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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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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr's ‘misinformation and lies’  —  Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA's approval of life-saving vaccines  —  A senior health official in the US, who was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth's wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials  —  Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings  —  The wife of the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, attended two meetings …
Discussion: New Jersey Online and Raw Story
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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.
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
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.
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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.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
What's More Powerful: Elon Musk's Millions, or Liberal Anger at Him?
Discussion: The Guardian
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 …
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Barbara Nascimento / Bloomberg:
Brazil's Lula Says He'll Negotiate on Tariffs Before Retaliating
Discussion: Reuters
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
White House Correspondents' Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner  —  The group's board unanimously decided it would no longer feature a comedic performance, WHCA President Eugene Daniels wrote in an email Saturday  —  The White House Correspondents' Association …
Discussion: The Post Millennial
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Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
White House Correspondents' Association drops Amber Ruffin from 2025 dinner  —  The event will not feature any comedian for the first time in years.  —  Amber Ruffin attends Netflix's “Survival Of The Thickest” Season 2 Premiere at DGA Theater, on March 26, 2025, in New York.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:   White House Correspondents' Association Scraps Plans For Comedian Amber Ruffin At Upcoming Dinner
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.
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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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 …
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints  —  An internal guidance memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focuses on deterring China's seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense.  In some instances, the document is nearly a word-for-word facsimile of a report …
Discussion: Defense One
Christian Wienberg / Bloomberg:
Danish Prime Minister to Visit Greenland Next Week  —  Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen plans to visit Greenland next week to bolster the commonwealth between the two countries, as the US ramps up its rhetoric about taking over the Arctic island.  —  Frederiksen will start a three …
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Seb Starcevic / Politico:
After Vance visit, Denmark tells US: Stop treating us like dirt
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers' jobs with children: 'It's insane, right?'  —  Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage  —  Beneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation …
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.
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: NBC News and Politico
New York Post:
Woman whose MAGA hat meltdown, subway wipeout went viral is an ‘extremely liberal’ luxury-brand specialist  —  She's going to need a re-brand!  —  The woman who received “instant karma” after berating a President Trump supporter on the subway — and then face-planting on the platform …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Greg Weiner / New York Times:
Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves  —  Leaders of American higher education have largely reacted to the Trump administration's rhetorical and financial assaults by locking down in a defensive crouch.  That is understandable given the administration's view of universities …
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
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 …
 
 
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
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 Earlier Items: 
Quakers:
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Discussion: ABC17NEWS
Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Megyn Kelly Is Embracing Her Bias and Rejecting the ‘Old Rules’
Discussion: Mediaite
CNN:
Collision warning sounds in cockpit of Delta plane due to close call with Air Force jet near Reagan National Airport
Lolita C. Baldor / Defense News:
Hegseth's younger brother is serving in a key role inside the Pentagon
 

 
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