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Axios

Trump considers "winding down" Iran war without opening Hormuz Strait [1d]
4 pivotal questions that could define the Iran war's next phase [1d]
U.S. seeks billions from Harvard in alleged antisemitism suit [1d]
Global trade grew in 2025 despite Trump tariffs, two reports show [2d]
"He needs to go": Fetterman's fellow Democrats rage over his vote on Mullin for DHS [2d]
White House releases Trump's national AI plan and framework [2d]
Trump mulls risky Kharg Island takeover to force Iran to open strait [2d]

Salon

Cinnabon breaks up with “The Bachelorette” [2d]
The useful rage of Godzilla [2d]
Who will stop Trump on Iran? [2d]
For Gen Z Republican men, sex is solitary [2d]
Healthy Florida First’s toxic baby formula dilemma [2d]
Trump’s child care subsidy rules compound an already dire situation for providers and families [2d]

The Drudge Report

Authorities investigating close call between planes landing at Newark... [1d]
Musk misled TWITTER investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says... [1d]
MIXED MESSAGES: Trump considers 'winding down' war... [1d]
...BUT NO CEASEFIRE! [1d]
TSA: IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE... [1d]
Chinese squeeze on 'war metal' to send cost of missiles soaring... [1d]
Massachusetts loses billions in income after millionaire tax... [1d]
TEHRAN THREATENS WORLD TOURISM SITES [1d]
'Multiple waves' of unauthorized drones spotted over strategic US Air Force base... [1d]
Pentagon press policy ruled unconstitutional in case brought by NYTIMES... [1d]
Like Julius Caesar before him, The Don gets his image on a coin... [1d]
White House Gearing Up to Drop Next Distraction: Aliens! [1d]
Town records hottest March temp in US history! [1d]
Thousands swooned over MAGA dream girl. She's AI... [1d]
Inside weird world of Elijah Wood... [1d]
Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics... [1d]
Small businesses reeling from tariffs brace for spiking oil prices... [1d]
How BLACKLIST paranoia sweeps imploded dept... [1d]
Drinking Beer Linked To 'Significantly' Higher Risk Of Death... [1d]
Dangerous flooding on Hawaii's Oahu island prompts evacuations... [1d]
Senate fails to advance DHS funding bill for 5th time, with no deal in sight... [1d]
Gabbard testimony on Puerto Rico voting machines raises questions about Venezuela conspiracy theory... [1d]
Spylandia: How Stretch of FL Real Estate Became Covert Corridor... [1d]
Putin offers to stop sharing intel with Iran if USA cuts off Ukraine... [1d]
STOCKS ENTER CORRECTION... [1d]
Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might... [1d]
Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after America goes to war... [1d]
Treasury taking over federal student loans amid dismantling of Dept of Education... [1d]
Sailor's jogging app exposes aircraft carrier's location... [1d]
PENTAGON PREPS GROUND INVASION [1d]
Second Amphibious Assault Ship Now Heading To Middle East... [1d]
STUDY: Sleep Trackers -- Make Insomnia Worse! [1d]
Influencer Group That Boosts Dems Faces Investigation Over 'Dark Money' Ties... [1d]
New Homebuyers Paying Record 'Entry Fee' To Own Home... [1d]
New law prohibits face coverings for law enforcement in Washington state... [1d]
Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child... [1d]
VIDEO: MISSILE NEAR WESTERN WALL IN OLD CITY JERUSALEM... [1d]
LOOMER MEETS THE LAMA... [1d]
Father of dead serviceman says he never told Pete 'finish the job'... [1d]
MISSILE FRAGMENTS HIT TEMPLE MOUNT [1d]
TROUBLES: CBSNEWS Radio Shutting Down After 100 years... [1d]
UPDATE: Historic heat bakes Southwest... [2d]
UPDATE: Historic heat bakes Southwest... [2d]
Mysterious Medical Emergency... [2d]
Top FEMA Official Has History of 'Violent Rhetoric' and Claimed He Teleported to WAFFLE HOUSE... [2d]
Major CBS NEWS Layoffs Begin Under Bari Weiss' Restructuring Plan... [2d]
DOJ Pursuing Criminal Investigations of Colombia's President (a Onetime Trump Foe)... [2d]
CHUCK NORRIS DEAD... [2d]
ACTION ICON... [2d]
The Homicide Upending French Politics... [2d]
GROUND INVASION IMMINENT? [2d]
Fears of all-out invasion mount in Lebanon... [2d]
This town just recorded hottest March temp in US history... [2d]
Tehran threatens world tourism sites and says it is still building missiles... [2d]
CBS set to lay off 15% of staffers as Bari Weiss looks to reshape newsroom... [2d]
Dozens of boys and young men dying in South Africa's circumcision rites... [2d]
SHOWDOWN: USA says Cuba prohibited from taking Russian oil as tankers head to island... [2d]
TSA: IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE... [2d]
SHORTAGES EXPAND... [2d]
Hegseth's Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after USA goes to war... [2d]
GOLDEN ERA: Small businesses reeling from tariffs brace for spiking oil prices... [2d]
In Japan, Trump's Pearl Harbor Joke Elicits Scorn and Dismay... [2d]
Like Julius Caesar before him, The Don gets his image on a coin... [2d]
The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By... [2d]
Thousands swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She's AI... [2d]
Can Peretti Save BUZZFEED From Extinction? [2d]
The Irresistible Glow of Tunis... [2d]
Trump mulls risky Kharg Island takeover to force open strait... [2d]
SAUDI WARNS OIL $180 [2d]
'Multiple waves' of unauthorized drones spotted over strategic US Air Force base... [2d]
Vegas Gambler, Hollywood Power Player and Legal Fight Roiling PARAMOUNT... [2d]
Authorities investigating close call between planes landing at Newark... [2d]
People urged to work from home in global oil crisis... [2d]
EVANS-PRITCHARD: Entire countries may run out! [2d]
U.S.-Israeli rift widens over potential end game in Iran... [2d]
F-35 Makes Emergency Landing After 'Hit by Iranian Fire'... [2d]
White House Gearing Up to Drop Next Distraction: Aliens! [2d]

