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This page is an archive of main headlines from the US for 22.03.2026.
It displays 153 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.
22.03.2026 ⇢ The Day Iran Threatened to Close Hormuz
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Morning coverage focused on President Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets reporting his threat to "obliterate" Iranian power plants if the waterway remained closed. Early afternoon brought reports of Iran's response, with Tehran threatening to completely close the strait and strike U.S. companies if Trump carried out his threats, escalating the confrontation. Evening coverage shifted to the domestic impact, with multiple outlets reporting Trump's plan to deploy ICE agents to airports to address TSA staffing shortages during the DHS shutdown, while continuing to track the escalating U.S.-Iran military rhetoric.
22.03.2026
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The Daily Beast
Trump said the U.S. has wiped Iran “off the map”—then threatened new strikes.
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President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets.
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The New York Times
President Trump’s ultimatum came after Iranian missiles struck two cities in southern Israel, including one near the country’s main nuclear research center.
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Associated Press
Qatar says that six people have been confirmed killed in a Qatari helicopter crash in the Persian Gulf nation’s territorial water.
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Associated Press
President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets.
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Washington Free Beacon
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President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will "obliterate" power plants in Iran if the Islamic Republic doesn't fully open the strategic Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, and Iranian missiles struck two cities near Israel's main nuclear research center, leaving dozens of people injured and shattered apartment buildings.
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Los Angeles Times
Molly Olmstead
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New York Post
More than half of the NYPD’s Joint Terrorism Task Force cops can retire right now, along with thousands of sergeants, lieutenants and captains, leaving officials worried about the future of terror and crime fighting in the city, The Post has…
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Hegseth’s obsession with beards risks jeopardizing religious liberties as the military undergoes an apparent Christian nationalist turn.
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An Israel military official told Newsweek the war may end “where the Iranian regime believes that they won and they’re not lying.”
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06:24⇢Trump's Hormuz Power Plant Ultimatum
⌨The newspapers report on President Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets covering his threat to "obliterate" Iranian power plants if the waterway remains closed (apnews, NYTimes, CNN, FoxNews, ABC News, Newsmax, dailywire, Epoch Times, washingtonexaminer, Breitbart, CBS). Coverage continues of Iranian missile strikes on Israeli cities and the domestic impact of the conflict, including rising gas prices in the U.S. (WashingtonPost).
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The New York Times
As Tehran remained defiant, President Trump issued an ultimatum after Iranian missiles struck cities in Israel, including one near its main nuclear research center.
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Trump said ICE agents' work in airports would include "the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country."
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President Trump's threat comes after CENTCOM's commander said that Iran's ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz had been "degraded."
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Iran launched missiles at two southern Israeli cities that lie close to the country's main nuclear research center, while President Trump gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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From the Epstein files to the integrity of prosecutions, Democratic Congresswoman Summer Lee says Attorney General Pam Bondi is damaging the DOJ.
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The Boston Globe
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What Happens If There's a Murder in Antarctica?
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President Trump's threat comes after CENTCOM's commander said that Iran's ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz had been "degraded."
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The Washington Post
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A new theory about why human beings evolved the need to feel purpose.
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Associated Press
Iran and its ally, the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group, are stepping up pressure on Israel, with intense attacks on the country’s north and south as the United States and Iran threatened to widen the Mideast war.
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Austria’s experience with 16-year-old voters shows that expanding the franchise does little to restore trust when elections amount to a choice between managed decline and the far right.
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Carlos Fernández de Cossío insisted that negotiations about regime change were not on the table amid talks with the Americans.
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09:23⇢Trump's Power Plant Ultimatum
⌨The newspapers report on President Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets covering his threat to "obliterate" Iranian power plants if the waterway remains closed (apnews, NYTimes, FoxNews, CBS, NPR, washingtonexaminer, Common Dreams, ABC News, CNN, Newsmax, dailywire, Epoch Times, Breitbart). Coverage continues of Iranian missile strikes on Israeli cities and the domestic impact of the conflict, including Trump's plan to deploy ICE agents to airports to address TSA delays (usatoday, Common Dreams).
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The Washington Post
President Trump has a solution to Congress’ failure to pay TSA officers: sending ICE agents in their place.
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Associated Press
Iran and its ally, the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group, are stepping up pressure on Israel, with intense attacks on the country’s north and south as the United States and Iran threatened to widen the Mideast war.
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Breitbart News
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Iran that if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened within 48 hours, the United States will “obliterate” Iran’s “various POWER PLANTS.”
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Los Angeles Times
Molly Olmstead
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In Western democracies today, intense political polarization is the norm, and mass protests are not uncommon. Yet ordinary people remain far from the levers of power.
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Associated Press
Iran and its ally, the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group, are stepping up pressure on Israel, with intense attacks on the country’s north and south as the United States and Iran threatened to widen the Mideast war.
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The Washington Post
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that the TSA staffing crunch will worsen as long as Congress doesn’t fund the Department of Homeland Security.
