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By Cory Ohlendorf, Valet. EditorI'm all for more daylight. |
Today’s Big Story
Ready to ‘Spring Forward’?
Will Daylight Saving Time ever become permanent?

It seems like a good idea. Who doesn’t want more daylight, right? On Sunday, clocks will move forward by an hour, and you’ll notice later sunsets. Of course, the change comes with disruptions in sleep patterns and a shift in our circadian rhythm, which is basically our body’s internal clock. And not all experts are in favor of this change continuing.
Nasha Addarich Martinez, CNET’s managing editor, says most sleep experts don't like time changes because any time change disrupts our circadian rhythm, even if it’s only an hour. “This can lead to chronic sleep loss and reduced sleep quality—especially REM and deep sleep phases,” Martinez says. “The sleepiness also poses safety risks,” such as driving while sleepy.
But several active groups are campaigning for the U.S. to stay on standard time. A group called the Coalition for Permanent Standard Time aims to legally standardize time across the country for several reasons. Delayed sunrises and sunsets mean darker commutes, depression and misalignment from your body’s internal clock, they say.
And while most of the daylight saving time-related bills in Congress have focused on locking the clocks an hour ahead of standard time, a newly introduced piece of legislation is taking half that approach. The Daylight Act of 2026, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (of Florida) last month, calls for our clocks to slide forward a half hour from where they are now, and for the twice-annual clock changes to end. But that would really mess up the syncing with other time zones, right?
Some say we should just stick with standard time but there seems to be a bigger push to moving permanently to daylight saving time. And it’s happening in Canada. Millions are about to see daylight saving time become permanent, with British Columbia set to change their clocks for the last time on Sunday. The new time zone, which will go in effect on Sunday and is called Pacific Time, places the province in line with the Yukon Territory, which stopped changing its clocks in 2020, officials said in a statement shared on social media.
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How to ‘spring forward’ for daylight saving time without leaving your body and brain behind. |
Trump Fires Kristi Noem From DHS
How the ice finally broke under the Homeland Security Secretary
For at least a week, President Trump told White House advisers that he was tired of the infighting and drama at the Department of Homeland Security and that he was planning to soon oust its leader. But it seems Secretary Kristi Noem’s congressional testimony this week sped up his timeline. On Thursday, he announced on social media he was firing her and would name Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her.
“She burnt up a ton of goodwill,” one adviser told Axios. “It was everywhere. It was everything.” Many are calling it the biggest personnel shake-up of his second term. White House officials are now hoping that the firing could help break a congressional logjam over DHS funding. But Democrats quickly dismissed the idea that Noem leaving was enough to earn their votes.
At DHS, when officials saw Trump’s post ousting Noem, some celebrations broke out, staffers said, with small gatherings in halls for quick high-fives. Some people inside ICE joked about Noem being deported on her $70 million luxury plane. But many remained nervous about the uncertainty around Mullin and whether his leadership would be dramatically different from Noem’s.
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Who is Markwayne Mullin, Trump's new pick for Homeland Security secretary? |
Judge Says U.S. Must Start Issuing Tariffs Refunds
More than 2,000 companies have filed lawsuits seeking refunds for the illegal tariffs they paid
It’s hard out there for a tariff. A federal judge ruled that the government must begin paying out more than $130 billion in tariff refunds to American businesses in another setback for the Trump administration after the Supreme Court struck down the president’s wide-reaching “reciprocal” tariffs.
President Donald trump always said other countries would be paying, but we knew that to be false. It’s the companies and consumers that foot the bill, and more than 2,000 companies, from Costco to FedEx, have filed lawsuits seeking refunds for the illegal tariffs they paid over the last year. The ruling from Judge Richard Eaton (an appointee of former President Bill Clinton) offered some clarity on the murky process to recoup tariff costs, which could take years to play out.
Meanwhile, a coalition of two dozen states sued President Trump on Thursday over the new 10% tariff that he’s imposed on imports from around the world, a move that will send the administration back to court to defend the legality of its punishing trade war. The lawsuit, led by the Democratic attorneys general from Oregon, New York, California and Arizona, claimed that the president did not have the power to impose that tax and “sidestep” the Supreme Court.
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Costco said Thursday it would return any recovered tariff charges to members through lower prices. |
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