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CBS News:
Poll on Trump's 2025 joint address to Congress finds large majority of viewers approve  —  A large majority of speech watchers approved of what they heard from President Trump's joint address to Congress Tuesday night.  —  The viewership was heavily Republican — historically a president's party draws more of their own partisans.
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Al Green on protest at Trump speech: ‘He needs to save Medicaid’
Gabriella Borter / Reuters:
Democratic Senator Slotkin reaches for the political center in rebuttal to Trump
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Dem Lawmaker Gets Kicked Out of Trump's Address After Protesting
The Hill:
Live updates: Trump delivers remarks to sharply divided Congress
Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
Al Green Removed From House Chamber for Heckling Trump During Address
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Democratic Rep. Al Green removed after disrupting Trump's speech
Andrea González-Ramírez / The Cut:
Democrats Plan to Protest Trump's Speech by Wearing Pink
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Trump administration's bid to avoid paying USAID contractors  —  The Trump administration's efforts to effectively dismantle the foreign aid agency led contractors to file suit claiming they are owed money.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday endorsed …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court won't lift lower court order unfreezing $2 billion in foreign aid funding  —  Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding, clearing the way for the money …
Discussion: USA Today, Fox News, The Atlantic and IJR
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court rejects Trump's request to keep billions in foreign aid frozen  —  A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen.  —  However, the court did not immediately say when the money must …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Denies Bid to Freeze Nearly $2 Billion in Foreign Aid  —  Where Things Stand:  — Foreign aid ruling: The Supreme Court rejected President Trump's emergency request to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid on Wednesday morning …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rejects Trump on USAID Foreign-Aid Freeze
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say  —  The IRS is drafting plans to cut its workforce by as much as half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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Andy Kroll / ProPublica:
How DOGE's Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Dave Nershi was finalizing a report he'd worked on for months when an ominous email appeared in his inbox.
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:   Trump Wants to Use the IRS to Track Down Immigrants. They May Stop Paying Taxes.
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump Administration Pushes to Slash I.R.S. Work Force in Half
Discussion: The Independent and WNYW-TV
Financial Times:
US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine  —  Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict  —  The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military's ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking 26 suspect claims in Trump's address to Congress  —  President makes false claims about border crossings, regulations, the economy, inflation and many other issues  —  President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday was vintage Trump: long …
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New York Times:
Full Transcript of President Trump's Speech to Congress  —  In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid. … President Trump: Speaker Johnson.  Vice President Vance, the first lady of the United States.
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
The Two-Headed Monster Stalking the Economy Has a Name: Stagflation  —  Tariffs have stoked fears of a dreary combination of weak growth and inflation  —  Stagflation has entered the chat.  —  President Trump's decision to dramatically raise tariffs on imports threatens the U.S …
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Two hugely important questions about Trump's trade war
Bloomberg:
Trump to Decide on Canada, Mexico Relief Today, Lutnick Says
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Texas Democrat, dies at 70  —  The former Houston mayor was just two months into his first term in Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — First-term Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, died Tuesday night after suffering a medical emergency, according to two House Democratic lawmakers who were informed of his death.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Freshman Rep. Sylvester Turner dies at 70
Discussion: CBS News
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Rise of the Brutal American  —  This is how the bad guys act.  —  A book festival in Vilnius, meetings with friends in Warsaw, a dinner in Berlin: I happened to be at gatherings in three European cities over the past several days, and everywhere I went, everyone wanted to talk about the Oval Office performance last Friday.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Rage Over “Low” Deportations Suddenly Gets More Unnerving  —  For weeks now, President Donald Trump's propagandists have relentlessly glorified his mass deportations, even posting images of defeated-looking migrants getting frog-marched onto shiny military planes.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Judges face rise in threats as Musk blasts them over rulings  —  U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts …
Discussion: UPI
New York Times:
Tesla Sales Slump in Europe as Anger Toward Elon Musk Grows  —  February numbers show the U.S. electric-car maker is struggling to attract buyers in the region.  Mr. Musk's politics aren't helping.  —  Tesla's sales in Germany plunged in February, part of a wider slump across Europe …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Reuters and The Driven
Erin Schumaker / Politico:
Jay Bhattacharya, once condemned for his lockdown critique, is poised for a comeback  —  The Covid contrarian's Senate confirmation hearing to lead the National Institutes of Health promises another airing of pandemic grievances.  —  Jay Bhattacharya is about to get his chance to settle old Covid scores.
Jeremy Kohler / ProPublica:
A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes  —  Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.
Bloomberg:
How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA  —  The billionaire overseeing a wide-ranging government efficiency effort is offering his own SpaceX technology as the future of flight-safety inside the Federal Aviation Administration  —  Two weeks ago, SpaceX engineer Ted Malaska showed …
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Raw Story
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Newspaper Owner's AI Bot Defends KKK  —  An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.
 
 
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Private employers added just 77,000 jobs in February, far below expectations, ADP says
Discussion: UPI and Fox Business
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
VA plans to lay off as many as 83,000 employees this year
Discussion: Nextgov/FCW
Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
Hundreds of State Dept. Officials Sign Dissent Cable Urging Rubio to Stop Killing USAID
Discussion: Reason and Bloomberg
Janan Ganesh / Financial Times:
Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state
Reuters:
Exclusive: US withdrawing from plan to help major polluters move from coal, sources say
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump's Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target
Discussion: kottke.org
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn't come at a worse time for the company
Discussion: New York Post
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Washington Post:
Trump administration makes hundreds of federal properties available for sale
Reuters:
Trump administration disbands two expert panels on economic data
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Pakistan detained alleged plotter of Abbey Gate bombing based on CIA intel
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Bowser signals D.C. will paint over BLM Plaza after GOP threatens funding
New York Times:
U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is “financially sound”

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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