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Trump Shifts Student Loan Debt From Education to Treasury

Change affects almost 6M borrowers, effective immediately

(Newser) - The Trump administration has moved a major piece of the federal student loan system out of the Education Department and into the Treasury Department, shifting oversight of collections on defaulted loans effective immediately. Under an interagency agreement announced Thursday, the Washington Post reports, Treasury will take over the Default Resolution...

US Knew Gas Field Strike Was Planned, Israeli Officials Say

Trump had said attack was a surprise

(Newser) - President Trump's shifting account of an Israeli strike on a major Iranian gas field has become more muddled. Three Israeli officials said the attack on Iran's South Pars gas field was coordinated with the Trump administration in advance, despite the president's initial claim online that the US...

'Imagine a Sports Bar ... but Just for Situation Monitoring'

Crypto prediction platform Polymarket wants to open 'The Situation Room' in DC for just that purpose

(Newser) - Polymarket is hoping to turn doomscrolling into a night out. The crypto-based prediction platform says it plans to open a pop-up bar in Washington, DC, this weekend called The Situation Room, pitched as a sports pub-style venue where betting on global events will be the main attraction—think live X...

Highlights of Joe Kent's Interview With Tucker Carlson

Ex-counterterrorism chief questions whether Iran was a threat, Israeli influence on decision to strike

(Newser) - Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has given his first in-depth public account of why he resigned from the Trump administration, using a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson (watch here ) to challenge the rationale for the US war with Iran and to criticize how decisions were made inside...

Feds Fast-Track Deportation of Boy, 5, and Family

Lawyers appeal expedited removal as Trump officials bypass asylum hearing

(Newser) - The 5-year-old Minneapolis boy whose arrest in a bunny hat drew global attention is again at the center of a high-stakes immigration fight, with his family now facing fast-tracked deportation. Federal officials are moving to expel Liam Conejos Ramos and his relatives to Ecuador by using an "expedited removal"...

Pentagon Writes Up Request for Another $200B for War
Pentagon Wants $200B for War
Mar 18, 2026 7:30 PM CDT

Pentagon Wants $200B for War

Proposal calls for increasing production of precision weapons

(Newser) - The Pentagon has drafted a funding request exceeding $200 billion for operations against Iran, setting up a clash with Congress over the scale and direction of the war, according to administration officials. The proposal, sent to the White House, would go well beyond paying for the air campaign to date...

Trump Temporarily Freezes Jones Act to Ease Fuel Costs

Waiver greenlit by president allows foreign tankers to move US fuel, related cargo domestically

(Newser) - President Trump is temporarily setting aside a 100-year-old shipping rule as his administration scrambles to curb rising fuel costs tied to the war in Iran. The White House on Wednesday approved a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act, a 1920 law that normally requires goods moving between US ports to...

Arizona Isn't Letting Itself Be 'Bullied' by Kalshi

State's criminal charges allege prediction market enables unlicensed betting on sports, elections

(Newser) - Arizona just turned up the heat on the booming prediction-market business. The state's attorney general has filed the first-ever criminal case against Kalshi, accusing the New York-based platform of operating an unlicensed online gambling scheme that lets Arizonans wager on sports and elections without state approval, reports NPR . Sports...

Judge Orders Voice of America Staff Reinstated

Judge rebukes Kari Lake for illegal attempt to gut agency

(Newser) - A Trump ally's bid to radically shrink Voice of America just hit a legal wall, Politico reports. On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the government to bring back more than 1,000 sidelined employees and restart VOA's international broadcasts, ruling that the near-shutdown of the US-funded outlet violated...

A Top Counterterror Official Quits Over Iran War

Joe Kent says that 'Iran posed no imminent threat,' and that US caved to Israeli pressure

(Newser) - One of Washington's most senior counterterrorism officials is walking away from the Trump administration—and blaming the war with Iran and Israel's sway over US policy on his way out, reports the New York Times . Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation Tuesday in...

DC Pipe Bomb Suspect: Trump Pardoned Me

Brian Cole Jr. tests sweeping defense, which administration plans to fight

(Newser) - The man charged with planting pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is trying a sweeping defense : he's protected by presidential pardon. Attorneys for Brian Cole Jr.—charged with transporting and using explosives—argue in a new court...

Military Shares American Toll of 'Operation Epic Fury'

Most injuries are being described as minor

(Newser) - American forces have taken significant hits in the conflict with Iran , according to a new US military tally. US Central Command says about 200 US service members have been wounded since the launch of "Operation Epic Fury," with spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins noting most injuries were minor and...

Trump Pressures Cuba to Oust Diaz-Canel: Sources

Washington reportedly presses for president's ouster while sparing Castro power brokers

(Newser) - Washington is quietly telling Havana that its current president has to go if the two sides are going to cut a deal, according to four people familiar with ongoing talks who spoke to the New York Times . Trump administration officials have signaled to Cuban negotiators that President Miguel Díaz-Canel'...

After Being Dropped From Sweeps, Bovino to Retire

Border Patrol veteran's last day is the same as Kristi Noem's

(Newser) - Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official who became the face of President Trump's hard-line immigration policy enforcement, is retiring at the end of the month, NBC News reports. Once Customs and Border Protection's nationwide commander at large, Bovino was reassigned in January to his previous post as sector...

Susie Wiles on Cancer Diagnosis: 'I Join Their Ranks'

Trump chief of staff plans to continue working during breast cancer treatment

(Newser) - Susie Wiles, the first female White House chief of staff, has been diagnosed with breast cancer but says she is staying on the job. The 68-year-old told the New York Times the cancer was detected early and that she will undergo several weeks of unspecified treatment in the Washington area;...

In Northwest, Elk Stray Where Ranchers Wish They Would Not
The Northwest
Has an Elk Problem
Mar 16, 2026 7:51 AM CDT

The Northwest Has an Elk Problem

Herds clash with private landowners and ranchers as policies, predators reshape their range

(Newser) - Elk may be icons of the Northwest, but in the Blue Mountains where Oregon, Washington, and Idaho meet, they're increasingly seen as a problem. Anna Griffin of the New York Times reports that herds once expected to stay mostly on national forestland are spilling onto private ranches like Shaun...

Latest White House Plan: Underground Screening Center

Construction could begin in August on 33,000-square-foot site to check visitors

(Newser) - The Trump administration wants to build an underground center at the White House to provide security screening for visitors, the latest step in its plan to overhaul the Executive Mansion's grounds. Plans, including renderings of the 33,000-square-foot center, were included on the preliminary agenda released on Friday for...

Top General Warned of Strait Closure Before War

Trump acknowledged the risk, opted to go forward, reports Wall Street Journal

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal suggests that President Trump underestimated Iran's ability to throttle the Strait of Hormuz. Its story reports that Trump's top general—Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—warned the president in multiple briefings that Tehran would close the vital shipping lane...

Trump: US Bombed Iran's Key Kharg Island Oil Hub

Strike raises stakes in Hormuz standoff, global oil markets

(Newser) - President Trump says the United States has hit what may be the most valuable piece of real estate in Iran's energy network. In a Truth Social post on Friday night, the president claimed that American forces bombed Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, calling it Iran's "crown...

EPA Wants to Cut Biden Limits on Carcinogen Emissions

Administration says current standards could cause medical device shortages

(Newser) - The EPA on Friday moved to dial back its policing of a cancer-linked gas used to sterilize medical equipment, a new front in the Trump administration's deregulation efforts. The proposed rule would ease emission limits on ethylene oxide at about 90 commercial sterilization plants and scrap 24/7 monitoring requirements,...

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