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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/us-forest-service-washington-dc-salt-lake-city

The Trump administration will move the US Forest Service headquarters from Washington DC to Salt Lake City and shut down its regional offices, the agriculture department has announced. The announcement sets in motion a controversial reorganization for the country’s second-largest federal land management agency that Trump officials have planned since last year.

The move, which the USDA touted as a “commonsense approach”, recalls the first Trump administration’s chaotic attempt to relocate the Bureau of Land Management from Washington DC to Colorado, first announced in 2019. The agency lost nearly 90% of its Washington-based staff, who declined to move – only for the BLM to return toWashington after Joe Biden took office.

Agriculture department officials described the move as a way to bring the administration of the USFS, which manages nearly 200m acres of federal land, closer to its holdings, which are concentrated in western states. Under the new “state-based model”, the agency will be run by 15 directors overseeing one or more states instead of the current structure based on regions.

“This is about building a Forest Service that is nimble, efficient, effective – and closer to the forests and communities it serves,” USFS chief Tom Schultz wrote in a statement. “Effective stewardship and active management are achieved on the ground, where forests and communities are found – not just behind a desk in the capital.”

About 90% of the USFS workforce already works outside the capital, according to the news outlet Mountain Journal.

Conservationists view the plan as the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken to weaken public land agencies.

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https://abcnews.com/Politics/fewer-americans-calling-republicans-republican-leaning-independents-2015/story?id=131591280

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Job growth shatters expectations in March, in boost to Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/job-growth-expectations-trump-iran-war-oil-00857260

U.S. job growth surged past expectations in March and the unemployment rate dropped, giving President Donald Trump some breathing room as the economy comes under increasing pressure over the war in Iran and rising oil prices.

Companies added a net 178,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, a huge swing from February, when the economy actually shed jobs. But it was roughly in line with January — a sharp fluctuation that is making it hard to gauge the job market’s health. But the overall positive trend suggests that the economy remained resilient during the first quarter of the year.

Guy Berger,obvious turbo-American, with funniest name since "Dick Swallow", a senior fellow at the Burning Glass Institute, called it an “incredible zig-zagging employment situation.” He added, “you have to average out all these jobs reports. But the average looks pretty good.”

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-intelligence-warns-iran-unlikely-ease-hormuz-strait-chokehold-soon-sources-2026-04-03/
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - Recent U.S. intelligence reports warn that Iran is unlikely to open the Strait of Hormuz any time soon because its grip on the world’s most vital oil artery provides the only real leverage it has over the United States, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The finding suggests that Tehran could continue to throttle the strait to keep energy prices high as a means of pressuring U.S. President Donald Trump to find a quick off-ramp to the nearly five-week-long war that remains unpopular with U.S. voters.
The reports also provide the latest indication that the war, intended to eradicate Iran’s military strength, may actually increase its regional sway by showing Tehran's ability to threaten the key waterway.
Trump has sought to downplay the difficulty of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which carries a fifth of the world's oil trade. On Friday, he appeared to suggest that he could order U.S. forces to reopen the passage.
"With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE," he posted on his Truth Social platform.
But analysts have long warned that trying to use force against Iran, which controls one side of the strait, could prove costly and draw the U.S. into a protracted ground war.
"In the attempt to try to prevent Iran from developing a weapon of mass destruction, the U.S. handed Iran a weapon of mass disruption," said Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, a conflict-prevention organization.
Tehran, Vaez said, understands its ability to drive world energy markets through its chokehold on the strait "is much more potent than even a nuclear weapon."

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-budget-proposes-10-cut-discretionary-spending-increased-defense-spending-2026-04-03/
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday requested a 10% cut in non-defense spending for the 2027 fiscal year and a massive $500 billion increase in the military budget, as the U.S. continues its war against Iran.
The 2027 budget request comes as the president faces risky choices abroad, with the administration sending U.S. service members to the Middle East, and a weary public at home feeling the economic crunch of skyrocketing gas prices due to the conflict.
The request ultimately requires approval by Congress, where disagreement over Trump's spending decisions recently led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
The huge proposed surge in defense spending to $1.5 trillion, up from about $1 trillion in 2026, includes a 5% to 7% pay raise for military personnel at a time when thousands of servicemembers are actively deployed.
The White House boasted that this defense funding approaches the “historic increases just prior to World War II.” The hefty ask contrasts with the more skeptical view Trump took toward military spending in his first term, when he even once called the level of funding “crazy.”
Trump came into office vowing to cut federal spending and rein in the nation’s growing budget deficit, bringing in the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, to lead an effort that pushed about 300,000 people off the federal payroll.
Despite that, the nation’s deficit, the gap between the amount of money the federal government takes in and how much it spends, has continued to widen, with the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecasting a $1.853 trillion shortfall in the fiscal year that ends on September 30, deeper than last year’s $1.775 trillion.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-says-trump-not-turn-presidential-records-rcna266434
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-presidential-records-act-unconstitutional/
Washington — The Justice Department said that a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal that requires the president to preserve certain documents and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of his administration is unconstitutional.

