NYTIMES (Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick) - Inside Trump’s ‘Royal Court’
The Atlantic staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer explain how Trump’s White House works.
AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - Kristi Noem tightens her grip on the Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has upended DHS staffing in her first year, pairing high-level leadership ousters with a growing staff exodus. Why it matters: Multiple reports describe a culture of fear inside DHS as Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski have fired, reassigned and demoted people throughout the department's 23 sub-agencies. The big picture: About 10% of employees left DHS last year, according to a review by Federal News Network. - Roughly 80% of career leadership at ICE has been fired or demoted under Noem's tenure, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. The agency is under immense pressure to reach arrest and deportation goals. - This includes the early demotion of the first acting agency…
AMERICANGREATNESS (Fred Fleitz) - Solving the North Korea Mess That Biden Left Trump
President Trump’s first-term “Maximum Pressure” policies and aggressive diplomacy significantly lowered tensions with North Korea and set a path toward denuclearization and normalization of relations. […] Source
AMERICANGREATNESS (Jeff Dornik) - A Year Into Trump’s Second Term: When Does Accountability for the Deep State Begin?
We were told this time would be different. We were told that a second Trump administration would not repeat the mistakes of the first, that […] Source
AMERICANGREATNESS (Anthony J. Sadar) - Waiting to Exhale?
The Trump administration has rescinded the Obama administration’s 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding for gases like carbon dioxide. You may now exhale without worrying that […] Source
AMERICANGREATNESS (Liz Sheld) - Morning Greatness: Trump Says He’ll Decide Whether to Bomb Iran in Next 10-15 Days
Good Friday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 9:30 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Working Breakfast with Governors 10:30 AM THE […] Source
WASHINGTONPOST (Theodoric Meyer) - Democrat wants DHS to examine potential bias in Minneapolis investigations
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) asked the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general to look into the impact of accusations that Renée Good and Alex Pretti were domestic terrorists.
WASHINGTONPOST (Perry Stein, Patrick Marley, Isaac Arnsdorf) - DOJ officials face reality in election fraud cases as Trump demands more
The Justice Department has struggled to meet White House demands to prosecute noncitizen voters as theories that President Trump has pushed in public fail to hold up.
NPR (Sequoia Carrillo) - What worked and what didn't with a cellphone ban at a Kentucky school
Keeping students off their devices is the new norm in many schools. We talked to students and educators at one Kentucky school to see how it's working.
NPR (Yuki Noguchi) - Using saliva to detect disease holds promise, but it's not perfected yet
Easier than a blood test, saliva tests have the potential to detect cavities, infections and even cancer. But a lack of insurance coverage and other obstacles stand in the way of wider use.