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Politico:
Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says  —  Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.  —  A Georgetown University researcher …
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The Hoya:
DEVELOPING: GU Researcher Detained By Immigration Agents  —  Federal immigration agents detained a Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow March 17, seeking to deport him and accusing him of opposing U.S. foreign policy.  —  The researcher, Badar Khan Suri of the Georgetown School …
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
USA Today:
Exclusive: Trump to sign order Thursday aimed at eliminating Education Department  —  Trump will direct his education secretary, Linda McMahon, to take ‘all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education.’  —  Joey Garrison Zachary SchermeleUSA TODAY
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Cory Turner / NPR:   Trump to sign order aiming to close the Education Department
Associated Press:
Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department
Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found  —  France's research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched  —  France's research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month …
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Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:
U.S. Turned Away French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says  —  The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone.  —  A French scientist was prevented …
Pieter Haeck / Politico:
Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Social Security numbers and other private information unmasked in JFK files  —  The data belongs to more than 200 former congressional staffers and others with connections to decades-old investigations.  —  The Social Security numbers and other private information of more than 200 former …
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Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast:   Trump Lawyer Livid as JFK Files Leak His Social Security Number: ‘Absolutely Outrageous’
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Tim Walz Attacks Musk With Language From the Trump Playbook  —  The Minnesota governor derided Elon Musk, a naturalized United States citizen, as a “South African nepo baby.”  —  When he took the stage in downtown Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday night to rev up Democrats ahead …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: Elon Musk's PAC playbook in Wisconsin's court race
Reuters:
Member of Elon Musk's DOGE takes up senior post at USAID, email says  —  A member of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency will take up a top role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, while Pete Marocco, who played a major role in the dismantling of the agency …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Officials Circulate Plan That Would Overhaul USAID
Discussion: DNyuz
Karen Zraick / New York Times:
Jury Orders Greenpeace to Pay Pipeline Company More Than $660 Million  —  The environmental group had said the lawsuit, over its role in a protest movement, could mean an end to its operations in the United States.  —  A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded damages totaling more than $660 million …
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Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing  —  Tesla's (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion is missing.  —  Many Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla's accounting for years …
Discussion: Financial Times
New York Times:
Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges  —  Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
Stephen I. Vladeck / New York Times:
Trump Is Breaking Things.  They Can't All Be Fixed by the Courts.  —  The second Trump administration appears to have learned some lessons from the first.  For instance, even when courts eventually strike down the administration's policies, there are tactics that can keep those policies …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
New York Times:
Trump Had ‘Aptitude for Music’ as a Child, He Told Kennedy Center Board  —  The president, who recently took over Washington's major performing arts center, reportedly said that he had not been encouraged to develop his musical talents.  —  During his first visit to the Kennedy Center since making himself …
Discussion: The Daily Signal and New Republic
Martin Kettle / The Guardian:
Europe doesn't need Trump to form a western alliance - and one is already taking shape  —  Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drum  —  An Atlantic alliance without the United States?  It sounds like a contradiction in terms - Hamlet without the prince.
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Tesla falls after Commerce secretary recommends buying stock  —  Tesla shares fell early Thursday after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used a TV appearance to urge Americans to buy stock in Elon Musk's car company.  —  Why it matters: Cabinet secretaries don't typically recommend individual stocks …
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Trump's Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation  —  Many in higher education worry Trump's efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science.  Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump moves to destroy Columbia University  —  🎒 👨‍🎓 📖 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Trump team makes plans for military to hold migrants at border  —  If enacted, miles of buffer zone would become a temporary military installation, giving U.S. troops their most direct role yet in the president's enforcement mission.  —  The Trump administration is evaluating plans …
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Don't abandon jailed journalists who worked for shuttered U.S. outlets  —  Several journalists are still detained in authoritarian states simply for doing their job.  —  When my Iranian jailers told me, with a straight face, that my newspaper — The Post — didn't exist, it was easy to laugh it off.
