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7:30 AM ET, March 19, 2026

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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
FBI investigates intelligence aide who resigned over war  —  The Scoop  —  The FBI has opened a leak investigation into a top former intelligence official who resigned Tuesday in protest over the war in Iran.  —  The investigation into former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent …
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Scoreboard on every street: Gas heads for $4 per gallon due to Iran war  —  Most Americans will likely soon be paying over $4 per gallon as the war in Iran drives one of the sharpest gas price surges in recent history. … - “President Trump has been clear that these are short-term disruptions.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Joe Kent's Resignation Letter Is Dangerous Because It's Half True  —  For those who suspect that Israel manipulated America into war, the resignation of Joe Kent, Donald Trump's director of the National Counterterrorism Center, surely seems like confirmation.
New York Times:
What's a Threat? Gabbard Says It's Up to Trump, on Iran and Elsewhere.
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Joe Kent, ex-Trump counterterrorism chief who resigned over Iran war, under FBI investigation for alleged leaks
Washington Post:
Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war  —  Some White House officials do not think the Pentagon's request has a realistic shot of being approved in Congress, one senior administration official said.  —  The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase  —  President Donald Trump's administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran …
Punchbowl News:
3/19/26☀️ AM: … Congress has sat firmly on the sidelines as President Donald Trump wages an increasingly deadly war on Iran.  GOP leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers have repeatedly voted against efforts to rein in Trump's war powers, insisting that this would be a quick and victorious campaign.
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns  —  Lockdowns at U.S. bases and a global security alert underscore concerns that Iranian retaliation could extend to officials on U.S. soil  —  U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base …
Discussion: Townhall, Reuters, The US Sun and IJR
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
Middle East war: why attacks on gasfields like South Pars are a major escalation  —  Strike was first time a fossil fuel energy production facility has been hit.  But why is it significant and who does it affect?  —  Prefer the Guardian on Google  —  Strikes by both sides …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
After Tehran strikes, Trump says Israel won't attack Iran gas fields anymore
Dolores Huerta:
A Statement from Dolores Huerta  —  “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.  —  I have encouraged people to always use their voice.
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New York Times:
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Republicans are ramping up attacks on Muslims — and getting rewarded  —  Past GOP leaders, including George W. Bush, spoke out against Islamophobia.  Now it is going unchallenged.  —  Republicans in Congress have said that “Muslims don't belong in American society” and that …
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New York Times:
The Surge of Anti-Muslim Hate Demands Repudiation
Discussion: NOTUS and NewsMax.com
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Illinois results solidify JB Pritzker's ‘powerhouse’ role — and set up a White House run  —  The Illinois governor sank money and political capital into an open Democratic Senate primary and came out a winner alongside Juliana Stratton, who won the race.  — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE
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Regina Medina / MPR News:
Judge ends asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, orders family's removal  —  An immigration judge has ended the asylum claims of Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, according to their Minneapolis lawyer.  —  The 5-year-old boy from Columbia Heights received national attention …
Sam Sutton / Politico:
‘What is he doing?’:  New threats emerge for Trump's economy as war drags on … “Downside risks are rising, and this is an extremely fluid situation,” he said.  —  The data shows that the warning lights were flickering even before Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, choking global supply chains.
Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Afroman Wins Verdict Rejecting Lawsuit Filed by Ohio Cops Over Mocking Music Videos  —  Police officers raided the “Because I Got High” rapper's Ohio home, then sued him after he ridiculed them on social media — but a jury just sided with Afroman. … Afroman won a jury verdict Wednesday …
Brent Lang / Variety:
Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Movie — First Look (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Five years prior to his death in 2025, Val Kilmer was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, in “As Deep as the Grave.”  But Kilmer, who was battling throat cancer, was too sick to ever make it to set.
Meghan Bartels / Scientific American:
COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show  —  We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say … COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate …
Discussion: Associated Press and Gizmodo
Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune:
The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it  —  The United States national debt crossed $39 trillion for the first time Tuesday, arriving at the grim milestone less than five months after it first hit $38 trillion in late October …
Discussion: Associated Press and Fox Business
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
HHS investigating 13 states for ‘coercing’ healthcare providers to provide abortions  —  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that it is launching investigations into 13 states for violating a federal health refusal clause and “coercing” healthcare entities into providing or performing abortion services.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Kennedy's vaccine agenda takes a major blow  —  A court ruling on Monday dealt a heavy blow to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to transform America's vaccine policy, just as the White House is reportedly losing interest in the project.
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
One ‘freaking snake’ and no apologies: How the Mullin hearing went off the rails  —  The chairman opened the hearing with a provocative dare: Say it to my face.  Sen. Rand Paul, the Republican from Kentucky, has made clear he has little regard for President Donald Trump's nominee to lead …
David Strom / HotAir:
The Most Gavin Newsom Thing Ever  —  I've been doing a lot of research on the explosive fraud in California, but with all the other news, I really haven't gotten around to writing about it.  Besides, Beege did a bang-up job with a piece yesterday, so I can take a breather until things settle down.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Kiley switches parties, loses committees  —  Rep. Kevin Kiley, the former Republican who recently registered as an Independent, said in an interview Wednesday he plans to caucus with the House GOP and will seek to regain his committee assignments.  The California lawmaker was formally removed …
Discussion: Breitbart
Politico:
‘Warrants or bust’: House hard-liners deliver ultimatum ahead of spy powers vote … “Warrants or bust,” Boebert said, adding that a clean bill “will not pass.”  —  Separately, Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is demanding the House attach partisan elections legislation, the SAVE America Act …
Discussion: Roll Call
New York Times:
‘Go Big and Go Loud’: Inside the Justice Dept.'s Push to Prosecute Protesters  —  Prosecutors have struggled to prove in court what the president and his aides have repeatedly said in public: that a network of leftist activists presents a serious threat to national security.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: How the left plans to start winning primaries again  —  Progressives plan to exert more pressure in Democratic congressional primaries to get the left to coalesce behind one viable candidate rather than split the vote and create an opening for moderates, Axios has learned.
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump's face on a gold coin?  His hand-picked panel will decide.  —  The proposal has already been rejected by members of a separate federal coin committee — and panned by former member Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.  —  Just now  —  A federal arts commission will weigh whether to approve …
Discussion: New York Sun and The Handbasket
New York Times:
Trump Vowed to Crack Down on Fraudsters, but He's Pardoned Dozens … Salomon Melgen was an immigrant who came to the United States and wound up committing fraud, ripping off the American taxpayers by $42 million.  “Melgen devised a scheme to enrich himself by defrauding Medicare to the tune …
Discussion: MS NOW
 
 
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Jon Levine / The Washington Free Beacon:
Zohran Mamdani's Wife Celebrated Palestinian Terrorists, Including Plane Hijacker, In Social Media Posts From Early Adulthood
Discussion: Townhall, HotAir and twitchy.com
Weston Kosova / Bloomberg:
The Enormous Financial Cost of Three Weeks of War in Iran
Discussion: The Times of Israel and Al Jazeera
Washington Post:
Under Trump, the government's watchdogs are losing their independence
Discussion: ProPublica
Ian Ward / Politico:
8 Fault Lines That Could Spell Trouble for Trump's Coalition
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
‘I will follow the law,’ Bondi says after Democrats storm out of Epstein files briefing
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
We Have Not Forgotten About The Epstein Files
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
 Earlier Items: 
Erica Orden / Politico:
British authorities seek DOJ's help in investigations into former Prince Andrew, Peter Mandelson
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Nancy Mace draws White House ire over independent Middle East rescue efforts
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Inside the White House plan to sell the Iran war online
Politico:
House rejects effort to force a balanced budget in the US
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Voters in a key Pennsylvania swing district weigh in on Trump, gas prices and Iran war
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
 

 
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Minho Kim / New York Times:
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