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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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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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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 …
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Raw Story and New Jersey Online


Hegseth Comes Under Scrutiny for Texting Strike Details as Fallout Grows
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Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal
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‘Own it, fire Waltz, move on’: White House allies fume as group chat scandal grows

Sources say the details shared by Hegseth in Signal chat were classified as Atlantic publishes additional messages
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Duckworth: 'Pete Hegseth is a ‘f‑‑‑ing liar’
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Trump gave Waltz a vote of confidence. It wasn't as smooth behind the scenes.
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SignalGate Isn't About Signal — The Trump cabinet's shocking leak of its plans …
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Boston Herald, USA Today and Washington Examiner


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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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 …
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DHS detains grad student who advocated for Palestine and the “humanity of all people”
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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 announces 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars
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Trump imposes sweeping auto tariffs in latest trade crackdown
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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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The Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big Law
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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 …
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Social Security Administration backtracks on some ID requirements after backlash
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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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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 …
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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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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.


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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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?
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Bloomberg


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 …


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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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 …
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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.


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 …
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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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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.
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American Prospect, The Guardian and Compact