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7:55 AM ET, March 30, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Weighs Military Operation to Extract Iran's Uranium  —  The president hasn't made a decision, U.S. officials said, as he considers the risk to U.S. troops  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran …
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Financial Times:
Donald Trump says US could ‘take the oil in Iran’  —  US president tells the FT he is considering seizing strategic Kharg Island even as negotiations continue  —  Donald Trump has said he wants to “take the oil in Iran” and could seize the export hub of Kharg Island, as the US sends thousands of troops to the Middle East.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Says Iran Agreed to Allow 20 More Ships of Oil Through Strait of Hormuz  —  The president, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, cast the permission as a “sign of respect.”  He also asserted that the United States had already achieved “regime change” in Iran.
New York Times:
U.S. Special Operations Forces Sent to Mideast as Trump Weighs Next Move  —  The commandos have not been assigned specific roles.  But President Trump has expressed concern about the now-closed Strait of Hormuz and Iran's store of enriched uranium.  —  Several hundred U.S. Special Operations forces …
Politico:
Trump's dual-track duel  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco, Irie Sentner and Makayla Gray  —  Good Monday morning.  This is Jack Blanchard, flush with success after actually managing to fly a kite — for the first time ever! — with my 6-year-old at the Blossom Kite Festival on Saturday.
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Chuck McCutcheon / Axios:
Oil prices rise as Iran war escalates with Houthi attacks  —  Oil prices climbed above $116 per barrel after markets opened Sunday, as Iran-backed Houthi militants fired missiles and drones at Israel over the weekend and promised to continue attacks. … - WTI, the main U.S. reference, was also up about 3% to nearly $103 per barrel.
Kyla Guilfoil / NBC News:
Trump says his ‘preference’ would be to ‘take the oil in Iran’
Discussion: CNN, France 24, Bloomberg and The Hill
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideast
Associated Press:
Pakistan says it will host US-Iran talks, while Iran warns US ground troops would be ‘set on fire’
Punchbowl News:
3/30/26☀️ AM: … The House and Senate are both out for the next two weeks.  Their absence is pretty remarkable given the Department of Homeland Security is still shut down.  We're publishing AM editions only this week.  But we'll have alerts for premium subscribers if there's any news.
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NBC News:   ‘I blame them all’: Travelers frustrated with Washington as shutdown drags on
Caroline Linton / CBS News:
Tom Homan says ICE will keep assisting TSA “until the airports feel like they are 100%”
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship  —  The administration builds its arguments on an 1800s campaign, led in part by a Confederate officer, that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.  —  Alexander Porter Morse …
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story, Reuters and NPR
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New York Times:
New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows  —  The Pentagon used missiles untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck civilian sites near a military compound on Feb. 28, according to visual evidence examined by The Times and weapons experts.
Kathryn Palmer / USA Today:
Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment,’ need new leaders  —  Sen. Cory Booker in a new interview said the Democratic Party has “failed this moment,” urging the left to support new leadership to temper the nation's deep divides.  —  Speaking to NBC News' “Meet the Press” …
Discussion: NBC News, twitchy.com, HuffPost and Fox News
New York Times:
U.S. Allows Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Despite Blockade  —  The tanker full of crude oil could reach its expected destination by Monday, providing a lifeline to the island amid intense U.S. pressure.  —  The United States Coast Guard is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba …
TMZ.com:
Lindsey Graham Vacationing at Disney World Amid Shutdown  —  I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!! … Lindsey Graham was ineffective talking his colleagues into keeping the government open, but he had a great convo with Mickey Mouse Sunday ... at Disney World!!!  —  The Senator had breakfast …
Axios:
Some Dems' 2028 strategy: a straight, white, Christian man  —  Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, white, Christian man.  — Their fear, divulged …
Discussion: twitchy.com and Mediaite
Ryan C. Smith / Liberal Currents:
“Worse Than the 1970s”  —  Donald Trump, it seems, has managed to outdo his first term's mismanagement of COVID-19 with an economic crisis of extraordinary scope and scale, entirely of his making.  In a recent interview, International Energy Agency (IEA) Chief Fatih Birol asserted …
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Bloomberg:
The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Wall Street Journal:
WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate  —  Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise.  Starting this season, players' average salary will top $580,000.  —  After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel …
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
A New Boss Takes Over Homeland Security With Less Flash but Same Mission  —  Markwayne Mullin, the incoming D.H.S. secretary, faces a difficult balance: a public reset of the agency while delivering on President Trump's deportation agenda.  —  In his first days as head of the Department …
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 …
Kristen Soltis Anderson / New York Times:
MAGA Was Supposed to Be Antiwar.  Nope.  —  President Trump, who once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters, is now confronting a twist on that boast: What if, instead, he bombed Tehran?  —  The message coming from some of the most prominent MAGA voices is clear.
Craig Newmark / New York Times:
Billionaires, Stop Whining and Give Your Money Away  —  When I started Craigslist in the mid-1990s I never thought I'd become rich.  But I did.  A lot of people in tech around that time also got lucky.  Millions — even billions — were made simply by being in the right place at the right time.
 
 
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Hill
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
U.S. cedes key war mission to Israel — killing top Iranians
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Protests and cancellations mar Trump administration's America 250 tour
Discussion: Raw Story
James Franey / New York Post:
Fraud whistleblowers could make millions as Bessent cracks down on sprawling scams
Discussion: Townhall and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
They've Been Accused of Running a ‘Covert’ Operation in Greenland. It's No Secret.
Yonatan Touval / New York Times:
Is It 1914 in America?  —  Four weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, one conclusion is already difficult to avoid.
Amy Harder / Axios:
Exclusive: Wind projects pile up as Pentagon reviews stall
Jacob Weisberg / New York Times:
Every Elite Has a ‘Dark Connector.’
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Audra D. S. Burch / New York Times:
As Gas Prices Approach $4 a Gallon, Americans Rethink Vacations
Holly Otterbein / Axios:
Left pushes wealth tax as litmus test for 2028 Dems
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Ryan King / New York Post:
Choppers scrambled after private plane scare at Palm Beach airport while Trump's Air Force One sat on tarmac
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, NewsMax.com and IJR
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Midnight train from Georgia: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle in the shutdown
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Ryan King / New York Post:
President Trump is ‘heaven bound,’ Franklin Graham declares: ‘Your soul is secure’
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Dona Ora / custodia:
Joint Press Release - The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land
Adam Wren / Politico:
Democrats Have a Rahm Emanuel Problem
 

 
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Politico names Jonathan Greenberger as its editor-in-chief, effective May 1, succeeding co-founder John Harris; Greenberger joined Politico as EVP in 2024

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Beehiiv plans to launch a podcasting program in the coming days and is privately courting podcasters on Substack and elsewhere as founding members

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some Disney executives learned about Sora's shutdown less than an hour before OpenAI's announcement; Disney was in talks about company-wide ChatGPT use
 
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