Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis launch missile at Israel for first time since war began  —  Summary  — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis launch a missile strike on Israel for first time since the war began - here's the latest  — The group says it fired a barrage of ballistic missiles …

Wild Ultimatums and ‘Bombing Our Little Hearts Out’: A Portrait of Trump at War  —  President Trump has vacillated between boasting about U.S. military superiority and deep frustration that his war of choice is not always having the desired effects.  —  President Trump was fresh off the golf course, and his fury was building.

On CPAC's Main Stage, Fissures in the Party Trump Remade  —  The Conservative Political Action Conference typically seeks to establish orthodoxy with its roster of speakers.  This year, organizers created space for dissent, highlighting ongoing schisms in the MAGA movement.

House passes DHS stopgap as shutdown drags on  —  The House just passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for 60 days.  —  But the move by Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team — which doesn't have the support of Democrats or the Senate — all but ensures the DHS shutdown …

Third round of ‘No Kings’ protests are expected to be the largest so far, organizers say  —  Demonstrators across the country and the globe will protest against President Donald Trump on Saturday at over 3,000 planned events.  —  Millions are expected to gather across the country and around …

Global markets recoil as Marco Rubio warns war in Iran could stretch for weeks  —  Comments from US secretary of state come as oil jumps to $114 and Wall Street stocks slide  —  Marco Rubio warned of enduring disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz and said the war in Iran could stretch …

Consumers caught in triple stack of pain  —  Americans desperately want day-to-day life to be more affordable.  Right now, they aren't getting it. … Since the onset of the Iran war, the cost of living looks likely to get worse, not better, at least in the near term.

Why some Democrats want to shut off Hasan Piker's ‘megaphone’ … Piker's rise as a Democratic influencer and surrogate coincides with the party's long search for a path out of the wilderness, particularly in recapturing young men.  —  Piker is scheduled to appear on a livestreamed …

3/28/26📝 Readback  —  Welcome to The Readback, our weekend digest featuring the best of Punchbowl News this week — a quick roundup of all our scoops, analysis and Capitol Hill insight you won't find anywhere else.  We've also included a few of our favorite outside reads from the week.

Kash Patel's Emails Circulate Online as Iran Takes Responsibility for Release  —  What appeared to be personal emails from before Mr. Patel's time as director were posted on a website that identified itself as Iranian but seemed to be hosted in Russia.  —  Emails and photographs stolen …

Tell Your State To Pass This No-ICE-At-Our Precincts Model Law.  NOW.  —  I've gotten a number of helpful responses to my post from earlier today about the necessity of escalating the question of whether the White House will try to deploy ICE agents to interfere with the 2026 midterm elections.

You can't hide your lying ICE  —  I'm currently working on a new edition of my first book, Rise of the Warrior Cop.  It will have an updated introduction, plus at least two — and likely three — new chapters that will bring the police militarization narrative through the Biden years …

‘The alarm bells are going off’: Air travel hits new lows … Even investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board en route to LaGuardia Airport to investigate the crash there were not immune to the chaos: One specialist was stuck in an hourslong Transportation Security Administration line …

Post reporters called the White House.  Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’  —  Someone messed with Google's widely cited databases of business listings.  —  It all started with Melania Trump and her robot.  —  On Wednesday, the first lady kicked off a “Fostering the Future Together” …