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Iran Strike on Key Aluminum Producer Threatens Global Supply Chains

Published Mar 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM EDT updated Mar 28, 2026 at 02:29 PM EDT United Arab Emirates (UAE) enterprise Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) said Saturday that an Iran strike hit the company's facilities, with the extent of damage still unknown. In a statement issued on the company website, company leadership said the Al Taweelah site "sustained significant damage during the Iranian missile and drone attacks at Khalifa Economic Zone Abu Dhabi," adding that "assessment of th ...

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Taxpayers' Tab for Donald Trump's Golf Habit Crosses $100 million

Mar 28, 2026, 09:07 AM EDT WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s golf habit has now cost taxpayers at least $101.2 million in travel and security expenses since his return to office, a figure that is two-thirds of his first-term golf total and has him on track to spend $300 million by the end of his second term, according to a HuffPost analysis. Trump’s arrival at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday morning marks his 56th visit there since his 2025 inauguration and his 11 ...

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US lawmakers say they'll visit Taiwan before Trump's summit with China's Xi

March 28, 2026, 9:02 AM WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of four senators has plans to visit Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in the coming days on a trip meant to bolster U.S. alliances seen as important to countering China's dominance in Asia. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced the trip Saturday. She will be joined by Sens. John Curtis, R-Utah, Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev. Their visits to Taipei, Tokyo and ...

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USS Tripoli Operating in CENTCOM, USS Gerald R. Ford in Croatia

USNI News USS Tripoli Operating in CENTCOM, USS Gerald R. Ford in Croatia Mallory Shelbourne March 28, 2026 12:43 PM USS Tripoli (LHA-7) arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, March 27, 2026. US Central Command photo Big deck amphibious warship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) and its embarked Marines are now operating in U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon announced Saturday. ... Tripoli reached the theater Friday after transiting the Strait of Malacca and making a stop in Diego Gar ...

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Trump admin shuts down Greg Bovino's social media accounts after he refused to hand them back: report

Saturday 28 March 2026 14:39 EDT Former Customs and Border Patrol "commander at large" Greg Bovino has had all of his official government social media accounts shut down after he refused to turn them over to the federal government, according to a new report. Bovino became the face of President Donald Trump's anti-immigration raids in so-called “sanctuary cities” in 2025, and built a social media presence around his self-administered “commander-at-large” title. He stepped down from h ...

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'No Kings' protests against the Trump administration across the U.S. this Saturday

(Yahoo News) Demonstrators will gather in thousands of locations across the United States for the third series of “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration’s policies. More than 3,000 local events have been planned for Saturday, in what organizers say will be the largest collective protest in American history. Dozens of events have also been planned outside the U.S. “People across the country are organizing, showing up for their neighbors, and making one thing unmistakably clear: we are done with the corruption, the cruelty, and the authoritarianism,” Ezra Levin, co-executive director of the advocacy group Indivisible, wrote in a statement earlier this month.

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Sharpie Rebuts Trump's Account of Phone Call With Company: 'We Don't Have Any Information About the Conversation'

Mar 27th, 2026, 7:04 pm According to a Friday Washington Post report, Sharpie parent company Newell Brands denied President Donald Trump’s retelling of a phone call with the brand, saying in a statement, “We don’t have any information about the conversation described.” The response comes after Trump used part of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting to tell a long story about allegedly haggling over the price and appearance of the customized markers he uses to sign official documents. While riffing on ...

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ICE Barbie's Glamour Shots Yanked Down in Humiliating Move

Published Mar. 27 2026 5:53PM EDT Customs and Border Patrol officials wasted no time removing ICE Barbie’s framed glamour shots from their office walls in Washington after she was fired this month, a new report claims. More than 10 photos of Noem posing in the field in full cosplay garb—hung on the walls at CBP headquarters—were removed in the days after Noem, 54, was axed by President Donald Trump, sources tell the Washington Examiner. While Noem learned she was being sidelined on March 5, ...

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Democrats demand answers on sanctioned Russian lawmakers visiting Capitol

Democratic lawmakers and one Republican colleague on Friday demanded answers from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about why sanctioned Russian lawmakers visited the U.S. and toured the U.S. Capitol building this week, a visit organized by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.). The letter, signed by Reps. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), called the lawmak ...

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Houthis Attack Israel for First Time in War

LIVE 1 hour ago Houthis Attack Israel for First Time in War By Ian Lovett Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a missile launched at Israel, marking the Iranian-backed militia’s first attack in the fast-expanding war. A military spokesman for the Houthis said the group had carried out “the first military operation using a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting sensitive Israeli military sites.” Israel’s military said on social media that it had identified a missile launched from ...

