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3:55 PM ET, March 23, 2025

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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Chuck Schumer rejects calls to step down as Senate Democratic leader  —  The Senate minority leader responded to criticism from within his party about his handling of a GOP government funding bill and accused Trump of triggering a constitutional crisis.  —  WASHINGTON — A defiant Senate …
Discussion: The Daily Wire
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Associated Press:
AOC tries to broaden her appeal within a Democratic base spoiling for a fight
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:   Pelosi Privately Urged Hakeem Jeffries to ‘Use Your Power’
Matthew Yglesias / Bloomberg:
Democrats Need More Combative Centrists
Discussion: Twitchy and Fortune
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Schumer Refuses to Step Down Despite Criticism
CNN:   ‘Use your power’: Hakeem Jeffries at a crossroads as Democrats urgently search for strategy
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
SpaceX Positioned to Secure Billions in New Federal Contracts Under Trump  —  Elon Musk's role in the White House allows him to cancel contracts and influence policy, potentially benefiting his companies.  Supporters say he has the best technology.  —  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket preparing …
Betsy Klein / CNN:
'This is not your grandmother's Easter Egg Roll': White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter event  —  The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year's Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns …
Discussion: Mother Jones
J. Michael Luttig / New York Times:
Trump Won't Win a War Against the Courts  —  President Trump has wasted no time in his second term in declaring war on the nation's federal judiciary, the country's legal profession and the rule of law.  He has provoked a constitutional crisis with his stunning frontal assault on the third branch …
New York Times:
U.S. Officials to Visit Greenland Amid Trump's Talk of a Takeover  —  Usha Vance, the second lady, will attend cultural events while Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, visits troops stationed on the island that President Trump has said the United States will get “one way or the other.”
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Playbook: Trump's legal hit list grows  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Sunday morning.  This is Ankush Khardori, wishing Pope Francis well after being discharged from a hospital in Rome today.  Get in touch.  —  DRIVING THE DAY
Discussion: JURIST
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94  —  Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Tax Cheats Could Prosper Under Trump, IRS Experts Say  —  The Internal Revenue Service could lose 10 percent of its revenue — $500 billion — because taxpayers and businesses think the Trump administration won't go after them for not paying taxes … According to internal projections …
Ben Gutierrez / Hawaii News Now:
Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders  —  HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Green card holders are officially Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.  But being a resident of the United States is very different from being a citizen.
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Catherine E. Shoichet / CNN:   'They've never been afraid before': Why some green card holders' concerns are growing
Sabrina Haake / Raw Story:
John Roberts has created a monster — and he knows it  —  Five or six years ago, I was in federal court on an evidence motion.  I don't remember the issue, the claim, or whether I was for or against the motion.  What I do remember like it happened today is the exchange I had with the judge.
Jordan Young / NBC4 Washington:
Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43  —  The cause of her death is still under investigation  —  Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said.
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New York Times:
Columbia University's Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed  —  Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.  —  Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration's heavy hand.
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Jeremy Clarkson taunts ‘idiot’ Elon Musk over Tesla vandalism  —  British broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson has reignited a feud with carmaker-turned-political figure Elon Musk that started in 2008 with a bad review of a Tesla car on motoring show Top Gear.  —  People in the United States and around …
Discussion: The Times
Melody Schreiber / The Guardian:
More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation  —  Ohio, Maryland and Alabama among states to report new cases, with 378 confirmed in first few months of 2025  —  More US states are reporting measles cases as the Texas outbreak expands, surpassing last year's total, amid vaccine misinformation and hesitancy.
Discussion: Fox News and Off the Kuff
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 22, 2025  —  Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend's rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump last night told reporters that he didn't sign the proclamation that set that legal process in motion.
Palm Beach Post:
Protesters denounce Musk, DOGE outside Tesla showroom  —  Jasmine Fernández Antonio FinsPalm Beach Post  —  (This story has been updated to add new information and to change or add a photo or video..)  —  WEST PALM BEACH — Protesters lined up outside the Tesla showroom …
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Homan says Trump administration won't defy judge's order on deportation flights  —  But Trump's “border czar” says he doesn't care what judges think.  —  Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, appears in ABC News' “This Week” on Mar. 23, 2025.  —  Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's …
New York Times:
Deportations Haven't Surged Under Trump.  But Here's How They've Changed.  —  In the first two months of President Trump's immigration crackdown, the administration has taken new and unusual measures to conduct deportations.  It has enlisted military planes, pressured other countries …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Wants to Force Immigrants to Share Their Social Media Handles When Applying for Citizenship  —  Experts say this is an assault on the First Amendment  —  Soon, if a new proposal from the Trump administration goes into effect, immigrants applying for green cards or citizenship …
Discussion: The Intercept
 
 
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Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk's Soap Operas for Conspiracy Buffs
Mickey Djuric / Politico:
Trump vs. Canada: Prime Minister Carney calls snap election to take on president
Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine and Russia Had Cease-Fires Before. The Killing Didn't Stop.
Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump moves closer to court crisis
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Bloomberg:
What Arrest of Erdogan's Top Rival Means for Turkey
David French / New York Times:
Canada, May I Introduce You to Ukraine?
Discussion: The Hill
Aziz Huq / The Atlantic:
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Walz reemerges as Democratic fighter with shots at Musk
Discussion: Twitchy and New York Post
NBC News:
Trump allies press the White House to dial back Elon Musk's media interviews over his Social Security jabs
Kenneal Patterson / The Daily Beast:
CNN Host Says Trump Doesn't ‘Really Do Much’ Before Noon
Washington Post:
They were arrested during routine ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared.
Leah Willingham / Associated Press:
In West Virginia coal country, new Social Security barriers present challenges to the most vulnerable
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Republicans, independents crave answers from GOP congressman in Alabama
Jon Passantino / Status:
Hanging by a Thread  —  Meta's decisions at the once promising “Twitter killer” …
New York Times:
Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
 

 
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses PBS and NPR of “brainwashing children” and making them transgender ahead of a DOGE subcommittee hearing with their CEOs

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Mansueto Ventures tightens Fast Company and Inc. paywalls, reserving four daily stories for subscribers, up from one, to grow revenue amid traffic volatility

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Trump withdraws the nomination of Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III to head USAGM, naming him instead to serve as US ambassador to South Africa

 
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