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12:50 PM ET, March 5, 2026

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Punchbowl News:
Trump mulls Noem firing … Even Speaker Mike Johnson speculated about the potential for a change at the top of DHS during a recent House Republican elected leadership retreat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.  —  Trump dialed up some GOP senators after Noem testified in front of the Senate …
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NBC News:
Trump frustrated with DHS secretary Kristi Noem and considering replacements, sources say  —  No decision has been made by the president, but he has told lawmakers that he is unhappy with the Homeland Security Secretary's testimony this week before House and Senate committees, sources say.
Discussion: The Independent and DNYUZ
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Buried in the cascade of news this week, Sadie Gurman and Caitlin Ostroff of the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that 47,635 files are missing from the Epstein files documents that the Justice Department has made public.  A spokesperson for the Justice Department told the reporters that the files were …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying ‘War’ as Iran Conflict Widens  —  Mission?  Hostilities?  Don't call it a war, say G.O.P. lawmakers grappling with the political and legal challenges of the operation in the Middle East.  —  When President Trump gave reporters a brief update this week …
Politico:
'We're in it': Democrats won't rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Trump's Unauthorized War
Discussion: UPI and Scripps News
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader  —  President Trump told Axios in an interview Thursday that he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader — just as he was in Venezuela.  — Trump revealed this exclusively in an eight-minute phone call …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Follows His Gut. His National Security Advisers Try to Keep Up.
Discussion: Bloomberg, MS NOW, The Dispatch and Althouse
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
What If the Mullahs Are Smarter Than Trump?
Discussion: Salon
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump-Approved CBS Boss Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’
Discussion: Zeteo and Raw Story
Politico:
Trump puts Paxton on notice in Texas Senate primary in interview with POLITICO … Trump had previously stated he would ask the candidate he does not endorse to step aside.  —  Senate Republicans have already asked Trump to back Cornyn, who narrowly pulled ahead of Paxton on Tuesday in the first round of the primary.
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
The Year Texas Might Turn Blue  —  Democrats may have gotten the race in Texas they have been pining for since 1993, when the last Democrat held a U.S. Senate seat.  Rising Democratic star and state representative James Talarico — with an assist from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr …
David Nir / The Downballot:
Morning Digest: Montana Sen. Steve Daines quits reelection bid at filing deadline  —  Leading Off  —  In a shocking last-second move, Republican Sen. Steve Daines withdrew his name from the ballot mere minutes before candidate filing closed Wednesday evening in Montana and sought to hand off his seat to U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Primary Results Offer Warning Signs to Incumbents in Both Parties
Washington Post:
Thousands of public comments slam Trump's ballroom: ‘I did not vote for this’ … President Donald Trump has spent months touting his planned White House ballroom, but this week the public gets its first chance to formally offer him their thoughts.  —  The verdict: They don't like it.
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CNN:
‘Soulless hotel conference space’: Approval for Trump's East Wing ballroom delayed amid scathing public feedback  —  Approval for President Donald Trump's massive East Wing ballroom project - from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital …
Popular Information:
Hundreds of thousands of Americans stranded in a war zone  —  On February 28, the United States and Israel launched major combat operations in Iran.  Iran has retaliated by striking multiple U.S. military facilities and embassies across the Middle East, including in Iraq, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Türkiye Today:
Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately
Discussion: Bloomberg
Washington Post:
Trump calls on Kurds to aid U.S. effort in Iran, offers support  —  In outreach to Kurdish minority leaders in Iran and neighboring Iraq, the president offered U.S. support to insurgent efforts against Tehran.  —  The Trump administration, bracing for more U.S. casualties and considering whether …
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Susie Wiles sounds the alarm on gas prices … Energy Secretary Chris Wright and other advisers focused on energy policy, including a council led by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “are getting screamed at to find some good news” on bringing down prices, the same executive said.
Claire Heddles / Miami Herald:
‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans' racist group chat  —  The secretary of Miami-Dade County's Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways …
Wall Street Journal:
Russia Is Big Winner as Iran War Drains Supplies That Ukraine Needs  —  Kyiv faces a shortfall of missile interceptors for its air defense, while surging oil prices are boosting Russia's economy  —  Russia is one of the biggest winners in the early days of the largest U.S. military confrontation in decades …
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Vance's “war on fraud” is a fraud  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  💥 Subscribe to PN 💥  —  In his State of the Union address, President Trump mentioned his vice president only once.  It came after he denounced the state of Minnesota …
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Selena Simmons-Duffin / NPR:
In lawsuit, Minnesota accuses Trump administration of ‘weaponizing’ Medicaid funding
Politico:
Sen. Steve Daines announces he will not seek reelection … “Serving the people of Montana in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate the past 13 years has been the greatest honor of my professional career and I am grateful to God for allowing me to serve,” Daines said in a statement released Wednesday evening.
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NBC News:
GOP Sen. Steve Daines of Montana says he won't seek re-election
ProPublica:
Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate  —  ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
How a feud led a billionaire donor to oust Rep. Crenshaw  —  Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw owes his defeat in this week's Republican primary to a billionaire megadonor who was hellbent on ending Crenshaw's career, sources tell Axios. … - In this case, Marling's clout meant Crenshaw was the first House incumbent to be ousted in 2026.
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
House rejects Nancy Mace's push for sexual harassment disclosure  —  The House effectively bottled up an attempt to force the release of sexual harassment claims against lawmakers after bipartisan leaders of the House Ethics Committee publicly condemned the effort led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
Washington Post:
Trump allies expand role in planning America's 250th anniversary  —  The emergence of the Trump-backed Freedom 250 sparks tensions with a bipartisan commission and draws questions from Democrats.  —  Two groups — one with the imprimatur of Congress, the other with President Donald Trump's blessing …
Discussion: NewsMax.com, The Hill, Raw Story and WAGA-TV
Steve Vladeck / One First:
Bonus 214: Emergency Relief from State Courts  —  At a moment in which the Supreme Court's emergency docket is *already* busier than ever, Monday's stay grant in the Malliotakis case wrongly expands it to encompass countless state-court rulings, too.  —  ∙ Paid
Discussion: New Republic
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Spain rejects White House claim it agreed to cooperate with U.S. forces amid Iran war … Spain has pushed back against the White House's claim that it agreed to cooperate militarily with Washington amid the conflict with Iran, doubling down on its anti-war stance despite the U.S. president's threat to sever trade ties.
Financial Times:
Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal  —  Dario Amodei holding discussions with deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology  —  Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department …
Financial Times:
SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs … Star Trek's warp drive allows a starship to bend space-time and exceed the speed of light without breaking Einstein's general theory of relativity.  As SpaceX prepares to go public at a reported $1.75tn valuation, Elon Musk is attempting a comparable feat …
Discussion: Fortune
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Judge moves, cautiously, toward civil contempt in case over treatment of trans people in prison  —  U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth made clear on Wednesday morning that he had no problem holding Trump administration officials in contempt if needed.  —  “Once I issue an order …
 
