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Axios

The Department of Homeland Security is the latest agency to offer employee buyouts [11d]
Supreme Court allows Alien Enemies Act deportations to resume [11d]
EPA "prepared to act" on RFK's request to remove fluoride from drinking water [11d]
March Madness is doing fine without a Cinderella [11d]
Supreme Court pauses order requiring deported Maryland man be returned to U.S. [11d]
Trump says U.S. holding nuclear talks with Iran in surprise announcement [11d]
Trump talks tariffs with Netanyahu as markets melt down [11d]
National Park Service rewrites Underground Railroad history amid DEI purge [11d]
Scoop: Trump issues veto threat on tariff bill [12d]
Stagflation fear gives way to recession fear [12d]
Trump threatens extra 50% tariff on China [12d]
Report: Most migrants sent to mega-prison have no apparent criminal record [12d]
Wall Street rout has CEOs breaking with Trump on tariffs [12d]
Historic stock market rout continues, with no end in sight [12d]
Inflation could hit different this time [12d]
In photos: Days of deadly storms bring flooding fresh threats to Midwest, South [12d]
Trump denies engineering market sell-off, says you have to "take medicine" [12d]

Salon

"Take the people and move them": Trump suggests US control of Gaza's "oceanfront property" again [11d]
From AirDrop anxiety to tapeworm fairytales: 4 faves from The Overlook Film Festival 2025 [11d]
Pumped, dumped and chumped: "Fake news" on tariffs causes stock market whiplash [11d]
Tony's Chocolonely recalls bars over small stone contamination [11d]
“Hot Ones”: Saquon Barkley says he has to meet Kevin Hart’s real-life eagle that’s named after him [11d]
The best supermarket tinned fish that tastes fancy but isn’t [11d]
"The White Lotus" finale paints a bleak, beautiful portrait of human failure [11d]
How baked spaghetti became American, one casserole at a time [11d]
Saving for retirement takes more than the government telling us to [12d]
Trump's tariffs are the ultimate MAGA loyalty test [12d]
Senate Republicans’ magic math could jeopardize Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” [12d]
"Set up to fail": Incarcerated pregnant women lack access to life-saving addiction treatment [12d]
Silicon Valley’s hottest femtech apps [12d]

