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Financial Times:
Pete Hegseth's broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack — Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment on behalf of US defence secretary — A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tells Aides He's Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz — Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open would mean extending the military mission — WASHINGTON—President Trump told aides he's willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran …
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Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Wire
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Brian Bennet / Time:
White House Signals Willingness to End Iran War Without Reopening Strait of Hormuz … Trump said in a social media post on Monday that “great progress” had been made to end the war, but warned that he was prepared to fully destroy Iran's “Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island …
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The Hill, Al Jazeera, The National Pulse, RedState, Scripps News, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Mediaite, IJR and Semafor
Associated Press:
Gulf allies privately make the case to Trump to keep fighting until Iran is decisively defeated — Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran …
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Washington Examiner, Mediaite, The Times of Israel, The Hill and Al Jazeera
New York Times:
Iran's Fractured Leadership Is Struggling to Coordinate, Officials Say
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
What ‘deadline’? — The “deadline” for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction …
What ‘deadline’? — The “deadline” for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction …
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NBC News, New York Times, Washington Times and NewsMax.com
Peter Sullivan / Axios:
GOP weighs health care moves to pay for Iran war — Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. … - “There's other items we're looking at right now …
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New Republic, Lawyers, Guns & Money, HuffPost, Jezebel and NewsMax.com
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ABC News:
Trump urging Congress to come back from recess to fund DHS as shutdown drags on, White House says
Trump urging Congress to come back from recess to fund DHS as shutdown drags on, White House says
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Bloomberg, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Times, Washington Times, Federal News Network, Deseret News, Roll Call, IJR and The Hill
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War
Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War
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New Republic and CBS News
Nathan Taylor Pemberton / New York Times:
‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying’: Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC — At a sparsely attended Conservative Political Action Conference, young Republicans were eager to start the post-Trump era. — As the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference wound to a close …
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina — As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
Army investigating after helicopters hovered alongside Kid Rock's swimming pool as he saluted — The Army has launched an administrative review after two AH-64 Apache helicopters on a training run hovered near the hillside home of Kid Rock as the outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump saluted their crews.
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NBC News:
Apache helicopters seen near Kid Rock's home in viral videos were on training route, Army says
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The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Raw Story, WUSA, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Fox News
Washington Post:
Rep. Eric Swalwell sends cease-and-desist letter to FBI director — The Democratic lawmaker's move comes after report in The Post that Kash Patel was preparing to release investigative files related to the congressman. — Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) …
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New York Times, The Independent, Esquire, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Mail, Raw Story, New York Post, Washington Examiner and Blaze Media
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ABC News:
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill to rename Palm Beach airport after Trump — The name change would go into effect on July 1, pending approvals. — President Donald Trump meets Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as he arrives on Air Force One at Orlando Sanford International Airport.
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Trump approval just hit the 30s. Can his numbers get any lower? — $4 gas is a big problem for Trump. But broken campaign promises and series of self-inflicted wounds are eroding support even among Trump's base. — ∙ Paid — The last time I did a check-in on President Trump's popularity …
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New York Magazine, Mediaite and Politico
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Jared Sharpe / UMass Amherst:
President Trump's Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll
President Trump's Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll
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The Hill, Digby's Hullabaloo, PoliticusUSA, Newsweek, Mediaite and Eschaton
Noa Shpigel / Haaretz:
Israel Passes Bill Mandating Death Penalty for Palestinians Convicted of Lethal Acts of Terrorism — The bill's wording creates a distinction designating it almost exclusively for Palestinian terror, while the ideological burden of proof it sets is expected to make its application to Jewish nationalist terror difficult to impossible
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Associated Press, The Forward, Deutsche Welle, ICJP, The Times of Israel, Reuters, Jewish Insider, Zeteo, Al Jazeera, France 24 and UPI
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Chantal Da Silva / NBC News:
Vital U.S. radar aircraft was destroyed by Iranian strike on U.S. base in Saudi Arabia, photos show — Images geolocated by NBC News showed a command and control E-3 Sentry jet heavily damaged after the Iranian strike that also wounded soldiers. — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE
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CNN, The Hill, The Independent, The War Zone and Wall Street Journal
James Whitbrook / Gizmodo:
Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern ‘Trek’ — Given the ‘Project Hail Mary’ writer's past comments about his ‘Star Trek’ hopes, it's perhaps not hard to imagine why they were turned down. — Andy Weir is perhaps one of the biggest names in Hollywood right now …
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Breitbart, Fox News, Variety, Deadline and twitchy.com
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Members of Jan. 6 mob sue police who fended off Capitol attack … Fischer and the Sullivans are looking to represent a class of plaintiffs that includes dozens of others present that day on the Capitol's West Front, the scene of the most violent confrontations between rioters and police.
