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Priya Sridhar / MS NOW:
‘You gotta be kidding me’: Hegseth used these 4 things to decide on senior officer promotions — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth short-circuited a merit-based process for promoting senior officers and instead relied on newly invented criteria that disproportionately removed from advancement women …
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Thomas English / New York Post:
Republican Rep. French Hill won't rule out impeaching Pete Hegseth after barely winning re-election — A Republican congressman who narrowly won a seventh House term in deep-red Arkansas refused Sunday to rule out voting to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Jeffries faces big choice on Trump — Presented by IN TODAY'S EDITION: — Murkowski seen as spending check on Trump — Hegseth's impeachment risk grows — Senate takes up permitting deal — Dozens of Democratic House freshmen descended on the Hill this week …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump claims election fraud without evidence to excuse midterm rebuke
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump questions midterm election results, revives voting-machine conspiracy
Trump questions midterm election results, revives voting-machine conspiracy
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Jack Fitzpatrick / MS NOW:
Democrats aren't waiting until January to try to end the Iran war
Democrats aren't waiting until January to try to end the Iran war
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Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Hakeem Jeffries has a choice to make: Will he work with Trump?
Hakeem Jeffries has a choice to make: Will he work with Trump?
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Ross Douthat / CBS News:
10 takeaways from Trump's 60 Minutes interview: Why GOP lost the midterms, what went wrong on immigration and more — Days after Republicans faced a series of bruising midterm election losses, President Trump stood by his handling of the economy and the Iran war — but he acknowledged some …
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CBS News:
Read the full transcript of Ross Douthat's interview with President Trump — President Trump sat down with Ross Douthat to discuss Republican losses in the midterm elections, the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the economy and more. Below is a transcript of their conversation.
Ross Douthat / CBS News:
60 Minutes Transcript: Donald Trump, the 2026 post-midterm elections interview
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump backs Nvidia's Huang amid affair, spy investigation — President Trump defended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Sunday night, even as the company's board launched an investigation into his affair with a suspected Chinese spy. … - “I don't know, but I'd certainly take him,” the president told reporters.
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Madison Mills / Axios:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair, board to launch investigation
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Jensen Huang spy scandal rocks AI race
Jensen Huang spy scandal rocks AI race
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Chris Marquette / Politico:
House Democrats plan more prominent placement for Jan. 6 memorial plaque — Democrats intend to find a more prominent location to display a memorial plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — which Republicans currently have relegated to the basement of the building.
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Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
Will Congress Finally Rein in the Presidency?
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Joe Biden / The Atlantic:
Biden: What Trump Did on January 6 ‘Should Follow Him to His Grave’ — Eight days after the 2024 election, I honored a presidential tradition by hosting a visit from the president-elect. Jill and I met President Trump and his entourage in the Diplomatic Reception Room …
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Politico:
Between the Bloc and a hard place — With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner — AT TRUMP'S TABLE: The most coveted seats in MAGA world were occupied at Mar-a-Lago on Friday evening by new chief of staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Major media outlets sanitize Stephen Miller's white nationalist ideas — After a historic defeat in the 2026 midterm elections, President Trump named Stephen Miller as his new White House chief of staff, elevating his longtime aide to one of the most powerful positions on earth. — Who is Stephen Miller?
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Politico:
'Russ Vought's gonna meet his match': What Murkowski's potential promotion means for the White House — As President Donald Trump loses one of the biggest GOP critics of his administration with Sen. Susan Collins' defeat, he's gaining an increasingly powerful Republican antagonist who could pose a bigger liability for his agenda.
New York Times:
Here Are the Difficult Options Trump Is Weighing to Resolve the War in Iran — There are no good choices facing President Trump as he tries to find a way out of the deeply unpopular conflict. But there are choices. — The public split last week between Vice President JD Vance …
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ProPublica:
Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts to Screen for Ebola and Other Diseases — The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked …
Bloomberg:
Day 7: March 16, 2023 Setting Patterns — After a week of legalized sports betting in Massachusetts, 137 of our first-time bettors have made a deposit in a sportsbook at least seven times, an average of one per day. The Second Measure data show only money put into sportsbooks, not what people withdraw in winnings.
Zack Beauchamp / Public Reason:
Introducing Public Reason — Fixing liberalism's ideas problem, one post at a time. — The midterm elections — together with contests in Brazil, Serbia, and to some degree even Israel — have changed the world. All of a sudden, the once-ascendant populist right is on the back foot …
New York Times:
Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention — An investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore company that was buying advanced Nvidia A.I. chips, was transferred to the Justice Department after a top Nvidia executive reached out to Commerce Department officials.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Exclusive / ‘Put the posters in charge’: Inside the Democrats' secret strategy to flood the internet with clips — By January 2025, Paulina Mangubat knew the Democratic National Committee needed to change its digital communications approach dramatically. — The organization had been shattered …
Paul Krugman:
The Texas Miracle — Democracy's biggest win in a night of big wins … On March 23, 2026, the Conservative Political Action Conference — which is to the global right what the Comintern once was to international communism — held its fifth annual meeting in Budapest.
Jasper Goodman / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren is ready to go big against corporate America — Brace yourself for the most progressive — and aggressive — Senate Banking Committee chair in decades. — Elizabeth Warren, the longtime Wall Street antagonist poised to take over the Banking panel next year …
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Collin Anderson / The Washington Free Beacon:
Dem Congresswoman-Elect Heads to Court on Felony Charges for Failing To Return Rental Car — LaKesha Womack, who defeated Republican Tim Moore in North Carolina's red-leaning 14th district, declined to say whether the vehicle was ever recovered — A week after Democrat LaKesha Womack pulled off …
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Hakeem Jeffries says Democrats are committed to “holding the crooks accountable” in new Congress — Washington — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who's poised to become House Speaker in the new Congress following his party's widespread gains in the midterm elections …
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Secret Service puts White House on lockdown after car rams through secure area with Trump home in DC — WASHINGTON — A car jumped a curb and plowed into an informational sign near the White House on Monday — prompting police to order the driver to the ground as the Secret Service moved journalists indoors.
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