Trump stands by national security adviser despite leaked military plans, saying mishap had ‘no impact’ on Yemen strikes  —  “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man,” President Donald Trump said of his national security adviser in a Tuesday phone interview with NBC News.

Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down  —  A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks  —  The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and legal representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump's actions in court than during his first term.  —  Just now

MAGA Influencers May Have Been Paid to Break With RFK  —  Secret cash flies in the MAGA soda wars  —  IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN READING YOUR social media feed and suddenly noticed that conservative personalities have latched on to some obscure issue they've never cared about before …

SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn't Even the Worst Part Of It … I haven't had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about the war cabinet planning a military campaign on the Signal app.  So a few brief thoughts.  —  To state the obvious, in any normal administration Hegseth and Waltz …

A Rising Democratic Star Is Ready for New Leadership — Without Chuck Schumer  —  Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow says it's time for a new generation to take on Trump.  —  Mallory McMorrow doesn't claim to have all the answers for the Democratic Party.  But as the 38-year-old Michigan Democrat gears …

FBI launches Tesla vandalism task force  —  The FBI confirmed Monday it has established a task force to investigate the wave of vandalism and arson incidents targeting Tesla in recent weeks.  —  “Director [Kash] Patel has been unequivocally clear: The FBI will be relentless in its mission …

The Worst and the Dimmest  —  The Atlantic Debacle  —  Most relatively informed citizens will be aware by now of the biggest news story that has come out of this administration: national security officials accidentally added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat …

US Nominates Leo Brent Bozell III as Ambassador to S. Africa  —  US President Donald Trump's administration has nominated Leo Brent Bozell III, a conservative activist and writer, to be the country's ambassador to South Africa.  —  The nomination, published on the US Congress' website, comes amid strained ties between the two nations.

Clock ticks on Trump and GOP's ‘big, beautiful’ bill on taxes  —  Economic turmoil from tariffs could push Republicans to move faster on budget legislation.  —  Just now  —  As President Donald Trump's tariffs roil the U.S. and global economies, lawmakers returned to Washington late Monday under …

Are Republicans blowing a Florida special election?  —  House Republicans shouldn't have to worry about Florida's 6th District special election on April 1.  It's a deep-red seat that former Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) won by 33 points five months ago before decamping for the Trump administration.

Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows  —  A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants  —  New York CNN —  Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants.  But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate …

Russia and Ukraine agree to Black Sea ceasefire, US says - Europe live  —  White House says both sides agree to ‘ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes’  —  Movement of Russian military vessels beyond Eastern Black Sea would violate sea agreement, Ukraine says

Bubble Trouble  —  An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us. … The week of Donald Trump's inauguration, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stood tall next to the president as he made a dramatic announcement: the launch of Project Stargate, a $500 billion supercluster in the rolling plains …

Consumer confidence plummets to lowest level since January 2021  —  Washington CNN —  America's economic mood continues to deteriorate as President Donald Trump carries on with his sweeping economic agenda.  —  Consumer confidence slid 7.2 points this month to a reading of 92.9 …

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.

Trump cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans  —  Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration …