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Locals inspect the site reportedly struck by U.S. airstrikes overnight in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo)

Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist

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.

Rep. Chuck Edwards talks during a town hall in Asheville, N.C., March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera, File)

Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance

Elon Musk attends the finals at the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The year’s first major political test in Wisconsin becomes a referendum on Elon Musk

Demonstrators rally in support of federal workers outside of the Department of Health and Human Services, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers

President Donald Trump waves to the media as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump says he’ll put a 25% tariff on countries that buy Venezuelan oil, though the US does so itself

This undated photo provided by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts in December 2024 shows North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Allison Riggs. (Roger Winstead/North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts via AP, File)

This undated photo provided by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts in December 2024 shows North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Allison Riggs. (Roger Winstead/North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts via AP, File)

North Carolina appeals judges hear arguments in unresolved court election

North Carolina appeals court judges have listened to arguments about whether votes on tens of thousands of ballots in an unsettled state Supreme Court election from November should remain in the tally or be discarded.

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A still-unresolved North Carolina court election is back before judges next week

Boston ordered to change its elections practices following ballot problems in November

Judge Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for the N.C. Supreme Court listens to testimony in Wake County Superior Court on Friday, February 7, 2025 in Raleigh, N.C. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP)

North Carolina justices don’t fast-track challenge over election for seat on their court

Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers

Mass layoffs and resignations at the federal government are prompting concerns that a disgruntled former employee may seek to sell secrets to a foreign power.

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Trump insists Usha Vance’s Greenland visit is about ‘friendliness, not provocation’

Second lady Usha Vance will visit Greenland as Trump talks up US takeover

White House

Mia Love, Mayor of Saratoga Springs and candidate for Utah's 4th district congressional seat, gives a TV interview at the Republican election night party at the Hilton in Salt Lake City, Nov. 6, 2012. (Spenser Heaps/The Daily Herald via AP, File)

What is glioblastoma, the aggressive brain cancer that killed former US Rep. Mia Love?

Congress

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer gives a television interview at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Schumer says he won’t step down as Senate Democratic leader despite government funding uproar

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim federal judiciary members are in secret club, undermining Trump

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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Appeals court panel appears divided on Trump’s deportation of immigrants under wartime law

Election worker Mike Quieto with the city of Madison puts out voting signs near the state Capitol ahead of polls opening for the first day of early voting in the race for state Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

What to know about Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race

Alina Habba, a former defense lawyer for President Donald Trump who has been named interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, walks toward the microphones to speak to members of the media, Monday, March 24, 2025, outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump taps his former defense attorney, Alina Habba, to be New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor

Now former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally, Oct. 5, 2024, in Cincinnati. Brown has launched a pro-worker organization to promote the “Dignity of Work.” It's an idea the Ohio Democrat has advanced for years as an officeholder and candidate. The announcement on Monday comes as the 72-year-old Brown is weighing a run for the Senate in 2026, after losing his bid for a fourth term last year. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)

Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, weighing his political future, launches a pro-worker organization

Trump will nominate acting CDC director Susan Monarez for the position, White House official says

Protesters take part in a rally, for the victims of a massive nightclub fire in the town of Kocani, in Skopje, North Macedonia, Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Protesters demanding greater accountability march in North Macedonia over deadly nightclub fire

Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela-hired lawyers file petition in El Salvador aimed at freeing Venezuelans deported by US

Donald Trump portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was “distorted”

A screenshot of the publication 'The Eagle' featuring an opinion piece by student Mari Santos, a political science student studying abroad for the semester in Scotland at the University of Glasgow. (Ethan Mahimainathan, The Eagle via AP)

You’re an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0

Former state senator Ed Durr speaks following the first Republican debate, Feb. 4, 2025, at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini, File)

Republican truck driver Ed Durr ends bid to be New Jersey governor and backs Bill Spadea

Acting CDC director Susan Monarez tapped as new nominee for agency, White House official says

