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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.
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 …
Bloomberg:
Trump Replaces Noem as Homeland Chief After Rocky Tenure  —  President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary after months of controversy and announced he would replace her with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin.  —  Trump posted on social media Thursday that the move would become effective on March 31.
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 …
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 …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
What Trump REALLY Thinks About His Iran War
Discussion: CBS News and BizPac Review
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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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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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How the Decision to Start a War Became the President's
Discussion: Reason, The Dispatch and The Contrarian
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Trump's Unauthorized War
Discussion: UPI and HuffPost
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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Politico:
Sen. Steve Daines announces he will not seek reelection
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 …
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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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 …
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
Discussion: CBS News
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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Politico:
'We're in it': Democrats won't rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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