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New York Post
ICE officers will be deployed to airports to help clear the horrendous security lines for the TSA, which ran out of funding more than a month ago because of a Democrat shutdown, President Trump announced Sunday.
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The Washington Post
The war-triggered spike was the largest gas price increase in 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis. In Pueblo, Colorado, that meant people were making dramatic decisions about where they could afford to go.
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Israel has warned that the Islamist Iranian regime has demonstrated the capability of using missiles to strike Berlin, London, and Paris and therefore European powers cannot afford to sit on the sidelines of the conflict.
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The Washington Post
The war-triggered spike was the largest gas price increase in 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis. In Pueblo, Colorado, that meant people were making dramatic decisions about where they could afford to go.
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The Boston Globe
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We are bumbling toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III. A new book urges us to get over antiwar protest burnout and cynicism and to rebuild the long-dormant Cold War movement to ban the bomb.
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Iran and Hezbollah are escalating attacks on Israel as a wider fight over energy and infrastructure sharpens the war.
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11:15⇢Trump's Hormuz Power Plant Ultimatum
⌨The newspapers report on escalating threats between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets covering President Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to open the waterway or face strikes on Iranian power plants (apnews, CNN, ABC News, Common Dreams, dailywire, Breitbart, NYTimes, NPR, CBS, Newsmax, Epoch Times, FoxNews). Coverage continues of the domestic impact, including rising gas prices and Trump's plan to deploy ICE agents to airports to address TSA delays (WashingtonPost, NYPost, washingtonexaminer, washingtontimes, usatoday).
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The president did not reveal which airports the ICE agents would be deployed to.
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The Washington Post
In Colorado, where gas prices have surged higher than the rest of the country, the impact of the Iran war has changed daily lives for many. But not equally.
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U.S. forces have struck more than 8,000 Iranian military targets and destroyed 130 vessels — marking the “largest elimination of a navy over a three-week period since World War II” — as Iran’s combat capability declines and U.S. forces remain “zeroed in” on dismantling its ability to threaten shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper.
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The Epoch Times
The president said border czar Tom Homan will be will in charge.
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Spiking gas prices in the U.S. are on track to eat up tax refunds this year, leaving most Americans with little extra to spend.
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The Washington Post
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The Daily Beast
The president raged against his greatest enemy, which is not the country he’s waging war against.
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The Daily Caller
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A Republican push to limit mail-in ballots in elections is hitting the Supreme Court, and the case could have big implications for the upcoming midterms races.
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Speaking to CNN, White House border czar Tom Homan said the administration is working to identify what exactly ICE agents will be doing and which airports they will be assigned to.
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President Trump's threat came after CENTCOM's commander said that Iran's ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz had been "degraded."
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The Washington Post
President Trump said Sunday that the Democratic Party is public enemy No. 1 in the aftermath of his decision to green-light military strikes against Iran.
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President Trump's threat came after CENTCOM's commander said that Iran's ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz had been "degraded."
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The Atlantic
“Regime change is lined up,” awaiting the president’s signal, according to one administration official.
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New York Post
“These hundreds of communists from around the world are feasting on lobster tail and treating Cuba as an ideological theme park,” Cuban exile Mike Gonzales said.
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The Daily Beast
Corey Lewandowski wielded far more power inside DHS than previously known.
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13:35⇢Hormuz Ultimatum Echoes Through Power Grids
⌨The newspapers report on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets covering President Trump's ultimatum to open the waterway or face strikes on Iranian power plants, Iran's threat to close it completely, and claims of significant Iranian military losses (Breitbart, CBS, washingtonexaminer, huffpost, apnews, NYTimes, CNN, NPR, Newsmax, dailywire, Common Dreams, ABC News, FoxNews, Epoch Times). Coverage continues of domestic impacts including rising gas prices and Trump's plan to deploy ICE agents to airports to address TSA delays (WashingtonPost, Boston Globe, Epoch Times, motherjones).
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Border czar Tom Homan says ICE agents will help the Transportation Security Administration 'move those lines' while also enforcing immigration law.
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Associated Press
The United States and Iran threatened to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East, now in its fourth week, puts lives and livelihoods at risk throughout the region.
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In 1954, the CIA enlisted a right-wing radio host and a US senator in a plot to spread propaganda convincing Americans to boycott Guatemalan coffee — all to destabilize a democratically elected government the US would soon help overthrow.
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The Washington Post
As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, Tehran is rebuffing efforts to identify a diplomatic off-ramp from the war launched by the United States and Israel, according to officials in the region.
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Associated Press
The United States and Iran threatened to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East, now in its fourth week, puts lives and livelihoods at risk throughout the region.
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New York Post
The staggering long lines triggered President Trump on Sunday to order Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to be deployed at airports to help clear them.
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The Washington Post
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Sen. Chris Murphy called President Donald Trump's response to the death of Robert Mueller "disgusting."
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New York Post
The staggering long lines triggered President Trump on Sunday to order Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to be deployed at airports to help clear them.
