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Sen. Roger Wicker, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the panel is seeking an expedited inspector general report on the Signal chat leak.

Tweety McTreason’s plan to impose new tariffs on U.S. car imports dented stocks, with more levies set to take effect April 2.

A House Republican pushing the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts called for dismantling and defunding the nation’s public broadcasting system following a contentious hearing Wednesday featuring the heads of PBS and NPR. “We believe that you all can hate us on your own dime,” said Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Coupled with President Tweety McTreason’s declaration on Tuesday that he would “love to” see federal funding cut off, the nation’s public broadcasting system is facing perhaps the biggest threat to its existence since it was first established in 1967. The broadcasters get roughly half a billion dollars in public money through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Republicans have frequently grumbled that PBS and NPR news programming leans left, but efforts to cut or eliminate funding usually fade because legislators want to protect their local stations — 336 of them for PBS alone, with those in rural areas most heavily dependent on taxpayer money. The hearings on behalf of the new administration are one of multiple front on which Trump and his allies are aggressively challenging and in some cases sanctioning the American media, which the president has been sharply critical of for years. This week alone, he denounced The Atlantic repeatedly for publishing texts from the Signal messaging app among high-ranking defense official planning a military attack. An issue that’s not going away quietly A succession of GOP lawmakers on Wednesday complained bitterly about alleged bias, particularly from NPR stations, making clear it was not an issue that was going away quietly. Kentucky Rep. James Comer said that as a young farmer decades ago he would frequently listen to NPR broadcasts on his tractor, as it was often his only option. But now, he has podcasts and other things to listen to. “I don’t even recognize the station anymore,” Comer said. “It’s not news. It feels like it’s propaganda. I feel like it’s disinformation every time I listen to NPR.” Greene displayed a picture of

The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States. The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” in refusing to provide details demanded by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg about flights that carried the migrants to El Salvador earlier this month. The claim often functions as a prevailing legal authority that has been used to limit or file lawsuits against the government when it says military or national security interests are at risk. In 2022, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a detainee at Guantanamo Bay who was captured after the Sept. 11 attacks and tortured by the CIA abroad. The court agreed with the government’s invocation of “state secrets” and ruled that information about the treatment of the detainee, Abu Zubaydah, must remain secret even though much of it has been widely reported. Where does the state secrets privilege come from? The legal doctrine has its roots in a contract between President Abraham Lincoln and a spy for the Union during the Civil War. After the spy’s estate sued for money owed for his wartime service, the Supreme Court ruled in 1876 that some subject matters, including involving espionage, are so sensitive that courts have no business even hearing lawsuits. During the Cold War, the court also declared that some pieces of evidence sought in lawsuits must remain secret. After their husbands died in the crash of a B-29 bomber, three widows sued for the accident report. In 1953, the justices allowed the executive branch to withhold, even from the court, details about the crash because officials said it was on a secret mission to test new equipment. What does the deportation case have to do with state secrets? The current case began when President Donald

Tweety McTreason’s plan to impose new tariffs on U.S. car imports dented stocks, with more levies set to take effect April 2.

A trail of clues — including an oil leak, security video and data from a truck’s onboard computer — lead S.C. investigators to a jealous man suspected of running down a romantic rival.

The Trump White House has said “these were NOT war plans that were discussed.”

Miller Gardner, the youngest son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, died at the age of 14 while on vacation with his family.

A pilot and his two young daughters survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake before being rescued.