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5:15 PM ET, March 26, 2025

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The Atlantic:
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal  —  So, about that Signal chat.  —  On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans …
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Spiegel Online:
Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online  —  Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike.  Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers …
Wired:
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public  —  A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.  —  A Venmo account under the name …
The Guardian:
Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal  —  Senior GOP figures warn of potential ‘significant political problem’ for Trump administration in rare sign of unrest  —  In rare signs of unrest, top Republican senators are calling for an investigation …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
The country's most powerful institutions are bowing to Trump.  The Atlantic just backed him into a corner.  —  The president has used a strongman playbook to bring universities, news organizations and law firms to heel.  That didn't work on The Atlantic.  —  Over the past two months …
Discussion: Raw Story and New Jersey Online
Wired:
SignalGate Isn't About Signal  —  The Trump cabinet's shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues.  The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.  —  The eye-popping scandal surrounding the Trump cabinet's accidental invitation …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
CNN:
Sources say the details shared by Hegseth in Signal chat were classified as Atlantic publishes additional messages  —  The information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top Trump national security officials was highly classified at the time he wrote it …
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Hegseth's detailed attack plans against Houthis
FPWellman / On Democracy with FPWellman …:
EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
Discussion: Engadget
William Kristol / The Bulwark:   Oops, DOGE Did It Again
Madeline Coggins / Fox News:
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz takes responsibility for ‘embarrassing’ Signal chat leak
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
The lawsuit over Signalgate was just assigned to one of Trump's least favorite judges
Discussion: Axios, 19FortyFive and The Daily Signal
Jenna Russell / New York Times:
Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts  —  The university was told that the student's visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.  —  An international student in a graduate program at Tufts University was taken …
Discussion: New Republic and Reuters
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GBH:
Tufts international graduate student taken into ICE custody  —  A Tufts University international graduate student is in federal custody after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.  —  Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and PhD student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
State Dept. demands ‘enhanced’ social media vetting of student visa applicants
Discussion: The Independent
Charles R. Davis / Salon:
DHS detains grad student who advocated for Palestine and the “humanity of all people”
Discussion: The Boston Globe, Raw Story and Axios
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Exclusive: DOGE staffer, ‘Big Balls’, provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show  —  WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 26 (Reuters) - (This story contains strong language in paragraph 15)  —  The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support …
Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
‘A lot closer than people expected’: GOP worries, Dem cash dominate tense Florida special election  —  President Donald Trump handpicked state Sen. Randy Fine to replace Mike Waltz in the district.  —  Randy Fine has leaned into President Donald Trump's endorsement to try to win a congressional special election in Florida.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Democrat wins special state Senate election in Pennsylvania in major upset
Devan Cole / CNN:
Federal appeals court maintains temporary block on Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations  —  A divided federal appeals court has maintained a temporary block on President Donald Trump's ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
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Washington Post:   Appeals court upholds temporary block on Alien Enemies Act deportations
Stephanie Nolen / New York Times:
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries  —  A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration's plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.  —  The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States' financial support for Gavi, the organization …
Discussion: Raw Story, Reuters and The Guardian
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
4 American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have died, NATO leader says  —  NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he did not yet know the details.  A U.S. official would say only that the four soldiers …
Politico:
What the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mega-rallies are really about  —  The two progressives are bringing energy to a party that has been exhausted and furious in the second Trump era.  —  Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are striking a chord.
Stephen Richer / The Contrarian:
Trump's executive order on voting seems to ignore a lot of law  —  The process of governance matters, but the president pretends we don't have a Congress and rides roughshod over the states.  —  President Trump has finally issued an executive order on election administration.  —  I'd expected it to come sooner.
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New York Times:
Rivals Pounce on Paul Weiss, a Top Law Firm, After Trump's Order  —  Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm's worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.  —  President Trump's executive order attacking Paul Weiss and severely restricting …
Discussion: The Hill and City A.M.
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Nation's Elite Lawyers Choose Money Over The Constitution
Discussion: JURIST and The Guardian
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Hmmm: Did Pfizer Try to Throw the 2020 Election to Biden?  —  Explosive, if true.  Corrupt?  Certainly — in a moral sense, anyway.  But would it have been illegal — even if it could be proven?  —  Donald Trump has long accused Pfizer of sitting on its clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
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Wall Street Journal:   U.S. Prosecutors Probe Tip About Timing of Pfizer Vaccine
Wired:
Inside DOGE's Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID  —  Court filings show that from the earliest days of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk's DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.  —  From the beginning of President Donald …
ProPublica:
How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Elon Musk's aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes …
Discussion: TechCrunch
New York Times:
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services  —  States were told Monday that they could no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.  —  The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion …
NPR:
DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why  —  Fewer than 50 people have access to Social Security Administration databases containing hundreds of millions of people's private financial and personal information.  —  But only one also has access …
Discussion: Popular Information
Politico:
Trump admin considers killing big energy projects in Dem states  —  The cuts, if carried through, would politicize the federal funds that Congress and the Biden administration awarded to seven regional applicants as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Tesla is suing to open dealerships in Wisconsin.  It's become a big deal in the Supreme Court race  —  Tesla CEO Elon Musk and political groups he backs are pouring millions of dollars into the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court as the electric vehicle company sues to overturn …
 
 
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
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Discussion: The Hill
Mother Jones:
“You're Here Because of Your Tattoos”  —  On Friday, March 14, Arturo Suárez Trejo called …
Discussion: Just Security and UPI
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The COVID-19 Revisionists Are Twisting the Record
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Politico:
Republican moves to censure Rep. Jasmine Crockett over ‘Hot Wheels’ remark
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