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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Trump said Thursday. Why it matters: Noem's exit leaves Trump's mass deportation agenda without its most prominent face amid a public backlash. Catch up quick: Noem drew bipartisan fury after accusing Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti and mother Renee Nicole Good of being domestic terrorists after both were shot and killed by federal agents in January. ...

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What is Shield of the Americas? What We Know About Kristi Noem's New Role

President Donald Trump said he is appointing Kristi Noem as his “special envoy for the Shield of the Americas” as he announced her removal as homeland security secretary. The White House says the initiative reflects Trump’s effort to shift U.S. national security strategy toward the Western Hemisphere. Trump is scheduled to meet Saturday with leaders from 11 Latin American countries at his golf club in Doral, Florida, for what the administration is calling a “Shield” summit. Leaders from Argenti ...

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Hegseth and Rubio were 'at each other's throats' in tense argument over Iran plans, report says

Thursday 05 March 2026 10:08 EST Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio got into a heated exchange over Iran, according to a new report. The pair were “at each other's throats” while discussing whether or not the U.S. should send troops to Iran at the request of Israel, sources told the Middle East Eye. Hegseth supports putting boots on the ground, while Rubio, the Trump administration’s top diplomat, is wary of dragging the U.S. into another drawn-out foreign war, ...

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Oracle Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of AI Cash Crunch

(Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort. The job reductions will affect divisions across the company and may be implemented as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing the still-private plans. Some of the cuts will be aimed at job categories that the company expects it will need less of due to AI, two of the people said. Le ...

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'Soulless hotel conference space': Approval for Trump's East Wing ballroom delayed amid scathing public feedback

Updated Mar 5, 2026, 11:26 AM ET PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2026, 6:00 AM ET Approval for President Donald Trump’s massive East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation’s capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction. The National Capital Planning Commission was expected to take a final vote to approve plans for the ballroom on Thursday, marking the late ...

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says

(Axios) Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Trump said Thursday. Noem's exit leaves Trump's mass deportation agenda without its most prominent face amid a public backlash. Noem drew bipartisan fury after accusing Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti and mother Renee Nicole Good of being domestic terrorists after both were shot and killed by federal agents in January.

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Americans trying to evacuate Middle East frustrated with government response

(CBS News) As the U.S. Department of State urges Americans to leave 14 countries across the Middle East amid the widening war with Iran, some Americans are voicing frustration with the lack of help from their government. Sasha Hoffman, an American who lives in Chicago and was vacationing in Dubai when the U.S.-Israeli military action began, initially thought she would be able to wait out the fighting. But after hearing President Trump say Operation Epic Fury could last four to five weeks, her thinking changed.

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Susie Wiles sounds the alarm on gas prices

(Politico) President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. The White House is “looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices,” said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions.

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Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign

(New Republic) The Department of Homeland Security tapped a little-known ad firm to produce Kristi Noem’s multimillion-dollar ad campaign during the government shutdown last year. But when asked to explain her rationale before a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, Noem was practically speechless. The money from Noem’s agency was funneling directly into the pockets of her friends and allies at the Strategy Group, a group with myriad ties to the ex–South Dakota governor, including having once employed her alleged beau (Corey Lewandowski) and a CEO who is married to Noem’s ex-chief DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

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'Nazi heaven': Inside Miami campus Republicans' racist group chat

(Miami Herald) The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.” In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.

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