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3:00 PM ET, March 30, 2026

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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 …
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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Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:   Trump's Iran war is holding him hostage
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘Battle of the titans’: Trump's distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall
Discussion: Raw Story
Financial Times:
Donald Trump says US could ‘take the oil in Iran’
Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
Trump Claims ‘Regime Change’ in Iran Is Already Complete
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Iran could emerge from the war stronger and more dangerous
Discussion: The Guardian
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
What ‘deadline’?  —  The “deadline” for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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 …
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 …
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Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars
New York Times:
Israel Passes Law to Allow Hanging of Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks  —  The law could be applied to Jewish Israeli extremists, but experts say that will likely never happen.  —  Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday that would allow the hanging of Palestinians convicted …
Discussion: Reuters and WTOP News
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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
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.
Jared Sharpe / UMass Amherst:
President Trump's Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll  —  Amidst war with Iran and deepening disapproval over his handling of inflation, immigration, jobs and tariffs, 17% of 2024 Trump voters now express reservations about their vote choice  —  A new national University …
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Andrew Perez / Zeteo:
First Draft: Are These Trump's Worst Poll Numbers... Ever?
Discussion: Raw Story
David Gilbert / Wired:
This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms  —  WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year's midterm elections.  —  President Donald Trump's rhetorical war on elections has seemed to only get more serious with time.
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Eric Columbus / Lawfare:   The Trump Administration Comes for State Voter Rolls
Politico:
Poll: The battle for MAHA that could sway the midterms … Republicans hope the Make America Healthy Again movement becomes a permanent fixture of a big GOP tent.  But the party can't count on its support heading into midterm elections this November.  —  New results from The POLITICO Poll show …
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Tara Suter / The Hill:   Most say Trump administration has not done enough to ‘Make America Healthy Again’: Survey
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
Mark Sanford files to run for his old congressional seat by sounding alarm on national debt  —  [+] Add Post and Courier News on Google  —  CHARLESTON — Former South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford has filed to run for his old U.S. House seat, reentering electoral politics years …
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump says it's ‘possible’ Means will be withdrawn as surgeon general nominee  —  President Trump on Sunday indicated he was open to withdrawing his nomination of Casey Means, sister of White House senior adviser Calley Means, to be U.S. surgeon general, as reports indicate she does not have the necessary Republican support.
Emma Janssen / American Prospect:
When ICE Blows Through Rural America  —  This article appears in the April 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine.  Read more from the issue.  —  ALBERT LEA, MINNESOTA - It's afternoon and I'm riding shotgun in Theron Gjersvik's pickup, patrolling the town to look for any sign of ICE.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
The Trump-voting pastor Democrats think could cost them a chance at a Nebraska Senate seat  —  Congressional news Donald Trump Primary elections Senate election  —  In Nebraska's Senate race, a Trump-supporting, anti-abortion pastor is running as a Democrat.
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Watchdog Has Gone Silent, Lawyers for Whistle-Blower Say  —  Lawyers for a fired Justice Department lawyer say the agency's inspector general appears to have ignored at least 20 different requests to scrutinize misconduct.  —  The Justice Department's internal watchdog …
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.  Our leaders preside over an extraordinary machinery of destruction, but they remain strikingly obtuse about human beings — about their pride, shame, convictions and historical memory.
Paul Krugman:
Pete Hegseth Believes in the Lethality Fairy  —  A month into the war, and now they're talking about pointless ground action and/or war crimes.  —  TRANSCRIPT  —  Pete Hegseth believes in the lethality fairy, and that's a very bad thing.  Hi, Paul Krugman here.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Kohler / ProPublica:
A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon.  The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.  —  Reporting Highlights  — Another Trump Pardon: Nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39 million fraud, but President Donald Trump pardoned him just three months into a three-year prison term.
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.
Discussion: New Republic and Mediaite
NBC News:
Usha Vance on disagreements with JD Vance, 2028 and shopping at Costco  —  The second lady, who was registered as a Democrat until at least 2014, told NBC News she sometimes has thoughts that are “idiosyncratic” and don't fit neatly with one political party.
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge appears skeptical of Pentagon's latest press restrictions: ‘Is this a Catch-22?’
Discussion: Associated Press and NewsMax.com
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump says White House ballroom plans include ‘massive’ underground military complex
David W. Chen / New York Times:
A Democratic Electrician Nabs a State Senate Seat in Republican Florida
Aaron Regunberg / The Nation:
What Are Your Obligations When Your Country Is the Villain?
New York Times:
A Border Wall Plan Unites Republicans and Democrats in Texas: ‘This Is Insane’
Discussion: Deseret News
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Politico:
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Charlotte Kramon / Associated Press:
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Discussion: WAGA-TV
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
College Republicans director made racist and sexist remarks on live streams
Discussion: them., LGBTQ Nation and New Republic
Paul Krugman:
Trump's America and the Axis of Autocracy
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest
Discussion: The Nation and Washington Post
Reuters:
Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says
New York Times:
They've Been Accused of Running a ‘Covert’ Operation in Greenland. It's No Secret.
 

 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Peter Alexander, who worked as NBC News' chief White House correspondent and co-anchor of the Saturday edition of Today show, leaves to join MS Now

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
CBS News expands its investigative unit by hiring former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and Free Press reporter Gabe Kaminsky

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

 
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