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Noem Awarded $100 Million to Handpicked Contractors
“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handpicked contractors to lead a $100 million campaign to recruit Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers instead of allowing competitive bidding for the jobs,” NBC News…
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Sentenced to Life in Prison
“Just months after President Trump’s mass pardons for Jan. 6 rioters freed him from prison, a Florida man repeatedly sexually abused two middle-school aged children,” NPR reports. “On Thursday, the…
Trump Unleashed
President Trump is on the warpath: In an interview, he dismissed concerns about the Iran war, told Politico the United States would help choose Iran’s next leader, predicted the downfall…
Board Delays Vote on Trump’s Ballroom
“The National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday delayed its final vote on President Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom amid a deluge of negative comments from the public,” the…
A War Without a Strategy
The Economist: “It is rare for one head of government to order the death of another. Yet on February 28th America’s president and Israel’s prime minister did just that, killing…
Trump Bought Netflix Debt as Deal Unraveled
Hollywood Reporter: “As Paramount sought to pry Warner Bros. away from the streaming giant, Trump was adding more Netflix bonds to his personal portfolio, financial disclosures released by the White…
Trump Picks Markwayne Mullin to Replace Kristi Noem
President Trump announced he will nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to be Secretary of Homeland Security, replacing the current embattled Secretary Kristi Noem. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) would appoint…
Steve Daines’ Quick Exit Was to Block Democrats
“Sen. Steve Daines made the last-minute decision to abruptly pull out of his Senate race to prevent Democrats from fielding a top recruit for the open Montana seat,” CNN reports….
House GOP Leaders Ask Tony Gonzales to Drop Re-Election
Speaker Mike Johnson and his House Republican leadership team have asked Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) to drop his bid for re-election, Punchbowl News reports. They did not, however, ask him…
Trump Is Preparing to Fire Kristi Noem
“President Trump is preparing to fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The president has already been asking aides and congressional Republicans for names of potential…
Trump Demands Immediate Pardon for Netanyahu
President Trump told Axios that Israeli President Isaac Herzog must pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “today” — calling Herzog “a disgrace” for failing to act over the last year. Said…
Ken Paxton Sets Conditions for Exiting Runoff
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) suggested that he would be open to dropping out of the hotly contested Texas Senate primary against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) if Senate Republicans…
Trump Has Lost the Plot in Iran
Karim Sadjadpour: “Like many of his predecessors over the past five decades, Donald Trump risks having his presidency hijacked by Iran. The 1979 revolution and subsequent hostage crisis ended Jimmy…
Justice Department Torches Its Credibility
Harry Litman: “It’s far easier to lose institutional trust than to rebuild it. Once courts and the public begin to suspect selective enforcement or strategic defiance, credibility does not snap…
Trump’s Unauthorized War
Quinta Jurecic: “A president does not have the constitutional authority to send the country to war on his own. Trump is, as he writes in his letter, the commander in…
Trump Says He Will Pick Iran’s Next Leader
President Trump said that he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran’s next leader — just as he was in Venezuela, Axios reports. He acknowledged that Mojtaba Khamenei, son…
Trump Puts Ken Paxton on Notice
“President Donald Trump appears to be leaning toward endorsing Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas GOP Senate primary, issuing a stark warning to state Attorney General Ken Paxton,” Politico reports….
Texas Democrats Are Fired Up
Axios: “In counties across Texas, Democratic voters made up a dramatically larger percentage of the electorate than in 2024 — with big increases in hot battlegrounds such as mostly Hispanic…
A War Begun on Instinct
Hanna Rosin: “The advantage of a gut-driven war decision is that it can yield sudden dramatic results. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been a brutal Iranian dictator for nearly four decades….
Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying ‘War’
New York Times: “When President Trump gave reporters a brief update this week on the accelerating bombing campaign against Iran, he said: ‘We’re doing very well on the war front.’”…
