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• Trump says he doesn't 'want to talk about a third term now' but 'so many people' are asking him to run

  31-03-2025 05:08 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said he doesn’t want to discuss his plans for 2028 but said “so many people” are asking him to run for a third term — a move prohibited by the Constitution.Trump was asked about his comments from an earlier Sunday interview in which he said he was “not joking” about running for a third term and said there were some potential methods that could allow him to seek another term."I'm not looking at that, but I'll tell you, I have had more people ask
  
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• Oliver Stone to testify at House hearing on JFK files

  31-03-2025 04:44 via thehill.com
  
  American filmmaker Oliver Stone — whose political thriller, “JFK,” made waves more than 30 years ago — will testify on Tuesday before a House committee on the release of new documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr., according to a press release from the committee.The Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets announced on Sunday it will hold a hearing on Tuesday on the so-called “JFK files.”The panel, in its hearing notice, list
  
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• Trump: There's a 'psychological deadline' for Putin to agree to ceasefire

  31-03-2025 04:33 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said late Sunday there is a “psychological deadline” for Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine, shortly after he had expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin."It's a psychological deadline,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if there was a deadline for Russia to agree to a deal. “If I think they're tapping us along, I will not be happy about it."Trump said he did not think Russia was dragging the U.S. along, saying
  
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• Moskowitz quips that Bin Laden supports Lee's bill to abolish the TSA

  31-03-2025 02:23 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) knocked Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) bill to abolish the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), suggesting only terrorists would support it.Lee reposted a Fox News article about his legislation and asked, in a post on X, “Who supports my bill to abolish TSA?”“Bin Laden,” Moskowitz responded, referring to the infamous al-Qaeda founder, Osama bin Laden, who masterminded the attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. Bin Laden was tracked dow
  
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• Musk: Wisconsin Supreme Court race 'might decide the future of America and Western Civilization'

  31-03-2025 00:42 via thehill.com
  
  Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday stressed the importance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, saying it could determine “the future of America and Western Civilization.”Musk reposted a report from a right-wing account suggesting if Democrats won the Supreme Court seat, they would “redraw up districts and add seats for Democrats.”“1000%,” Musk wrote on X, responding to the post. “What’s at issue here is control of the US House of Representatives
  
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• Trump calls ‘never ending’ Signal leak story ‘old and boring,’ blasts media

  31-03-2025 00:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump slammed the media for its “never ending” coverage of the Signal group chat leak, calling it “old and boring.”In a post Sunday on Truth Social, Trump praised Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, after he pushed back on NBC News “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker over the matter.“A GREAT job by Senator Markwayne Mullin on beating back Kristen Welker’s, and the Radical Left’s Witch H
  
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• White House to remove magnolia tree dating to Andrew Jackson

  30-03-2025 23:52 via thehill.com
  
  The White House will remove from its property a magnolia tree planted nearly 200 years ago with seeds said to have been brought from former President Jackson’s home in Tennessee.President Trump announced Sunday that, after consulting with the Executive Residence Staff and the National Park Service, the administration has decided to replace the tree, saying it poses a safety hazard.“The bad news is that everything must come to an end, and this tree is in terrible condition,
  
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• Ex-British Ambassador to US who criticized Trump urges Starmer not to concede on retaliatory tariffs

  30-03-2025 23:05 via thehill.com
  
  Former United Kingdom ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, urged British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take a robust stance against President Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs, saying the UK should avoid giving Trump “wins.”Darroch — who famously called Trump “inept” and “dysfunctional” as ambassador during Trump’s first term — warned that conceding to Trump will signal weakness and might invite additional threats of tari
  
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• Republicans look to avert humiliation in Florida special election

  30-03-2025 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans are pulling out all the stops ahead of the special election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District as worries of a narrower-than-expected margin grow in the district President Trump won by more than 30 points in November. Trump called into two tele-town halls for state Sen. Randy Fine (R) in an effort to drive out the Republican base ahead of Tuesday. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s America PAC spent roughly $10,200 in the race earlier this week and dropped another $66,000 i
  
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• Burgum says ‘they certainly have room for’ Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore

  30-03-2025 22:17 via thehill.com
  
  Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he “certainly” believes that there’s enough room on Mount Rushmore for President Trump’s face.Burgum joined Trump’s daughter-in-law and new Fox News host Lara Trump for an interview that aired on her show “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday.His appearance came just days after Trump signed an executive order that gave Burgum the power to determine if public monuments, memorials or statues removed during the Biden admi
  
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• Burgum says 'they certainly have room for' Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore

