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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Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador withdrawn, Trump says  —  Washington — Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, President Trump confirmed Thursday, with the president saying he's asked her to remain in Congress.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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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  —  Stefanik has been a longtime supporter of Trump's in the House.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is preparing to pull the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations …
Discussion: CBS News
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 …
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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New York Times:   Musk Targeted FEMA. Disaster-Stricken Communities Are Paying a Price.
Washington Post:
RFK Jr. announces big cuts to Department of Health and Human Services
Discussion: Washington Times and New York Post
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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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 …
Discussion: Fox News, CBS News, masslive.com and Zeteo
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Associated Press:
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
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.
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
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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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: Fortune
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.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Ilhan Omar plots to impeach Signalgate officials  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is privately proposing articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Axios has learned.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What the lack of consequences for the Signal scandal means
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Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Vance rips ‘hit piece’ in Jewish Insider
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers turn up the pressure on Hegseth
Discussion: Fox News, IJR and 19FortyFive
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 …
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Justice Department proposes merging ATF with DEA, other major changes  —  The potential changes were outlined in a memo sent from the office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.  —  The Justice Department has proposed merging the Drug Enforcement Administration with the Bureau of Alcohol …
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: US Justice Department considers merging DEA, ATF in major shakeup, memo shows
Discussion: The Independent
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” …
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.
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 …
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 …
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
Public Notice:
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.
Discussion: MPR News and Semafor
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.
Discussion: Associated Press and Above the Law
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 …
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.
 
 
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Consumer Bureau Seeks to Undo Settlement and Repay Mortgage Lender
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
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Discussion: The Guardian and New Republic
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump “Frustrated” at Text Fiasco as Hegseth Spin Implodes
Discussion: Politico
Reuters:
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Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
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