The Drudge Report

Ukraine Using Drones That Infect Military Systems With Malware... [11d]
Why America's Oligarchs May Regret Their Obedience... [11d]
Moon moving away from earth and causing major changes in our time... [11d]
Invasive strep infections double... [11d]
MYSTERY: 5 nurses who work on same floor of hospital have brain tumors... [11d]
NEWSMAX Host Shocked by How Badly Personal Wealth Tanks... [11d]
Households urged to check jewellery insurance after gold surge... [11d]
Amid fears of immigration raids, Latino churches rethink services... [11d]
Catholic Church is breaking up with U.S. govt... [11d]
Kennedy Attends Funeral... [11d]
DOES DON EVEN WANT A DEAL? [11d]
TESLA Shares Plunge Below Lutnick's 'Never This Cheap' Level... [11d]
TRUMP PLANNING MASSIVE MILITARY PARADE IN DC... [11d]
SHOW OF FORCE TIMED TO HIS BIRTHDAY? [11d]
RAND PAUL LEADS CHARGE AGAINST TARIFFS... [11d]
Massive fire breaks out in Paris... Developing... [11d]
Marshals mobilized to warn fired DOJ lawyer over congressional testimony... [11d]
Book ban at military service academies draws flak... [11d]
X launches crackdown against 'parody' accounts... [11d]
DC in Direct Talks With Tehran... [11d]
Republicans Fracture on Tax Bill... [11d]
Man receives world's first sperm transplant in groundbreaking experiment... [11d]
CIA reviewing authority to use lethal force against drug cartels... [11d]
The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now... [11d]
Brussels police arrest Rubio security detail supervisor after hotel fight... [11d]
How Contracting Work Became Race to Bottom... [11d]
DOJ Struggling to Defend Policies in Court... [11d]
Satellite Image Shows US Aircraft Carrier Nearing Iran... [11d]
Admiral at NATO fired in expanding national security purge... [11d]
RETURN OF THE DIRE WOLF... [11d]
PAPER: Turning USA into global laughing stock... [11d]
Worst start to presidential term in modern history... [11d]
Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was 'joke'... [11d]
FAKE NEWS SWINGS... [11d]
'Well Done, Old Man!' Russian State TV Revels in Trump Having 'Destroyed Trust' in Economy... [11d]
NEWSMAX Host Shocked by How Badly Personal Wealth Tanks... [11d]
TRUMP PLANNING MASSIVE MILITARY PARADE IN DC... [11d]
$100 MILLION SHOW OF FORCE TIMED TO HIS BIRTHDAY? [11d]
'TAKE YOUR MEDICINE' [12d]
President Tells Americans 'Don't Be Weak!' [12d]
Moon moving away from earth and causing major changes in our time... [12d]
'This is the Trump recession,' CEOs say... [12d]
Here Are Places Where Downturn Has Already Begun... [12d]
NEWSMAX Host Shocked by How Badly Personal Wealth Tanks... [12d]
Anti-Trump Republican for governor tries to defy gravity in NJ... [12d]
TRAILER: Wes Anderson returns with 'PHOENICIAN SCHEME'... [12d]
Ackman warns world on brink of 'self-induced economic nuclear winter'... [12d]
Frustrated World Leaders Wonder If He Even Wants a Deal... [12d]
Websites crashing... [12d]
RAND PAUL LEADS CHARGE AGAINST TARIFFS... [12d]
Households urged to check jewellery insurance after gold surge... [12d]
TESLA Shares Plunge Below Lutnick's 'Never This Cheap' Level... [12d]
AS THE MUSK TURNS [12d]
Behind Legal Battle of Man Sent to Salvadoran Prison in Error... [12d]
In Don's Second Term, Retribution Comes in Many Forms... [12d]
Iranian state media threatens to kill Trump... [12d]
Ken Griffin Pushed Luxury Home Market to New Highs -- For Better or Worse... [12d]
DISNEY heiress on Musk, MAGA and problem with billionaires... [12d]
iPhones to cost $3,500? [12d]
Inside Boston's Luxury Brothel Scandal... [12d]
Even Buddhists Can't Find Peace in the Everglades... [12d]
Fungal infections 'taking over world'. Can they be stopped? [12d]
VETERAN INVESTORS SPEAK OUT... [12d]
The First Victim of Trade War: Michigan's Economy... [12d]
Americans Sitting on Cash Pile as Stocks Reel... [12d]
JP MORGAN DIMON SOUNDS ALARM... [12d]

The New Republic

Trump Border Czar Tried to Deport His Own Neighbors. It Didn’t Work. [11d]
Trump Forgets Basic European History in Bizarre Tariff Rant [11d]
Trump Adviser Releases Insane List of Demands for Tariffed Countries [11d]
Cognitive Decline? Trump Calls for Open Borders in Rant on Tariffs [11d]
Treasury Secretary Says Fired Federal Workers Can Work in the Factory [11d]
RFK Jr. Forces Out Top Vaccine Regulator After Fight Over Data [11d]
Social Security Is Totally Collapsing Thanks to Elon Musk’s DOGE [11d]
Trump’s Anti-DEI Purge Hits Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad [11d]
Trump Team Scrambling to Avoid Undoing Major Deportation Mistake [11d]
Trump Hits New Levels of Insanity With Fresh China Tariffs [11d]
Print Media to Mass Protests: “Please Turn to Page 18” [11d]
Trump Trade Adviser Moves Goalposts on Tariffs Despite Warnings [11d]
RFK Jr. Waffles on Vaccines as Measles Rates Hit Record High [11d]
Trump Exposes Own Kindergarten-Level Understanding of Economics [11d]
Fake News Story on Tariffs Pause Causes Mayhem in Stock Market [12d]
Trump Agriculture Sec. Has Pathetic Defense for Tariffing Penguins [12d]
Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself [12d]
60 Minutes Exposes Truth of Who Exactly Trump Deported to El Salvador [12d]
Trump Has a New Target for His Mass Deportations: U.S. Citizens [12d]
Elon Musk Suddenly Distances Himself From Trump Over Tariffs [12d]
Trump Celebrates His Tariffs as Global Markets Collapse [12d]
Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them [12d]
Trump’s EPA Cuts Are Going to Poison His Own Voters [12d]
What America Can Learn From the Americas [12d]
Will Trump Usher in a New Wave of Pregnancy Discrimination? [12d]
The Right-Wing Media Machine Is What’s Saving Donald Trump—for Now. [12d]
“Disaster”: Trump Voters Suddenly Realize How Badly He Screwed Them [12d]

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