  30-03-2025 22:17 via thehill.com
  
  Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he “certainly” believes that there’s enough room on Mount Rushmore for President Trump’s face.Burgum joined Trump’s daughter-in-law and new Fox News host Lara Trump for an interview that aired on her show “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday.His appearance came just days after President Trump signed an executive order that gave Burgum the power to determine if public monuments, memorials or statues removed during the
  
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• Goldberg on risk of legal action from Trump administration: 'I don’t get bullied'

  30-03-2025 22:01 via thehill.com
  
  Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, brushed off the risk of a legal threat from the Trump administration after he reported on a Signal group chat featuring top Trump administration officials.“Jeffrey, I don't have to tell you this, the administration has taken legal action against news organizations,” NBC News’s Kristen Welker said Sunday on “Meet the Press,” following clips of Trump administration officials slamming Goldberg. “Are you
  
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• Warner: 'No question' information shared in Signal chat was 'classified'

  30-03-2025 21:47 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said there is “no question” that the information shared on the Signal group chat with high-level defense officials was classified.“Absolutely,” Warner said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” when asked whether the information in the group chat, which inadvertently included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, was classified.  “It was of such a nature,
  
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• Former Trump intel official says 'risk of loss' from Signal could have been 'profound'  

  30-03-2025 21:43 via thehill.com
  
  Sue Gordon, the former deputy director of national intelligence in the first Trump administration, said the “risk of loss” from the Signal group chat could have been “profound.”Gordon joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where she was asked to weigh in on top Trump administration officials using the app to coordinate its attack against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.“There is nothing about the information that has to do with operations that i
  
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• Former Trump intel official says ‘risk of loss’ from Signal could have been ‘profound’  

  30-03-2025 21:43 via thehill.com
  
  Sue Gordon, the former deputy director of national intelligence in the first Trump administration, said the “risk of loss” from the Signal group chat could have been “profound.”Gordon joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where she was asked to weigh in on top Trump administration officials using the app to coordinate its attack against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.“There is nothing about the information that has to do with operations that i
  
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• Gabbard, Ratcliffe 'lied repeatedly' about Signal chat messages, Bennet says

  30-03-2025 21:14 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said on Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe “lied repeatedly” about messages in a Signal group chat in which top members of the Trump administration discussed an attack on Yemen.“Intelligence officials told your committee this week that no classified information was shared. Do you believe that Directors Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?” NBC N
  
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• Stefanik predicts new Columbia leader 'won't last' because 'they still don't get it'

  30-03-2025 21:04 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) predicted on Sunday the new acting president of Columbia University “won’t last” after the prestigious institution lost its second leader in recent months to scrutiny of its handling of pro-Palestinian protests and antisemitism on campus.Columbia’s former interim president, Katrina Armstrong, resigned Friday amid a tussle with the Trump administration over federal funding and its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus. C
  
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• Trump says he's 'not joking' about a possible third term

  30-03-2025 20:10 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said Sunday he’s “not joking” about serving a possible third term, marking the second time in less than three weeks that he's floated the idea.“I'm hearing — you don't sound like you're joking. I've heard you joke about this a number of times,” NBC News’s Kristen Welker said during a phone call with the president, discussing a third term for Trump.“No, no I'm not joking,” Trump responded, acc
  
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• GOP lawmaker says Signal chat information being considered unclassified is ‘surprising’

  30-03-2025 18:58 via thehill.com
  
  Republican Rep. Mike Turner (Ohio), former chair of the House Intelligence panel, said it’s “surprising” that the Trump administration is considering the information leaked in a Signal group chat about plans to attack the Houthi rebels is considered "not a big deal."Turner joined ABC News’s “This Week” on Sunday, where he was asked about the messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent to the group. Hegseth originally said no war plans were discussed in the gr
  
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• Democrats reject advice to ‘play dead,’ vow hard fight against Trump’s domestic agenda

  30-03-2025 18:00 via thehill.com
  
  A month ago, James Carville, the highly influential Democratic strategist, advised his party to “play dead” and allow President Trump and his Republican allies who control Congress to self-destruct under the weight of unpopular policies.House Democrats are rejecting the strategy outright. Heading into the high-stakes battle over Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda, Democratic leaders are instead launching a forceful, in-your-face battle over the GOP’s plans for tax
  
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• Democrats reject advice to 'play dead,' vow hard fight against Trump’s domestic agenda

