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10:35 PM ET, March 17, 2025

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New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Plans to Press White House Over Deportation Flights  —  Where Things Stand  — Deportation flights: A federal judge is set to press Trump administration lawyers at a 5 p.m. hearing about whether the White House had violated a court order in deporting migrants with little to no due process.
Discussion: The Hill, Axios, HotAir, Breitbart and Reason
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The evil at your door  —  Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.
Discussion: The Dispatch and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says  —  The government's explanation for Rasha Alawieh's deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge's order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump's border czar: “I don't care what the judges think”
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
Discussion: The Mahablog
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The Ultimate Trump Story
Discussion: Divided Argument, Breitbart and CNN
Emily Peck / Axios:
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support  —  An internal memo from the Social Security Administration proposes changes to its phone service that could derail the benefits application process for many Americans.  —  Why it matters: The Trump administration has repeatedly …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration  —  An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency …
Discussion: New Republic and Kiplinger
Erin Alberty / Axios:
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order  —  Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled “DEI.”  —  Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945 …
Discussion: NPR and Townhall
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Washington Post:
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser  —  Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.  —  Jon Swaine is an investigative reporter on Signal at jonswaine.55.  Alex Horton is a national security reporter on Signal at alexhorton.85.
Discussion: WUSA
NBC4 Washington:
US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building  —  President Trump targeted the organization and a few others in a Feb. 19 executive order aiming to shrink the federal government  —  Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency entered the U.S. Institute …
Discussion: Raw Story and WUSA
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building  —  Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency.
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
At Kennedy Center, Trump envisions remaking Honors, suggests he could host  —  Trump and his board suggested several artists for the awards, including Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Bocelli, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.  —  President Donald Trump visited the Kennedy Center on Monday …
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump Insists He Was Being “Sarcastic” About Major Campaign Promise  —  One month before the election, 70 percent of Americans felt that foreign affairs comprised either a “very important” or “extremely important” component of their vote.  But as it turns out, Donald Trump's repeat campaign promises …
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David Klepper / Associated Press:
Gabbard says Trump and Putin are ‘very good friends’ focused on strengthening ties
Discussion: NDTV and RedState
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Trump to end Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden  —  When President Joe Biden took office, he extended protections to Trump's adult children for six months.  —  President Donald Trump said Monday that he is terminating Secret Service protection for his predecessor's two adult children: Hunter and Ashley Biden.
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Associated Press:
Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Joe Biden's children
Discussion: Washington Times
Reuters:
Trump revokes secret service protection for Biden's children Hunter and Ashley
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US  —  French Socialist MEP says Washington's embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.  —  She's been covered by a glacier, smashed up by various giant monsters …
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Washington Examiner:
French politician demands US return the Statue of Liberty
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan to remake the economy.  But he's not explaining it very well.  —  President Donald Trump's economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.”  But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
Discussion: CBS News and Raw Story
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lays Groundwork for Investigating People Pardoned by Biden  —  President asserts in social-media post that Biden's pardons were ‘void, vacant, and of no further force of effect’  —  President Trump questioned the validity of pardons granted by President Joe Biden before he left office …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen
Texas Attorney General:
Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces Arrest of Houston-Area Abortionist and Crackdown on Clinics Providing Illegal Abortions  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area.
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas Sends Letters to 20 Law Firms Requesting Information About DEI-Related Employment Practices  —  WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas sent letters to 20 law firms requesting information about their diversity …
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia.  Here is How We Would Respond.  —  Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.  —  Everything that has been posted on Drezner's World over the past …
Elaine Chen / STAT:
STAT+: NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease  —  The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized …
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Anti-Abortion Lawyer Pushed Out of F.D.A. After Republican Senator's Pressure Campaign  —  Hilary Perkins, a career lawyer and a conservative, was targeted by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri for defending the Biden administration's position on the abortion pill.
 
 
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Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
Conor McGregor anti-immigration rant in White House condemned by Irish PM
Scott Lincicome / The Atlantic:
How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices
Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
Kentucky GOP lawmakers vote to protect conversion therapy
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump to release 80,000 pages of JFK files on Tuesday
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Fani Willis ordered to pay $54K for violating open records laws in Trump case
William P. Davis / New York Times:
Introducing a New Project to Track Polls
Discussion: The Western Journal
Yasmeen Hamadeh / The Daily Beast:
Commerce Department Director Leaves Job With a Scathing Musk Warning
Discussion: Ars Technica and DNyuz
Veronica Riccobene / The Lever:
How Dems Are Destroying Their Party
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer postpones book tour over security concerns
Cate Latimer / The Brown Daily Herald:
Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
Paul Krugman:
Destroying America's Brand
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New York Times:
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts
 

 
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