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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans — The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. — I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming.
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Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time — Trump's “Team of Amateurs” Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way — This afternoon, just before 1 pm ET, The Atlantic posted what is, hands down, the wildest and most insane story I have ever read about US national security …
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Waltz's future in doubt following accidental war plan leak — “You can't have recklessness as the national security adviser,” one official said. — The stunning revelation that top administration officials accidentally included a reporter in a group chat discussing war plans …
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If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign — I don't know how Pete Hegseth can look service members in the eye. He's just blown his credibility as a military leader. — On Monday, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg published one of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read.
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“Heads should roll”: Congress erupts over stunning Trump admin leak — Members of Congress in both parties exploded in anger Monday after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he was inadvertently included in a highly-sensitive Trump administration Signal chat on airstrikes in Yemen.
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‘Amateur hour’: Washington aghast at Trump administration's war plan group chat — One Democratic lawmaker also called for immediate hearings on the incident. — Members of Congress and national security staffers were stunned Monday by a bombshell report that top Trump administration officials …
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A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop — How The Atlantic's editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen — The Trump administration has provided many jaw-dropping moments …
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Former defense secretary says somebody ‘needs to get fired’ over Trump admin's shocking war plans leak to journalist — ‘This is just a serious blunder,’ Leon Panetta stated, adding that it ‘could violate espionage laws’ and ‘undermine our national security’
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Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing — Trump officials accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat. Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner.
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The final nail in the ‘but her emails’ coffin
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Speaker Johnson: Waltz, Hegseth shouldn't be disciplined over war plans Signal chat

Trump officials shared war planning in unclassified chat with journalist
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Trump Team Leaks War Plans in Jaw-Dropping Security Fiasco
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Hegseth disputes he texted war plans
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Included Journalist in Group Chat on Yemen Attack Plans in Extraordinary Breach
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Trump's NSA Who Leaked War Plans to Reporter in a Group Chat Previously Shredded His Predecessor Over Leaked Intel
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Buttigieg assails leak as ‘highest level of f‑‑‑up imaginable’
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Jordan briefs Trump on plans to rein in federal judges — House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said he briefed President Donald Trump over the weekend about his panel's plans to examine how the federal judiciary is working to block key parts of the administration's agenda.
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DHS Sec. Noem says will move to ‘eliminate’ FEMA, a long-time Trump target — The News — US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a Cabinet meeting Monday that the department would move to “eliminate” the government's disaster relief agency, days after President Donald Trump signed …
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Trump's Elon Musk Obsession Is About to Cost Him Big Time
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GOP senator: Trump ‘interested in’ seeing Congress codify DOGE cuts
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Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say — The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios.
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US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns — Louis DeJoy has resigned as postmaster general of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) amid uncertainty about the agency's future under President Trump. — DeJoy had notified the USPS board of directors in February that it was “time for them to begin the process of identifying his successor.”
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DeJoy stepping down as USPS postmaster general immediately
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Exclusive: Louis DeJoy Resigns as Postmaster General
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Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation — Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her. — A 21-year-old Columbia University student …
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Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance's Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price — A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump's first administration bought Vice President JD Vance's Virginia home in an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market.


Greenland to Trump: No, we didn't invite you — A delegation that includes second lady Usha Vance is slated to arrive on the island on Thursday. — Greenland did not invite an American delegation to come visit this week, the self-ruling island's government said Monday, flatly denying a claim made by President Donald Trump.
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military …


Trump nominates Susan Monarez for CDC director, elevating from acting role — President Trump has decided to pick Susan Monarez to be the new nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making permanent the acting role she has served at the public health agency in recent months.
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Trump's portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was ‘distorted’ — A painting of Donald Trump hanging with other presidential portraits at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed that his was “purposefully distorted,” according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
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Trump portrait to be removed at Colorado Capitol after president's criticism
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23andMe files for bankruptcy, Anne Wojcicki steps down as CEO … Embattled genetic testing company 23andMe, once valued at $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Missouri federal court on Sunday night. — The company's CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has resigned from her role …
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SCOTUS Hears Latest Conservative Assault on the Voting Rights Act — The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in two Louisiana redistricting cases consolidated into one — Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais — centered on the state's newly minted second majority-Black congressional district.
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Trump cuts $3B from congressional deal he hated — The Scoop — President Donald Trump is cutting nearly $3 billion in spending, much of it reserved for foreign aid, by unwinding part of a 2023 fiscal deal loathed by conservatives, three senior White House officials told Semafor.


Russian-American businessman who loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022 sent $10.8M to firm that may link to Don Jr. and Eric Trump's new business partners — Last year The Guardian reported that Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov, the nephew of an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin …


Teachers Unions Sue Trump Administration Over Push to Shut Education Dept. — The lawsuits accuse the government of dismantling the department without the required approval of Congress. — The Trump administration's campaign to dismantle the Education Department drew a pair of court challenges on Monday …
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Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” — Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should revisit that.”


NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work …


Thune plans April vote on new budget blueprint — Senate Republicans want to adopt a budget blueprint by April 11 to move forward on President Donald Trump's legislative agenda. “I want to get it done this work period,” Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Monday.


How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement — We had a good show in Phoenix and during our conversation something clicked for me that I want to unpack today. — I'm leaving this edition unlocked. I hope you'll share it. And if you're not a member of Bulwark+ yet, I hope you'll consider joining today.
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