Pamela Herd / Can We Still Govern?:
Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health  —  A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized - or eliminated  —  There is widespread reporting of hundreds of grant cancellations at the National Institutes for Health (NIH)—with significantly more coming.
Discussion: The Equation and DNyuz
Stephen Engelberg / ProPublica:
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy  —  Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead.  That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story turns out to be.
NBC News:
Trump-appointed prosecutor's office drops assault case against Enrique Tarrio  —  Ryan J. Reilly and Ted Oberg  —  The U.S. Attorney's for the District of Columbia has dropped an assault case against Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys member who was serving 22 years in federal prison following …
Discussion: WUSA and The Gateway Pundit
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More than a dozen judges have said Trump and Co. probably broke the law  —  Trump is now averaging one such finding about every four days.  —  Just now  —  From the start of his second term, President Donald Trump and his administration signaled a willingness — even a desire …
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Threats Rise Against Judges Overseeing Trump Policy Cases, Fueling Safety Concerns  —  Federal judges are worried that online threats against judges who oversee high-profile cases challenging Trump administration policies may lead to real-world violence.  —  President Trump's angry call …
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses  —  Multiple pages scrubbed from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website due to a Trump order  — Never miss global breaking news.  Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.
New York Times:
Reinstated, but Not Back to Work: Fired Workers Linger in ‘Limbo’  —  More than a dozen federal agencies have reinstated employees and immediately placed them on administrative leave, according to court filings.  —  Erin Cagney was supposed to hear on Monday that she could go back to doing …
The Atlantic:
Stephen Miller Has a Plan  —  During the first Trump administration, when Stephen Miller's immigration policy proposals hit obstacles in federal court, rumors would circulate about his plans to dust off arcane presidential powers.  Government lawyers were wary of overreach …
Discussion: Raw Story
Marcia Brown / Politico:
USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks  —  The halt in deliveries comes after the Trump administration separately slashed $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy food from farms.  —  The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries …
Discussion: Raw Story, BatBoyBlog and Adventus
Wall Street Journal:
A U.S. Retreat in the War of Ideas  —  Trump shuts down networks that help evade dictatorship firewalls.  —  President Trump has adopted Ronald Reagan's “peace through strength” theme to echo the Gipper's successful foreign-policy realism.  But what Mr. Trump ignores is the idealism …
Discussion: Raw Story
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
A list of the Social Security offices across the US expected to close this year  —  Dozens of Social Security Administration offices across the country are slated to close this year due to actions taken by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as part of the Trump administration's …
Discussion: Plain Dealer, Gizmodo and The Hill
New York Times:
How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More  —  President Trump's expansive interpretation of presidential power has become the defining characteristic of his second term.  —  President Trump called for one federal judge seeking basic information about his deportation efforts …
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
Martine Powers / Washington Post:
With talk of a 51st state, a mystery: Why is Trump obsessed with Canada?  —  Canadians say President Trump's 51st-state rhetoric is a threat to national security.  They're also perplexed by the origin of his vision for Canadian annexation.  —  Just now  —  As President Donald Trump argued …
 
 
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NBC News:
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
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Meredith Whittaker / Financial Times:
The war on encryption is dangerous
Discussion: Fortune and The Daily Signal
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Trump's mind control
Punchbowl News:
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Holden Thorp / New York Times:
The Autism Mystery That Isn't  —  President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have vowed …
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Jordan Hart / Business Insider:
Elon Musk says he's shocked at the level of Tesla hate and vandalism happening: 'I've never done anything harmful'
Miranda Murray / Reuters:
Germany updates US travel advice after citizens detained
Discussion: Axios, The Hill, UPI and Politico
Reuters:
Exclusive: US suspends some efforts to counter Russian sabotage as Trump moves closer to Putin
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: DOGE Strong-Armed USIP Security Contractors to Switch Sides
Discussion: Politico