on Iranian power plants continued for five days as part of those exchanges. Trump framed the talks as “productive,” saying U.S. goals include stopping Iran’s uranium enrichment and removing enriched material already stockpiled. Iranian officials … Read more

Early Monday, U.S. financial markets reacted to shifting signals about possible U.S.–Iran talks: futures tied to the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq moved sharply after President Donald Trump said he would postpone a Strait of Hormuz deadline, calling recent discussions “productive.” Iranian officials, however, publicly denied that negotiations were underway. Oil benchmarks and Treasury … Read more

Lead President Donald J. Trump had a 13ft, one‑ton statue of Christopher Columbus placed on the grounds of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 13, 2025. The sculpture is a 2022 replica made from fragments of a Baltimore monument that protesters toppled and threw into the city’s … Read more

Lead Closing arguments are scheduled Monday in a high-profile New Mexico trial in which state prosecutors allege Meta misled users about how safe its platforms are for children. The case, heard in Santa Fe County after six weeks of testimony, features teachers, psychiatric experts, state investigators, top Meta executives and whistleblowers. Jurors will decide whether … Read more

Lead: Late Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport, an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation collided with a Port Authority fire truck on Runway 4, killing the aircraft’s pilot and co-pilot and injuring dozens. The flight, arriving from Montreal as AC8646, struck the vehicle at about 11:38 p.m.; first responders documented major cockpit damage … Read more

Lead: Reports on Monday say Jaxon Smith-Njigba and the Seattle Seahawks have agreed to a four-year contract extension that keeps the wide receiver with the team through 2031. The initial figures put the deal at $168.6 million, an average of $42.15 million per year, making him the highest-paid receiver by average annual value. The move … Read more

Lead On March 23, 2026, new strikes on Persian Gulf energy facilities shifted the war’s economic risk from short-lived transit disruption to protracted infrastructure damage. Iran’s retaliatory missile attack on Ras Laffan, Qatar’s major liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub, was followed by strikes on refineries and gas installations in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Ras … Read more

Lead On Monday the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether states may count mail-in ballots that were mailed on time but arrive after Election Day. The dispute centers on a Mississippi statute that permits ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted up to five days later. The case could affect laws in about 13 … Read more

Lead On Monday, President Donald Trump announced he was postponing a 48-hour ultimatum that had demanded Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying the United States was engaged in “good and productive” negotiations and would hold off on strikes against Iranian power plants for five days. Iran’s government and state media denied direct talks with … Read more