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Gabe Castro-Root / New York Times:
ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here's What to Know. — The deployment comes as a battle over Department of Homeland Security funding has led to closed security checkpoints, long lines and missed flights. — Up to 150 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were deployed …
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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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The Bulwark, Daily Mail, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, Politico, MS NOW, Raw Story, New Republic, Breitbart and HuffPost
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 …
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CBS News, The Hill, Truthout, Rolling Stone, NewsMax.com, The Federalist, The US Sun, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Mediaite
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 …
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal, The Hill, WTOP News, RedState, Mother Jones, FOX 32 Chicago and Fox News
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Blows Up DHS Deal, Chooses ICE Airport Chaos Instead
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Barry Petchesky / Defector:
ICE Agents Deployed To Nation's Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News
Trump's ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Cameron Peters / Vox:
ICE heads to the airport
ICE heads to the airport
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Democracy Docket, Reuters, New York Post, PolitiFact, IJR, Washington Times, Zeteo, The Post Millennial, abc7NY, Reason, WTTG-TV, American Greatness, Business Insider and The Guardian
Rachael Bade / The Inner Circle with Rachael Bade:
SCOOP: Dems dare Trump on ICE in airports — “Do it!”
SCOOP: Dems dare Trump on ICE in airports — “Do it!”
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The Hill, Fox News, twitchy.com, Louder With Crowder, Townhall, Raw Story, Newsweek, The Message Box and Politico
Wired:
ICE Invades Airports Across the US
ICE Invades Airports Across the US
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Straight Arrow News, Washington Times and Reuters
Bloomberg:
Trump Says ICE Agents Shouldn't Wear Masks on Airport Duty
Trump Says ICE Agents Shouldn't Wear Masks on Airport Duty
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New York Times, Raw Story, New York Sun, Breitbart, Scripps News, The Hill, Mercury News, The Post Millennial, CBS News, Washington Examiner and Advocate
Politico:
‘The pressure is untenable’: Trump's deployment of ICE agents to airports ramps up shutdown fight
‘The pressure is untenable’: Trump's deployment of ICE agents to airports ramps up shutdown fight
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TechCrunch, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Raw Story, FOX 32 Chicago, The Daily Wire, FOX 26 Houston, The Independent and MS NOW
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
ICE to maintain ‘presence’ at 13 airports and help with crowd control
ICE to maintain ‘presence’ at 13 airports and help with crowd control
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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 …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court worries Trump's attack on late ballots could also threaten early voting … Lawyers for both the federal government and the RNC insisted that they are not trying to end those practices. — “We agree with both sides that early voting is still acceptable,” …
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Fox News, Associated Press, CBS News, Mediaite, Bloomberg, NewsMax.com, The Daily Signal, ABC News and The Hill
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots
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NOTUS, Democracy Docket, Washington Post, New York Post, New York Magazine, The Preamble, NBC News, CNBC, CBS News, Mother Jones, FOX 32 Chicago, Pluribus News and Mock Paper Scissors
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Supreme Court Likely to Divide Closely in Watson over Whether States May Count Ballots Received after Election Day in Federal Elections; Key Justices Don't Tip Hands
Supreme Court Likely to Divide Closely in Watson over Whether States May Count Ballots Received after Election Day in Federal Elections; Key Justices Don't Tip Hands
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Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Law Dork, Roll Call, Democracy Docket and Washington Examiner
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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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Israel Launches Fresh Wave of Attacks on Iran as Rift With Trump Grows
Israel Launches Fresh Wave of Attacks on Iran as Rift With Trump Grows
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Rolling Stone, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The American Conservative and Blaze Media
Politico:
'We're in the testing phase': Trump admin eyeing Iran's parliament speaker as US-backed leader
'We're in the testing phase': Trump admin eyeing Iran's parliament speaker as US-backed leader
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Reuters and The US Sun
Lara Seligman / Wall Street Journal:
Thousands of Marines to Arrive in Centcom the Same Day as Trump's Iran Deadline
Thousands of Marines to Arrive in Centcom the Same Day as Trump's Iran Deadline
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Daily Mail
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Rolling Stone, Straight Arrow News, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Page Six, The Hollywood Reporter, IJR, Variety and TMZ.com
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss … The Defense Department said on Monday that it was taking a new approach to limiting access to media organizations, after a federal judge ruled on Friday that major parts of its current policy were unconstitutional, in a case brought by The New York Times.
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Associated Press, NewsMax.com and The Hill
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Voice of America journalists allege Trump wants to make outlet a propaganda source
Voice of America journalists allege Trump wants to make outlet a propaganda source
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NPR, New York Times, The Hill, NewsMax.com, All Rise News and WTOP News, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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Jewish Insider and New York Times
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John Kenneth White / The Hill:
There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency
There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency
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Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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Fortune
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 …
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New York Times, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
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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
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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 …
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The Independent
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 …
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 …
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Mediaite
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.
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NOTUS, NewsMax.com and Bloomberg
The Bulwark:
Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head — The man in charge is bluffing, blustering, and trying to manipulate the markets by claiming that the administration is in negotiations with Iran and was holding off on further military strikes. Israel's reaction was to drop more bombs on Iran …
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
The Crazy Bill for ICE Barbie's Cowboy Cosplay Is Revealed — GIDDY UP — It cost tens of thousands of dollars to create Noem's cowgirl look in the $143 million DHS ad campaign. — Kristi Noem spent almost $24,000 in taxpayer money on makeup and horse rental for the $143 million …
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Trump Team Hunts for Ways to Blunt Gas Price Increases — The administration is soliciting ideas to bring some relief at the gas pump … Looking for Relief — Lower gasoline prices have been Donald Trump's calling card in his second term — one highly visible economic bright spot …
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Raw Story and Bloomberg Government
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 …

