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Today is Tuesday, March 24th. Are there peace talks underway between the US and Iran? Leaders of the two countries are saying very different things. And we'll tell you about the potential impact on the war itself and the financial markets. Also, what an air traffic controller admitted after a deadly plane crash on a New York City Runway. And an update on some airport security lines now that ICE agents have been sent in to help. Plus, what to know about a bipartisan effort in Congress to ban a certain type of sports betting nationwide, why the federal government is blocking most Wi Fi routers coming into the US and the new official look of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Those stories and even more news coming up. Welcome to the Newsworthy. All the day's news in less than 15 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. Let's do this. President Trump has decided to hold off on a dramatic escalation he threatened in the Iran war, but there's conflicting information about why and whether peace talks are actually underway. President Trump told reporters the US And Iran were engaging in very strong talks toward resolving the war and that they had reached 15 points of agreement. So he decided to delay the attacks on Iran's energy sites he had promised by at least five days, saying he wanted to see how the talks pan out first. Well, Iranian government leaders say there has actually been no dialogue between Iran and the US they're accusing President Trump of lying to calm the rattled energy markets. And it did seem to calm the markets for at least a little while yesterday. But oil prices moved back up above $100 a barrel last night. And the International Energy Agency now says the crisis is worse than the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 combined. Either way, the war is not exactly slowing down with both the US And Iran continuing to fight. The US Carried out more airstrikes than Iran yesterday. And and the Pentagon says at this point American forces have struck more than 9,000 Iranian targets in less than a month. Yesterday, Iran also claimed more attacks on Israel and Persian Gulf countries, though it's not clear if any actually got through air defenses. All the while, President Trump says objectives in this war have not changed. He's demanding an end to Iranian nuclear enrichment and for the country's uranium stockpiles to be destroyed. And he says any potential deal will have to involve regime change. Iran has previously rejected all of those terms. To be continued. New information is still emerging about that Runway collision we mentioned yesterday between an Air Canada regional jet and what we now know was a fire truck. Two pilots were killed and dozens of other people were hurt. The fire truck was on its way to a United Airlines flight that had reported an odor, and it crossed into the Air Canada jet's path. It's not clear exactly what went wrong, but in recordings, a person in the truck requests and receives permission to cross the Runway. But then an air traffic controller tells the truck several times to stop. In audio recorded after the crash, a controller said, quote, I messed up. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says LaGuardia is well staffed but still faces a shortage of air traffic controllers. He also confirmed more than one was on duty at the time. And it's worth noting air traffic controllers are not part of this latest partial government shutdown. About 40 passengers and crew members on the jet, as well as two people on the fire truck were taken to hospitals. Some were seriously hurt, including a flight attendant who was thrown from the plane. But they're all expected to survive. One passenger credits the pilot's incredible reflexes in saving his life and others, since they braked extremely hard as soon as it touched down. Then passengers say they helped each other to get to safety. An investigation is still underway, and the Runway where the crash happened is likely to be closed for days. During that investigation, other flights are still taking off from LaGuardia to but are delayed as promised. The Trump administration deployed ICE agents to more than a dozen American airports to help the understaffed tsa. But passengers again reported extremely long wait times in some major cities. In Houston, for example, it took as long as five hours to get through security, even with ICE agents on duty. As we've told you, TSA officers are either working without pay or not working until Congress can find a way to fund the Homeland Security Department. But ICE is largely unaffected by the shutdown because Congress approved a massive funding increase to immigration enforcement last year. President Trump has said ICE officers will be detaining undocumented immigrants at airports. And according to him, there will be a, quote, heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, though so far, that has not happened on a wide scale. ICE officers did arrest two people from Guatemala at San Francisco International Airport, saying they had an outstanding removal order from an immigration judge. But DHS says those arrests were unrelated to the plan that's helping tsa. All this comes in the middle of a leadership shakeup at the Homeland Security Department. Last night, the Senate confirmed GOP Senator Mark Wayne Mullen as Homeland Security secretary, replacing Kristi Noem. Now some lawmakers say they're hopeful Mullen can rejuvenate stalled talks between Democrats and the White House over how to fund DHS and change the aggressive tactics of immigration officers. But that seems to be an increasingly difficult challenge. President Trump now says any deal should also include the voting law overhaul that he's been pushing. We discussed that proposed law on our special edition Saturday episode over the weekend, if you want to learn more about it. But at this point, there's no clear solution on the horizon. Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby now owes one of his accusers nearly $60 million. This week, a civil jury in California found Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972, and it awarded her $59.3 million. The woman who sued says the fact that a jury saw the truth and held Cosby accountable means everything. And she says it's not just about her. She hopes it gives strength to other survivors still waiting for their moment to be heard. Cosby's defense team had argued the whole case was based off assumptions, since the woman has said she can't remember exactly what happened to her the night she was with Cosby. And now one of his lawyers says they'll be appealing the verdict. This decision came nearly five years after Cosby was freed from a Pennsylvania prison when the state Supreme Court threw out his criminal conviction that was based on similar allegations. He has settled some other lawsuits since and has been ordered to pay in others. But as the AP reports, this week's judgment is likely the most he's had to pay in any one case. Other lawsuits are still pending. The gigantic heat dome that's been baking the American Southwest is now moving east, and meteorologists say it could end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, eventually hitting the Plains, Midwest and then Eastern states. Today and tomorrow, parts of the country could hit temperatures 30 to 40 degrees above average for this time of year. Already, this heat wave has broken March heat records in 14 states from California to Tennessee and the US as a whole. And there have been heat related illnesses reported across much of the country. But experts say it's still not quite as dangerous as previous summer heat waves because it's not as humid as it would be in June, July or August. Also, more of the US has gotten air conditioning in recent years, but people are still encouraged to take precautions. The National Weather Service says the extreme heat could last for at least another week. More news ahead in just a moment. But first, thanks to our sponsor, HoneyLove, we're not too far from wedding season. So whenever I'm planning for a special event, I have to think about not only what to wear, but also how everything is going to fit and feel once it's on. 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Experience the new standard in comfort and support with Honeylove. Now back to the news. A foreign company is now getting a billion dollars from American taxpayers not to build wind farms it had been planning off the East Coast. Now it's promising to use that money to invest in American oil and gas projects instead. That means producing more oil in the Gulf of Mexico and developing more gas burning power plants. The Trump administration announced the deal yesterday. Even though it's unusual, it didn't come as a huge surprise, since President Trump has campaigned against offshore wind projects for a while, calling them ugly, expensive and unreliable. But supporters of offshore wind say those concerns are unfounded and that stopping any energy projects will only make electricity more expensive. In this case, the company's projects were still in the planning stages and did not have all the permits yet. But that wasn't the case for other projects the Trump administration has recently tried to stop. Trump's White House had also issued stop work orders for five offshore wind projects that do have all the permits and are already being built, but those developers and several states sued. Federal judges ruled against the Trump administration in each case, so those projects are now moving forward. The US has now banned all new Internet routers made overseas, even the ones designed by American companies. We're talking about the routers used widely in homes and businesses to connect computers, phones, TVs and other devices to the Internet, including some bestsellers. In fact, the vast majority of Internet routers are assembled or manufactured outside of the US often in Taiwan or China. But the FCC is citing security concerns, saying there are people who could exploit foreign made routers to spy, disrupt networks, conduct cyber attacks and more. In fact, it cited several major cyber attacks that have already happened involving routers just in the last year. The FCC will grant some exceptions, but only after a long approval process. If you already have a router, though that was made somewhere else, you should still be able to use it just fine. And retailers can also keep selling routers that have already been imported. There's a new bipartisan effort to limit betting on prediction markets Senators introduced a bill this week that would ban platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket from allowing wagers on sports or casino style games. That's because, at least for now, the markets are not subject to state gambling laws the way traditional sports betting is, so they don't have the same consumer protections and they don't generate public revenue. The bill's sponsors say that's the problem. So their legislation would make it so if the markets are operating under federal oversight. Instead they cannot get into sports or casino games. There have already been questions over whether the platforms can properly identify suspicious activity, but Kalshee says the bill is a bad idea that's only motivated by casinos threatened by competition, and it believes banning sports on prediction markets will just move that kind of betting offshore. Meanwhile, both Kalsheet and Polymarket revealed their own policies yesterday, hoping to prevent insider trading. They announced guardrails meant to keep politicians and athletes from betting on outcomes they could influence, among other steps. At this point, it's not clear if the bill in Congress has enough support to actually become law, so stay tuned. Organizers behind the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles unveiled the event's official look this week. We're talking about the branding that will appear across competition venues, broadcast presentations, digital platforms, merchandise and so on. The branding includes a floral themed design meant to reflect LA's landscape, neighborhoods and cultural character. And at the center of it all is the so called super bloom. That's the burst of wildflowers that can blanket parts of Southern California after periods of rain. Organizers say the look is meant to reflect the high energy, optimistic and welcoming nature of the LA Games. The Olympic opening ceremony is still more than two years away though, so expect many more announcements as the date gets closer. That's it for the Maine News today. So now it's time for Trivia Tuesday, when we ask a different trivia question every week. But first, this episode is brought to you by Gainbridge. We spend a lot of time thinking about what's happening now and next in the news. But when you're ready to step back and ask what would make your financial life easier for your future self, Gainbridge can help. It's a digital platform built to make saving feel more straightforward and less stressful. 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As for last week's trivia question, which parts of the body feel the most pain? The answer is the forehead and fingertips. University College London did a study on this a few years ago. Researchers used a system of lasers to cause brief, sharp pain on 26 blindfolded healthy volunteers. The idea was to figure out how precisely people could locate the source of pain on different parts of their body, even when they weren't being touched. And they found out the fingertips and forehead are most sensitive. It was pretty consistent across all volunteers. Scientists say this information helps, especially with ongoing research about how to treat and monitor chronic pain that's believed to impact more than a billion people around the world. Thanks so much for joining us to get caught up on the news today. We'll be back tomorrow with the latest. Until then, have a great day.