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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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Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz — Israelis said securing the strait for energy shipments could become the war's main goal now that regime change and ending Iran's ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach. — TEL AVIV — A surge …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Better to TACO Than Not to TACO — ICE agents are heading to airports today, with President Trump deploying them in an apparent effort to reinforce TSA agents working without pay due to the government shutdown. Trump seems dead-set on keeping those agents working without pay rather …
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Iran Calls B.S. as Trump Claims Iran Talks Are Underway — After four weeks of useless threats, bombings, and death, President Trump is placing a five-day pause on his war on Iran after failing to attain the “unconditional surrender” that he claimed he would earlier this month.
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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.
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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Julia Marshall / Straight Arrow News:
Trump postpones strikes on Iranian power plants following talks with Tehran
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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 …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says ICE Agents Shouldn't Wear Masks on Airport Duty
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Associated Press:
ICE officers make their way to airports' TSA checkpoints after Trump order amid partial shutdown
ICE officers make their way to airports' TSA checkpoints after Trump order amid partial shutdown
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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 — This morning the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Watson v. RNC. The case concerns whether federal statutes setting Election …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
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.
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Reuters:
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.
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Donato Paolo Mancini / Bloomberg:
Meloni Loses Key Referendum Ahead of 2027 Italian Election
Meloni Loses Key Referendum Ahead of 2027 Italian Election
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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 …
ProPublica:
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 …
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
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.
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The SAVE America Act could backfire bigly on MAGA — Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 💬 Subscribe to PN 💬 — This weekend, the Republicans thrashed about in the Senate like rotting, mildly electrocuted trout as they attempted …
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Jan-Werner Müller / The Guardian:
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.
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 …
Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:
Control tower at Newark airport outside NYC evacuated over burning smell — A burning smell prompted the control tower at Newark airport outside of New York City to be evacuated, and a ground stop was ordered, the Federal Aviation Administration said. — Air traffic was paused around 7:30 …
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Nik Popli / Time:
Trump Poised to Skip CPAC For First Time in a Decade — President Donald Trump is poised to skip the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, breaking with an annual tradition that has helped define his political rise and cement his hold over the modern conservative movement.
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Halt DOGE Inquiry — The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to block a government watchdog group from questioning a senior official and obtaining internal records about the Department of Government Efficiency project once led by Elon Musk.
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
Republicans privately fear this swing state Democrat — Behind closed doors, Republicans have tamped down their hopes of unseating Jon Ossoff, a 39-year-old powerhouse fundraiser, as he seeks another term. — Rep. Buddy Carter warned a crowd of Republicans in Roberta, Georgia …
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BBC:
Arson attack on Jewish charity ambulances being investigated by counter-terror police — Summary — Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into an arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community charity in north London — Police say it has not been declared …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 22, 2026 — President Donald J. Trump's behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes out at those he perceives to be enemies. On Thursday he defended his failure to inform allies and partners about his February 28 attack on Iran by telling a Japanese reporter he wanted the element of surprise.
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Politico:
‘When will it end?’ The ‘elevator pitch’ oil executives and diplomats are making to the White House in Houston … If there's one message the industry wants to deliver to the administration, according to interviews with half a dozen energy industry executives and foreign diplomats planning …
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Thomas Frank / Politico:
It's three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump … The denials have blocked Democratic-led states from getting a total of $250 million in disaster aid that would have been approved by every previous president including Trump in his first term, E&E News found.
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Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Is This Uncharismatic Leader Exactly What the Democrats Need? — DNC Chair Ken Martin has a plan to return Democrats to power, but he needs to keep the party from tearing itself apart first — “There are politicians who have the ‘it factor,’ and are highly charismatic,” Ken Martin …
Jeneen Interlandi / New York Times:
Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s C.D.C. — Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable. — Almost as soon as he recaptured the White House, President-elect Trump announced …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Rejects Exit Ramp on TSA Spending Impasse — President says he wants resolution of Homeland Security fight tied to voter-ID legislation — WASHINGTON—President Trump has rejected one of the possible offramps for the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security …

