For Airline Passengers, the Shutdown Answer Is Simple: Pay TSA Officers

ATLANTA (AP) — Regardless of politics or destination, passengers at Atlanta’s airport were unified by one desire Saturday — it’s time to pay Transportation Security Administration employees. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport — one of the world’s busiest airports — is a machine for moving people. But the shutdown is clogging TSA checkpoints that screen passengers …

Read more

Ukrainian Shelling Kills Four in Russia’s Belgorod Border Region, Governor Says

March 21 (Reuters) – ⁠Ukrainian ⁠forces shelled ⁠a public building ​in Russia’s border ‌region of Belgorod ‌on ⁠Saturday, ⁠killing four people, the regional ​governor said. Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on ​Telegram, said the attack ⁠hit a “social ⁠site” ⁠in the ​village of Smorodino, without ​giving ⁠further details. The bodies of two ⁠women were pulled from under …

Read more

Former FBI Chief Mueller Has Died, According to MSNOW Report

WASHINGTON, ⁠March ⁠21 (Reuters) – Robert ⁠Mueller, the ​former ‌FBI ‌chief ⁠who probed ⁠alleged Russian interference ​in ​the 2016 presidential ⁠election, has ⁠died, ⁠MS Now ​reported on ​Saturday. Mueller ⁠died ⁠on Friday at age 81, ⁠according to MS Now, citing two people ⁠familiar with the matter. (Reporting ​by Jason ​Lange) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.

Iran’s President Says Immediate Cessation of US-Israeli Aggression Needed to End War

March 21 (Reuters) – Iran’s President ⁠Masoud ⁠Pezeshkian said on ⁠Saturday that there needs to be ​an “immediate cessation” of what he described as ‌U.S.-Israeli aggression to end ‌the war and wider regional ⁠conflict, ⁠Iran’s embassy in India said in an X ​post on Saturday. Pezeshkian spoke with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi by phone …

Read more

Elon Musk Offers to Pay TSA Salaries Amid Budget Battle, Airport Lineups

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, ⁠the ⁠world’s richest person, said ⁠on Saturday he would cover the paychecks of U.S. Transportation ​Security Administration officers during their second unpaid work stoppage in six months amid ‌a protracted federal funding lapse. The ‌budget impasse over funding for the TSA’s parent agency, the Department ⁠of …

Read more

Trump Threatens to Put ICE Agents in Airports Over Funding Impasse

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ⁠on ⁠Saturday threatened to deploy Immigration ⁠and Customs Enforcement agents to U.S. airports if congressional Democrats do ​not immediately agree to fund airport safety. “I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE ‌Agents to the Airports where ‌they will do Security like no one has ever seen …

Read more