 
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Pew Research Center:
In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad
Discussion: Deseret News and RNS
Jonathan Taplin / Rolling Stone:
The Terrifying New Era of American Imperialism
Reuters:
Finland to lift full ban on hosting nuclear arms, government says
Discussion: Bloomberg
Alan Elrod / Liberal Currents:
Pervert Politics: Trumpism's Body Obsessions
Leo Shane III / Politico:
Harvard sidesteps Hegseth's ban on military students
Discussion: DNYUZ
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump administration sued over U.S.-TikTok deal
Discussion: Reuters and NPR
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2026 Poll: Senator Ossoff Starts Re-Election Near 50% and Outpaces GOP Field
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Derren Chan / JURISTnews:
South Korea doctors jailed for performing abortion at 36 weeks
Discussion: The Korea Herald
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Rahm Emanuel Floods Democrats With Criticism and Ideas. Will His Party Listen?
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Estrogen patches harder to find as FDA pushes hormone therapy
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
F.D.A. Faces Upset Over Denials of New Drugs
Discussion: Associated Press
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Michael Savage / The Guardian:
In response to its charter review, the BBC says “irreversible” trends threaten its survival, citing a “mismatch” between TV license rules and viewing habits

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Internal memo: CBS Mornings top producer Shawna Thomas will leave her role; a source says CBS News executives are eager to find a way to keep working with her

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
ITV reports 2025 revenue up 1% YoY to £3.5B, ITV Studios revenue up 10% YoY to £2.13B, ITVX hit 16.5M MAUs and £540M in ad revenue, and confirms Sky talks
 
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