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2:30 PM ET, April 3, 2026

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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran, search underway for crew  —  Iran has shot down a U.S. fighter jet, per Iranian media and a source familiar with the incident, and a search and rescue effort is underway to locate two crew. … - The U.S. military and the White House didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Eleanor Watson / CBS News:
American fighter jet downed over Iran, 1 crew member rescued, U.S. officials say  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  A U.S. F-15E fighter jet was downed over Iran Friday, and one crew member from the plane was later rescued by American forces, U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News.
Agence France-Presse:
Iran War Live Updates: Drone Hits Kuwaiti Oil Refinery in New Attack on Gulf Energy Sites  —  The fate of the plane's crew was unclear, as American officials scrambled to mount a search and rescue operation before Iran could get to any survivors, officials said.  Iranian state media also said a jet had been downed.
Tasnim News Agency:
US Effort to Recover Downed Fighter Pilot Fails  —  Sources told Tasnim's correspondent in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in western Iran on Friday that US forces had been conducting a search operation since earlier today to recover the pilot of their fighter jet, which was shot down by Iran's Armed Forces.
BBC:
American fighter jet shot down over Iran, US and Iranian media report
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ken Dilanian / MS NOW:
Pam Bondi's portrait already taken down at Justice Department  —  It did not take long for the pictures to come off the wall.  —  Within hours of the news that President Donald Trump had fired Pam Bondi as attorney general, images began circulating of her framed portrait …
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New York Times:
Pam Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit.  But Trump Wanted Her Gone.  —  Pam Bondi had a feeling her days as attorney general were numbered.  But she didn't expect President Trump to drop the curtain quite so soon.  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi had a pretty good idea her days were numbered.
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Bondi struggled to prosecute Trump foes.  But will a new attorney general make a difference?  —  Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies.  But there's no guarantee her successor will have any better success at placating the president.
Wall Street Journal:
'I Think It's Time': The Inside Story of Pam Bondi's Ouster  —  The attorney general was always on the ropes but thought she was finally on safer footing.  She wasn't.  —  WASHINGTON—On Wednesday morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi descended the sun-splashed steps of the White House with President Trump …
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
Pam Bondi's firing won't have the effect Trump desires
Dasha Burns / Politico:
Trump weighs more Cabinet changes after Bondi ouster
Adam Wren / Politico:
The Kamala flex  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco, Irie Sentner and Makayla Gray  —  Happy Friday.
Discussion: Fox News
Tony Romm / New York Times:
White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request  —  The massive, proposed increase would be offset in part by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the administration describes as wasteful.  —  With the United States at war with Iran and embroiled in conflicts around the world …
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Politico:
Trump asks Congress to supersize military budget, slash domestic programs … While calling for a historic increase in the military's budget, the White House is also seeking a 10 percent cut to nondefense spending, with a proposed reduction of $73 billion from federal programs outside the military.
Neil Irwin / Axios:   Trump's all guns, no butter budget proposal
Riley Beggin / Washington Post:
Trump requests record-breaking budget of $1.5 trillion for Pentagon
Associated Press:
White House set to release Trump's budget with major increase in defense spending
NBC News:
Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers  —  The defense secretary's efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the Biden administration, sources say.
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The Atlantic:   An Army Shake-Up in the Middle of a War
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Hegseth's War on America's Military
Joan Biskupic / CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month in previously undisclosed incident  —  Supreme Court justices Supreme Court Donald Trump  —  Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia …
New York Times:
Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court?  —  Emily Bazelon: Hi David.  I should start on a light and friendly note, I know, but I confess that the birthright citizenship case is making me feel trolled.  President Trump began his term with an executive order professing to end the right …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Group Warns That Trump Could Have Two More Supreme Court Picks
Discussion: Raw Story
Liliana Segura / The Intercept:
Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings Protest  —  In the body camera footage, a police officer parks his black SUV on the grass, a rosary swinging from the rearview mirror.  He exits his car, moves briskly past a pair of protesters, and points an accusatory finger …
CNN:
A new CNN poll reveals how people mad at both parties see the midterms  —  Americans' views of both the Democratic and Republican parties remain deeply negative, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.  And in an election year that may turn on which party voters see as the lesser of two evils …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
The bizarre reason Hegseth's right-hand man is spreading damaging rumors about the Secretary of War  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's top aide Ricky Buria told colleagues last year that he and his boss donned disguises and went out drinking together — a juicy bit …
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
GOP governor candidate explodes at Black voter: ‘You should be lynched!’  —  A viral clip posted to X on Thursday showed Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback blowing up at a Black voter and telling him he should be “lynched” for asking about the allegations of inappropriate behavior with teenagers.
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times
Joseph J. Schatz / Politico:
Trump and the Myth of American Oil Independence … When President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he's winding down the U.S. war on Iran and washing his hands of the embattled Strait of Hormuz, he invoked what he likes to call America's “energy dominance”: The United States has become …
Discussion: CNN
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Mike Soraghan / Politico:   Trump wants the world to buy more US oil. He might regret it.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
The six big events that have dragged down Donald Trump's approval rating  —  Note: This article is free to read, but it was not free to produce.  To help grow this newsletter business (doing so incurs costs like paying for polling data and modeling infrastructure, experimenting on biz dev …
 
 
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Job growth shatters expectations in March, in boost to Trump
Jackie Llanos / NOTUS:
Trump Seeks Monumental Increase in Ability to Detain Immigrant Families
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump proposes $10B fund for D.C. construction, beautification projects
Joe Deaux / Bloomberg:
US Doubles Hormuz Guarantees to $40 Billion With New Partners
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
Evangelicals widely backed Trump. Now pastors denounce his ICE crackdown after it hit their churches.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. payrolls rose by 178,000 in March, more than expected; unemployment at 4.3%
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Wealthy Donors Are Hiding Political Money in Secretive Nonprofits
Discussion: Magnolia Tribune
Paul Krugman:
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Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:
Tiger Woods called Trump between car flip and DUI arrest: report
Discussion: TMZ.com and Page Six
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
What to Know About the ‘Massive’ Military Bunker Beneath Trump's Ballroom
Discussion: NPR and Diane Ravitch's blog
CNN:
Exclusive: US intelligence assesses Iran maintains significant missile launching capability, sources say
 

 
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