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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Kayleigh Heckel dove onto the floor and grabbed hold of the ball. It didn't matter that UTSA's Cheyenne Rowe didn't let go after Heckel's pounce. Heckel didn't have plans to either.


Night shift work increases the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. It disrupts the body's circadian rhythms"the 24-hour internal "clock" that controls when you sleep and wake.


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Here's a recap of Trump's remarks on Saturday night, in which he threatened to strike Iranian power plants if Tehran does not "fully open" the strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

Writing on Truth Social, Trump said:

If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!"


Saturday, March 21, 2026

DUBAI: More than 20 countries on Saturday said they would contribute to efforts ensuring safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz, condemning Iran's closure of the vital waterway. Read more


About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, according to a new poll by KFF.


President Donald Trump is escalating his battle with TV networks by laying the groundwork to pull their broadcast licenses if they air college football games that compete with the annual Army-Navy game.


A jury has found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion.


Iran denies it targeted UK's military base on Diego Garcia A senior Iranian official has told Al Jazeera that Iran is not responsible for the missile attacks on Diego Garcia and is not behind them. Diego Garcia, which is around 4,000km (2,500 miles) from Iranian territory, is one of two bases the UK has allowed the US to use for "defensive operations" in its war against Iran. Read more


"Iranian retaliatory strikes on military bases used by the US in the Middle East caused about $800m in damage in the first two weeks of Israel and America's illegal and reckless war against the people of Iran."

Dummkopf Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu Bankrupting the US


Musk, in a post on X, offered to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during the "funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country."


Senator Ron Wyden has been working for years to unravel Jeffrey Epstein's crimes by following his money. This should be a no-brainer -- it's been clear for a long time that Epstein had been involved in a global sex trafficking and money laundering empire.


Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the Federal Bureau of Prisons' After Action Team had set up a probe into what had happened to their most high-profile inmate. The FBI was told that there were people shredding documents. Bags of them. The inmate wasn't the only one who found it out of the ordinary. A corrections officer at the detention facility called the FBI's National Threat Operations Center that same night, a Friday, at 6:28 p.m. to report that he had "never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster at the rear gate of MCC."


Russian intelligence operatives proposed staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn to reshape the country's election campaign, according to The Washington Post on March 21. The newspaper reported that the proposal appeared in an internal document from Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, which was obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service. The plan, described as "the Gamechanger," was aimed at lifting Orbn as he enters the final stretch before Hungary's April 12 parliamentary election under pressure from a weak economy and slipping public support.


Elon Musk offered to cover the salaries of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel during the ongoing government funding standoff. "I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country," Musk said in an X post on Saturday morning. Read more


Morale in the Defense Department's civilian workforce is collapsing following a year of cuts and a hiring freeze that has left many offices understaffed and employees in fear of further reductions in force. Just 9.1% of Dept of Army employees agreed that "Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth's leadership generates high levels of motivation in the workforce." .

Pete Hegseth is not a good human being


Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is under heavy fire from fellow Democrats for casting the deciding vote to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin's (R-OK) nomination for DHS secretary, with some openly calling for his ouster. "Once again Sen Fetterman shows why he is Donald Trump's favorite Democrat. He needs to go," raged Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA).

John Fetterman Defends Donald Trump


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