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Joanne Stocker / CBS News:
As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia — President Trump's Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen …
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NPR:
Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers — Several days after top national security officials accidentally included a reporter in a Signal chat about bombing the Houthi sites in Yemen, a Pentagon-wide advisory warned against using the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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James Laporta / CBS News:
NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat — The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News.
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Politico:
'It's so unbelievable': Cyber world stunned over war planners using Signal — Regardless of app security, experts say communicating the military plans of the U.S. government in a non-classified space creates a massive security vulnerability. — Lawmakers and experts are sounding the alarm …
FPWellman / On Democracy with FPWellman …:
It's a thousand times worse than you think — Whiskeyleaks seems appropriate — The explosive news broke yesterday that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz had opened a Signal group chat to discuss the planning for strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen and included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Ratcliffe: Signal was approved for communication use by Biden administration — CIA Director John Ratcliffe maintained in a heated exchange before a Senate panel that his participation in a Signal group chat, which discussed attacking the Houthis, was above the books and completely legal.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Atlantic editor suggests he's open to sharing Hegseth's full war plans texts publicly — Jeffery Goldberg, the top editor of The Atlantic, said he could be open to sharing more details from a Signal group chat he was mistakenly added to by top U.S. officials that contained secret war plans.
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
White House defiant after messaging fiasco with The Atlantic
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Republicans in Congress React to Signal Chat Leak With Collective Shrug
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NPR:
Intelligence leaders: We didn't share classified information in Signal chat group
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Top Intel Democrat calls for Hegseth and Waltz to resign
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Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
What #SignalGate means for transparency & accountability — and what Congress & the Justice Department should do now.
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Washington Post:
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.
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Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
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 …
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Justin Glawe / Rolling Stone:
Former Social Security Chief Courts Florida Seniors Enraged by Musk's Cuts
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Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
The Social Security crisis, briefly explained
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Self-professed ‘DOGE person’ Frank Bisignano gets his confirmation hearing to lead Social Security
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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
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
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Reuters:
Trump targets Jenner & Block in latest executive order aimed at law firms — President Donald Trump expanded his attacks on major U.S. law firms on Tuesday as he signed an executive order targeting Jenner & Block, which represents clients challenging some of his major policies and formerly employed …
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Politico, Axios, CBS News, Above the Law and Business Insider
Deborah Pearlstein / New York Times:
They Are America's Most Powerful Law Firms. Their Silence Is Deafening.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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 …
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NBC News:
Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges — Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump's agenda. — WASHINGTON — Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges …
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Despite pioneering self-government …
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NBC News:
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.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
The biggest scandal of Trump 2.0 is no scandal at all on MAGA media
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Angrej Singh / Axios:
👊🔥🇺🇸: Michael Waltz's emoji trio reaction to Yemen strikes goes viral
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Trump Signs Order in Attempt to Vastly Reshape U.S. Elections — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday commanding wide-ranging changes to how U.S. elections are conducted, a move that will likely be swiftly challenged by voting rights organizations across the country.
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Politico:
Europe fumes at Trump team's insults in leaked Signal chat — British forces already took part in strikes against Houthis, so don't call us “freeloaders,” former defense secretary says. — LONDON — Sometimes it's better not to know what your so-called friends say behind your back.
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Who is the most popular U.S. political figure? — Maybe Democrats can learn something from them — There is a lot of debate right now over why and how the Democrats lost the 2024 election, and what to do about it before 2026. The takes have been catalyzed by recent surveys showing …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Will Democrats finally get a shot at taking out Susan Collins?
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Background. My Administration is committed to addressing the significant risks associated with law firms …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Plans to Freeze Family-Planning Grants — Tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other groups would be cut off while the administration examines their DEI efforts — The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions …
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Wall Street Journal:
Columbia's President Faces Angry Faculty in Closed-Door Meetings — Katrina Armstrong warns of ‘devastating’ risk of funding cuts — Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong met with anxious faculty over the weekend in an effort to generate support, warn of the jeopardy …
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
SCOOP: Jasmine Crockett hit with censure effort for mocking paraplegic Texas governor as ‘Hot Wheels’ — Rep. Jasmine Crockett appeared to mock Gov. Greg Abbott's disability during an event over the weekend — FIRST ON FOX: A GOP lawmaker is moving to have Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas …
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Intelligence Report Says Russia Remains Enduring Threat — On the day the report was released, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, told lawmakers that Moscow was a “formidable competitor.” — While the Trump administration has drastically changed how it talks …
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Politico, Bloomberg and The Moscow Times
Washington Post:
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism — A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism. — A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims about the connection between immunizations …
New York Times:
White House Says Russia and Ukraine Agree to Stop Fighting in Black Sea — The agreement announced after parallel sets of talks in Riyadh would be the first significant step toward the full cease-fire the Trump Administration had been pushing, but it still would fall short.
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Adam Wren / Politico:
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 …
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Wired:
Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data — The team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes measurement data crucial for advanced research in areas like astrophysics, nuclear fusion, and semiconductors.
New York Times:
Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate — The administration has been seeking to arrest and deport Yunseo Chung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child, after she participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered …
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
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 …
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