NYTIMES (C.J. Chivers) - How Russia Weaponized the Cold Ukrainian Winter
Inside one Kyiv neighborhood as it braved the harshest conditions since World War II.
NYTIMES (Ann E. Marimow) - Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars
Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship for U.S.-born babies.
NYTIMES (Christina Morales) - What We Know About the T.S.A. and ICE Presence at Airports
Transportation Security Agency officers have called out of work or quit after weeks of not getting paid during a partial government shutdown. ICE agents have begun to fill their roles.
NYTIMES (J. David Goodman) - Texas Border Wall Plan in Big Bend Draws Opposition From Republicans and Democrats
Plans for a wall in Big Bend National Park prompted public protests and behind-the-scenes lobbying to sway the Trump administration to stop.
NYTIMES (Hamed Aleaziz) - A New Boss Takes Over Homeland Security With Less Flash but Same Mission
Markwayne Mullin, the incoming D.H.S. secretary, faces a difficult balance: a public reset of the agency while delivering on President Trump’s deportation agenda.
NYTIMES (Alan Rappeport and Colby Smith) - Private-Credit Wobbles Could Prove Perilous for Trump
The Trump administration is poised to broaden access to risky investments that are showing signs of strain.
REDSTATE (Bob Hoge) - The Smile of Survival: Update on Flight Attendant Who Miraculously Lived Through Tragic LaGuardia Crash
NEWSNATIONNOW (Associated Press) - Thieves steal paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from Italian museum
ROME (AP) — Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros (dollars) from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy, police said on Monday. The heist took place on the night of March 22-23, with thieves forcing open the entrance door, police said. The three [...]
NEWSNATIONNOW (Victoria Lucas) - NASA astronauts prepare to take historic orbital flight
NASA astronauts are preparing for a mission that will mark humanity’s return to lunar orbit after more than half a century.
NEWSNATIONNOW (EDDIE PELLS, Associated Press) - Final Four set as UConn stuns Duke to join Illinois, Arizona and Michigan
All that talent at Arizona and Michigan. All that momentum and good vibes at UConn. And somebody has to play the part of the unheralded “little guy.” At the Final Four next weekend, that role belongs, improbably, to Illinois. In a sign of the times, the Illinii — a Big Ten team with more wins [...]