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What Happened Today – March 21, 2026

Travelers place luggage on the conveyor belt at a TSA security checkpoint at Long Beach Airport in California

TSA screeners processed travelers at Long Beach Airport, the same workforce Trump threatened this week to replace with ICE agents as the DHS shutdown entered its sixth week. (Photo courtesy City of Long Beach, CA)

Judge Douglas Micko rebuked federal prosecutors Friday for charging a Minnesota woman with conspiring to violate religious freedom at a church protest she never attended, writing, “the government had an intense appetite to initiate” the case. Fifty-year-old Heather Danae Lewis picked up auction items from a parking lot where church protesters later gathered. Prosecutors traced … Read more

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