  30-03-2025 18:00 via thehill.com
  
  A month ago, James Carville, the highly influential Democratic strategist, advised his party to “play dead” and allow President Trump and his Republican allies who control Congress to self-destruct under the weight of unpopular policies.House Democrats are rejecting the strategy outright. Heading into the high-stakes battle over Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda, Democratic leaders are instead launching a forceful, in-your-face battle over the GOP’s plans for tax
  
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• UAW president: ‘Deplorable’ that Trump stripped union rights for federal workers

  30-03-2025 17:54 via thehill.com
  
  United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said it is “deplorable” that President Trump moved to strip union rights from federal workers.Fain joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, just after Trump signed an executive order limiting numerous federal agency employees from unionizing and telling the government it can’t participate in collective bargaining.The UAW president celebrated Trump’s recent tariffs on car imports, noting that it would b
  
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• Trump 'very angry' at Putin's remarks on Zelensky

  30-03-2025 17:46 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said he is “very angry, pissed off” at remarks Russian President Vladimir Putin made Friday about Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, suggesting he is not a legitimate leader.
  The president threatened to slap a new tariff on Russia if it is at fault for stalling an end "to bloodshed."“If I feel, if we're in the midst of a negotiation, you could say that I was very angry, pissed off, when Putin said yesterday that — you know, when Putin started getting in
  
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• Goldberg pushes back on Waltz: 'Phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’

  30-03-2025 16:59 via thehill.com
  
  Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, on Sunday pushed back against an earlier claim from national security adviser Mike Waltz about a group chat in which top Trump administration officials discussed an attack on Yemen.Waltz had claimed earlier this week that Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody else’s contact.”“This isn’t ‘The Matrix,’ phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other p
  
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• Goldberg pushes back on Waltz: 'Phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones'

  30-03-2025 16:59 via thehill.com
  
  Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, on Sunday pushed back against an earlier claim from national security adviser Mike Waltz about a group chat in which top Trump administration officials discussed an attack on Yemen.Waltz claimed earlier this week that Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody else’s contact.”“This isn’t ‘The Matrix,’ phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phon
  
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• Wes Moore: Trump order over Smithsonian museums is ‘deeply disrespectful’

  30-03-2025 16:48 via thehill.com
  
  Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s order looking to control the “divisive narratives” at Smithsonian museums and federal sites is “deeply disrespectful.”Moore joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where host Dana Bash asked about Trump’s recent order, which cites an exhibit at the American Art Museum titled “Stories of Race and American Sculpture” and references the National Museum of African American Histor
  
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• Wes Moore: Trump order on Smithsonian museums is 'deeply disrespectful'

  30-03-2025 16:48 via thehill.com
  
  Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s order looking to control the “divisive narratives” at Smithsonian museums and federal sites is “deeply disrespectful.”Moore joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where host Dana Bash asked about Trump’s recent order, which cites an exhibit at the American Art Museum titled “Stories of Race and American Sculpture” and references the National Museum of African American Histo
  
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• Fewer Americans confident in Trump's handling of economy: Poll

  30-03-2025 16:33 via thehill.com
  
  Americans in a new poll say they are not feeling confident in President Trump's handling of the economy amid his administration's escalation of his trade war through sweeping changes in regulations for imports and exports.The CBS News poll found that 52 percent of Americans say they disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, while 49 percent say they approve. Fifty-six percent also said they disapprove of Trump's handling of inflation, while 44 percent saying they approve.Most respondents sa
  
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• Musk to visit CIA to discuss government efficiency

  30-03-2025 14:53 via thehill.com
  
  Tech billionaire Elon Musk is set to visit the CIA to discuss government efficiency, according to the agency.A CIA spokesperson said in a statement that Musk was invited by CIA Director John Ratcliffe "to meet with him at the Agency to discuss government efficiency."In the first few months of President Trump’s second term, Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have attempted to slash their way through the federal government, offering buyouts to and laying off workers en m
  
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• 'SNL' Cold Open spoofs Signal chat controversy with Trump officials adding teens to group text

  30-03-2025 14:15 via thehill.com
  
  "Saturday Night Live” spoofed the recent Trump administration Signal group chat controversy in the latest Cold Open.The sketch starts with three teenage girls, played by Mikey Madison, Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman, texting in a group chat about topics like a boy’s haircut and another girl’s clothes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is played by Andrew Dismukes, then cuts into the text conversation.“FYI – Green light on Yemen raid!” he adds in the group
  
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• Musk's influence faces first big test in Wisconsin