The New Republic

John Fetterman Is Historically Unpopular, Brutal Polls Show [1d]
Vivek Ramaswamy Blew Nearly $12K in Campaign Funds on Luxury Vacation [1d]
Trump’s Friend Got ICE to Deport the Mother of His Child [1d]
Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Harvard With New Lawsuit [1d]
Denmark Prepared Drastic Measures to Keep Greenland Away From Trump [2d]
DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Leader Who Called Trump “New Hitler” [2d]
Yes, Trump Derangement Syndrome Exists; but It’s Among His Supporters [2d]
Trump’s Iran War Just Cost Military Shipments in Key Weapons Deal [2d]
Trump Team Changed a Report to Hide How Bad DOGE Made Things [2d]
Trump Suddenly Realizes ICE Terrorizing People Is a Bad Look [2d]
Dead Troop’s Father Calls Out Pete Hegseth’s Lies on Iran War [2d]
Transcript: Trump Has No Idea How To End the War Against Iran [2d]
Trump Has No Idea How to End the War Against Iran [2d]
Transcript: Trump War Takes Dark Turn as Leaks Unnerve Dems: “Madness” [2d]
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is a Self-Destructive Distraction [2d]
The Frankensteined Feminism of The Bride! [2d]
What’s Behind MAGA’s Strange New Crush on Solar Energy? [2d]
Trump’s War With Iran Is a Product of His Deep Stupidity [2d]
Trump War Takes Darker Turn as Leaked Plans Unnerve Experts: “Madness” [2d]

