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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say — Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox. — Just now — Members of President Donald …
Carla K. Johnson / Associated Press:
Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies — Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans' health.
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CNN:
'It's a bloodbath': Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies — A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies early Tuesday, with some employees receiving early morning emails that their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work.
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J.J. McCorvey / NBC News:
Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say — Those who work closely with the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program now fear for its future. — The Trump administration on Tuesday eliminated the entire staff of a federal program …
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Wired:
The CDC Has Been Gutted — Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. — Thousands of federal employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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STAT:
At CDC, Trump administration's job cuts wipe out wide array of specialists
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Ayelet Sheffey / Business Insider:
The same badge-scan strategy used in Tesla layoffs has hit federal workers
The same badge-scan strategy used in Tesla layoffs has hit federal workers
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Jeff Nesbit / The Contrarian:
Trump and Kennedy just put America at risk
Trump and Kennedy just put America at risk
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate — Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate for more than 24 straight hours. One of them fought to keep Black people out of public life, the other was a Black leader who staged a landmark protest.
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Associated Press:
Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance? — Watch live as U.S. Senator Cory Booker addresses the Senate floor. Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, has promised to speak “as long” as he's physically able on the Senate floor Monday night …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Booker's speech tops 350 million likes on TikTok live — More than 350 million people liked Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) floor speech on TikTok live, as the senator approached 25 hours of holding the floor in the Senate chamber. — By 7:07 p.m. EDT on Tuesday — just over 24 hours …
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Cory Booker's epic Senate speech puts Democrats back in the spotlight
Cory Booker's epic Senate speech puts Democrats back in the spotlight
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
The Lawlessness Is the Point — If JD Vance were capable of shame, he'd be embarrassed by what just happened. After the news broke that President Trump's administration admitted to deporting a Maryland man in “error,” Vance lashed out at podcaster Jon Favreau, who had asked him to comment on what had transpired.
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Some Conservative Voices Raise Alarm Over Trump's Immigration Tactics — The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration's aggressive and at times slapdash tactics. — Influential figures on the right have largely cheered on the opening months of the Trump presidency.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Innocent (in a Brutal Prison) Abroad
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Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
‘Liberation’ Movement — On the euphemism du jour. — The vice presidency isn't worth …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
A Tale of Two Men — 1. Manliness — We are all learning about Kilmar Abrego Garcia today, thanks to the Atlantic.
A Tale of Two Men — 1. Manliness — We are all learning about Kilmar Abrego Garcia today, thanks to the Atlantic.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Randy Fine wins Florida special election for Waltz seat — Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) has won the special election for Florida's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Jimmy Patronis wins special election for Gaetz's Florida seat
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Fails to Kill Bipartisan Measure to Allow Proxy Voting for New Parents — The speaker tried to use an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to deny a bipartisan majority the chance to hold a vote on their proposal to allow new parents to vote remotely in the House.
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House Republicans Lose a Floor Vote, End the Work Week on a Tuesday
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Politico:
Anna Paulina Luna leaves House Freedom Caucus amid split with colleagues over proxy voting for new parents
Anna Paulina Luna leaves House Freedom Caucus amid split with colleagues over proxy voting for new parents
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney — President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites — The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison.
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Washington Post:
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights — It's the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage. — Just now
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Associated Press:
Elon Musk's disclosure of planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials: Sources — Musk seemed to boast of advance knowledge of the arrest during a tele-rally. — Elon Musk attends the Division 1 Men's Wrestling Championship in Philadelphia, Mar. 22, 2025.
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Mangione, Bondi Says — The attorney general said the decision to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering an insurance executive, was in keeping with an executive order by President Trump.
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Jacqueline Sweet / Rolling Stone:
Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks — Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin expressed concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth … Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for what's left of USAID …
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Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Republicans Eye $25,000 SALT Cap as Trump's Tax Cuts Take Shape — Republicans are in the process of drafting a tax bill behind closed doors that includes an increase of the state and local tax deduction to as high as $25,000 for an individual, according to people familiar with the plan.
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate GOP embraces controversial tax cut strategy
Senate GOP embraces controversial tax cut strategy
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Wired:
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH — Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US's leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz. — Several top scientists charged …
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Fortune:
Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week — Target saw foot traffic fall for the eighth consecutive week, extending a losing streak that began just a few days …
Rep. Jeffries / Rep. Jeffries on YouTube:
House Democratic Hearing on Social Security — Today, the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on the Republican scheme to destroy Social Security, featuring testimony from e...
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McKenzie Funk / ProPublica:
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” — Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump's immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Elon Musk's $1 million handout winners are connected to Republican causes — Nicholas Jacobs and Ekaterina Diestler were presented with giant checks, but they're not exactly random voters. … On Sunday, a few thousand people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gathered to hear Elon Musk speak …
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Dasha Burns / Politico:
'I don't know anyone that isn't pissed off at him': Trump world turns on Lutnick — As ‘Liberation Day’ nears, patience for the Commerce secretary is wearing thin across the Trump administration. — Inside the White House, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been perhaps the biggest proponent of …
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In These Times:
Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents — While the Trump administration targets hundreds over their constitutionally protected right to political speech, Democratic leadership and influential media pundits have largely stayed quiet.
Brian Barrett / Wired:
Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free — It's the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk's DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace. — On Tuesday, US district judge Beryl Howell effectively allowed the transfer …
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Aida Fofana / BBC:
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 — A decorated World War Two code breaker who spent her youth deciphering enemy messages at Bletchley Park has died at the age of 101. — Charlotte “Betty” Webb MBE - who was among the last surviving Bletchley code breakers - died on Monday night …
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Ben Leonard / Politico:
Democrats use FDA hearing to protest agency job cuts — Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee slammed Republicans for holding a routine hearing on the FDA's regulation of consumer products amid HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping layoffs of the agency's workers and his ousting of its top vaccine regulator.
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Rann Miller / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
For some Trump voters, a realization dawns: We've had our pockets picked — It has become a frequent occurrence in the weeks since President Donald Trump's inauguration — voters in majority Republican districts voicing their displeasure with the administration's policy decisions …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
PRAMS Shuttered for Good — In the first weeks of the administration, I wrote a number of pieces on the shuttering of PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System), a decades-old data collection and analysis program at CDC tracking infant and maternal health from pregnancy through childbirth and postpartum.
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth's office — The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, U.S officials said Tuesday.

