3/23/26☀️ AM: … The House and Senate are in session this week.  The House returns Tuesday.  The Senate, which has been in all weekend, is scheduled to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as Department of Homeland Security secretary tonight.

Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy  —  Trump says he's negotiating with Iran.  Iran says he isn't.  Who are you gonna believe?  —  Another day in America's self-immolation as a Great Power.  —  More like this on my YouTube channel  —  Transcript  —  It's Monday morning.

Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots  —  The case could upend the way states handle ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive later.  President Trump has called for restrictions on mail-in voting.

Suspect in Loyola student killing was in US illegally, DHS says  —  The suspect charged in the fatal shooting of a Loyola University Chicago student was in the United States illegally, the Department of Homeland Security said.  —  Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was arrested by Chicago police …

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms  —  In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.  —  The Trump administration will pay the French energy giant TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion …

How Epstein Helped Solve a Billionaire's Problems With Women … In October 2017, a yoga instructor emailed Jeffrey Epstein with a delicate question: When might she receive the tens of thousands of dollars she'd been promised by the billionaire Leon Black?  —  She and Mr. Black …

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids  —  The baby needed somewhere to go.  So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife.  As squad cars waited outside the family's Lakeland …

Pentagon Officials Weigh Deployment of Airborne Troops for Iran War  —  The combat forces would come from a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours.  —  Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade …

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Confirms 91 Wrongful Deportations of Asylum Seekers  —  BALTIMORE—In a stunning courtroom admission, a Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge Monday that the Trump administration has identified 91 cases where asylum seekers were deported despite …

Voice of America staffers sue, alleging Kari Lake put on propaganda  —  In the latest battle over the future of Voice of America, a fresh group of veteran Voice of America journalists are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, alleging that she is promoting pro-Trump propaganda on air.

Federal government employees are not ok  —  A new survey shows collapsing morale amidst ineffective leadership  —  Imagine you inherited a large, complex business.  You don't have time to run it yourself, but you recognize its importance.  So you hire a management team.

Italy's Meloni seen narrowly losing justice referendum, exit polls say  —  Exit polls on Monday suggested Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had narrowly lost a referendum on her flagship reform of the judicial system, dealing a potential blow to the ruling coalition ahead of next year's general election.

Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump's market-turning post … S&P 500 futures and oil futures flashed an unusual burst of activity early Monday minutes before a market-moving social media post from President Donald Trump.  —  At around 6:50 a.m. in New York …

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death  —  The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence  —  It appears that members of Trump's cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them.  Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes.

There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency  —  The Trump presidency is over.  Those words seem harsh and, perhaps, overstated.  But Donald Trump is governing without the consent of the governed.  Most polls show Trump's approval hovering around the 40 percent mark.