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FAA bans visual separation for helicopters, planes at busy airports after Reagan crash

The Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday a new safety measure that limits the use of visual separation between airplanes and helicopters at busy airports, replacing it with mandatory radar-based separation in key controlled airspace -- a step the agency said grew directly out of the deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last year.

March 19, 2026

Chuck Norris hospitalized in Hawaii after medical emergency

Action star Chuck Norris has been hospitalized in Hawaii following a medical emergency, according to TMZ, which first reported the news Thursday.

March 19, 2026

Government snags alien.gov and aliens.gov domains amid UFO disclosure push, but sites remain dark

The federal government registered two extraterrestrial-themed .gov domains this week, but neither site is live, a funding freeze is blocking new domain requests at the agency that registered them and the White House offered only a "Stay tuned!" paired with an alien emoji when asked about the timeline and contents.

March 19, 2026

No warrant, no problem: How the FBI legally tracks where you go online

The FBI is buying the location data of American internet users -- and its own director just admitted it, contradicting what Congress was told three years ago.

March 19, 2026

CBS News sees ratings drop, staff departures and labor dispute under Bari Weiss

CBS News is contending with falling ratings, a series of high-profile departures, a staff walkout and potential layoffs as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss continues to reshape the network.

March 19, 2026

Joseph Duggar, ‘19 Kids and Counting’ star, arrested on child sex abuse charges

Joseph Duggar, a former star of the TLC reality series "19 Kids and Counting," was arrested Wednesday on charges that he molested a 9-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida, authorities said.

March 19, 2026

Oregon principal put on leave over Charlie Kirk remarks sentenced to prison in child sex images case

A former Oregon high school principal who was placed on administrative leave following controversial remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material.

March 18, 2026

From viral fame to tragedy: Deaths linked to social media challenges, algorithms and creator culture

The death of Rachel Tussey, an Ohio mother of three who documented her cosmetic surgery journey on TikTok, has drawn renewed attention to the complicated and, at times, troubling intersection between social media and real-world harm.

March 18, 2026

D.C. man with manslaughter record gets life for road rage killing of Uber Eats driver

A Washington, D.C., man with a prior manslaughter conviction was sentenced Monday to life in prison for a road rage killing that left an Uber Eats driver paralyzed and ultimately dead.

March 18, 2026

Trump DOJ seeks to denaturalize fraud convict whose sentence Biden commuted

The Justice Department has moved to strip U.S. citizenship from a Nigerian-born man convicted of fraud whose sentence was commuted by President Biden.

March 18, 2026

No one has ever had a perfect March Madness bracket — and the math shows why no one ever will

Every March, millions of Americans fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets convinced -- just maybe -- that this is the year. It never is. And the math explains why it never will be.

March 18, 2026

The perfect March Madness bracket? The odds are basically zero

Every March, tens of millions of Americans fill out NCAA Tournament brackets with a quiet, familiar belief: This could be the year.

March 18, 2026

Oscars ratings slide 9% to four-year low as awards season struggles

Hollywood's biggest night drew its smallest audience in four years Sunday, as viewership for the 98th Academy Awards fell to 17.9 million -- a 9% decline from last year's post-pandemic high -- according to Nielsen data released Tuesday.

March 18, 2026

Former ‘Price Is Right’ model says she was fired for refusing to defend Bob Barker

A former model on "The Price Is Right" is breaking her silence, alleging she was pushed off the long-running game show in 1995 because she refused to publicly defend host Bob Barker amid a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a fellow model.

March 18, 2026

Kohl’s CEO rules out further store closures, says most locations remain profitable

Kohl's Corp. CEO Michael Bender said the department store chain has no plans to shutter additional locations this year, offering a measure of reassurance to shoppers and employees after the retailer closed 27 stores in 2025.

March 18, 2026

Culture Wire: ‘Dune: Part Three’ trailer releases, Kiki Shepard dead at 74 and more

The first teaser for "Dune: Part Three" drops, new "Spider-Man" movie starts its marketing campaign, and more.

March 17, 2026

Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI over ‘Massive Copyright Infringement’

Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary filed suit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the artificial intelligence giant of unlawfully copying nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its GPT large language models.

March 17, 2026

N.Y. attorney charged with hiring enforcer to extort former client’s son for $500K

A New York attorney has been federally charged with attempted extortion after allegedly hiring an individual to threaten and assault a former client's son in an effort to collect a $500,000 debt he claimed he was owed.

March 17, 2026

FDA probes multistate E. coli outbreak tied to RAW FARM raw cheddar cheese

Federal health officials are investigating a multistate E. coli outbreak tied to RAW FARM-brand raw cheddar cheese -- and the company has declined a federal recommendation to remove its products from the market.

March 17, 2026

SpaceX crosses 10,000-satellite threshold, owning two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit

SpaceX hit a landmark milestone in the early hours of Tuesday morning, pushing its Starlink internet constellation past 10,000 simultaneously active satellites, a figure that would have seemed fantastical just a decade ago.

March 17, 2026