President Trump has formally waived requirements that only U.S. ships can carry cargo between domestic ports as officials look to ease access to fuel and supplies while the Strait of Hormuz remains throttled. Why it matters: The White House is looking to pull multiple levers as the Iran war sends gasoline prices soaring and restricts access to goods needed by farmers and other industries...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is tightening helicopter safety measures, more than a year after the fatal collision of an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. In a Wednesday release, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Trump administration is suspending the use of visual separation between airplanes and helicopters and mandating that air traffic controllers use radar to "actively manage these aircraft to keep them separated at specific lateral or vertical distances."...

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Access to disability services is better in rural communities than in urban ones, according to a new report from the University of Minnesota's Rural Health Research Center. Urban residents are more likely to report barriers to accessing health care than rural residents, the report explains. The research team looked at 11 barriers to care among rural residents without disabilities, rural residents with disabilities, urban residents without disabilities, and urban residents with disabilities...

National commentary about the U.S.-Israeli campaign in Iran has generally been anything but jingoistic. "I'm flabbergasted by the relentless pessimism I'm seeing in much of the commentariat," wrote Bret Stephens in The New York Times on March 12. "We are less than two weeks into a war that will almost surely be over by the end of the month and already there are predictions that it's 'another Iraq.'" In a March 13 Wall Street Journal newsletter, Matthew Hennessey similarly observed that American journalists writing about the war currently "flood the zone with negative coverage: unflattering stories, tales of waste, hints of stupidity, insinuations of corruption, accusations of ineptitude, warnings of impending doom...

The Trump administration authorized a Houston-based offshore oil company to restart oil platforms off the coast of California, called the Santa Ynez Unit, which the state has aggressively fought as part of its overall hostility toward all oil and gas production. While the governor and state lawmakers remain committed to their anti-fossil fuel policies that are driving away its oil and refining industry, the state is home to approximately 12% of the U.S. population, numerous key military facilities, a dozen shipping ports, and approximately 14% of the U.S. GDP...

The Oscars' viewership on Sunday night dropped by 9% from last year to 17.9 million viewers, the film award show's first decline since 2021, per Nielsen's ratings. The drop occurred after a four-year increase in viewership for the Oscars, and followed declines for this year's Grammy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, The New York Times reported Tuesday. This year was the first time in several years that viewership fell for all three major award shows...

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I'll never forget the first time I covered the St. Patrick's Day Parade. I had no idea what I was doing. My camera was half broken, the lens had a mind of its own, and I had absolutely no credentials to speak of. Most of the day was spent getting yelled at by police officers while I darted between barricades trying to capture something…anything....

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