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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Orders Thousands of Federal Workers Reinstated
Discussion: The Independent
Peter Charalambous / ABC News:
Judge orders thousands of fired probationary federal employees reinstated
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
US judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired workers
Discussion: Daily Mail
NPR:
Senate Democrats face major dilemma: help GOP pass funding bill or trigger shutdown  —  Senate Democrats are facing a dilemma as the clock ticks down to a government shutdown at midnight on Friday: help Republicans pass a bill to avoid a shutdown or block the bill and be blamed for triggering one.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
'They're Totally Screwed': White House Taunts Democrats on Shutdown  —  The administration thinks the opposition is about to eat crow.  —  Senate Democrats haven't even surrendered yet on a government shutdown — but already White House officials are gloating about making them eat crow, almost taunting them to vote “no.”
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
SCOOP: Trump crafts plan to cut spending without Congress after shutdown is averted  —  Trump and his allies believe the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional  —  The White House has already started mapping out how to make good on its promise to slash federal spending in preparation …
Sam Brodey / The Boston Globe:   ‘I just call Elon.’ To avoid DOGE cuts, lawmakers just need the right connections and an ‘R’ after their names
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Scoop: White House to pull CDC director nomination  —  The White House is withdrawing the nomination of Dave Weldon to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), per a source close to Senate health committee and another source familiar.
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New York Times:
White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Trump has united the free world against a grave threat  —  🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. … 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
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CNN:
Trump expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation effort in coming days  —  The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president's mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
Discussion: MeidasTouch News and Townhall
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CBS News:   Trump to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to carry out deportations to Guantanamo
The Moscow Times:
Russia Supports Ceasefire Proposal in Ukraine, Putin Says, But ‘Nuances’ Remain  —  Russia is prepared to accept a proposed 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but only if it leads to “long-term peace” and addresses the “root causes” of the conflict, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday during …
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Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg:   Russian and European Officials See US Interest in Gazprom Ties
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Live Updates: Putin Says He's Open to Cease-Fire but More Discussion is Needed
Pete Buttigieg / Pete Buttigieg's Substack:
I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work  —  In the weeks since I left office in January, I've been committing my time and attention to the kinds of things that inevitably get shorted when you serve in public office, no matter how much you try to do right by them.
Discussion: NBC News
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Buttigieg gives the clearest signal yet that he's eyeing a presidential run in 2028
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange's Guilty Plea  —  Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea  —  Representatives of President Trump's family …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war  —  The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general's corps  —  The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul …
Discussion: New Republic
vancouversun:
B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains  —  Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3  —  A B.C. mom is pleading for help after her daughter was unexpectedly detained in the United States over an incomplete visa.
Discussion: KGTV-TV
NBC News:
Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say  —  Potential plans range from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, according to two U.S. officials..
New York Times:
DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find  —  Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency.  But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.  —  Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency …
Nolan Clay / The Oklahoman:
Gateway megachurch founder, former Trump spiritual adviser, indicted on charges of lewd acts with Oklahoma girl  —  A grand jury in Oklahoma on Wednesday indicted Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris, accusing him in five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a girl beginning when she was 12 years old in the 1980s.
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New Hampshire Public Radio:
NH's new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates  —  It took three trips, but Brooke Yonge was finally able to cast her ballot.  —  On her first trip to the Derry polls Tuesday morning, Yonge didn't bring proof of her U.S. citizenship …
Juby Babu / Reuters:
Meta wins halt to promotion of ‘Careless People’ tell-all book by former employee  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book “Careless People” by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.
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J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
Elon Musk Retweet: “Hitler Didn't Murder Millions of People... Public Sector Workers Did”  —  Musk uses Holocaust to take apparent swipe at federal workers  —  MAGA Billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), is facing criticism after amplifying a tweet that downplays …
Discussion: Haaretz
Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy Agency  —  Meeting between Musk and the National Security Agency's leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul  —  Elon Musk visited the National Security Agency on Wednesday, current and former U.S. officials said …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jesse Zanger / CBS News:
Protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil at NYC's Trump Tower ends with 98 arrests, police say  —  The NYPD said nearly 100 people have been arrested after a group of protesters entered Trump Tower in New York City.  —  It started just before noon Thursday.  Video from inside the building shows …
Michel Martin / NPR:
DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations  —  NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Neil Irwin / Axios:
A DOGE reality check in Treasury data
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Politico:
Top Illinois Democrat readies a Senate bid — and tells people she has major backing
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Paul R. La Monica / Barron's Online:
Trump Media Stock Slump Continues. Buyers Are Nowhere to Be Found.
Eric Geller / Wired:
‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump's Purge
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Axios:
America First Policy Institute's “100-year plan” for Trumpism
Discussion: E&E News and Fox Business
CNN:
The return of Erik Prince: How a notorious military contractor maneuvered his way back inside Trump's orbit
Discussion: Raw Story
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Trump threatens 200% tariff on European wine and Champagne
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Federal Workers Return to the Office. Custodial Staff Doesn't.
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
Discussion: The Independent
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
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