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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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Enjoli Liston / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Full Exchange of Signal Texts on U.S. Strikes Is Published as Criticism Mounts Over Leak  —  Where Things Stand  — Security leak: The full exchange of messages about U.S. strikes in Yemen among top Trump administration officials on the Signal app …
Discussion: The Guardian and Al Jazeera
Politico:
Trump gave Waltz a vote of confidence.  It wasn't as smooth behind the scenes.  —  The fight over Waltz's survival shows the administration is obsessed with reporters more than NatSac protocols.  —  President Donald Trump was upset when he found out that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
The Atlantic publishes more Signal messages after Trump admin denials  —  The Atlantic on Wednesday published additional messages Trump administration officials sent in a Signal group chat that inadvertently included the magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Greg Norman / Fox News:
Atlantic reporter publishes more texts about attack on Houthi targets
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:   The Atlantic releases screenshots of timing, weapons used in Yemen war plans Signal chat
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ - and calls Atlantic editor ‘scum’
Andrew Childers / Axios:   Judge who ruled against Trump deportation flights will oversee Signal lawsuit
The Bulwark:
Oops, DOGE Did It Again
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
New York Times:
Signal Leak Is Latest Mistake in Pete Hegseth's Rocky Time as Defense Secretary
Madeline Coggins / Fox News:
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz takes responsibility for ‘embarrassing’ Signal chat leak
Jack Blanchard / Politico:   Circling the wagons  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Wednesday morning.
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Democrats Call for Hegseth and Waltz to Resign
Discussion: The Contrarian and NPR
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 …
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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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Signs Order Requiring Citizenship Proof to Vote in Federal Elections  —  Administration officials cited cracking down on immigrants illegally on voter rolls as one of the executive order's main goals, amplifying Mr. Trump's grievances about electoral integrity.
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Neil Gross / New York Times:   This Is Why Young People Really Voted for Trump
Associated Press:
Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
David Nir / The Downballot:
Democrats flip deep-red Pennsylvania district in special election shocker  —  Democrats pulled off an astonishing upset in a special election for the Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday night, as East Petersburg Mayor James Andrew Malone defeated Republican Josh Parsons by a 50-49 margin to flip …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Democrat wins special state Senate election in Pennsylvania in major upset  —  Democrat James Malone has won an open Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a major upset in a district that comfortably voted for President Trump in November, Decision Desk HQ projects.
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Corporate America's Euphoria Over Trump's ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress  —  CEOs and investors are fretting over what they see as whipsaw policy changes and complacency about the risks of recession  —  Rapturous applause and a sea of phones in the air greeted President Trump …
ProPublica:
How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China  —  Elon Musk's aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records.
Reuters:
Denmark welcomes US decision to skip Greenland dog-sled race amid Trump spat  —  Denmark on Wednesday welcomed a U.S. decision to confine a planned visit to Greenland to a military base after the plans triggered a spat between Copenhagen and the White House amid President Donald Trump's interest in taking over the island.
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Vance to Join Trip That Drew Objections From Greenland
USA Today:
'We've all done this': Trump admin group chat scandal is its most relatable fail  —  Last year Morgan Matthews woke up to discover that she had sent a text message while she was asleep.  —  “I don't don't know what to do with my wwwa w www waawaww we awW,” the lengthy message began …
Phillips P. OBrien / Phillips's Newsletter:
Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back  —  An update on the big story of last night—which reveals the real peril that Ukraine and Europe find themselves in when dealing with the Trump Administration.  —  Phillips's Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows Biden-era regulations for hard-to-trace ghost guns  —  The Supreme Court ruling impacts ghost guns, the largely untraceable firearms used in a growing number of crimes over the past decade.  —  March 26, 2025  —  Live updates: Atlantic publishes messages among Trump officials about timing of strikes in Yemen
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Trump floats possibility of compensation for Jan. 6 rioters  —  “A lot of the people that are in the government now talk about it,” the president said.  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the possibility of financial compensation for people who were prosecuted for taking part in the riot at the Capitol in 2021.
The Boston Globe:
Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student  —  Federal immigration authorities late Tuesday detained a Tufts PhD student who is a Turkish national, her attorney and community activists said.  —  The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, is student at the Tufts's doctoral program …
Discussion: The Hill, Reuters and CBS News
Punchbowl News:
3/26/25 ☀️ AM:  —  Senate deficit hawks balk at debt limit amid reconciliation push  —  Cruz says Pentagon staff lobbied against spectrum auctions  —  Johnson's general counsel is retiring after decades on Hill  —  ICYMI: Malliotakis talks taxes, tariffs, DOGE and more
Joseph Trevithick / The War Zone:
Signs U.S. Massing B-2 Spirit Bombers In Diego Garcia  —  A significant force of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers looks to be currently wending its way to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.  Satellite imagery shows at least three C-17 cargo planes and 10 aerial refueling tankers forward-deployed …
Discussion: The Aviationist and The Daily Wire
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 …
Discussion: New York Times
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds Biden regulations on ‘ghost gun’ kits  —  The decision means that the federal government can regulate the easily obtainable gun parts in the same way as firearms purchased from specialist stores.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration effort …
New York Times:
The Editor Who Was Accidentally Texted War Plans  —  Jeffrey Goldberg tells the story of how he was included in a private government group chat.  —  Featuring Jeffrey Goldberg Original music by Pat McCusker  —  Elisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto  —  Listen and follow ‘The Daily’
Slate:
The Justice Department Just Debuted a New Defense of Trump.  It's Terrifying.  —  Does the “mandate of the electorate” give the president absolute power to defy the courts?  —  On Monday, Donald Trump's Department of Justice made two arguments in two different courts that, taken together …
Giorgio Leali / Politico:
Victoria's Secret and Tesla face French boycott as anti-Trump feeling surges  —  PARIS ― Donald Trump is fueling France's famous economic patriotism.  —  A majority of the French population is considering boycotting United States brands to oppose the new American administration …
 
 
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The Hill:
Conservatives embrace Tesla as liberals ditch Elon Musk
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Paul Krugman:
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy
Discussion: Washington Post
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
How Trump is blasting through norms and testing limits of his power
NPR:
DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why
Discussion: Federal News Network and Axios
Politico:
Trump admin considers killing big energy projects in Dem states
Lizzy Lawrence / STAT:
Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya confirmed by Senate as FDA commissioner and NIH director
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Bondi demands Crockett apologize for aggravated mean to Elon
Jack Dura / Associated Press:
Ex-North Dakota lawmaker to be sentenced for traveling to Europe to pay for sex with minors
Discussion: Lawyer Monthly
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
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Discussion: Documented and Denver Post
ProPublica:
TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson's. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.
Discussion: New York Times
Bloomberg:
Erdogan Wins Trump Praise as Turkish Assets Steady After Rout
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocks Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as ‘Gov. Hot Wheels’
Taylor Orth / YouGov:
60% of Republicans think the Trump administration's military leak is a very or somewhat serious problem
Joe Lawlor / Press Herald:
Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
After White House criticism, WHCA says comedian Amber Ruffin won't headline this year's annual dinner “to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division”

Financial Times:
Marketing executives say big brands are allocating small amounts of their ad budget to X, seeking to avoid being perceived as boycotting Elon Musk's platform

Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources describe rising tensions at Warner Bros. Pictures amid movie flops, with WBD CEO David Zaslav losing confidence in co-heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy

 
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