Top Items:


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 …
Discussion:
New York Times, NBC News, Doomsday Scenario, The Hill, Associated Press, Reuters, Scripps News, HuffPost, Fox News, The Bulwark, CBS News, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Politico, Le Monde, Rolling Stone, Axios, Baltimore Sun, PolitiFact, Roll Call, Washington Times, New York Times, Washington Examiner, American Oversight, New Jersey Online, Foreign Policy, The Forward, The Register, New Republic, masslive.com, Jacobin, The Independent, CNN, Slate, Mediaite, Townhall, El País, RedState, The Root, NPR, JURIST, Forbes, Human Events, Fortune, Business Insider, Raw Story, Daily Kos, American Greatness, Mississippi Free Press, The Daily Caller, USA Today, The Post Millennial, New York Magazine, The Daily Signal, Washington Post, emptywheel, Daily Mail, UPI, Reason, WTTG-TV, Above the Law, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Discourse …, The Mahablog, Vanity Fair, Ars Technica, Variety, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Warning with Steve Schmidt, The Intercept, WBUR, NewsNation, Adventus, To the Contrary, Daring Fireball, The Gene Pool, WRIC ABC 8News, Racket News, NOTUS, Los Angeles Times, Semafor, 404 Media, Rick Wilson's Intel …, Deadline, israelhayom.com, The Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, MeidasTouch News, The Contrarian and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:


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 …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner and New Republic


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 …
Discussion:
New Republic


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


Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal
Discussion:
Associated Press, Politico, The Hill, BBC, Fox News, The Aviationist, 19FortyFive and Daily Kos

‘Own it, fire Waltz, move on’: White House allies fume as group chat scandal grows
Discussion:
CBS News, Axios, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, masslive.com, Fox News, Business Insider, The Hill, Forbes, The Independent, The Floridian, Comic Sands, Blaze Media and Washington Times

Trump gave Waltz a vote of confidence. It wasn't as smooth behind the scenes.
Discussion:
ABC News, CBS News, Daily Mail, 19FortyFive, The Independent, Reason, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Louder With Crowder, New Republic and Washington Times

Michael Waltz's Venmo Is Public, and It's Full of Journalists
Discussion:
Townhall


Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE — 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:
Associated Press, Reuters, masslive.com, New York Daily News, New Republic, The Boston Globe and Townhall
RELATED:


WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine — “I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
Discussion:
USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Handbasket, CBS News, JURIST, Al Jazeera, Fox News, The Independent, The Hill and Jewish Telegraphic Agency


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 …
Discussion:
masslive.com, The Guardian and Boston Herald

DHS detains grad student who advocated for Palestine and the “humanity of all people”
Discussion:
The Boston Globe, Raw Story and Axios


Here is the latest. — The measure is intended to bring car factories to the United States but could increase prices for consumers significantly. — Here is the latest. — President Trump said on Wednesday that he would impose a 25 percent tariffs on all cars that are shipped into the United States.
Discussion:
Washington Post, RedState, UPI, The Verge and NewsNation
RELATED:


Trump announces additional 25 percent tariff on auto imports
Discussion:
Fox Business, New York Times, Bloomberg, CBS News, Townhall, Fortune, Daily Caller News Foundation, The US Sun, Portal, 77 WABC, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and CNBC

Trump imposes sweeping auto tariffs in latest trade crackdown
Discussion:
CBS News, New York Times, Daily Mail and Global News


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 …
Discussion:
New York Times, Associated Press, HuffPost, Politico, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Axios, Townhall, Fox News, The Independent, USA Today, ABC17NEWS, The Hill, Rolling Stone, New Republic and NewsNation
RELATED:


Duckworth: 'Pete Hegseth is a ‘f‑‑‑ing liar’
Discussion:
PoliticusUSA and Raw Story


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 …
Discussion:
Raw Story and The Independent


Social Security Administration backtracks on some ID requirements after backlash — The Social Security Administration is partially backtracking on a plan that would require all new and existing beneficiaries to travel to a Social Security field office to verify their identity.
Discussion:
CBS News
RELATED:


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 …
Discussion:
ABC News, NBC News, The Guardian, CBS News, Washington Examiner, New York Post, WKRG News 5, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Metro.co.uk, New York Times, The Hill, The Kyiv Independent, One America News Network, Fox News, Blaze Media, The Post Millennial, Al Jazeera, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, ABC17NEWS and Reuters


“You're Here Because of Your Tattoos” — On Friday, March 14, Arturo Suárez Trejo called his wife, Nathali Sánchez, from an immigration detention center in Texas. Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela, explained that his deportation flight had been delayed.
Discussion:
Just Security and UPI


Democrats take hope from upset win in a GOP-leaning Pennsylvania state Senate district — Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a district that a Democrat …
RELATED:


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.
RELATED:

Trump's Latest Executive Order is a Sham—and a Warning
Discussion:
Fair Fight, Townhall, Baltimore Sun, Daily Kos, Israpundit, CBS News and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion


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.


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:
The Hill, USA Today, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Guardian, Reuters and Raw Story


Federal Court Slaps Down DOJ's Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law — A three-judge panel Wednesday with a 2-1 vote declined the Department of Justice's (DOJ) request to lift a lower-court order preventing the Trump administration from using an 18th century wartime law to deport people …
Discussion:
NPR
RELATED:

Trump To Courts: What I Do With Migrant ‘Terrorists’ Isn't Your Business
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and New Republic


Foreign Spies to Team Trump: 👊🇺🇸🔥 — If you're running the security directorate of a hostile nation, savor this moment. It's never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government. Can you even call it stealing when it's this simple?
Discussion:
Bloomberg


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.
Discussion:
American Prospect, The Guardian and Compact


Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law — A new presidential memo is meant to instill fear in any firm that dares to represent his political adversaries — The Trump administration's assault on lawyers who represent its perceived adversaries …


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 …
Discussion:
CBS News, Boston Herald, Daily Camera and City & State New York


Canada freezes rebate payments to Tesla, bans it from future rebate programs due to tariffs — Canada has frozen all rebate payments for Tesla (TSLA.O) and banned the electric-vehicle maker from future EV rebate programs, Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday.


The AP's Freedom of Speech—and Yours — A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes. — For anyone who thinks the Associated Press's lawsuit against President Trump's White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger. It's really about whether the government can control what you say.
Discussion:
The Federalist


‘Trump Slump’ Looms as Foreign Visitors Rethink Travel to U.S. — A growing number of travelers say they are worried about feeling unwelcome or unsafe in America and are reluctant to support the economy of a country that may be destabilizing other nations. — International tourists detained at U.S. borders.


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