News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, today amid the fallout from senior officials inadvertently including a journalist on a private message chain discussing airstrikes in Yemen.
— Politico (@politico.com) March 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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LATEST: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe both downplay a group text about U.S. military plans during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, a day after The Atlantic’s reporting.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) March 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
— NPR (@npr.org) March 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The White House said Tuesday that both Ukraine and Russia have agreed to stop using force in the Black Sea in separate meetings with US officials in Saudi Arabia.
— CNN (@cnn.com) March 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Israeli shelling killed four people in southern Syria, the state news agency of Syria reported, after the Israeli military said its troops had clashed with militants there who had opened fire on them reut.rs/4hOq3VV
— Reuters (@reuters.com) March 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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By threatening what he dubbed “secondary tariffs” on countries that buy oil from Venezuela to choke off its oil trade with other nations, Trump appeared to invent a new weapon of economic statecraft
— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) March 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government filed legal action Monday in El Salvador aimed at freeing the 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are being held in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) March 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A hearing will be held on for detained Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and seven other students who are attempting to block the university from sharing private disciplinary records with a GOP-led House committee.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) March 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The Trump administration's push to cast pro-Palestinian protesters as Hamas supporters — and then use anti-terror and immigration laws to quiet campus demonstrations — was forecast in a little-known plan last year from the creators of Project 2025.
— Axios (@axios.com) March 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Consumer confidence plummets as more Americans expect higher inflation this year and that the economy will slip into a recession, new survey finds.
— CNN (@cnn.com) March 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The head of the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, resigned Monday after nearly five years in the position, leaving as President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have floated the idea of privatizing mail service.
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) March 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.
— NPR (@npr.org) March 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A once-every-four-year report card on the upkeep of America's infrastructure gave it a "C" grade on Tuesday, up slightly from previous reports: "We have seen the investments start to pay off, but we still have a lot of work to do out there."
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) March 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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