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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA's top vaccine scientist  —  Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”  —  The Trump administration on Friday pushed out Peter Marks …
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New York Times:
Top F.D.A. Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy's ‘Misinformation and Lies’  —  Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.  —  The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official …
Liz Essley Whyte / Wall Street Journal:
Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA  —  In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.  —  The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official has been pushed out, according to people familiar with the matter.
Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones:
“Spiraling Deeper and Deeper Into Danger”: RFK Jr. Forces Out Top Vaccine Official  —  “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”  —  Robert F. Kennedy's Jr. war on vaccines …
Discussion: Fortune
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:   Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr's ‘misinformation and lies’
STAT:   Peter Marks, FDA's top vaccine regulator, forced out
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Wisconsin judge won't stop Musk's $1 million payments to voters.  Attorney general appeals  —  A Wisconsin judge on Saturday declined to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters in the state at a planned rally days before the closely contested Supreme Court election.
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New York Times:
The Democrats Are in Denial About 2024  —  Last year's election was close, despite President Trump's hyperbolic claims about his margin of victory.  Still, the Democratic Party clearly lost — and not only the presidential race.  It also lost control of the Senate and failed to recapture the House of Representatives.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
What's More Powerful: Elon Musk's Millions, or Liberal Anger at Him?
Discussion: The Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials  —  Defense secretary's wife is a former Fox News executive.  His handling of sensitive information is under fire after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a commercial messaging platform.
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The Imperialism Has no Clothes  —  “No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.”  Hans Christian Andersen, “The Emperor's New Clothes”  —  Musk-Trump inherited a state …
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent and CBS News
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
After Vance visit, Denmark tells US: Stop treating us like dirt
Lubna Kably / Times of India:
Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism  —  Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus activism.
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Ken Klippenstein:
Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Student Visa Holders
Discussion: The Guardian
Daniel Barnes / Politico:
Judges partially block two executive orders targeting major law firms  —  Two federal judges partially blocked Trump's executive orders targeting law firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale.  —  Federal judges have partially blocked President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting two major law firms …
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David Enrich / New York Times:
Trump's Not-So-Subtle Purpose in Fighting Big Law Firms
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Taxpayers' Tab For Trump's Second-Term Golf Excursions Crosses $26 Million Mark  —  He has now traveled to one of his golf resorts on nine of the ten weekends since taking office in January.  It is his seventh trip to his Palm Beach, Florida, country club.  —  WASHINGTON — American taxpayers …
Politico:
Trump officials, allies grow anxious about April 2 tariffs  —  The president continues to throw curveballs at businesses — and even his own team.  —  Top White House and administration officials have been promising businesses, consumers and fellow Republicans more “certainty” …
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New York Times:
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions  —  The defense secretary's office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.  —  The Pentagon and U.S. Naval Academy …
Lolita C. Baldor / Defense News:
Hegseth's younger brother is serving in a key role inside the Pentagon  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser, Hegseth's office confirmed.
New York Times:
Columbia University's President, Katrina Armstrong, Resigns  —  Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the White House.  —  Columbia University changed its president on Friday evening, one week after the university bowed to a series …
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Vimal Patel / New York Times:
Leaders of Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave
Discussion: The Harvard Crimson
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
In Cities' Rush to Clear Homeless Camps, People Have Been Crushed to Death  —  Atlanta's mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments.  But when heavy equipment came to raze one, nobody noticed that Cornelius Taylor was still inside his tent.  —  Atlanta's mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments.
CNN:
Collision warning sounds in cockpit of Delta plane due to close call with Air Force jet near Reagan National Airport  —  A close call between a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and a US Air Force T-38 jet, often used by the military for training …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner … Faced with expert opinion predicting that his tariffs will jack up prices for American consumers, President Trump has carefully considered a wealth of evidence surrounding this complex matter, and after extensive consultation …
Associated Press:
Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel.  It was taxpayers who were on the hook  —  As then-Gov. Kristi Noem crisscrossed the country — stumping for President Donald Trump and boosting her political profile beyond her home state — she refused to reveal what her extensive travel was costing taxpayers.
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Journey From Biden Loyalist to ‘Full MAGA’ Ends in a Trump Pardon  —  Devon Archer used his knowledge about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings to gain favor from Republicans and appeal for clemency.  —  In the weeks before the 2020 election, Devon Archer was on the precipice …
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
U.S. Institute of Peace staff receive termination notices, sources say  —  Staff members at the U.S. Institute of Peace were informed they were terminated effective immediately on Friday, three sources familiar with the situation told CBS News.  —  It was not immediately clear …
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Will Michael Bennet Shift his Fight Against Trump to the State House?  —  The Colorado senator, raised to revere the world's greatest deliberative body, seems ready to give up on Washington.  —  Michael Bennet seemed destined for a lifetime appointment to the Senate.
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history  —  President Donald Trump's order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country's Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Musk's xAI buys Musk's X social media platform for $33 billion  —  Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence firm has acquired Musk's X, the social media outfit formerly known as Twitter for $33 billion.  —  The all-stock deal announced on Friday consolidates two of Musk's multiple portfolio companies …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Judicial rulings block Kari Lake's drive to shutter Voice of America  —  Trump adviser Kari Lake and the U.S. Agency for Global Media aren't just defendants in five federal court battles.  —  They're on the defensive.  —  In two temporary - but consequential - decisions this week …
Washington Post:
Kash Patel mostly absent as interim director, adding to ATF uncertainty  —  The FBI director has not been a visible presence at ATF since becoming interim agency head.  The Justice Department has proposed merging the agency with the DEA.  —  Just now  —  In late February …
Discussion: Raw Story
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 28, 2025  —  “Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.  The S&P 500 had one of its worst days in two years, dropping 2%.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 715 points, losing 1.7% of its value.  The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.7%.
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say  —  The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off, multiple federal health officials told CBS News Friday.  The moves are part of a broader …
Discussion: Advocate
Rich McKay / Reuters:
Republican's town hall draws boos and jeers at Trump spending cuts  —  Boos, jeers and choruses of “do your job” greeted U.S. Representative Victoria Spartz at a town hall on Friday in her Indiana congressional district as she defended sweeping cuts across the federal government …
Discussion: The Hill, Politico, NOTUS, Mediaite and Raw Story
 
 
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Discussion: Reuters
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Quakers:
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Megyn Kelly Is Embracing Her Bias and Rejecting the ‘Old Rules’
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Conservative US appeals court judge knocks calls to impeach jurists
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New York Times:
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