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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 …
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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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‘Somebody has to go down’: Trump allies take aim at Michael Waltz — In a particularly rough week for the Trump administration, a number of the president's allies are calling for accountability after military plans were inadvertently shared with a journalist.
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The Five Scandals (and One Fascinating Political Insight) of Signalgate — The Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself — Welcome to Doomsday Scenario, my regular column on national security, geopolitics, history, and—unfortunately—the fight for democracy in the Trump era.
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Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal
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Hegseth Comes Under Scrutiny for Texting Strike Details as Fallout Grows
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The country's most powerful institutions are bowing to Trump. The Atlantic just backed him into a corner.
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Raw Story and New Jersey Online


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 …
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Michael Waltz's Venmo Is Public, and It's Full of Journalists — The figure who tagged a journalist into a Signal chat about the attack on Yemen also failed to set his Venmo to private, revealing his willingness to engage with reporters of all political stripes.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Trump places 25% tariff on imported autos, expecting to raise $100 billion in tax revenues
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Trump imposes sweeping auto tariffs in latest trade crackdown
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Von der Leyen vows EU will protect its interests as Trump announces huge car tariffs
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Social Security backs off plan to cut phone services for disabled people — But millions applying for retirement or survivor benefits will no longer be allowed to verify their identity by phone, and will need to do so online or in person. — The Social Security Administration …
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Social Security postpones and partially rolls back ID changes — The Social Security Administration on Wednesday said it would postpone controversial changes to phone service and partially relax new rules on identity verification. — Why it matters: Advocates and current and former officials …


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 …
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“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.
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Trump's executive order on elections is a blatant power grab — It seems especially dangerous to take power away from the states when there are many threats to our democracy. — By design, presidents have no power over the conduct of federal elections. President Donald Trump's recent executive order …


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 …
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U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
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Now that Trump has silenced Voice of America, could U.S. public media outlets be next? — The president's decision to shutter the global news organization portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States. — Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed …
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Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks NPR and PBS as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’
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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 …
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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.


Team Trump will pay a price for whistling past the Signal group-chat fiasco — It looks like Team Trump has decided to try to whistle right past the “Operation Overshare” fiasco, and may well pull it off — but not cost-free. — President Trump is standing up for national security adviser Mike Waltz …
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Trump changes his tune on Signalgate: ‘I always thought it was Mike’
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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 …
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Trump To Courts: What I Do With Migrant ‘Terrorists’ Isn't Your Business
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In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of the End of NAFTA and the “Free Trade” Disaster — This afternoon, the Trump administration announced major tariffs on passenger cars and trucks entering the U.S. market, marking the beginning of the end of a thirty-plus year “free trade” disaster.
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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.


Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada — Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’ — A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university …
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