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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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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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New York Times, The Guardian, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars and New Republic


The Trump Administration, Not College Students, Is The Greatest Threat to Our Foreign Policy and National Security — In 2025, America is disappearing and detaining brown-skinned immigrants with tattoos and pro-Palestinian college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy …


Michael Waltz's Venmo Is Public, and It's Full of Journalists
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LewRockwell, The Independent, Democrats, Townhall, CBS News, Politico and Raw Story


Trump officials downplay the Signal leak. Some military members see a double standard
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The Guardian


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.
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‘Somebody has to go down’: Trump allies take aim at Michael Waltz — In a particularly rough week for the Trump administration, a number of the president's allies are calling for accountability after military plans were inadvertently shared with a journalist.
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The Bulwark, New Republic, New York Times, Vanity Fair, 19FortyFive, The Atlantic, Politico and Daily Mail


Transcript: Trump “Frustrated” at Text Fiasco as Hegseth Spin Implodes … Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I'm your host, Greg Sargent. — We're now in day three of the fallout from the shocking news …
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Politico


No War but Culture War — The response to Signalgate reveals a disjuncture between …
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One America News Network, New Republic and HuffPost

The Five Scandals (and One Fascinating Political Insight) of Signalgate
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Today's Edition Newsletter, Glamour, Deseret News, Salon, The Guardian, 19FortyFive, Wired, Business Insider and The Independent, more at Techmeme »

Trump changes his tune on Signalgate: ‘I always thought it was Mike’
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Hegseth Comes Under Scrutiny for Texting Strike Details as Fallout Grows
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Signalgate scrambles MAGA's messaging machine
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Mediaite, The Hill, Washington Examiner and ABC17NEWS


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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HHS cuts 10,000 employees in major overhaul of health agencies — The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it is cutting 10,000 full-time employees across health agencies, the department told CNN. — This comes on top of 10,000 employees who've left voluntarily …
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The Hill and Daily Caller News Foundation

10,000 Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off
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New York Times, Bloomberg, USA Today and Scripps News


US immigration officials detain doctoral student at University of Alabama — Justification for arrest not clear as Trump administration increasingly targets students for arrest and deportation — US immigration authorities have detained a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, campus officials confirmed on Wednesday.
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Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her — A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
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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 …
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Trump Is Taking the Law Into His Own Hands
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Althouse, Politico, The Hill, The Daily Signal and Associated Press


Kari Lake withdraws cancellation of Radio Free Europe funding — U.S. Agency for Global Media senior adviser Kari Lake withdrew the Trump administration's cancellation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's funding on Wednesday after a court granted the news organization a temporary restraining order.
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NPR, Raw Story, Politico, The Kyiv Independent, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »


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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The Forward, Quartz, LAist, WPR, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and Breitbart


Social Security backs off plan to cut phone services for disabled people — But millions applying for retirement or survivor benefits will no longer be allowed to verify their identity by phone, and will need to do so online or in person. — The Social Security Administration …
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Social Security postpones and partially rolls back ID changes
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Trump's hopeless tariffs confusion, explained by a historian — “The president seems to believe he can impose prohibitively high tariffs *and* collect revenue, which you can't do.” — ∙ Paid … 📸 — At the White House yesterday, Donald Trump announced he's imposing a 25 percent tariff on all imported cars.
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Trump places 25% tariff on imported autos, expecting to raise $100 billion in tax revenues
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Now that Trump has silenced Voice of America, could U.S. public media outlets be next? — The president's decision to shutter the global news organization portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States. — Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed …
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JURIST
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Fearing Trump cuts, California Democrat proposes creating state's own NIH — The ambitious state lawmaker argues moves by Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show the Golden State must “step up” as a global leader. — SACRAMENTO, California — An ambitious California Democrat wants …
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The Hill
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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.
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Mediaite, TMZ.com, Lawyer Monthly, The US Sun and The Daily Caller


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 …


Trump's Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid — As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country's racist apartheid government decades ago, some on the American right felt they took it too far. One of those people who stepped up and spoke …
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The Gene Pool, Mediaite, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and The Hill


“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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Reason, Adventus, El País, Just Security and Slate


In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of the End of NAFTA and the “Free Trade” Disaster — This afternoon, the Trump administration announced major tariffs on passenger cars and trucks entering the U.S. market, marking the beginning of the end of a thirty-plus year “free trade” disaster.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Fox Business


Exclusive: White House installs Trump loyalists at federal HR agency after ‘five things’ email — The White House has installed two Trump loyalists at the federal HR agency after allies of billionaire Elon Musk blindsided top Trump officials with a surprise government-wide email …


The Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big Law — Trump's actions are an attempt to tilt the scales of justice by using the raw power of government coercion—and they're working. — Few americans will have much sympathy for lawyers whose annual income reaches seven figures.
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Deseret News, New York Times and The Dispatch