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People wait in long TSA lines at O’Hare and other airports in Chicago, Illinois, on March 9, 2026, as the partial government shutdown continues for weeks.Peter Zai/ | Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe first three months of this year have brought significant disruption to travellers. Since early 2026, the Iran war, cartel violence in Mexico, U.S. military operations in Venezuela, and severe snowstorms on the East Coast have totaled tens of thousands of flights and disrupted many Americans’ travel plans. There’s always a certain amount of unpredictability when it comes to travel. But travel advisors and other experts say recent events…

The 33-year-old Columbia University protester was held in an immigration detention center for a year.listen to this article | 2 minutesinformationPublished March 16, 2026March 16, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationRequa Cordia, a Palestinian woman who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in 2024 and was detained in the United States, has been released after a year of detention.The 33-year-old, who grew up in the occupied West Bank and immigrated to the United States in 2016, had been held in a Texas detention center since March last year.”I don’t know what to say.…

Liam Livingstone has spoken out harshly about his treatment by England’s current government, claiming that “nobody cares about you”.Livingstone has exactly 100 international caps across all three formats, but has not featured for his country in over a year and appears resigned to the status quo. In an interview with ESPN Cricinfo, the 32-year-old was highly critical of his interactions with director of cricket Rob Key, describing last year’s Champions Trophy as “the worst experience I’ve had playing cricket”. Sky Sports News understands that the England and Wales Cricket Board does not believe Livingstone’s career in England is over and…

Sean Shen believes that for AI to succeed in the physical world, it needs to remember what it sees. Shen’s company Memories.ai uses Nvidia AI tools to build an infrastructure that allows wearables and robotics to remember and recall visual memories. Memories.ai announced a partnership with semiconductor giant NVIDIA at Monday’s GTC conference. Through this partnership, Memories.ai continues to develop visual memory technology using Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason 2, an inferential vision language model, and Nvidia Metropolis, a video search and summarization application. Shen (pictured above, left) told TechCrunch that he and his co-founder and CTO Ben Zhou (pictured above, right) got…

Apollo Global Management sign in New York, December 5, 2023.Gina Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesApollo’s John Zito has given a frank assessment of how private equity firms are valuing their software holdings, saying, “Not really.” As the share prices of comparable publicly traded technology companies plummet, he says, “Not really.”Zito, co-president and head of credit at the firm’s giant asset management division, told clients of investment bank UBS last month in remarks first published in the Wall Street Journal. CNBC confirmed Zito’s comments. “I think literally every mark is wrong,” Zito told his customers. “I think the private equity…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday hailed the drop in oil prices that sent stocks higher, but said the real action for investors will unfold at Nvidia’s GTC artificial intelligence showcase this week.Nvidia Kramer said on “Mad Money” that stocks participated in a broader stock market rally spurred by President Donald Trump’s decision to “allow Iranian oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.” “That caused oil prices to drop to the mid-$90s, but that’s all that matters to the (stock) average,” he added. The move allayed fears that an escalating war with Iran could disrupt global oil supplies and push…

rome, italy — Maritime authorities have warned sailors to stay away from an unmanned Russian fuel tanker that has been drifting between Italy and Malta for days after being attacked by drones, raising fears of an environmental disaster. Surveillance video taken from aboard the ship shows the smoldering, blackened vessel leaning to one side, with a large gash in its port side and a film of material in the surrounding waters. Italian authorities said the Russian-flagged Arctic Metagas was carrying around 900 tonnes (992 US tonnes) of diesel fuel and more than 60,000 tonnes (66,000 US tonnes) of liquefied natural…

Chelsea captain Reece James has suffered another hamstring injury. The right-back suffered his 10th hamstring injury since December 2020, just days after signing a new six-year contract with the club. James, 26, has appeared in six of Chelsea’s last seven games and has been largely unscathed this season, missing just five games due to fitness issues. “I had to go through a lot of struggles and setbacks for a couple of years,” he said after signing his new contract last week. “I’m in really good shape right now. I’m feeling good physically and I’m playing regularly, two to three games…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday expressing concern about the Pentagon’s decision to grant Elon Musk’s company xAI access to sensitive networks. “The controversial AI model Grok developed by xAI has had disturbing consequences for users, including giving them ‘advice on how to commit murder or terrorist attacks,’ generating anti-Semitic content, and creating child sexual abuse material,” the letter said. Warren said Grok’s “clear lack of adequate guardrails” could pose “significant risks to the safety of U.S. military personnel and the cybersecurity of sensitive systems.” She asked Hegseth to provide information on…

Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley said Monday that the artificial intelligence wave is real and that many people have struck it rich, but he expects a “reset” to come.”When people get rich quick, they get a lot of people who want to get rich too. That’s why you end up with a bubble,” Gurley said on CNBC’s “Money Movers.””Bubbles only exist if there are real waves,” Gurley said, referring to the work of economist Carlota Pérez, author of “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: Bubble Dynamics and the Golden Age.”The venture capitalist said that once a reset occurs, investors should keep…