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President Donald Trump repeatedly called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by the wrong name at a NATO summit press conference Wednesday."You have a question for President Putin?"

Column by Philip Kennicott: The Trump administration has issued a lengthy 160-page report, with more than 500 footnotes, on the Smithsonian. Just follow the footnotes, and you quickly realize this is a relentlessly tendentious piece of trash. https://wapo.st/4h0t20w

Donald Trump did this to the South Lawn, the East Wing, and the Ellipse -- But some mysterious 'vandal' destroyed the Reflecting Pool? Give me a break.

The Reflecting Pool contractor is corrupt. John Cafaro has two federal convictions — and still landed the no-bid deal.

Iran 🤝 Reflecting Pool All he had to do was leave it alone.

Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture

The revival of Jim Crow is happening with alarming speed across the South, following the Supreme Court’s destruction of the Voting Rights Act, with Southern Republicans set to dismantle at least five majority-Black districts in South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

New Financial Disclosures Show Trump Made Between $220M and $750M in Securities Trades in 2026

And the public may never know who their money was spent on.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Read the full investigation by @maxblau.bsky.social and @joeljacobs.bsky.social:

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President Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” collected roughly $77 million at theaters in North America from Friday through Sunday, in the biggest opening weekend for a traditional comedy since “Pitch Perfect 2” in 2015.

Roberts, Alito, and other conservative justices fully understand the potential consequences. They just don’t care. trib.al/FKgO7Ch

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is poised to file a civil rights lawsuit against The New York Times, centered on the allegations of a white male employee who did not get a sought-after promotion and argued it was because of his race and gender.

The congressional watchdog will investigate the DOJ’s process for “reviewing, redacting, and releasing” the Epstein files.

Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny

But at least they secured the oligarch vote.

For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office. President Donald Trump is taking a different approach. https://to.pbs.org/482NOaK

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

I really hope some day those in power will stop protecting others they know to be abusing their power.

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA. (Published Feb.)

Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred. n.pr/41Zphja

The investigation comes after CNN reported a former staffer accused Swalwell of sexually assaulting her in 2024, though Swalwell has denied the woman’s account.

Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in a measles outbreak and depend entirely on herd immunity, where at least 95% of a community must be vaccinated to prevent measles outbreaks. https://to.pbs.org/4dI3Om3

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has ordered the GOP sheriff who seized 650k ballots cast in last year’s redistricting referendum to pause his investigation. The ruling comes as it considers the state attorney general’s request to permanently block the probe.

A federal judge in Vermont rules that Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova’s visa was unlawfully canceled after she was detained at an airport over biological samples she was carrying.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Massachusetts’ unredacted voter rolls. The ruling marks its fourth consecutive loss of 30 active cases seeking access to sensitive voter data from states. https://bit.ly/4mhdfeq

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S. Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them. (Published Nov. 2025)

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The report outlines how more than a dozen patients' complaints went nowhere. It also found a “hierarchal institutional culture” in which physicians occupied an “exalted” or “god-like” status that made it difficult for staff to report concerns.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is wounded and "likely disfigured." https://to.pbs.org/3NgpPO8

Experts say Trump’s decision to sue over his leaked tax returns risks putting him in charge of arranging his own payout.

EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them. The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.

President Trump visited Cincinnati Wednesday to talk up his new prescription drug plan. An Ohio expert said there isn't much novel about it and about half of the 43 drugs covered under TrumpRx have generic alternatives far cheaper. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/t...

Revolt grows as GOP Senate hopeful championed convicted child sex offender for party roles

A UN watchdog today criticized "intensified immigration crackdowns" in the U.S. and accused President Trump and other American leaders of using "racist hate speech" — both of which it said had "sparked grave human rights violations."

The fallout from DOGE staffers' efforts to access sensitive Social Security data continues as an agency watchdog disclosed a new investigation into "potential misuse" reported by a whistleblower. n.pr/4bkaRi6

Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism. trib.al/kdd5p6B

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. (Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)