A Cornell student suing the Trump administration is asked to surrender to immigration authorities

Editorial Roundup: United States

Elon Musk attends the finals at the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

South Africa president says persecution of whites a ‘false narrative’ as Musk repeats genocide claim

An injured United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) worker is brought into al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following what the U.N. described as a strike in which an explosive ordnance was "dropped or fired" in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN to reduce staff in Gaza, blaming Israel for a strike that killed its employee

Staff place the agenda on the desk of GOP Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn before his name was removed before the morning's session and Eichorn's resignation at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)

A judge blocks the release of an ex-Minnesota senator accused of soliciting a minor

President Donald Trump's portrait hangs in the Colorado Capitol after an unveiling ceremony, Aug. 1, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Trump’s portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was ‘distorted’

Madison Chock and Evan Bates, of the United States, pose after winning the gold medal in the ice dance event at the ISU Grand Prix Finals of Figure Skating, Dec. 7, 2024, in Grenoble, France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

Bridging the political divide: US and Canadian skaters hope sports can unify during worlds in Boston

People take part protest rally in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, March 24, 2025, against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Yugoslav army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Protesters in Serbia rally against real estate project with Trump son-in-law Kushner

This March 22, 2013, file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Tax season is a prime time for scams. IRS uncertainty could add to the issues this year

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney looks through a photo album with Beulah Cooper at her home in Gander, Newfoundland, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11

Rebel leader of group of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) including M23, Corneille Nangaa, addresses a news conference in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, file)

Congo rebel leader says sanctions, any minerals deal with the US won’t stop fighting in the east

A federal employee, who asked not to use their name for fears over losing their job, protests with a sign saying "Federal Employees Don't Work for Kings" during the "No Kings Day" protest on Presidents Day , Feb. 17, 2025, near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge’s order to rehire probationary federal workers

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge’s order to rehire thousands of federal workers after mass firings

Winnie Byanyima, then-executive director of Oxfam International, attends the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File)

UNAIDS director proposes that President Trump make an ‘amazing deal’ to end HIV

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro arrives at a rally on Copacabana Beach in support of a proposed bill to grant amnesty to those arrested for storming government buildings in an alleged coup attempt in 2023, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Brazil’s top court to decide if ex-President Bolsonaro will face charges. What could happen next?

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro gestures as he answers questions during an interview with the Associated Press at the Department of National Defense headquarters in Quezon city, Philippines on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, file)

Philippine defense chief calls China’s claims in the South China Sea ‘the biggest fiction and lie’

A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Supreme Court seems divided over Louisiana case of congressional map with 2 Black majority seats

Riot police officers use pepper spray to clear a protester during a protest after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Huseyin Aldemir)

Erdogan was emboldened to jail Istanbul mayor by global turmoil, analysts say

A worker at The Pier, one of three restaurants in town, readjusts Canadian and American flags hanging outside the business, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Point Roberts, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Caught in the middle, this US oddity at the border is grappling with Trump’s trade war with Canada

Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, center, answers questions from reporters on her arrival at the Parliament before a no-confidence debate against the prime minister in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s prime minister faces a no-confidence vote over alleged influence by her father

This photo provided by Thailand's daily web newspaper Prachatai shows a truck with black tape covering the windows leave a detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 27, 2025. (Nuttaphol Meksobhon/Prachatai via AP, File)

Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uyghurs while making repeated public denials

Usha Vance attends a campaign rally, Nov. 1, 2024, in Selma, N.C. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce, File)

Greenland’s leader laments ‘mess’ as US vice president’s wife to visit island coveted by Trump

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following a Russian attack in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

US holds separate talks with Russians after meeting Ukrainians to discuss a potential ceasefire

Riot police officers use pepper spray to clear a protester during a protest after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Huseyin Aldemir)

Turkey detains journalists as protests grow over the jailing of key Erdogan rival