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President Trump is revealing what he called the big present Iran gave to the U.S.
During his cabinet meeting this morning, Trump said Iran followed through on a promise
and recently allowed eight oil tanker ships to travel through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump didn't indicate where the oil was going but believed they were Pakistani flagged.
Long wait times at some TSA checkpoints are impacting travelers at airports across the country.
It comes after the Senate failed to pass a spending bill yesterday that would have ended the partial government shutdown
and fund Homeland Security.
Airports have been dealing with TSA staffing shortages as agents go without pay causing lines at security checkpoints to stretch for hours.
Severe storms are affecting millions across the Midwest and Ohio Valley today.
A cold front sweeping through the region could bring thunderstorms hail, damaging wind gusts and possible tornadoes.
Parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the Pittsburgh region are most at risk for a strong tornado.
President Trump is explaining why he voted via mail-in ballot for an upcoming Florida special election.
Trump has been against mail-in voting overall calling it mail-in cheating.
Today during his cabinet meeting, Trump said he voted by mail because he's the president and he felt it was better to be in Washington, D.C.
When pressed about recently being in Palm Beach, Trump said again he couldn't be there.
He went on to note several reasons why mail-in voting is valid.
Paul McCartney is getting ready to release his first album in more than five years.
The former Beatles announced the boys of Dungeon Lane will drop May 29.
The first single, Days We Left Behind, is out now.
McCartney recorded the album with producer Andrew Watt, who was behind recent albums from The Rolling Stones,
Elton John and Brandy Carlyle, Ozzy Osborne and Pearl Jam.
The album announcement comes as McCartney is set to perform a pair of intimate concerts this weekend at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.
I'm Chris Caragio.
The number of Americans applying for first time unemployment benefits is up.
The Labor Department says it received 210,000 initial applications in the week ending March 21st.
That's 5,000 more than the previous week's unrevised total, but it's basically in line with what most analysts were expecting.
The NCAA basketball tournament resumes tonight with four sweet 16 matchups.
Second seeded Purdue takes on 11th seeded Texas.
And top seed Arizona faces fourth seed Arkansas in San Jose.
Ninth seeded Iowa battles fourth seeded Nebraska.
And second seeded Houston will have the home court advantage when they meet third seeded Illinois in Houston.
NASA says if you saw something shooting across the sky out west last weekend, they want to see your pictures.
Read tennis with more.
NASA says they received more than 200 reports of a fireball in the sky on March 22nd.
They say the calls were all around 820 PM from California, Arizona and Nevada.
The space agency and the American Meteor Society says if you see something bright in the sky that is fast moving without blinking lights, it's probably a fireball.
And they want to see your pictures.
Send them to fireball.ams meteors.org.
NASA is laying off hundreds of employees.
Multiple reports say workers are being laid off and met as recruiting sales and social media teams.
And in the division that develops met us smart glasses and VR headsets.
A company spokesperson told the Verge that they're finding other opportunities for employees were possible.
Meta employs about 79,000 people.
The layoffs come as meta is projected to spend about 135 billion dollars on AI data centers.
Fortnite maker Epic Games is laying off more than a thousand workers.
The company is based in North Carolina with offices in San Francisco.
CEO Tim Sweeney says the company has seen a decline in engagement in the hit video game Fortnite since last year leading to continued losses.
Epic Games has identified more than a half million dollars in cost savings involving contracting, marketing and closing open positions.
Sweeney says the layoffs are not related to AI.
I'm Chris Caragio.
