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Trump downplays national security team texting military operation plan on Signal as minor 'glitch'

By DAVID KLEPPER and AAMER MADHANI
Mar 25, 2025 1:05 pm - President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the texting of sensitive plans for a military strike against Yemen's Houthis this month to a group chat that included a journalist, saying it was “the only glitch in two months” of his administration as Democratic lawmakers heaped criticism on the administration for handling highly sensitive information carelessly.
Clock ticks on Trump and GOP’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill on taxes

Jacob Bogage
Mar 25, 2025 9:01 am - As President Donald Trump’s tariffs roil the U.S. and global economies, lawmakers returned to Washington late Monday under new pressure to pass tax laws and raise the country’s borrowing limit to stave off a catastrophic debt default.
Trump intel officials testify on threat from drug cartels as Dems press them on leak of attack plans

By ERIC TUCKER and DAVID KLEPPER
Mar 25, 2025 8:49 am - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's top intelligence officials stressed to Congress the threat they said was posed by international criminal gangs, drug cartels and h...
Greenlanders unite to fend off the US as Trump seeks control of the Arctic island

By DANICA KIRKA
Mar 25, 2025 6:18 am - Lisa Sólrun Christiansen gets up at 4 a.m. most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture.
Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist

By TARA COPP, AAMER MADHANI and ERIC TUCKER
Mar 24, 2025 2:52 pm - Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine reported in a story posted online Monday. The National Security Council said the text chain “appears to be authentic.”
UN to reduce staff in Gaza, blaming Israel for a strike that killed its employee

By WAFAA SHURAFA, EDITH M. LEDERER and LEE KEATH
Mar 24, 2025 2:39 pm - The United Nations said Monday it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer from Bulgaria and wounding five other employees.
The year's first major political test in Wisconsin becomes a referendum on Elon Musk

By JILL COLVIN
Mar 24, 2025 1:12 pm - The election to fill a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat has become a referendum not only on the new administration, but on Elon Musk, the billionaire who has become one of President Donald Trump 's top financial backers and the architect of his efforts to slash the federal workforce.
Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump's government cuts and Democrats' resistance

By STEPHEN GROVES
Mar 24, 2025 12:39 pm - As congressional lawmakers scramble to respond to President Donald Trump's slashing of the federal government, one group is already taking a front and center role: military veterans.
Pope Francis is back home after a 5-week hospital stay for life-threatening double pneumonia

By NICOLE WINFIELD, PAOLO SANTALUCIA and TRISHA THOMAS
Mar 23, 2025 5:15 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) — A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia, and he made a surprise...
Schumer says he won't step down as Senate Democratic leader despite government funding uproar

By WILL WEISSERT
Mar 23, 2025 4:21 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won't resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted to move forward with a Repu...

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