  30-03-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Wisconsin Supreme Court race Tuesday will put Elon Musk’s political and financial influence to the test after he poured millions of dollars in the race to support a conservative candidate.Musk has spent $12 million through his America PAC to support Brad Schimel over liberal candidate Susan Crawford in a race that will determine the partisan tilt on the state Supreme Court. Building America’s Future, a group that has previously received funding from Musk, has added $4.7 million t
  
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• Democrats ramp up town halls in GOP districts

  30-03-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats are ramping up their aggressive strategy of conducting town halls in Republican-held districts, vying to exploit the GOP’s advised moratorium on the events to make inroads with frustrated voters, pick up battleground seats, and flip control of the House in next year’s midterms.A number of Democrats who ventured this month into GOP territory said they liked what they saw: anxious voters who are up in arms over both President Trump's dismantling of the federal governmen
  
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• Trump admin lays off most of Institute of Peace in latest federal purge

  30-03-2025 05:10 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration has reportedly fired a majority of employees at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) over the weekend, with termination letters landing in personal email accounts starting Friday evening.Only senior officials and staffers abroad remain employed at the organization that used to tout 300 workers, according to the Associated Press.“The dismissal of U.S. Institute of Peace employees in the dark of night is unconscionable and deeply troubling. The Institute’s employ
  
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• Trump on if auto companies raise costs due to tariffs: 'I couldn’t care less'

  30-03-2025 03:53 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Saturday denied reports alleging he urged auto CEOs not to raise costs amid tariffs on foreign-made cars, instead doubling down on his decision to increase levies in an effort to create an American manufacturing boom.“I couldn’t care less if they raise prices, because people are going to start buying American-made cars,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News.“I couldn’t care less. I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are g
  
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• Trump golfs with Finland's president amid icy relationship with EU

  30-03-2025 00:46 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump joined the leader of Finland, a member of the European Union (EU), for a round of golf Saturday, despite trade tensions with the executive body, which recently announced levies on agricultural products and clothing items imported from the United States slated to take effect in mid-April.“President Stubb and I look forward to strengthening the partnership between the United States and Finland, and that includes the purchase and development of a large number of badly needed I
  
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• Shouted questions at Trump have consequences: New actions by White House 

  29-03-2025 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  Mr. President! You talked about some of the violence that’s been going on at dealerships,” a reporter yelled to President Trump as he stood next to Elon Musk and a Tesla parked near the White House lawn earlier this month.“Some say they should be labeled domestic terrorists.” 
   
  “I’ll do that,” Trump interjected. “We’re going to stop it if we catch anybody doing it because they’re harming a great American company.” 
  
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• White House correspondents’ dinner to no longer feature comedian

  29-03-2025 20:33 via thehill.com
  
  The annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner will no longer feature a headline performance from comedian Amber Ruffin as tensions between the White House and the press group have escalated ahead of next month’s ritzy event. The WHCA President Eugene Daniels said in a Saturday email to members that the board unanimously decided that “we are no longer featuring a comedic performance this year.”  “At this consequential moment for jour
  
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• Trump commutes Ozy Media founder's criminal fraud sentence

  29-03-2025 17:44 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump commuted the prison sentence of Carlos Watson, a co-founder of now-defunct digital media company Ozy Media, shortly before the entrepreneur was set to start serving a nearly decade-long jail term. “I am profoundly grateful to President Trump for correcting this grave injustice. His decision reflects his unwavering commitment to fairness and justice for those who have been wrongfully targeted,” Watson said in Friday night's statement.Watson was sentenced in Decemb
  
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• Signal chat shows isolationist Vance as Trump flexes control abroad

  29-03-2025 17:00 via thehill.com
  
  The war plans group chat uncovered by a journalist at The Atlantic exposed some daylight between Vice President Vance and others in the administration, showing Vance’s hesitance about launching a military strike that President Trump has hailed this week as necessary and successful.It did little to stymie the relationship between the president and his second-in-command. In fact, Trump trotted Vance out to Greenland on Friday to visit the only U.S. military base there as part of his efforts
  
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• Indiana Republican faces fiery crowd after defending Musk, DOGE

  29-03-2025 16:57 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) faced a fiery crowd during her two-hour townhall in Westfield, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, after defending tech billionaire Elon Musk and his work for President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Spartz, who represents Indiana’s fifth Congressional District, was repeatedly drowned out by boos from the raucous crowd during her Friday townhall. She talked about Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine and refused to call on Defe
  
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• Close call between Delta flight, Air Force jet reported near DCA