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Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.
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The Washington Post
President Trump heads Monday to Memphis as a sharp decline in killings, muggings and assaults resulting from his federal crime-fighting push has turned around the Southern city long dogged by violence.
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The New York Times
President Trump said that he would “obliterate” Iran’s electricity plants if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
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Iran said the Strait of Hormuz, crucial to oil and other exports, would be 'completely closed' immediately if the U.S. follows up on President Donald Trump's threat to attack its power plants. Iran has practically closed the Strait of Hormuz that connects the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world. Trump late Saturday set a 48-hour deadline to open the strait.
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The Epoch Times
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said that any companies with U.S. shares will be ‘completely destroyed’ if Washington targets Iranian energy facilities.
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16:18⇢Hormuz Closure Ultimatum Echoes
⌨The newspapers report on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets covering Iran's threat to completely close the waterway and strike U.S. companies in response to President Trump's ultimatum to open it or face attacks on Iranian power plants (apnews, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, FoxNews, Newsmax, Epoch Times, washingtonexaminer, CBS, Breitbart, dailywire, huffpost, CNN, motherjones). Coverage continues of domestic impacts including ICE deployment to airports to address TSA delays during the DHS shutdown (Boston Globe, ABC News, NYPost, NPR, dailycaller).
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The Daily Beast
The president’s attempt to bully Iran into submission didn’t go as planned.
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New York Post
The TSA funding crisis is wreaking havoc at NYC airports, with frustrated air travelers waiting up to three hours just to check in for their flights.
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President Trump is sending ICE agents to airports starting Monday to help relieve security lines at the nation’s airports, even as the move drew sharp criticism from Democrats and the union representing TSA workers.
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New York Post
The TSA funding crisis is wreaking havoc at NYC airports, with frustrated air travelers waiting up to three hours just to check in for their flights.
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NBC News
The White House border czar said he did not believe agents would perform security screenings like monitoring X-ray machines.
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American Journey: No one has set foot on the moon since America left in 1972. NASA is heading there again. Will the quest inspire the nation?
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Associated Press
President Donald Trump is cycling through what seems to be an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Boston Globe
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The Daily Beast
A policy analyst says Trump is waging a war based solely on his chaotic instinct.
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Breitbart News
Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Wynton Hall, Social Media Director for Breitbart News and the author of the new book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, talked about China. Hall said, “I say we’ve
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The Washington Post
Israelis said securing the strait for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.
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New York Post
Ada’s mother, Catherine Harding, took to Instagram to share her side of the story.
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NPR spent time inside a Minnesota school talking with educators, parents, and children as it tries to help kids feel safe again after the ICE surge.
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New York Post
For the first time since 1999, St. John’s will head to the Sweet 16 — and it took last-second heroics from Dylan Darling to make it happen.
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The Washington Post
Iran’s scattershot attacks on Gulf neighbors are taking a toll on the carefully crafted reputation of stability that countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have built in recent years — potentially disrupting billions in Western investment.
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19:59⇢Hormuz Strategy's Shifting Currents
⌨The newspapers report on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, with multiple outlets covering President Trump's changing military strategy, troop build-ups, and Iran's threats to close the waterway and strike U.S. companies (apnews, WashingtonPost, washingtontimes, huffpost, CNN, Newsmax, CBS, Epoch Times, washingtonexaminer, NYTimes, dailybeast). Coverage continues of domestic impacts including ICE deployment to airports to address TSA staffing shortages (NBCNews, dailywire, motherjones, NPR, dailycaller, ABC News).
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The Washington Post
Iranian officials remained adamant Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed, despite threats from President Trump that U.S. forces could take out Iran’s power plants if the strategic waterway is not opened by Monday.
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New York Post
Beloved hockey reporter Jessi Pierce shared heartbreaking photos of her final outing with her three children to their favorite ice cream stand just one day before they all died in a house fire.
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This first-of-its-kind study found beavers have a surprisingly efficient method of safely storing carbon dioxide.
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The Washington Post
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New York Post
“Groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or locations associated with the United States and/or Americans throughout the world,” the State Department cautioned.
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President Donald Trump said he is sending federal immigration agents to assist with the airport security delays impacting spring break travel.
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The Washington Post
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The Daily Beast
The resurrected statue has been installed on White House grounds.
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President Donald Trump said that while Democrat lawmakers want to make a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he feels there should be no deal made “until they approve” the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
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President Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising in Iran and bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.
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The New York Times
Two missiles landed hours apart, wreaking havoc in two towns near a heavily guarded nuclear site in the Negev Desert.
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The Washington Post
The federal government is pushing for the development of “nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses” across the U.S. that will reuse much of the spent fuel from nuclear reactors to generate additional energy and eliminate the need for a single, massive underground storage site for radioactive waste.
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The Washington Post
President Trump is sending ICE agents to airports starting Monday to help relieve security lines at the nation’s airports, even as the move drew sharp criticism from Democrats and the union representing TSA workers.
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