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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador withdrawn, Trump says  —  Washington — Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, President Trump confirmed Thursday, with the president saying he's asked her to remain in Congress.
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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Axios:
Trump pulls Elise Stefanik's nomination after last-minute panic  —  The Trump administration will leave Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) in the House, just days before the Senate was finally ready to move on her nomination as UN ambassador.  —  Why it matters: Stefanik has waited for months …
New York Times:
Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador  —  The president said he wanted the New York Republican to stay in Congress to bolster the party's slim House margin and protect her seat.  —  President Trump on Thursday said he had asked Representative Elise Stefanik …
NBC News:
Trump is preparing to pull Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador
Discussion: Baltimore Sun
CNN:
White House pulls Stefanik's UN ambassador nomination amid concern over narrow Republican House majority
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump withdraws nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik for U.N. ambassador
Wall Street Journal:
RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in Major Restructuring of Health Department  —  Changes would reshape the nation's health agencies and close regional offices  —  WASHINGTON—Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to significantly cut the size of the department he leads …
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Washington Post:
Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies
Discussion: Bloomberg and Business Insider
New York Times:
Musk Targeted FEMA. Disaster-Stricken Communities Are Paying a Price.
Discussion: USA Today
NPR:
The Trump administration restructures federal health agencies, cuts 20,000 jobs
John R. Ellement / The Boston Globe:
Tufts graduate student already transferred out of state before judge issued order to stay in Mass., prosecutor says  —  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement had already transferred Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk out of the state before a federal judge ordered her kept in Massachusetts …
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Bondi Indicates Signal Chat Episode Will Not Be Criminally Investigated  —  The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not that military information was shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
David Brennan / ABC News:
Trump says US will ‘go as far as we have to’ to get control of Greenland  —  The president suggested that “the world needs us to have Greenland.”  —  President Donald Trump speaks to the press before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Mar. 26, 2025 in Washington.
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Reuters:
Greenland agrees to form broad government in shadow of Trump pressure, broadcaster KNR reports
Discussion: Bloomberg
Wall Street Journal:
Israel Supplied Intelligence in Airstrike Discussed in Signal Chat, Officials say  —  Houthi missile expert was tracked with help of Israeli human source in Yemen  —  WASHINGTON—Israel provided sensitive intelligence from a human source in Yemen on a key Houthi military operative targeted …
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump Accidentally Reveals Just How Clueless He Is on Basic Intel  —  The American public knew before Donald Trump that top administration officials had conducted airstrikes on Yemen via a Signal chat, and now it appears that the president has been left in the dark on other intelligence matters too.
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email  —  The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.  —  A federal worker accidentally includes …
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
What's next for Waltz and Hegseth  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Thursday morning.  This is Jack Blanchard, already excited for my first cup of tea with Marjorie Taylor Greene.  —  More importantly ... This is my first Opening Day and the forecast looks great.
Ben Schlappig / One Mile at a Time:
Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+  —  Recently, I wrote about how we're seeing a general softening of demand for travel to the United States, for a variety of reasons.  There's no denying that the most contentious situation is between Canada and the United States …
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Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Flight bookings between Canada and US down 70% amid Trump tariff war
Discussion: The Hill and Fortune
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump's “pro-Hamas” purge could block foreign students from colleges  —  The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are “pro-Hamas,” senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios.
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New York Times:
Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots  —  Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans.  “You're going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.  —  The intelligence breach was bad enough, current and former fighter pilots said.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
This Is the Land of Wolves Now  —  1. POWs  —  Two weeks ago Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a law that grants the president extraordinary powers during times of war.  Here's his proclamation: … Some of the individuals who have been apprehended under the Alien Enemies Act …
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
New York County Clerk Blocks Texas Court Filing Against Doctor Over Abortion Pills  —  The showdown catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level.  —  A New York county clerk on Thursday blocked Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas woman.
