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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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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Politico:
Inside the White House pressure campaign to fire Kristi Noem … “It certainly seems like there are people that are getting more aggressive in trying to get [her tenure] to come to an end,” the person close to the White House said. — This article is based on conversations with 10 people …
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Washington Post:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is out, Trump says, after controversial tenure — President Donald Trump announced the decision on social media and said Noem would be replaced with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.). — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem is being replaced …
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Associated Press:
Trump says he's replacing Homeland Security Secretary Noem with GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Trump fires Noem as DHS secretary, nominates 2020 election skeptic Sen. Mullin to replace her
Trump fires Noem as DHS secretary, nominates 2020 election skeptic Sen. Mullin to replace her
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Bloomberg:
Trump Replaces Noem as Homeland Chief After Rocky Tenure
Trump Replaces Noem as Homeland Chief After Rocky Tenure
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Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Kristi Noem ousted from Homeland Security post amid recent turmoil
Kristi Noem ousted from Homeland Security post amid recent turmoil
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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 …
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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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New York Times:
House Republicans Tell Gonzales to Quit Re-Election Campaign — What We're Covering Today — Department of Homeland Security: The House plans to vote on restoring funding to the Department of Homeland Security, which is in the third week of a shutdown.
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Board Delays Vote on Trump's Ballroom Amid Deluge of Public Criticism
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Politico:
'We're in it': Democrats won't rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war
'We're in it': Democrats won't rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Trump's Unauthorized War
Trump's Unauthorized War
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Panel led by Trump allies to consider White House ballroom approval
Panel led by Trump allies to consider White House ballroom approval
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Politico:
'That's bad for him to say': Trump puts Paxton on notice in Texas Senate primary … 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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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Paxton offers conditions for potential exit from Texas Senate race — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) suggested Thursday that he would be open to dropping out of the hotly contested Texas Senate primary against Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) if Senate Republicans met several conditions.
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
The Year Texas Might Turn Blue
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David Lindsey / Axios:
How fired-up Texas Dems gave Talarico a jolt toward November
How fired-up Texas Dems gave Talarico a jolt toward November
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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 …
Buried in the cascade of news this week, Sadie Gurman and Caitlin Ostroff of the Wall Street …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
What Trump REALLY Thinks About His Iran War
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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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Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP Sen. Steve Daines' last-minute withdrawal from Senate race was meant to block Democrats from fielding a top-tier recruit — Congressional news Senate election US elections — GOP Sen. Steve Daines made the last-minute decision to abruptly pull out of his Senate race to prevent Democrats …
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David Nir / The Downballot:
Morning Digest: Montana Sen. Steve Daines quits reelection bid at filing deadline
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Politico:
Sen. Steve Daines announces he will not seek reelection
Sen. Steve Daines announces he will not seek reelection
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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.
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Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Jan. 6 rioter gets life in prison for sexually abusing two 12-year-olds after Trump pardon
Jan. 6 rioter gets life in prison for sexually abusing two 12-year-olds after Trump pardon
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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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Lydia DePillis / New York Times:
How War in the Persian Gulf Could Spill Into the U.S. Economy
How War in the Persian Gulf Could Spill Into the U.S. Economy
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Politico:
Inside the Trump administration's scramble to support its own war … U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days but likely through September …
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
24 states sue over Trump's latest tariffs … The move follows the Supreme Court's decision Feb. 20 that Trump exceeded his authority under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs last year on virtually every country in the world.
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Tony Romm / New York Times:
States Sue to Stop Trump From Reviving Steep Tariffs
States Sue to Stop Trump From Reviving Steep Tariffs
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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 …
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Pentagon formally designates Anthropic a supply-chain risk … “From the very beginning, this has been about one fundamental principle: the military being able to use technology for all lawful purposes,” the Pentagon said in the statement. “The military will not allow a vendor to insert itself …
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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 …
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