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10:55 AM ET, March 15, 2025

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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Top House Democrats Throw Chuck Schumer Under The Bus Amid Funding Fight  —  “This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said as Schumer cast his vote for an extreme GOP spending bill.  —  WASHINGTON - Top House Democrats …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Schumer Under Fire as Pelosi and Other Democrats Criticize Shutdown Retreat
NPR:
Senate passes spending bill to avoid a government shutdown
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Dem Civil War Erupts With ‘Screaming’ and Primary Threats Behind Closed Doors
Dylan Wells / Washington Post:   Inside the Democrats' new media strategy to reach voters and take on Trump
Politico:
‘Uniting anger’: Democrats fume over Schumer's handling of funding fight
Discussion: Joy's House
New York Times:
The Senate votes to avert a shutdown after Schumer relents.
Axios:
Ten Senate Democrats cave to avert government shutdown
CNN:
Democrats join with Republicans to advance House-passed government spending bill
Politico:
Trump was poised to have a bad week. Enter Democrats.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Senate Passes GOP Bill Averting Shutdown With Democratic Support
New York Times:
‘A Really Easy Mark for Trump’: Three Columnists on the Threats to Elite Colleges  —  Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists M. Gessen, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Bret Stephens about Donald Trump's attacks on Columbia University …
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New York Times:
Colleges Are Under Attack.  They Can Fight Back.  —  When a political leader wants to move a democracy toward a more authoritarian form of government, he often sets out to undermine independent sources of information and accountability.  The leader tries to delegitimize judges …
Washington Post:
Trump says pressure on Columbia is only the beginning for college campuses
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
As Trump Attacks Elite Colleges, Their Usual Allies Are Nowhere in Sight
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America's Parent  —  The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president's power.
Discussion: The White House
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:   Trump signs order to dismantle seven federal agencies focused on media, libraries, homelessness
Politico:
Trump calls his opponents ‘scum’ and lawbreakers in bellicose speech at Justice Department  —  For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence.  —  President Donald Trump on Friday walked into the Department of Justice …
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump suggests media outlets be deemed illegal
Discussion: HuffPost and Breitbart
Liam Reilly / CNN:
Trump baselessly accuses news media of ‘illegal’ behavior and corruption in DOJ speech
Sarah Betancourt / New Hampshire Public Radio:
Green card holder from New Hampshire ‘interrogated’ at Logan Airport, detained  —  A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
Tom Mooney / The Providence Journal:
She saw family in Lebanon.  Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation. … A Rhode Island doctor who traveled home to Lebanon to visit family was prevented by U.S. Customs officials from reentering the country on Thursday at Boston's Logan International Airport …
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Edward Fitzpatrick / The Boston Globe:
R.I. doctor prevented from returning to US after visiting her parents in Lebanon  —  Dr. Rasha Alawieh works at Brown Medicine and Rhode Island Hospital, and she had secured an H-1B visa, her lawyer said  —  PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island doctor who had traveled to Lebanon to see her parents …
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide  —  The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.  —  Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared …
Discussion: USA Today
New York Times:
Trump Administration Expels South Africa's Ambassador to the U.S.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.  —  President Trump's administration …
New York Times:
Trump Expands Attacks on Law Firms, Singling Out Paul, Weiss  —  Experts have warned that the president's efforts threaten the ability of lawyers to do their jobs and private citizens to obtain legal counsel.  —  President Trump on Friday opened a third attack against a private law firm …
New York Times:
Walz, Newsom and Buttigieg Are Among Democrats Stirring 2028 Presidential Chatter  —  Tim Walz was in Iowa.  JB Pritzker's heading to New Hampshire.  Pete Buttigieg is keeping his options open.  It's far too early to run for president, but some Democrats seem to be exploring the idea.
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Addressing Risks from Paul Weiss  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Background.  Global law firms have for years played an outsized role in undermining the judicial process …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut.  That Isn't True.  —  Mr. Kristof reported from South Sudan and Nairobi, Kenya.  Ms. Fezehai is a photographer and visual journalist based in Kenya.  —  As the world's richest men slash American aid for the world's poorest children, they insist that all is well.
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Times:
Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries  —  A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.  —  The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens …
NBC News:
A majority-Black town starts armed protection group after neo-Nazi rally  —  “I feel like it's more secure now,” one woman said.  “I know my son can walk home and be OK.”  —  LINCOLN HEIGHTS, Ohio — Nearly every morning for the last month, Jay has been waking up before sunrise to drive around …
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital  —  Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus.  Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.  —  On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle …
Discussion: Off the Kuff and KHOU-TV
Jordan Green / Raw Story:
The head of Trump's antisemitism task force just re-posted two antisemitic X accounts  —  Leo Terrell, the Department of Justice lawyer who heads the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, has made multiple appearances on the network and other conservative outlets to unapologetically press …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Boehler withdraws nomination as special presidential envoy for hostages affairs  —  Adam Boehler, who oversaw unprecedented direct negotiations with Hamas on behalf of President Trump, has withdrawn his nomination for the position of special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, according to two White House officials.
 
 
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
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Ray Furlong / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
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Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she's never been there, doesn't speak the language
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Crisis is the solution to the public attention problem
NBC News:
Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone
Discussion: DNyuz and CNBC
Will Knight / Wired:
Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
Politico:
What court orders? Trump's moving full steam ahead to slash more federal workers
Discussion: NBC News, The Status Kuo and Salon
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Kevin Drum, Influential Early Political Blogger, Dies at 66