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8:20 AM ET, March 24, 2026

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Punchbowl News:
3/24/26☀️ AM: … For the first time in more than a month, there's optimism that the Senate and the White House can finally find a path to reopening the Department of Homeland Security.  Key Senate Republicans returned from the White House late Monday with a noticeably upbeat demeanor …
Discussion: NewsMax.com, The Hill and NOTUS
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Axios:
Republicans seek elusive path to restoring DHS funding  —  House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington is in informal talks with Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham about a second reconciliation bill to fund the Pentagon — and potentially DHS. … - “I need to have a strong partner in the Senate …
Discussion: Fox News
NBC News:
Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin to be DHS secretary, replacing Kristi Noem  —  The vote makes the Oklahoma Republican senator the newest member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, leading a department facing a variety of challenges and controversies.  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday …
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.
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Ending Iran war now would cede Hormuz to the enemy, Trump's former Defense secretary says … “We're in a tough spot, ladies and gentlemen,” Mattis said.  “I can't identify a lot of options.”  —  A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions on Mattis's remarks.
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
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New York Times:
Trump Delays Threat to Iran, but War Negotiations Are in Early Stage
Aaron Blake / CNN:
Trump's suspiciously timed announcements on Iran
Discussion: Metro.co.uk, NewsMax.com and GB News
The Bulwark:   Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head
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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 …
Madiba K. Dennie / Balls and Strikes:
Watson v RNC: The Supreme Court's Conspiracy-Brained Justices Are Ready to Limit Mail-In Voting
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail
Financial Times:
Traders placed $580mn in oil bets ahead of Donald Trump's social media post on Iran talks  —  Thousands of Brent and WTI contracts changed hands 15 minutes before president's message on Truth Social
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Paul Krugman:
Treason in the Futures Markets
Discussion: CNBC
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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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Press groups denounce Pentagon's new media rules
Discussion: UPI
KBMT:
Shelter-in-place lifted nearly 12 hours after explosion, fire at Valero refinery in Port Arthur  —  An explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur led to a shelter-in-place order for residents, but no injuries or evacuations were reported, officials confirmed.
Wall Street Journal:
Gulf States Edge Toward Joining Fight Against Iran  —  Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates get tougher on basing and finances  —  U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf are inching toward joining the fight against Iran, getting tougher following persistent attacks that have disrupted …
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Barry Petchesky / Defector:
ICE Agents Deployed To Nation's Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing  —  The second government shutdown of the year, this one affecting only the Department of Homeland Security, went into effect on Feb. 14.  While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection …
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Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
When Trump Wants Something Done, He Dispatches ICE to Do It
Melissa Koenig / Daily Mail:
Air Canada flight's black box is recovered as investigators work to piece together moments leading up to LaGuardia collision: Live updates  —  The so-called ‘black box’ containing critical flight data has been recovered from the wreckage of an Air Canada flight as federal authorities work …
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Associated Press:
2 pilots killed when jet collides with fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport
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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U.S. Department of the Interior:
Interior and TotalEnergies Agree to End Offshore Wind Projects, Lowering Costs for American Families
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Faces Blowback on Easing Iran Oil Sanctions  —  President Trump once assailed the Obama administration for making cash payments to Iran.  Now he supports sanctions relief that could give the country a $14 billion windfall.  —  An agreement by the Obama administration to send $1.7 billion …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
NEW POLL: Trump's approval stuck at record low as approval on prices sinks to -39  —  Our new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats leading by 6 on the generic ballot, and Trump's approval on prices falling to its worst level yet … President Donald Trump has had a bad month of news cycles (again).
Discussion: Newsweek
New York Times:
Bill Cosby Loses Sex Assault Lawsuit and Faces a $59 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 …
Public Notice:
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story  —  “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office.”  —  ∙ Paid  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠
Chris Bradford / New York Post:
Key Charlie Kirk mentor Jeff Webb dies in freak pickleball accident: ‘A dear friend to Charlie’  —  One of Charlie Kirk's key early mentors has died in a freak pickleball accident.  —  Texas businessman Jeff Webb, described by Kirk's Turning Point USA as a “visionary who helped shape generations …
NBC News:
Trump begins another White House renovation project  —  Trump plans to redo the West Wing Colonnade walkway, swapping out the existing pavers for some made of black granite, according to a White House official.  Work on the project started today.  It is just the latest major renovation Trump …
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Folks, We've Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal  —  This one involves Jack Abramoff's crypto venture!  —  ∙ Paid  —  HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST to bribe a Daily Caller writer for positive coverage?  It could be cheaper than you think.  —  According to a newly unearthed ledger kept …
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
34 Former Military Members Were Put on Deportation Track in the Past Year  —  The Trump administration has ramped up enforcement against immigrant service members and their families in its wider crackdown.  —  The Trump administration began deportation proceedings for 34 former members …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The ugly history behind Trump's birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court  —  Three days after President Donald Trump began his second term, Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, became the first judge to block Trump's attempt to strip citizenship from many Americans who were born in the United States.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Washington Times
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Fewer people traveled for abortions as telehealth went up: report  —  A new report from the reproductive health nonprofit The Guttmacher Institute found that fewer people are traveling from states with total abortion bans to access abortion services, while the rate of telehealth use for at-home abortions has gone up.
Discussion: NPR, Associated Press and Pluribus News
 
 
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