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5:55 PM ET, March 23, 2026

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Punchbowl News:
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.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
ICE agents arrive at U.S. airports amid TSA staff shortages, funding fight  —  President Donald Trump has suggested the agents would be arresting undocumented immigrants at airports.  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrived at several airports Monday to assist …
NBC News:
Trump rejects off-ramp to fund DHS as airport delays worsen  —  Under a proposal pitched to Trump, Republicans would offer to reopen all of DHS except ICE, and fund the controversial enforcement agency under a separate party-line budget bill.  —  WASHINGTON — On Sunday …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Trump's shambolic policy-making by Fox segment hits the airports  —  President Donald Trump threw his administration into chaos on Saturday by demanding the stationing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at U.S. airports in response to long lines triggered by the expiration of funding …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Blows Up DHS Deal, Chooses ICE Airport Chaos Instead  —  The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14, but many Americans took notice only last week, when we started to see huge delays at major airports as many unpaid Transportation Security Administration employees refused to show up to work.
Bloomberg:
Trump Says ICE Agents Shouldn't Wear Masks on Airport Duty
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
ICE agents sent to airports to assist TSA as partial shutdown drags on
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail  —  The right wing of the Supreme Court happily churned out far-fetched hypotheticals as rationale to end a voting practice so common that 30 states use it — including ruby red Mississippi …
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
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.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump pauses Iran energy strikes for 5 days while talks progress  —  President Trump told reporters his envoys had been negotiating with a senior Iranian official and claimed the parties were in agreement on many points. … - Iran denied any such talks had taken place and claimed Trump was just trying to calm the energy markets.
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Politico:   'He's a hot option': White House eyes Iran's parliament speaker as potential US-backed leader
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Iran Calls B.S. as Trump Claims Iran Talks Are Underway
James LaPorta / CBS News:
Amid Iran talks, Strait of Hormuz dotted with about a dozen Iranian mines, U.S. officials say
Discussion: Stimson Center
New York Times:
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 …
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate  —  It's SAVE America Act month, and I can't stop thinking about dog food.  —  As in, Republicans have a dog-food problem.  They're serving up food that dogs won't eat.  The obvious solution is to change the recipe, but no way.
Discussion: New York Times and Jewish Insider
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John Kenneth White / The Hill:
There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
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 …
Discussion: Fortune
New York Times:
Bill Cosby Loses Sex Assault Lawsuit and Faces a $19 Million Judgment  —  A California jury found that Mr. Cosby had abused Donna Motsinger in 1972 after inviting her to attend one of his comedy shows.  —  A civil jury in California on Monday found that Bill Cosby had drugged …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online  —  On Monday a judge said videos of recent depositions from DOGE members can be published online once again.  The ruling is something of an about face for Judge Colleen McMahon, who originally ordered plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit …
Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
New top prosecutor named in New Jersey, ending impasse over U.S attorney's office  —  Robert Frazer replaces a trio of officials the Justice Department installed to lead the office late last year — an arrangement a federal judge ruled was illegal.  —  Judges in New Jersey appointed …
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
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Associated Press:
2 pilots killed when jet collides with fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport  —  An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring several others, officials said.
NBC Chicago:
Suspect in killing of Loyola University Chicago student hospitalized, state's attorney says  —  Before Chicago police announced charges against suspect Jose Medina-Medina had been filed, ICE issued an arrested detainer, saying the Venezuelan immigrant entered the U.S. illegally
Yun Li / CNBC:
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 …
Politico:
No DHS talks expected until Mullin is confirmed, White House official says  —  The White House is holding off on further DHS funding negotiations until the Senate confirms Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to lead the agency, according to a White House official, granted anonymity to share internal thinking.
Discussion: Bloomberg and NewsMax.com
Paul Krugman:
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.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Mahablog
New York Times:
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 …
New York Times:
‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Iran  —  David French talks with the retired general about the “great seduction” America fell for in Iran.  —  Did President Trump fall for the myth of surgical warfare?  Gen. Stanley McChrystal joins the columnist David French …
Victor Nava / New York Post:
White House installs Christopher Columbus statue made from remains of toppled sculpture  —  A new statue of Christopher Columbus went up on the White House grounds Sunday that was built using pieces from a monument to the Italian explorer that protesters destroyed six years ago.
Politico:
Gabbard plans to shift coveted, CIA-backed high-tech fund to her office … Supporters of the change argue that In-Q-Tel caters too much to the tech needs of the CIA over other defense and intelligence agencies, such as the National Reconnaissance Office and the FBI.
Wendy Siegelman / NewsTRACS:
Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners investment firm just filed a disclosure showing over $6 billion in assets under management for 6 clients in 2025 (compared to $4.8B in 2024 and $3B in 2023)  —  Jared Kushner's investment advisory firm Affinity Partners, which is officially registered …
 
 
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Politico:
Hawley investigates FICO for mortgage credit scoring
NBC News:
Democrats launch new inquiry into Corey Lewandowski
Marie Gottschalk / Bloomberg:
The Trump Administration Turns a Blind Eye to White-Collar Crime
Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:
‘Not Losing’ Has Different Meanings for Iran and the U.S.
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
How Trump Killed Conservatism
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Jan-Werner Müller / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death
ProPublica:
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The SAVE America Act could backfire bigly on MAGA
 

 
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
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