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NBC News, Roll Call, All Rise News, The Independent, Scripps News, New Republic and Washington Post
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13 — CONNECTING THE DOTS — More information given by the woman has been backed up. — A new investigation has backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13, according to a report.
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twitchy.com and The Parnas Perspective
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Claire Giangravé / RNS:
Israel apologizes after barring cardinal from Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday — VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Following outcry from political and religious leaders for barring Catholic leaders in the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday (March 29) …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage — When Pete Hegseth talks to God, he asks the Almighty to help him kill people—as violently and ruthlessly as possible. — In a potential violation of the separation of church and state, Hegseth has ordered monthly prayer meetings …
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The Atlantic, Truthout, Newsweek, The Mahablog, Elias Isquith, The Hill, The Nation and Mother Jones
Karl Bode / The Fine Print*:
“CEO Said A Thing!” Journalism — Even before our dim authoritarian overlords came to town, the U.S. press generally existed to prop up the interests of corporate power and the extraction class. This used to be a subject of some debate whenever academics brought it up, but at some point any pretense of subtlety evaporated.
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Trump's skyscraper presidential library looms over Miami in newly released images … The renderings depict a skyscraper that would loom over Biscayne Bay, emblazoned with Trump's name in large block letters in a similar style to construction projects his company helped develop prior to his entrance into politics.
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New York Post, Scripps News, Mediaite, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Levi Sumagaysay / Associated Press:
Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens — Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
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Chicago Sun Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge appears skeptical of Pentagon's latest press restrictions: ‘Is this a Catch-22?’ … “How weird is that?” the judge said. “Is this a Catch-22? Is this Kafka?” — Justice Department attorney Sarah Welch told Friedman that the information given to the Times may have preceded …
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New York Times:
After Months of Threats, Trump Softens His Stance on Blocking Oil to Cuba — The White House press secretary said the United States would evaluate oil shipments to Cuba on a “case-by-case basis,” after a Russian tanker full of crude reached the island. — The United States on Monday signaled …
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Sean Hannity / Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity predicts Iran war will end “no later than three weeks from today” — Nick Fuentes: In 2024, Trump “was everything to everybody because he needed every vote, every nickel, every dime to get elected by any cost to get out of jail” — Megyn Kelly: The goal for Iran war changed from …
Gabe Kaminsky / CBS News:
JD Vance appears at secretive conservative donor summit as 2028 presidential speculation grows — Add CBS News on Google — Nashville, Tennessee — A line snaked around the first floor of the posh Four Seasons hotel in Nashville Monday evening as wealthy conservative donors eagerly waited …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Orders War Crimes. Then What? — For one thing, we'd learn a lot about America. — ∙ Paid — 1. Epic Fury — Holy Week began with a 7:26am Truth Social post from our commander-in-chief: — Two items of note here. — First: Trump is laying the groundwork to declare victory.
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The Free Press, NewsMax.com and Bloomberg
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Administration Sues Minnesota Over Transgender Student Athletes — Last year, the state said it would not follow President Trump's directive on transgender athlete participation in girls' sports. — The Trump administration sued the Minnesota Education Department and the state group …
River Akira Davis / New York Times:
This Is What Happens When the Gas Runs Out — With a cutoff in shipments imminent, Asian countries, the biggest importers of liquefied natural gas from the Middle East, are already burning more coal and reducing consumption. — Countries across Asia are bracing for a complete cutoff …
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Washington Post
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Feds probe whether NYC Council member, Hochul aide took bribes to help migrant shelter provider — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a New York City Council member and her sister, an aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, accepted bribes or kickbacks in connection with the appropriation …