Tom Knighton / Townhall:
UK's Gun Control Worked So Good They're Now Targeting ‘Ninja Swords’  —  The United Kingdom has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the world.  Many were passed after a mass shooting in Dunblaine, Scotland, but have also been advanced as a way to address violent crime.
John Wilkerson / STAT:
Cassidy says RFK Jr. briefed him on HHS job cuts, but reported study on vaccines, autism didn't come up  —  Senator had previously secured health secretary's commitments on support for vaccines  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the Senate health committee …
Discussion: NBC News and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Elon Musk pressured Reddit's CEO on content moderation  —  Reddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers. … Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk went on a public crusade against Reddit.  —  On X, he said it was “insane” …
Alexandra Witze / Nature:
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving … - Alexandra Witze  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists …
Discussion: The Hill
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Senate votes to overturn CFPB overdraft rule, in new blow for agency  —  The Senate voted 52-48 on Thursday to overturn a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping the overdraft fees that banks can charge, in another blow to the beleaguered agency.  The resolution under …
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
How Major Car Brands Are Affected by Trump's Tariffs  —  The scale of the damage depends on the circumstances of each company's supply chain.  —  The tariffs on cars and auto parts that President Trump announced on Wednesday will have far-reaching effects on automakers in the United States and abroad.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House to DOGE employees: Preserve your Signal records  —  The recordkeeping instructions come amid fallout from the “Signalgate” scandal.  —  The White House, reeling from the revelation that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared sensitive military attack plans with colleagues …
Financial Times:
The big government spending Maga voters cannot live without  —  In many places where Trump is hugely popular, residents are increasingly reliant on state income transfers.  The issue could fracture the Republican party  —  Our Lady of the Angels hospital in Bogalusa, a small Louisiana town …
Fox News:
Top MS-13 leader arrested in Virginia  —  Authorities made the arrest just south of Washington, DC  —  U.S. authorities have captured the MS-13 top leader for the U.S. East Coast, the FBI announced on Thursday.  —  Officials captured the 24-year-old suspect in Woodbridge, Virginia …
BBC:
BBC statement on detention and deportation of Mark Lowen  —  This morning (27 March) the Turkish authorities deported BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen from Istanbul, having taken him from his hotel the previous day and detained him for 17 hours.  Mark Lowen was in Turkey to report on the recent protests.
Miami Herald:
U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison  —  Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States.  Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.
Discussion: Adventus and CBS News
The Contrarian:
‘Red’ America needs the truth on Trump's fentanyl failures  —  For at least some voters who elected Donald Trump in 2024, remorse is setting in.  They wanted to see problems solved, not new ones created.  They weren't expecting the “Trump-storm” I described recently …
Jami Ganz / New York Daily News:
Andrew Tate accused of violently attacking girlfriend during sex  —  Andrew Tate, the right-wing influencer who's accused of rape and sex trafficking in Romania, allegedly attacked one of his girlfriends while they were having sex in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
Justice Department eyes combining ATF and DEA as part of broad restructuring  —  Justice Department leadership is proposing combining the two agencies responsible for enforcing drug and gun laws as part of a dramatic restructuring of the department, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.
Jack Birle / Washington Examiner:
New York Democrats target Elon Musk with anti-Tesla bill  —  Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk has drawn the ire of Democrats due to his role in the Trump administration's efforts to cut waste in the federal government, with some New York lawmakers targeting his company with a new piece of legislation.
 
 
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Volodymyr Verbianyi / Bloomberg:
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Discussion: Axios
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
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Discussion: Raw Story and Roll Call
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Ethics Committee will investigate allegations against Florida Republican
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Ilhan Omar plots to impeach Signalgate officials
John Nichols / The Nation:
Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
Wall Street Journal:
The White House Protests on Signal
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Emma Farge / Reuters:
Exclusive: US suspends financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say
Discussion: The National Pulse, Breitbart and IJR
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump “Frustrated” at Text Fiasco as Hegseth Spin Implodes
Discussion: Politico
Public Notice:
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