Pentagon says Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving | AP News The Pentagon has announced that the Navy’s top civilian official, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, is leaving his job.

Guess he had enough of the chaos.
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Senate Fails to Advance SAVE Act, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) celebrates the U.S. Senate’s failure to advance the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed by the Trump administration that would erect significant barriers to ballot access for millions of eligible Americans. “We are glad to see the SAVE Act stall in the […]

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Trump's approval on economy falls, new poll shows | AP News A new AP-NORC poll finds that President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher.

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The Divergent Deluxe Edition is Here! And So Is An Announcement sort of burying the lede here with that announcement thing

#Divergent Veronica Roth - I read everything this author writes.
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Sebastian Gorka: The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan — ProPublica Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine.

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#TrumpWar

Louisiana shooting live updates: 8 children between the ages of 1 and 14 killed | AP News A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children in shootings at two different homes early Sunday in the nation's deadliest mass shooting in more than two years, police in Shreveport said.

Mass Shooting - Louisiana
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It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton

ICE went on a hiring spree. Sterling credentials not required | AP News Some new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers started working before passing background checks and had problems in their past.

#OnlyTheBestPeople
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Stephen Miller Threatens Horrifying Timeline for Trump’s War The White House deputy chief of staff dropped the bomb on Fox News.

#TrumpWar
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#TrumpWar

Last year, I told New Yorkers: we would open city-owned grocery stores to take on the affordability crisis.

Today, we're delivering five stores in each borough — with the first opening next year.

Here's to healthy families, thriving communities, and promises kept.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

#IceArrests
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#TrumpEconomy

Donald Trump Struts Around UFC Cage Match in Miami as JD Vance Flees Peace Talks in Pakistan While the president smiled ringside in Miami, the vice president shared that peace talks had collapsed in Islamabad.

#TrumpWar
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Damning Intel Leak Blows Up Pentagon Pete’s ‘Depleted and Decimated’ Claim The defense secretary’s remarks about Iran’s missile program don’t quite match up to U.S. intelligence assessments.

#TrumpWar
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The Strange Case of Melania Trump and Amanda Ungaro, the Model Deported by ICE The first lady and Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro socialized together at Mar-a-Lago, but their friendship appears to have soured.

#Melania
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I Know Why Melania Trump Is Panicking About Jeffrey Epstein Podcast host Jennifer Welch dissects the first lady’s sudden statement about the dead sex predator.

#Melania
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No, CNN Did Not Fake Iranian Statement. NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week Contrary to claims from President Trump and his administration, CNN reported on a real Iranian statement that stated the U.S. had agreed to Iran’s 10-point ceasefire plan.

#TrumpWar
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Trump administration admits error in New York health care fraud probe | AP News President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to a major error in data used to justify a federal fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

#Medicaid #IncompetentAdministration
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What to know about automatic US military draft registration planned by December 2026 | Snopes.com In the past, eligible men have had to self-register for the draft by law. A change will make it so they are automatically registered.

Protect your children from #TrumpWar
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US inflation soars in March as war on Iran drives economy into uncertainty | US economy | The Guardian Prices were up TK% adding to the unpredictability that first came with tariffs imposed and lifted by Trump last year

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Today of all days. No one was talking about Epstein. I couldn’t understand a lot of what she said but it makes no sense unless she’s preparing people for something.

I look at this 2 ways. Either something big is coming out soon about her. Or something big is coming out about the asshole and she is distancing herself from it.

Trump appointee Ed Martin claims executive privilege in bid to evade misconduct charges Martin appeared to claim he couldn't be charged with misconduct because the president and federal attorneys are indistinguishable.

Trump's pardon attorney Ed Martin argued in a wild new legal filing that the misconduct charges against him, stemming from threatening emails he sent to Georgetown Law, are an unconstitutional attack on the president's authority.

He faces potential sanctions or disbarment through the ethics case.

Trump envisioned a massive White House ballroom. The project has hit a little snag. - The Boston Globe Without approvals or a final design, the president expected to bulldoze his way to a massive White House expansion. Here’s where we stand (and it’s not pretty).

Today's Starting Point explains why President Trump's massive White House ballroom project has hit a little snag.