Talking Points Memo

Need 25 More Tonight! [1d]
The State (of) Media, AI, Buzzfeed, CBS, and More [1d]
EXCLUSIVE: Judge Orders DOJ to Get Answers On Wrongful Deportations [1d]
How Magical Thinking and Trump Love Drove the Energy Markets Mad [1d]
Tune in as Josh Marshall and TPM’s Publisher Dissect What’s Up With the Media [1d]
John Roberts Is Hanging District Court Judges Out to Dry [1d]
Noem’s Ad Procurement Scandal Was Just The Tip of the Iceberg [2d]
Noem’s Ad Procurement Scandal Was Just The Tip of the Iceberg [2d]
What Joe Kent and Candace Owens Are Really Up to in Their Critiques of the Iran War [2d]
Trump Admin Stonewalls Another Judge With Incompetent Witnesses [2d]

Politico

UN secretary general says he’s cooperating with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza but doesn’t want it in Hormuz [1d]
US pauses sanctions on some of Iran’s oil as gas prices surge [1d]
Confrontation between billionaire CEO and Lutnick hints at trouble with huge data center project [1d]
Federal judge reverses Pentagon press restrictions [1d]
Opinion | My Time with Jürgen Habermas, Europe's 'Last Intellectual' [2d]
UK allows US to use bases to bomb Iranian sites targeting ships in Strait of Hormuz [2d]
How biotech giant Bayer landed a win that made MAHA furious [2d]
The states where higher gas prices could shape the midterms [2d]
Meet the Kurdish guerillas hoping America will support them blazing a path to Tehran [2d]
Putin offered to stop sharing intel with Iran if US cuts off Ukraine [2d]
Federal prosecutors subpoenaed records related to former NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson and his top aide [2d]
‘Hormuz has to reopen’: Why the oil industry can’t help Trump tame rising gasoline prices [2d]
Hochul proposes weakening New York’s climate law [2d]
What Cesar Chavez’s biographer says now [2d]
White House releases AI policy blueprint for Congress [2d]
Pete Buttigieg’s 2026 project [2d]
Trump stretches ‘America First’ on Iran. His voters are going along with it. [2d]
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics [2d]
‘Praying’ to Rob Bonta: Hollywood workers pin hopes on AG to stop Paramount deal [2d]
This Military Tragedy Became a Blockbuster Movie. Here’s What It Didn’t Tell You. [2d]
‘Perfect storm’: Wall Street turmoil muddies Trump’s pitch to boost 401(k)s [2d]

