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Trump Weighs Military Operation to Extract Iran's Uranium  —  The president hasn't made a decision, U.S. officials said, as he considers the risk to U.S. troops  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran …
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Trump Says Iran Agreed to Allow 20 More Ships of Oil Through Strait of Hormuz  —  The president, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, cast the permission as a “sign of respect.”  He also asserted that the United States had already achieved “regime change” in Iran.
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U.S. Special Operations Forces Sent to Mideast as Trump Weighs Next Move  —  The commandos have not been assigned specific roles.  But President Trump has expressed concern about the now-closed Strait of Hormuz and Iran's store of enriched uranium.  —  Several hundred U.S. Special Operations forces …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Associated Press:
Pakistan says it will host US-Iran talks, while Iran warns US ground troops would be ‘set on fire’
Simon Tisdall / The Guardian:
Trump is contemplating the sheer folly of boots on the ground in Iran. How did it come to this?
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U.S. Allows Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Despite Blockade  —  The tanker full of crude oil could reach its expected destination by Monday, providing a lifeline to the island amid intense U.S. pressure.  —  The United States Coast Guard is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba …
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Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment,’ need new leaders  —  Sen. Cory Booker in a new interview said the Democratic Party has “failed this moment,” urging the left to support new leadership to temper the nation's deep divides.  —  Speaking to NBC News' “Meet the Press” …
Discussion: NBC News, twitchy.com, HuffPost and Fox News
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‘I blame them all’: Travelers frustrated with Washington as shutdown drags on  —  House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed deal last week to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security.  — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE  —  Amid the long lines and delays at the country's airports …
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Caroline Linton / CBS News:
Tom Homan says ICE will keep assisting TSA “until the airports feel like they are 100%”
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows  —  The Pentagon used missiles untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck civilian sites near a military compound on Feb. 28, according to visual evidence examined by The Times and weapons experts.
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Some Dems' 2028 strategy: a straight, white, Christian man  —  Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, white, Christian man.  — Their fear, divulged …
Discussion: twitchy.com and Mediaite
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“Worse Than the 1970s”  —  Donald Trump, it seems, has managed to outdo his first term's mismanagement of COVID-19 with an economic crisis of extraordinary scope and scale, entirely of his making.  In a recent interview, International Energy Agency (IEA) Chief Fatih Birol asserted …
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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate  —  Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise.  Starting this season, players' average salary will top $580,000.  —  After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel …
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A New Boss Takes Over Homeland Security With Less Flash but Same Mission  —  Markwayne Mullin, the incoming D.H.S. secretary, faces a difficult balance: a public reset of the agency while delivering on President Trump's deportation agenda.  —  In his first days as head of the Department …
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Lindsey Graham Vacationing at Disney World Amid Shutdown  —  I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!! … Lindsey Graham was ineffective talking his colleagues into keeping the government open, but he had a great convo with Mickey Mouse Sunday ... at Disney World!!!  —  The Senator had breakfast …
Image Jacob Weisberg / New York Times:
Every Elite Has a ‘Dark Connector.’  —  It's tempting to think of Jeffrey Epstein as an isolated aberration — a depraved man who was protected for too long by his wealth and privilege.  In fact, he represents a recurring type.  You might call this type the dark connector.
Image Kristen Soltis Anderson / New York Times:
MAGA Was Supposed to Be Antiwar.  Nope.  —  President Trump, who once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters, is now confronting a twist on that boast: What if, instead, he bombed Tehran?  —  The message coming from some of the most prominent MAGA voices is clear.
 
 
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Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars   Find
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Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
A New Boss Takes Over Homeland Security With Less Flash but Same Mission   Find
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Exclusive: Wind projects pile up as Pentagon reviews stall   Find
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Kristen Soltis Anderson / New York Times:
MAGA Was Supposed to Be Antiwar. Nope.   Find
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Every Elite Has a ‘Dark Connector.’   Find
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NBC News:
‘I blame them all’: Travelers frustrated with Washington as shutdown drags on   Find
 
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