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Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive |  Trump Is Preparing to Fire Kristi Noem  —  The president has already been asking aides and congressional Republicans for names of potential replacements.
Discussion: Associated Press and Townhall
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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 …
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.
Audrey Fahlberg / National Review:
Exclusive: Trump Considering Mullin as Replacement for Noem, Privately Furious over Senate Testimony  —  Noem testified that Trump gave advance approval of a taxpayer-funded $220 million ad campaign contract that was subcontracted to one of her allies.
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says  —  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump said Thursday. … - She also criticized Pretti for carrying a gun with ammunition to protest ICE enforcement …
Punchbowl News:
3/5/26☀️ AM: … We have much more on this below. … Daines withdrew from the November ballot just minutes before the 5 p.m. filing deadline. … In a statement announcing his retirement, Daines endorsed Alme as his successor, raising questions about the coordinated timing …
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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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 …
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump-Approved CBS Boss Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’
Discussion: Zeteo and Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   What If the Mullahs Are Smarter Than Trump?
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
Associated Press:
Trump says he wants to be involved in picking Iran's next leader as war ripples across the region
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 …
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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 …
Politico:
'We're in it': Democrats won't rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
What Trump REALLY Thinks About His Iran War
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Trump's Unauthorized War
Discussion: UPI
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 …
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 …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Panel led by Trump allies to consider White House ballroom approval
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.
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Politico:
Sen. Steve Daines announces he will not seek reelection
NBC News:
GOP Sen. Steve Daines of Montana says he won't seek re-election
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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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.
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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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Financial Times:
Pentagon eyes Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iran
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 …
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 …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump demands immediate pardon for Netanyahu to focus on Iran … - “Every day I talk to Bibi about the war. … - But Thursday's comments — which Trump raised himself, unprompted — marked a dramatic escalation and direct intervention in Israel's legal system at a moment of active war.
Discussion: Reuters, VINnews and Haaretz
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 …
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.
Discussion: KVUE-TV and Raw Story
Pew Research Center:
In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad  —  53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics  —  This Pew Research Center analysis explores how adults in 25 countries rate the morality of other people in their country.
Discussion: Deseret News and RNS
 
 
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