The Hill

GOP braces for Trump to possibly deploy troops inside Iran [1d]
Still trailing by 23 votes, NC Senate leader asks for hand recount [1d]
Heritage president: MAGA tensions over Iran war ‘good’ [1d]
DOJ wants charges dismissed against ex-officers in Breonna Taylor case [1d]
Poll shows Paxton beating Cornyn in Texas if Trump doesn’t endorse [1d]
Judge rules Pentagon press policy under Hegseth unconstitutional [1d]
Jordan subpoenas prosecutor over case involving protest near Stephen Miller’s home [1d]
Trump says US ‘getting very close’ to meeting Iran objectives ‘as we consider winding down’ [1d]
Ukrainian counter-drone unit deployed to five Gulf states amid Iran war [1d]
Russia may test Trump’s Cuba’s blockade with oil tankers crossing Atlantic [1d]
Trump says he does not want a ceasefire with Iran [1d]
Trump calls UK move to allow US to use bases ‘a very late response’ [1d]
Carville rages against Trump over dyslexia attacks on Newsom [1d]
UK allows US to use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz [1d]
GOP senator suggests two-step move to break DHS funding deadlock [1d]
DHS shutdown stretches to 35 days as Democrats block funding bill [1d]
232 US service members wounded since Iran war began [1d]
New York AG sues to uphold national emissions rules [1d]
Kent says FBI probe meant to ‘steal a narrative’ from true intentions of Iran war [1d]
Trump administration accuses Harvard of failing to protect Jewish students in latest lawsuit [1d]
Chadwick Boseman’s widow believed he would ‘make it through’ cancer fight [1d]
Israel: Top Iranian spokesperson killed [1d]
Kemp signs bill suspending Georgia state gas tax amid Iran war price spike [1d]
Three charged in alleged plot to export AI chips to China [1d]
House GOP pushes spy powers vote to April amid opposition [1d]
Scott Perry: ‘I would actually like to see Iran pay’ for war [1d]
CBS News cutting 6 percent of staff, shuttering radio operation [1d]
Pentagon plans to keep National Guard in DC into 2029 [1d]
The next front is already here in war against Iran [2d]
Chuck Norris dies at 86 [2d]
Bailey faces uphill battle in Illinois governor’s race against Pritzker [2d]
Netanyahu says revolution in Iran will require ‘ground component’ to war [2d]
US speeds up deployment of thousands more Marines, sailors to Middle East [2d]
A ‘land for security’ peace deal would be a disaster for Ukraine and Europe [2d]
Iran threatens world tourism sites [2d]
Trump convinces GOP primary challenger to drop bid for Colorado House seat [2d]
Key House Republican: We don’t know who’s in charge of Iran [2d]
US military blows up drug vessel in Eastern Pacific, leaving 3 survivors [2d]
More than a quarter of new hires are taking pay cuts, survey finds [2d]
Stop importing monkeys for lab experiments. It’s cruel. And it’s dangerous. [2d]
Trump dubs NATO a ‘paper tiger’ over Strait of Hormuz [2d]
Nashville reporter detained by ICE has been released: Lawyers [2d]
The enemy gets a vote; so do allies [2d]
Supreme Court revives Mississippi evangelist’s challenge to protest ordinance [2d]
Bolton: Trump doesn’t know Iran war objective, when it will end [2d]
Senate passes measure prohibiting preferential airport screening for lawmakers [2d]
Judge: RFK Jr. overreached in push to restrict gender-affirming for minors [2d]
White House unveils AI policy wishlist for Congress [2d]
Watch live: Trump presents Commander-in-Chief’s trophy to US Navy [2d]
Trump’s policies on toxic chemicals fail all of us — including MAHA [2d]
Americans expect fuel costs will keep climbing: Poll [2d]
The ghosts of Trump’s conspiracy theories have come back to haunt him [2d]
Two former FBI agents who investigated Trump sue over firings [2d]
Investigators taking closer look at Nancy Guthrie’s security gate [2d]
Most believe Trump will send US troops into Iran: Survey [2d]
It’s time for Congress to deliver and ban insider stock trading [2d]
Live updates: Senate settles in for weekend of votes, starting with DHS funding [2d]
Boebert on $200B Iran war funding request: ‘I’m not doing that’ [2d]
Canada’s Arctic defense strategy strengthens surveillance from sky to sea [2d]
Watch live: Whole Hog Politics with Chris Stirewalt and Bill Sammon [2d]
Whole Hog Politics: The political establishment thrives in our broken primary system [2d]
Another Democrat shutdown is hurting American families just to score political points [2d]
Netanyahu: Israel ‘acted alone’ against Iran gas compound [2d]
How Bloody Sunday’s aftermath divided an interracial Civil Rights Movement [2d]
Hegseth hammers European allies, media in staunch Trump defense over Iran war [2d]
Operation Epic Fury: The promises and perils of AI warfare [2d]
Progressives say they’ll vote against warrantless spy power renewal [2d]
Influencers are pushing out media for aspiring Democratic politicians [2d]
Trump’s push to abolish the Education Department reaches student loan portfolio [2d]
Senate GOP plows forward on SAVE America Act amid pressure from right [2d]
U.S. Embassy in Cuba tells citizens to avoid crowds amid protests [2d]
‘Rogue employee’ at HHS changed voicemail to Domino’s pizza recording [2d]
Boat strikes ‘aren’t the answer’ to US drug problems, general says [2d]

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