News for March 27, 2026

Raw Farm’s raw cheddar cheese is being linked to an expanding E. coli outbreak that has sickened nine people in three states, including young children.

House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed a short-term Homeland Security funding bill through the House, but it has little chance of passing the Senate and is likely to keep the shutdown fight going.

The Trump administration is still deciding whether to appeal a court ruling that blocked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to vaccine policy, leaving Covid and flu shot guidance in uncertainty.

US strikes on Tehran have hit civilian areas as well as military-linked sites, leaving many residents dead, homeless, and afraid.

The Senate passed a plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security and help end the shutdown, but it left out Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol funding for now.

The United States and its partners are trying to contain a wider regional war as Iran says Israeli strikes on its nuclear sites caused no contamination and the Houthi rebels joined attacks on Israel.

Trump ordered pay for TSA agents after a DHS funding fight in Congress left airport security workers unpaid and travelers facing long delays.

David Sacks has finished his time as Trump’s AI and crypto czar and will now help guide tech policy as co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

The US Treasury says Donald Trump will be the first sitting president to have his signature on US banknotes, in a move tied to America’s 250th anniversary.