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4:55 AM ET, March 27, 2026

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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.
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David Lawder / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's signature to appear on US currency, Treasury says, ending 165-year tradition  —  U.S. paper currency will bear President Donald Trump's signature to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, a first for a sitting president …
Discussion: France 24, The US Sun and ABC News
Aidan McLaughlin / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Donald Trump to Add His Signature to US Currency, a First For a Sitting President  —  As Vanity Fair can exclusively report, Trump's Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of US dollar bills.  —  President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term …
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump's signature to appear on paper currency in a first for a sitting president  —  Dollar bills historically have been signed by the U.S. treasurer and treasury secretary.  —  President Donald Trump is adding his name to U.S. dollar bills, the first time a sitting president's signature …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Treasury plans to put Trump's signature on US bills in first for sitting president, AP source says  —  The U.S. Treasury Department is working on plans to put President Donald Trump's signature on all new US paper currency, a Treasury official who spoke on condition of anonymity …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump to sign executive order to fund TSA agents amid DHS shutdown  —  President Trump announced on Thursday he will sign an executive order to “immediately” pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers amid the ongoing shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Thune lays out next steps after Trump's move to restore TSA pay  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Republican senators Thursday night that they need to “work together to ensure that DHS, including ICE and Border Patrol, is funded in a sustainable manner for the rest of the year.”
Discussion: Vox, NBC News, Politico and The Daily Caller
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A War No One Wants to Defend  —  Don't look now, but there's yet another major potential energy shock on the horizon: Reuters reported yesterday that Ukrainian drone attacks had forced shutdowns at two major Russian oil export terminals.  The war in Iran has been a godsend for Russia's war economy …
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Push White House to Declare National Emergency to Pay TSA Agents
Washington Post:
Trump orders TSA officers be paid as Congress remains stalemated
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump says he will order DHS to ‘immediately’ pay TSA officers as partial shutdown persists
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Standoff With Iran Raises Fresh Doubts About Trump's Freestyle Diplomacy
Discussion: Reuters, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
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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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump extends deadline for Iran negotiations  —  President Trump extended the deadline for negotiations with Iran and paused his threat to bomb Iranian energy facilities by another 10 days. … - Trump's initial five-day pause on strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure was supposed to expire Saturday …
Scott Waldman / Politico:
Trump faces new oil shock threat as Iran eyes second strait … The strait, hundreds of miles from the Strait of Hormuz, at Yemen's southwestern tip, is a pathway for ships carrying about 10 percent of the world's oil and natural gas supplies.  —  Bab el Mandeb has been targeted previously by the Houthis …
Politico:
‘I have no idea what they are trying to do’: Allies say Trump sends mixed signals on Iran
Discussion: Reuters and PJ Media
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
After markets rattle, Trump once again punts on following through with threat on Iran power plants
Discussion: WTOP News and NewsMax.com
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
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 …
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Politico:
Social media trials usher in Big Tech's latest moment of reckoning
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 …
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Gary Grumbach / NBC News:
Kennedy Center to start layoffs ahead of planned closure for renovations  —  It wasn't immediately clear how many workers would be affected.  The arts center has employed more than 2,000 people in recent years.  —  The Kennedy Center will move forward with layoffs “in the days and weeks ahead …
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Scott MacFarlane Reports:
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 …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Cabinet to huddle to talk midterms, economy … - Trump's team believes the economy — above all other issues, including any anxiety over the president's actions on Iran or immigration — will drive voter sentiment heading into the November elections.
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New York Times:
Trump Eyes White House Treaty Room for Latest Renovation Project  —  President Trump is making new plans in one of the most significant renovations in the history of the White House.  —  President Trump has discussed turning the White House Treaty Room, historically a meeting place for diplomats …
Elias Isquith:
“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 …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Kennedy's Vaccine Agenda Hits Roadblocks, Diminishing His Clout  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine skepticism is posing challenges for the Trump administration.  Top health jobs are unfilled, and a court has blocked his vaccine schedule changes.
Discussion: The Guardian
Harold Hutchison / The Daily Caller:
‘Appalling’ Video Shows Protesters Cheer American Troops Returning Home From Iran War ‘In Caskets’  —  Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”
New York Times:
Trump Officials Investigate Stanford, Ohio State and U.C. San Diego Medical Schools  —  The Justice Department's demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, reveal an expansion of its higher-education pressure campaign.
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Notifies California and Maine of Investigations into Whether Housing Biological Men in Women's Prisons Violates Constitution  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, the United States Department of Justice notified California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Maine Gov. Janet Mills …
Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
FACT FOCUS: Only some driver's licenses usable for voter registration under the SAVE America Act  —  As the Senate debates the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, misleading claims about the bill's impact on voter registration are spreading on social media …
Ian Ward / Politico:
MAGA is growing anxious over Orbán's fate  —  As the war with Iran continues to dominate headlines in Washington, another overseas battle is quietly capturing attention among the elite echelons of the MAGA movement: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's fight for reelection.
Discussion: The Guardian and Politico
Isa Domínguez / Politico:
The Education Department is poised to lose its longtime HQ … It's unclear how the Energy Department, which has a sprawling portfolio that includes nuclear security and other sensitive matters, will adapt the physical spaces in the current Education Department headquarters.
New York Times:
G.O.P. Senator Weighs Forcing Congress to Vote to Authorize the Iran War  —  Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, seeking to put some parameters around the operation as the Trump administration has boxed out Congress.
Discussion: Jewish Insider and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Military Assets Damaged or Lost in the Iran War  —  Radar systems and aircraft worth billions of dollars have been damaged and destroyed by Iranian attacks, friendly-fire incidents or accidents  —  Billions of dollars of highly sophisticated military equipment has been lost …
 
 
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Chloe Atkins / NBC News:
Epstein survivors sue Trump administration and Google over release of private information
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House Republicans huddle with Johnson to plot party-line package
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
A US judge grants Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the Trump administration over the DOD's decision to blacklist the company

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
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