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Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds — Special counsel Jack Smith gathered evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump took many top secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests, and investigators considered …
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Washington Post:
Trump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo says — The document offers a snapshot of an early moment in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation and adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith's probes. — President Donald Trump showed a classified map …
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
DOJ inquiry into John Brennan intensifies after House sends classified transcripts — House Republicans voted behind closed doors Tuesday evening to send classified transcripts tied to former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department, a move that signals the Trump administration …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Raskin says he has “damning” memo on Trump classified docs case — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Attorney General Pam Bondi in a letter Tuesday that her department provided him with a “damning” memo containing new allegations about President Trump's handling of classified documents when he was out of office.
NBC News:
Trump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran war — The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president's allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war. — WASHINGTON — Each day since the start of the war in Iran …
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Politico:
Trump's ‘absurdly incoherent’ Iran pleas leave allies befuddled — European countries have ruled out helping secure the Strait of Hormuz until the conflict is over — but also haven't received any specific requests for assistance from the U.S. — EXCLUSIVE
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France 24
Axios:
Iran suspects Trump's peace talk push is another trick — Iranian officials have told the countries trying to mediate peace talks with the U.S. that they have now been tricked twice by President Trump and “we don't want to be fooled again,” according to a source with direct knowledge of those discussions.
Paul Waldman / The Cross Section:
A Dunning-Kruger War, Courtesy of the Dunning-Kruger President
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The Mahablog and Digby's Hullabaloo
Bret Devereaux / A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry:
Miscellanea: The War in Iran
Miscellanea: The War in Iran
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Defense One
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Weiss' Ratings Wipeout … When Bari Weiss took the reins of CBS News in October, her message was clear: that the public had lost trust in the network and that major change was needed to win viewers back and return it to its glory days. But through a series of actions over her turbulent six-month tenure …
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Associated Press:
Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud — Investigating voter fraud claims, Harry Wait requested the ballots of Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent. — A jury convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud …
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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Conservative activist convicted in voter-fraud case — In Wsiconsin, Harry Wait said he set out to expose the potential for voter fraud. He ordered mail ballots in the names of others — and got charged with felonies. — MADISON, Wis. — Conservative activist Harry Wait said he ordered ballots …
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Jarvis DeBerry / MS NOW:
ICE agents don't need to wear masks. And Trump just admitted it. — If there were a legitimate threat to ICE agents who show their faces outside airports, then that threat would also exist inside airports. … Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wear masks, President Donald Trump …
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
Homeland Security Talks Hit Snag as Democrats Demand ICE Restrictions
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Homan on Democrats opposing ICE at voting sites: ‘What are they afraid of?’
Homan on Democrats opposing ICE at voting sites: ‘What are they afraid of?’
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PressTV:
Iran rejects US proposal, lays out five conditions for ending imposed war: Source to Press TV — Iran has responded negatively to an American proposal aimed at ending the ongoing imposed war, insisting that it will only occur on Tehran's own terms and timeline, a senior political-security official told Press TV on Wednesday.
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CNBC:
Iran rejects U.S. ceasefire offer, demands sovereignty over Strait of Hormuz
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Iran rejects Trump's 15-point plan to end war: State TV
Iran rejects Trump's 15-point plan to end war: State TV
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BBC, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, France 24, Blaze Media, New York Post and Al Jazeera
New York Post:
TSA experiencing highest wait times in history — and may be forced to shutter entire airports — WASHINGTON — Airline passengers are experiencing some of the highest security wait times in the 25-year-history of the Transportation Security Administration — with some taking more than four …
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Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
TSA chief: More than 480 screeners have quit during shutdown
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Axios, Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
DHS watchdog warned of risks in airport shoes-off policy. The report got buried.
DHS watchdog warned of risks in airport shoes-off policy. The report got buried.
Myles Miller / Bloomberg:
Airport Wait Times Worst in History After 480 Officers Leave
Airport Wait Times Worst in History After 480 Officers Leave
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New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Times, Time, Newsweek and WTOP News
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider in Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music — Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music. — The Supreme Court unanimously said on Wednesday …
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court deals blow to music industry fight against illegal downloads
Supreme Court deals blow to music industry fight against illegal downloads
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Washington Examiner, Axios, UPI, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, Deadline, CBS News and Billboard
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Top Republican attacks Pentagon for not providing details on Iran … It's a notable rebuke from a senior GOP defense hawk who has backed President Donald Trump's decision to attack Iran — and a warning that the administration could lose support for the nearly month-old war if it can't adequately make the case to Congress.
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One America News Network, Mediaite, The Guardian, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and The Gateway Pundit
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
In Trump's war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing … When the retired U.S. Army colonel Joe Buccino first saw White House posts mixing Iran war footage with clips from cartoons and video games, he felt something he had rarely experienced from American military messaging: disgust.
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Politico:
Vance will visit Hungary just days before its election … Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to visit Hungary between April 7-8, just days ahead of the country's election, to show support for the reelection of Prime Minister Victor Orbán. — The trip dates, which have not previously …
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Reuters
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Epstein's accountant and lawyer told House panel government investigators never interviewed them — Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke were co-executors of Jeffrey Epstein's will. The Justice Department said last year that it conducted an “exhaustive” review into Epstein.
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Associated Press:
Most Americans say US military action against Iran has gone too far, a new AP-NORC poll finds — Most Americans believe recent U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, and many are worried about affording gasoline, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Mysterious trading patterns follow Trump into war — An epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around President Trump's most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he rattles global markets, according to exchange data.
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Associated Press:
Iranian military mocks Trump's claim of US-Iran negotiations — An Iranian military spokesperson mocked U.S. attempts at a ceasefire deal Wednesday, insisting that the Americans were only negotiating with themselves. Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military's …
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Andrew Howard / Politico:
Republican states are pushing through their own versions of the SAVE America Act … GOP Secretary of State Kris Warner said the change would prevent local officials from allowing noncitizens to vote in those races, but he conceded to WVNews that noncitizen voting is not a major issue in the state.
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RedState, Ballotpedia News, Election Law Blog, Washington Examiner and The Hill
New York Times:
T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport — Transportation Security Administration officials told ICE that a mother and daughter under a detention order had planned to fly domestically, federal documents show. — The woman and her 9-year-old daughter …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
DOJ Reached Deal to Pay Ex-Trump Adviser Michael Flynn — The US Justice Department has reached a financial settlement with Michael Flynn, a conservative activist and former official in the first Trump administration who sought millions of dollars from the government for what he alleged was a wrongful prosecution effort.
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Jude Joffe-Block / NPR:
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant — A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads.
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Some States Already Preparing for Potential Supreme Court Ban on Late Ballots — The court's conservatives appear skeptical of laws allowing mail ballots to arrive after Election Day. A decision could come as late as June, potentially scrambling midterm elections.
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Cardinal News, Real Patriotism …, Election Law Blog, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg among tech leaders appointed to White House tech council … Huang, meanwhile, has met regularly with Trump in a largely successful effort to convince the White House to lift restrictions on the sale of Nvidia's AI chips to China.
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