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12:35 PM ET, March 27, 2026

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New York Times:
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 …
Politico:
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.
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Two More Giant Ls for Trump  —  The war in Iran is going badly, and the PR war to sell it at home isn't faring much better.  RealClearPolitics's polling average on the subject finds Trump an average of 9.9 points underwater when it comes to the war, with 41 percent approving and 51 percent disapproving.
Discussion: Axios
Zeteo:
First Draft: About that ‘Gay Ayatollah’ Story...  Team Trump cooked up a psyop about Iran's new supreme leader, sources tell Zeteo.  Plus, the president decides to pay TSA agents, and why Trump wants to keep attacking Iran on weekends.  —  ∙ Paid … Good morning!
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senate agrees to fund DHS, except ICE and Border Patrol, in bid to end 40-day shutdown  —  The measure, passed unanimously early Friday after a marathon session, is expected to have President Donald Trump's support but faces an uncertain future in the House.
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Effort to fund TSA, most of DHS shifts to House
Wall Street Journal:
Senate Approves Funding for Most of DHS, Moving to End Airport Crisis
Jake Traylor / MS NOW:
‘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 …
Reuters:
Iran-linked hackers claim breach of FBI director's personal email; DOJ official confirms break-in  —  Iran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and his purported resume to the internet.
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Sam Sabin / Axios:   Iran-linked group claims hack of FBI Director Kash Patel
Financial Times:
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 …
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The Guardian:
Saudi Arabia urging US to ramp up Iran attacks, intelligence source confirms
Discussion: CNBC
Washington Post:
As Trump feels pressure to end war, allies fear what Iran may do next
Discussion: Bloomberg and Fox News
Washington Post:
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
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.
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Chris Bradford / New York Post:
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.
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Michael Holden / Reuters:   Russian jailed in UK for attacking woman after Trump's son alerted police
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New York Times:
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 …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
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 …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
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.
Axios:
Vance's greatest challenge: Making peace with Iran  —  Vice President JD Vance is preparing to take on the most important assignment of his career: steering U.S. efforts to end a war he'd been concerned about waging in the first place. … He's expected to be the top U.S. negotiator in potential peace talks.
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and Mediaite
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Expose ALL Of Trump's War Profiteering  —  We can say this much about Donald Trump, his advisers, and their many servants in other branches of government: They are prolific coverup artists, but poor craftsmen.  —  This became evident in Trump's first term—indeed even in his first campaign …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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.
Olivia Beavers / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Washington Post:
Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years  —  The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.  —  Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts …
ProPublica:
The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish  —  Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. … Before vaccines, death and disability stalked children.
Discussion: The Dispatch and The Hill
Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Robert Mueller's tragic fall from grace and the damage he left in his wake  —  The former FBI director's final undertaking will forever stain his legacy.  He committed a grave disservice to the nation  —  Sometimes beneath the noble exterior, human imperfection is exposed, and a sturdy reputation is shattered.
Discussion: The Federalist
Lawrence Solum / Legal Theory Blog:
Six Thoughts on Originalism and the Birthright Citizenship Clause  —  the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara.  Much of the debate about the clause has focused on the original meaning of the first Clause of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment:
Discussion: New York Times
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore's minister for foreign affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, put in bald language the change in the world order instigated by President Donald J. Trump.  —  “For 80 years,” Balakrishnan explained, “the US was the underwriter for a system …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Christine Mui / Politico:
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 …
Samuel Larreal / NOTUS:
Democrats Say Rep. Eric Swalwell Personally Pitched His Political AI Startup to Lawmakers  —  Getting a business pitch from Swalwell is “surprisingly universal,” in some Democratic circles, one source told NOTUS.  — Copy  —  Rep. Eric Swalwell of California repeatedly peddled the services …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
What do you do when you can't trust the government?  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  We're a month into President Donald Trump's increasingly disastrous Iran war, and we have no idea what's really going on.
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Nothing Works in Trump's America—Except for Racism  —  In this week's Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores Trump's stunning incompetence.  Plus: baseball is back—for now.  —  Pocket … LaGuardia stopped functioning this week.  On Sunday night, an Air Canada plane crashed into a fire truck …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Sour voters say Washington is out of touch  —  Nearly half of voters say they're falling behind, and neither party is seen as having a clear plan on prices  —  Voters are not only dissatisfied with the direction of the country but also pessimistic about the economic outlook …
Reuters:
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 …
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Vivian Nereim / New York Times:
Gulf States Crack Down on Videos of Iranian Attacks Posted Online  —  The authorities have made a wave of arrests to stop people posting footage of strikes, citing security risks.  Experts also see a fear of damage to the countries' image as safe havens.  —  As Iranian missiles and drones exploded …
Discussion: Israpundit
Justin Haskins / Washington Examiner:
It's easy for noncitizens to vote in many states.  Here's proof  —  Liberal pundits and Democrats in Congress claim that the U.S.'s elections are secure, that it is extremely difficult for noncitizens to vote, and that there is thus no need for substantial policy changes such as those contained in the SAVE America Act.
Discussion: SDPB, UPI, CT Mirror and Votebeat
New York Times:
Tracking the Early Vote in Virginia's Redistricting Referendum  —  Voters in Virginia will decide on April 21 whether to redraw the state's congressional map.  Turnout is even higher, thus far, than it was in last year's governor's election.  —  Virginians are voting on a proposed congressional map …
 
 
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