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6:40 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 …
Discussion: New Republic
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 …
Discussion: American Prospect and New Republic
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
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 …
Dasha Burns / Politico:
‘Own it, fire Waltz, move on’: White House allies fume as group chat scandal grows  —  Trump and officials in his administration have appeared to downplay the seriousness of the leaked Signal group chat over the past 24 hours.  —  Trump administration officials and allies are concerned …
Wired:
SignalGate Isn't About Signal  —  The Trump cabinet's shocking leak of its plans …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and USA Today
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Duckworth: 'Pete Hegseth is a ‘f‑‑‑ing liar’
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
FPWellman / On Democracy with FPWellman …:   EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Trump admin declares the Atlantic's Signal article a ‘hoax’ after it drops ‘war plans’ rhetoric
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Hegseth's detailed attack plans against Houthis
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New York Times:
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 …
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 …
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
Washington Post:
Live updates Trump announces 25 percent new tariffs on imported cars  —  President Donald Trump announced new tariffs of 25 percent on cars imported to the United States on Wednesday.  The taxes will apply to finished automobiles, but not to auto parts.  More tariffs are set to be announced next week.
Discussion: New York Times, NOTUS and NewsNation
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Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Trump announces 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
Mother Jones:
“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
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Matt Shuham / HuffPost:
Trump To Courts: What I Do With Migrant ‘Terrorists’ Isn't Your Business
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 …
Associated Press:
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 …
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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.
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 …
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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Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Trump's Latest Executive Order is a Sham—and a Warning
Discussion: Fair Fight, Townhall and Baltimore Sun
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 …
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.
Walter Olson / The UnPopulist:
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 …
New York Times:
Why Elon Musk and Tesla Have a Legal Bone to Pick With Wisconsin  —  As the billionaire and his allied groups pour more than $20 million into a race for the state's top court, his car company is suing Wisconsin over a law restricting vehicle sales.  —  Elon Musk is far and away the biggest spender …
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Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Tesla is suing to open dealerships in Wisconsin. It's become a big deal in the Supreme Court race
Discussion: Washington Times
Reuters:
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.
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
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns  —  The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration regulation on the nearly impossible-to-trace weapons called ghost guns, clearing the way for continued serial numbers …
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Biden Administration's Limits on ‘Ghost Guns’
Discussion: Vox and HotAir
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
 
 
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Julie Pace / Wall Street Journal:
The AP's Freedom of Speech—and Yours
Discussion: The Federalist
New York Times:
Federal Judiciary Seeks to Curb Threats as Trump and Allies Single Out Judges
Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times:
‘Trump Slump’ Looms as Foreign Visitors Rethink Travel to U.S.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Democrat Asks Intel Leaders If Pete Hegseth May Have Been Drinking Before Signal Chat
Christa Marshall / Politico:
Trump ratchets up the appliance war
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Post:
Team Trump will pay a price for whistling past the Signal group-chat fiasco
Discussion: HuffPost
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
LA Times owner defends remaking paper to Tucker Carlson
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Trump Allies Grill PBS and NPR During Congress Hearing
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The COVID-19 Revisionists Are Twisting the Record
Discussion: The Daily Wire
New York Times:
Rivals Pounce on Paul Weiss, a Top Law Firm, After Trump's Order
Discussion: Off Message and The Hill
Wired:
Inside DOGE's Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID
NPR:
‘Felt like a kidnapping’: Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal
Paul Krugman:
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy
Politico:
Trump admin considers killing big energy projects in Dem states
Discussion: Washington Examiner
ProPublica:
How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
Discussion: TechCrunch
 

 
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