  29-03-2025 16:49 via thehill.com
  
  A Delta flight received an onboard alert that an Air Force jet was close by as it took off near Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on Friday afternoon, just months after the region experienced the deadliest aviation incident since 2001.The Minneapolis-bound Delta flight — with 131 passengers on board — was cleared for takeoff while four U.S. Air Force T-38 jets were flying toward Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., for a flyover, the Federal Aviation Administration (
  
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• Musk hits back at Walz over Tesla criticism: 'Huge jerk'

  29-03-2025 15:38 via thehill.com
  
  Tech billionaire Elon Musk responded to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's (D) quip about celebrating the dip in Tesla stocks, calling the former vice presidential nominee a "huge jerk."During an interview with Fox News's Bret Baier, Musk was asked about the market drop, recent vandalism at Tesla dealerships, and criticism of his work with President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)."Think it would help sales if dealerships are being firebombed? Of course not. And Tesla customers are bei
  
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• Kalshi CEO: Political betting could be ‘a trillion dollar’ market

  29-03-2025 15:30 via thehill.com
  
  The online prediction market Kalshi is increasingly leaning into political and conversational questions of the day, including the latest executive actions by President Trump since he returned to the Oval Office.“Will Brexit happen? Will Donald Trump win the election? Will it rain tomorrow, and who’s going to win the Oscars — those are things that people can relate to,” Kalshi founder and CEO Tarek Mansour said on NewsNation's “The Hill” Thursday evening.&ldqu
  
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• Newark mayor invites Alina Habba for tour: 'Come hang out with us here in the city'

  29-03-2025 14:33 via thehill.com
  
  Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, N.J., invited Alina Habba to the city for a tour, a day before she was sworn in as a federal prosecutor for the Garden State Friday."I’d be happy to give you a tour of Newark — a beautiful, thriving and diverse community built by working people with pride," he wrote in a Thursday post on social platform X, accompanied by a video."No MS-13 here, just resilience, culture and progress," he added, referring to a gang organization that has been in the head
  
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• Fired Department of Education employees clean out desks

  29-03-2025 13:43 via thehill.com
  
  Hundreds of fired government employees filed into the Department of Education headquarters in Washington on Friday in order to collect their personal belongings and say their goodbyes.Former workers were given 30 minutes to do this. Afterward, they were walked out of the building's doors.Earlier this month, nearly half of the department's staff was laid off. The education workforce now totals 2,183 workers, down from 4,133 when President Trump returned to office in January.Supporters and other
  
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• Columbia University's interim president resigns

  29-03-2025 13:09 via thehill.com
  
  Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia University’s interim president, resigned Friday amid the school's tussle with the Trump administration over federal funding and criticism around its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Following the announcement, the school's board appointed Claire Shipman to serve as acting president. Armstrong, the second Columbia leader to step down in less than a year, will return to lead the school's Irving Medical Center, according to a news release.&l
  
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• How does the automotive supply chain work?

  29-03-2025 12:21 via thehill.com
  
  (NewsNation) — President Trump's 25 percent tariff on imported cars is expected to raise prices for consumers and carmakers, but it could also hurt smaller companies in the vast auto supply chain.That's because Trump's import tax will also apply to "key automobile parts," including engines, transmissions, powertrain parts and electrical components, according to the White House. Other parts may be added "if necessary."While the U.S. auto industry is often associated with legacy brands like
  
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• Trump's Signal scandal fuels growing distrust from allies

  29-03-2025 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration’s sharing of sensitive military information on Signal has shocked allies, while further eroding trans-Atlantic trust thanks to group chat messages from top U.S. officials expressing contempt toward Europe's “freeloading” on security. “I think every allied intelligence agency that read that article is probably having their own internal panic attack about what this implies,” Craig Kafura, the director of public opinion and foreign policy
  
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• Five takeaways as Trump’s clash with the legal world intensifies

  29-03-2025 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  Friday brought new twists in President Trump’s intensifying battle with major legal firms.Trump has targeted several firms with executive orders that rescind their security clearances and banish them from the use of government facilities. If such orders stand, they would call the survival of the firms into question, since they would create enormous logistical problems for any client that had a case involving the government.Opposition to Trump’s actions is driven by the idea that he i
  
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• Elon Musk tries to rehab DOGE after backlash, mistakes

  29-03-2025 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  Elon Musk is pushing to improve the image of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggesting the Tesla CEO is aware of the boogeyman persona he has created for himself and his cost-cutting push since joining President Trump’s team. Musk went on Fox News on Thursday night to claim he is being careful and compassionate with his overhaul of the federal government, amid mounting criticism over his past statements on social media and emails to federal workers. He also intro
  
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