Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS … Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the outcome “unfortunate” Friday.  —  “The Dems wanted reforms.  We tried to work with them on reforms.  They ended up getting no reforms but, you know, we're going to have to fight some of those battles another day,” he said.

Trump's Signature Is Set to Be Added to America's Currency  —  President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar.  —  President Trump's signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion …

Exclusive: Pentagon Weighs Sending Another 10,000 Ground Troops to the Middle East  —  The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said.

How Iran is seeking to cash in on Strait of Hormuz  —  Tehran suggests system of charging fees and limiting passage to ‘non-hostile’ ships could endure beyond the war  —  Iran is working to establish a system of approved passage for ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a tightening of control …

‘Just drinking the Kool-Aid’: Inside the White House divide on Iran  —  Senior aides describe a widening internal divide over a conflict the president has grown bored with — and a communications strategy some call embarrassing.  —  Nearly one month after the U.S. began strikes on Iran …

U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon  —  More than 850 have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, raising concerns about the weapon's limited supply.  —  The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles …

Ex-MMA thug who assaulted woman during Barron Trump FaceTime call learns fate  —  The “jealous” Russian ex-MMA fighter convicted of beating up his ex-girlfriend on a January 2025 FaceTime call with President Trump's son, Barron, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

Judge pauses Anthropic's supply chain risk designation … Lin added that the court's record supports “an inference that Anthropic is being punished for criticizing the government's contracting position in the press.”  —  By granting Anthropic's request, Lin removed the stigma of the designation …

Janet Mills and Graham Platner battle for female voters in Maine's key Senate race  —  The voting bloc will play an important role in the Democratic primary and in November after GOP Sen. Susan Collins won female voters in her last race.  —  Gov. Janet Mills and oyster farmer Graham Platner …

Trump Said This Policy Would Make Manhattan a ‘Ghost Town.’ He Was Wrong.  —  Early last year, New York flipped a switch on an audacious system to charge drivers entering Midtown or Lower Manhattan, the first of its kind in the United States.  Passenger cars with an E-ZPass had to pay $9 …

Powerful House Republican Joins Retirement Wave  —  Transportation chair Sam Graves says he is ready for ‘next chapter,’ pulls re-election paperwork  —  WASHINGTON—Republican Rep. Sam Graves, the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, is pulling his plans to seek re-election …

Poll: 1 out of 8 Trump voters has buyer's remorse about 2024  —  Programming note: I have a pressing family event this Saturday so there will be no Sunday roundup this weekend.  I will also probably miss out on producing a crowdsourced estimate of the third No Kings demonstrations …

Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly  —  It is not just Democrats in Congress who fear that Donald Trump's war in Iran is going sideways.  After a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Republican lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee appeared shaken.

ICE is trying to deport Iranians.  The war is getting in the way. … It was a euphemistic reference to a war that has not only scrambled the global economy but put a crimp in ICE's plans to deport dozens of Iranian nationals on delicately negotiated charter flights coordinated with the Iranian government.

FBI probe of 2020 election count in Georgia faces crucial court hearing  —  A federal judge Friday will consider Fulton County's request for the return of thousands of ballots seized by President Donald Trump's Justice Department.  —  The FBI's investigation of the 2020 election results …

Exclusive: U.S. can only confirm about third of Iran's missile arsenal destroyed, sources say  —  The United States can only determine with certainty that it has destroyed about a third of Iran's vast missile arsenal as the U.S. and Israeli war on the country nears its one-month mark …

Putin asks oligarchs to donate to budget as cost of Ukraine war soars  —  Russian president's demand shows intention to pursue campaign until all of Donbas region is captured

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They're Actually Cheering For  —  from the bad-defendants-make-bad-law dept  —  First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining …

NEW: “It's a bad f**ing idea”, Congress blasts Trump Admin. war briefings  —  “It's a bad fucking idea,” he said into the phone in a tone so calm and measured, the words landed unexpectedly, but powerfully.  —  Rep. Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat who is the ranking member …

Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault  —  A state legislator was moved to sponsor the bill — now signed into law — following a Salt Lake Tribune-ProPublica investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims.  —  Co-published with The Salt Lake Tribune

“Margin Call” in the age of “Epic Fury”  —  The allegations of insider trading tied to the Iran war had a familiar shape: people close enough to power to know what was coming using their knowledge of a pending catastrophe to profit before it became public.  —  For millennials …