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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Russian intelligence operatives proposed staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to reshape the country's election campaign, according to The Washington Post on March 21. read more


CNN data guru Harry Enten was astonished on Sunday as President Donald Trump's poll numbers continued to sink. Enten reported on results from a new CBS News/YouGov poll, which found that 58% of Americans believe they are worse off financially during the Trump administration, compared with 38% in October 2024. Only 18% of Americans said they were better off today, according to the poll. Enten added that the polls showed a 40-point swing away from Trump by independent voters, whom he said, "usually decide the elections here in the United States." Six in ten independent voters said Trump made them worse off financially, compared to just 13% who said they are better off. added that the polls showed a 40-point swing away from Trump by independent voters, whom he said, "usually decide the elections here in the United States."


The Trump administration is doubling down on its endorsement of Hungarian leader Viktor Orbn in next month's Hungarian elections, even as Orbn's deal-blocking in Brussels has been labeled "unacceptable" by EU peers. U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday reiterated his "complete and total endorsement" of Orbn in the Hungarian elections. And U.S. Vice President JD Vance is reportedly due to fly to Budapest in April in support of the prime minister. The EU's longest-serving leader, facing an election in less than a month that he is forecast to lose, has long been a thorn in the side of Brussels. In the latest stand-off against his European counterparts, Orbn held hostage a 90 billion loan to Ukraine this week over an oil dispute.


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." read more


Saturday, March 21, 2026

A U.S. federal jury found Elon Musk liable on Friday for claims he defrauded Twitter shareholders by trying to drive down the social media company's stock price so he could renegotiate or back out of a US$44 billion takeover in 2022. read more


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