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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.”
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Raw Story


The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans — U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. — The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern …
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The Hill


Social Security: A Time for Outrage — Trump's policies attack his own base — but who will tell them? — Donald Trump is often described as a “populist.” Yet his administration is stuffed with wealthy men who are clueless about how the other 99.99 percent lives, while his policies involve undermining …
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McSweeney's, Raw Story and Business Insider
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Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security — Claims of massive problems by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with the agency's audits and reports. — Just now — Elon Musk put a big target on the Social Security Administration in the first weeks of the Trump administration …
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Axios, Washington Examiner and Raw Story


Trump says any country buying Venezuelan oil will face a 25% tariff — President Donald Trump said Monday that he will impose tariffs of 25% on any nation that purchases oil from Venezuela. — “Venezuela has been very hostile to the United States and the Freedoms which we espouse.
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Raw Story
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Trump to impose 25% tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela - US politics live — President announces ‘secondary tariff’ amid baseless claim that Venezuela is sending criminals to the US — Trump to impose 25% tariff on countries that buy oil or gas from Venezuela
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The Independent and Washington Examiner


Judge Rejects Trump's Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law — A federal judge rejected a request from the Trump administration to lift a court order preventing it from using an 18th century wartime law to deport people to a Salvadoran hard labor prison without due process.
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Axios, Washington Examiner, MeidasTouch News, The Hill, Forbes, Townhall, The National Pulse, Raw Story and The Post Millennial
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Judge keeps block on Trump gang deportations, says they face ‘torture, beatings’ in El Salvador
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The Guardian, The Hill, New York Times, The Daily Signal, Semafor and Politico


Trump demands Colorado take down ‘purposefully distorted’ painting — President Trump is demanding that Colorado take down it's “purposefully distorted” painting of him hanging in the State Capitol. — “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado …
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Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case seeking to challenge the 1964 precedent that protects news outlets from litigation for publishing critical information about public figures.
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The Independent
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Supreme Court turns away casino mogul Steve Wynn's challenge to defamation law
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The Hill, CBS News, Washington Examiner, NBC News, Bloomberg, New Republic and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »


Law firm targeted by Trump could have been ‘destroyed,’ chairman says in explaining deal with Trump — The chairman of a prominent law firm who cut a deal with President Donald Trump last week to avert the consequences of a White House executive order told colleagues in an email Sunday …
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The fight against Trump's ‘unprecedented’ attack on Big Law is on
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JURIST

Trump's hostile takeover of big law
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The Contrarian, Original Jurisdiction, Executive Functions, New Republic, New York Times and Business Insider


Trump's Most Dangerous Enabler Is Not Who You Think It Is — Who is President Donald Trump's most dangerous enabler? As his second term got underway, it initially appeared that this coveted title might fall to FBI Director Kash Patel, who'd vowed to investigate Trump's enemies.


Trump's Moves on Greenland Appear to Be Backfiring — The Greenlandic government is calling an upcoming visit by Trump officials “aggressive,” pushing the island further from the United States. — For more than 150 years, U.S. officials have repeatedly wanted, as President Trump puts it, to “get” Greenland.
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The Independent, Associated Press, Semafor, Washington Post, The Hill and Reuters
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Anger in Greenland over Usha Vance and Mike Waltz's planned visit this week
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The Hill, Fox News, ABC News, Washington Examiner, New York Times, CNN, Axios, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, New Republic, Associated Press, One America News Network, The Daily Signal, New Jersey Online, Al Jazeera, New York Post, American Thinker, Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Independent, Breitbart, CBS News and UPI

Greenland condemns planned visits by Usha Vance and Trump adviser
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NBC News, Breitbart, Associated Press, USA Today, Daily Mail, Bloomberg, Washington Times, New York Times and The Independent


Behind the Curtain: Dems' dark, deep hole — Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse: — The party has its lowest favorability ever. — No popular national leader to help improve it.
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The Daily Caller


Gulf of Fear — When news anchors tiptoe around the name Gulf of Mexico, it's not just semantics—it's a glimpse at how the press starts to flinch under political pressure. — In China, Taiwan doesn't exist—at least not as a country. On official maps, it's a province.


VICTORY: Federal court blocks Texas A&M's unconstitutional drag ban — A federal judge today upheld the First Amendment rights of a Texas A&M student group by blocking an attempt by officials to prohibit the group's upcoming drag show on the College Station campus.
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The Texas Tribune and The Barbed Wire


‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science — Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump's policies. — A week after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated …
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Raw Story, STAT and Baltimore Sun


Mia Love, Utah's history-making former congresswoman, dies at 49 — A former City Council member, mayor and two-term member of Congress, she died after a three-year battle with brain cancer — Mia Love, the child of Haitian immigrants who went on to become a City Council member …
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Judge dread — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — Good Monday morning.
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Vanity Fair


Man charged with assault at Tesla dealership after driving car at protesters — The protest was one of several across the country in opposition to Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has been slashing government costs and firing thousands of federal workers. — A man was arrested and charged …
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Associated Press, The Hill, The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit and Palm Beach Post


The Supreme Court's new religion case could devastate American workers — Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin risks giving employers a sweeping new power to ignore laws protecting their workers. … The Court's Republican majority almost always rules in favor of Christian litigants who seek …
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The Post Millennial


Ed Martin Is Trampling the Rule of Law. And He Won't Shut Up About It. — Trump's loyal prosecutor is weaponizing the DOJ—one typo at a time. — When Elon Musk ordered a government-wide email blast directing federal employees to list their recent accomplishments, most senior officials paused to consider their options.
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Daily Kos


Trump appoints Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey — Habba served as Trump's personal attorney before becoming White House counselor. — Counselor to the President Alina Habba speaks to reporters outside the West Wing at the White House, Mar. 17, 2025, in Washington.
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Fox News, Politico, The Hill, Axios, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Daily Mail, Associated Press, Above the Law, The US Sun, Raw Story and The Post Millennial


Exclusive: Interim SEC chief cast sole vote against suing Musk — Days before Republicans took the helm of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January, the agency's five commissioners held a closed-door vote on whether to sue Elon Musk. — Since 2022, the agency …


The Abundance Agenda — I spent the last few days digesting Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and then reading twelve recent pieces commenting on the book, with the goal of getting a handle on this particular area of discourse and trying to determine what exactly to make of it all.
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Political Wire


‘Not how this works’: The GOP agenda is stuck amid House vs. Senate infighting — To show quick progress, lawmakers will have to make a host of difficult decisions in the coming weeks. — Congressional Republicans left Washington riding high after their big victory on government spending.
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Washington Examiner, Punchbowl News, NBC News, Roll Call, NOTUS and Raw Story


U.S. Could Run Out of Cash by July, Analysis Finds — The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that the so-called X-date could fall between mid-July and early October if Congress does not lift or suspend the nation's debt limit. — The United States could run out of cash to continue paying …
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The Hill, New York Post, Washington Examiner and Bloomberg


The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot — I still remember, from when I was a politically precocious teen in the 1970s, my dog-eared paperback copy of one of that fraught decade's defining books: The Gulag Archipelago by the Soviet Nobel laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


Future Mole Fears on the Potomac — Trump-Musk purges of intelligence, military, nuclear agencies raise security concerns — Desperate for some compelling entertainment to escape the latest bad news, I picked up my clicker the other night and stumbled upon an old favorite, Breach …