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As Iran war drags on, food and medicine for millions is stuck in limbo

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Trump-appointed judge slams ICE for 'grave' violations of right to legal counsel, imposes strict conditions on detention

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CISA drops probe into failed polygraph test opened by former chief

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Zelenskyy visits Gulf Arab states to talk drone defense and seek strategic ties

1 hr ago - Updated 12:28 PM EDT, March 28, 2026 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday made unannounced visits to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as Ukraine seeks to use its drone expertise to help Gulf Arab states blu ... (AP)

French police foil apparent bomb attack outside of Bank of America building in Paris

2 hrs ago - Updated on: March 28, 2026 / 12:38 PM EDT / CBS/AFP French police stopped an apparent bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris early Saturday, and a man was arrested as he was about to set off a homemade explosive device. Police grabbe ... (CBS News/AFP)

DHS says Corey Lewandowski left department following Noem's ouster

2 hrs ago - March 28, 2026, 4:41 PM EDT Corey Lewandowski, a special government employee who served as a top adviser to former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has departed from his post at the Department of Homeland Security, a spokesperson confirmed to ... (NBC News)

Hawaii to take over aging dam after failure scare prompted evacuations

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Iran-backed Houthis enter the month-old war and could further threaten global shipping

3 hrs ago - Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the month-old war in the Middle East on Saturday, claiming two missile launches at Israel. About 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region. And Pakistan's government said that regional powers plan to meet Sunday to ... (WSB-TV 2 (ABC Atlanta))

Exclusive: Russia took satellite images of U.S. airbase in days before Iranian attack, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says

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Trump admin shuts down Greg Bovino's social media accounts after he refused to hand them back: report

3 hrs ago - Saturday 28 March 2026 14:39 EDT Former Customs and Border Patrol "commander at large" Greg Bovino has had all of his official government social media accounts shut down after he refused to turn them over to the federal government, according to a new ... (The Independent)

USS Tripoli Operating in CENTCOM, USS Gerald R. Ford in Croatia

4 hrs ago - USNI News USS Tripoli Operating in CENTCOM, USS Gerald R. Ford in Croatia Mallory Shelbourne March 28, 2026 12:43 PM USS Tripoli (LHA-7) arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, March 27, 2026. US Central Command photo Big deck amp ... (USNI News)

US lawmakers say they'll visit Taiwan before Trump's summit with China's Xi

4 hrs ago - March 28, 2026, 9:02 AM WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of four senators has plans to visit Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in the coming days on a trip meant to bolster U.S. alliances seen as important to countering China's dominance in Asia. Sen. Je ... (ABC News/AP)

Taxpayers' Tab for Donald Trump's Golf Habit Crosses $100 million

5 hrs ago - Mar 28, 2026, 09:07 AM EDT WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s golf habit has now cost taxpayers at least $101.2 million in travel and security expenses since his return to office, a figure that is two-thirds of his first-term golf total ... (Huff Post)

Iran Strike on Key Aluminum Producer Threatens Global Supply Chains

5 hrs ago - Published Mar 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM EDT updated Mar 28, 2026 at 02:29 PM EDT United Arab Emirates (UAE) enterprise Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) said Saturday that an Iran strike hit the company's facilities, with the extent of damage still unknown. ... (Newsweek)

Robert Mueller's former law firm breaks silence after DOJ suddenly reverses executive order surrender

6 hrs ago - Mar 28th, 2026, 8:01 am As soon as it seemed the Department of Justice was prepared to stop defending President Donald Trump's executive orders to punish Democratic "lawfare" and the law firms he blamed for it, the Trump administration suddenly reve ... (Law & Crime)

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

7 hrs ago - On Saturday, Indonesia started enforcing a sweeping ban on social media for kids under 16. According to the Associated Press, the law is expressly aimed at preventing youths from encountering “pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addicti ... (Gizmodo)

White House launches new official mobile app

7 hrs ago - March 28, 2026 3:27 AM The White House announced March 27 the launch of a new official mobile app designed to deliver updates from the administration directly to the public. The app provides real-time access to news, livestreams and policy updates fr ... (FingerLakes1.com, NY)

Mortgage Giant Fannie Mae Will Soon Accept Crypto-Backed Homebuying Loans

8 hrs ago - Fannie Mae (FNMA) is set to soon begin accepting cryptocurrency-backed mortgages, according to an announcement on Thursday from mortgage originator Better Home & Finance (BETR) and the crypto exchange Coinbase Global (COIN). Shares in Better Home ... (Yahoo Finance)

Kash Patel's push against Democratic lawmaker raises concerns within FBI

8 hrs ago - March 28, 2026 at 11:57 a.m. EDT FBI Director Kash Patel is pressing to release a decade-old investigative file involving Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) and a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, recently dispatching agents in the Bureau's Sa ... (Washington Post)

Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon kills 3 journalists covering the war

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