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10:10 PM ET, March 27, 2025

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New York Times:
Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order  —  The discussions come as other major firms are said to be trying to cut deals with the White House.  —  The elite law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has had discussions with President Trump's advisers about a deal …
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Targets WilmerHale, Citing Law Firm's Connection to Robert Mueller  —  Mr. Mueller, who worked at WilmerHale before retiring in 2021, had investigated the Trump campaign's ties to Russian officials during the president's first term.  —  President Trump moved on Thursday to punish …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump signs order targeting law firm with ties to Robert Mueller  —  President Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation targeting WilmerHale, a law firm with ties to former special counsel Robert Mueller, making it the latest law firm to be a target for retribution.
Discussion: Raw Story
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:   Addressing Risks From WilmerHale
The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Risks from WilmerHale
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Top Senate Republican Protests Trump Bid to Withhold Spending  —  Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, joined top Democrats in insisting that the president does not have the power to “pick and choose” what to fund.  —  A top Senate Republican …
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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 …
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Top Republicans Break With Trump Over Leaked War Plans
Discussion: The Atlantic and ABC News
Associated Press:
Trump withdraws Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination for UN ambassador, citing tight GOP House margin
CNN:
White House pulls Stefanik's UN ambassador nomination amid concern over narrow Republican House majority
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with ‘improper ideology’  —  President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History  —  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.  Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted …
The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History  —  RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing the spread of divisive ideology.
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian  —  The executive order also calls for the replacement of memorials and monuments removed since 2020.  —  President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday evening promising to eliminate “improper …
Discussion: USA Today
Steve Vladeck / One First:   Bonus 134: What Executive Orders Can (and Can't) Do
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The disappearing of Rumeysa Ozturk is something I never thought I'd see in America  —  You've probably seen something like this before — but only in a movie, and only in a film that was seeking to capture the horrors of daily life under Joseph Stalin at the peak of his 1930s purges across the USSR …
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Axios:
Ambush arrest of Tufts student sparks new concerns about immigration crackdown
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A clarifying moment for democracy
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.
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Politico:
Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal chats
Washington Post:
Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies  —  While officials stressed the estimates were subject to change, the snapshot suggests how agencies are working to meet Trump's mandate to shrink government.  —  Just now  —  Federal officials are preparing for agencies …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Business Insider
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: New York Post and Nextgov/FCW
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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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Kennedy Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Skeptic for Autism Study  —  David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.  —  A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement …
Discussion: STAT and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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John Wilkerson / STAT:
Cassidy says RFK Jr. briefed him on HHS job cuts, but reported study on vaccines, autism didn't come up
Discussion: Daily Kos and NBC News
Washington Post:
How Kristi Noem's $50,000 Rolex in a Salvadoran prison became a political flashpoint  —  The high-end Swiss watch lent a striking contrast to her tour of a notoriously overcrowded mega-prison in one of Latin America's poorest countries.  —  Just now  —  When Homeland Security Secretary …
Discussion: Semafor
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Anthony Blair / New York Post:
Kristi Noem appears to wear $60K Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch during visit to infamous hellhole El Salvador prison
The Insider:
Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance  —  A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention.
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Maya Yang / The Guardian:   Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport
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
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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Maven Navarro / The Crimson White:
UA student reportedly detained by ICE  —  Senior send-off: Sarah Ashlee Barker's storied college career coming to an end  —  Alabama head coach Rob Vaughn ejected in 9-2 loss over Tennessee  —  City Council approves business alcohol license despite concerns
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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 …
Discussion: Mediaite, CNN, Raw Story and Longreads
Wired:
Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public  —  WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat.  One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
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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McConnell slams Trump administration's peace talks with Russia
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump reverses termination of program tracking mass child abductions in Ukraine
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White House to DOGE employees: Preserve your Signal records
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge”

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company

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