The opinion from Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser, who leads the Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that the Presidential Records Act exceeds Congress' power and "aggrandizes the legislative branch" at the expense of the independence of the executive branch.

Gaiser, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, wrote that as a result of his determination that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional, President Trump does not need to comply with it.

"The PRA is not a valid exercise of Congress's Article I authority and unconstitutionally intrudes on the independence and autonomy of the President guaranteed by Article II," he found. "The Act establishes a permanent and burdensome regime of congressional regulation of the Presidency untethered from any valid and identifiable legislative purpose."

The Office of Legal Counsel decision on the constitutionality of the records law was made public Thursday and first reported by Axios.

The Presidential Records Act was enacted in 1978, four years after President Richard Nixon's resignation. The law established that presidential records belong to the U.S. government, not the president personally, and must be preserved. When a president leaves office, the Presidential Records Act requires material to be turned over to the National Archives, which maintains the documents.

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Trump says he’ll order all DHS workers be paid as Senate bill to fund department sits with Househttps://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/dhs-senate-house-bill
Shut Down continues as elected terrorists avoid enforcing the law.

President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested he will order that all Department of Homeland Security employees be paid, as Congress again took steps toward ending the longest-ever partial government shutdown.

The move would expand Trump’s earlier directive for DHS to unilaterally pay Transportation and Security Administration workers in a bid to alleviate travel backlogs at understaffed airports. It was not immediately clear how the president would fund pay for the tens of thousands of other DHS staffers — including Federal Emergency Management Agency workers, civilians in the US Coast Guard, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employees — who have been reporting for work without compensation.

“Thank you to all of our Great Congressional Republicans, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Senate Leader John Thune, for their work this week. Republicans are UNIFIED, and moving forward on a plan that will reload funding for our FANTASTIC Border Patrol and Immigration Enforcement Officers,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Home flipping flopped hard across the country in 2025, delivering investors their lowest profit margins in nearly 20 years.

Investors paid a median price of just over $259,000 for a home last year, flipping them for around $325,000, according to a new report from ATTOM (1), a nationwide real estate data firm. That resulted in average gross profits of $65,981, or a return on investment of 25.5%.

That ROI, the report noted, is the lowest since the Great Recession in 2008, and a 58% drop from the 2012 ROI high of 61.1%.

Joel Berner, senior economist at Realtor.com, also noted price concerns when it comes to house flipping.

“Affordability is what is keeping people out of the market, so they are not very responsive to paying more for a home that someone else has chosen the finishings for,” he said. “They prefer to buy fixer-uppers and put in the sweat equity themselves.”

The average U.S. home price in 2025 ranged between $508,000 and a post-pandemic high of $534,000.

https://moneywise.com/real-estate/home-flipping-profits-are-cratering

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-fighter-jet-shot-down-over-iran-search-underway-crew-us-official-says-2026-04-03/
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. fighter jet has been shot down over Iran and search-and-rescue efforts have so far recovered one of two crew members who ejected, a U.S. official told Reuters, in the first known incident of its kind in the nearly five-week-old war.
The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command did not respond to requests for comment.
The prospect of a U.S. pilot being alive and on the run inside Iran raises the stakes for the U.S. in a conflict that, according to opinion polls, has struggled to win popular support among Americans.
It also presents a challenge to the U.S. military, which faces the twin goals of trying to save the life of an American behind enemy lines while safeguarding anyone involved in perilous rescue missions.
The incident comes over a week after U.S. President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office that Iran's military had been defeated to the point that "we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country. They can't do a thing about it."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump had been briefed, without confirming any details of the incident.
Iranian officials called on civilians to be on the lookout for survivors and have flooded social media with images that purport to show wreckage from the aircraft.
Two U.S. officials said the aircraft was an F-15E fighter jet, which has two seats: one for a pilot and the second for a weapons systems officer. It was unclear which of the two was recovered, and the U.S. official who confirmed the recovery did not offer any details on how it took place.
U.S. air crews undergo training for what to do if they go down behind enemy lines, called Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training, or SERE, but few airmen are fluent in Persian and staying undetected while seeking rescue will be a challenge.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/trump-to-declare-iran-war-is-winding-down-and-others-need-to-resolve-hormuz-00854265
President Donald Trump will use a primetime address Wednesday night to declare that the month-long war in Iran is winding down, against a backdrop of spiking oil prices and increasingly dismal poll numbers.

The president has telegraphed that message in interviews, social media posts and public comments over the past 24 hours, laying the groundwork for a speech that is expected to claim that all military objectives have been met, according to six people familiar with the planning and granted anonymity to speak candidly. He also intends to harshly scapegoat NATO allies for the biggest unresolved matter of the war, Iran’s ongoing restrictions of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House chief strategist, said the president will essentially declare victory, laying out what he’s achieved in Iran and what he will do before the U.S. leaves along with “dumping on the NATO allies – it’s their issue.”

“Two, three weeks, definable objectives. ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ — and we are hanging around a couple of weeks to conquer some more — maybe even then a ceasefire, while reiterating that the Hormuz situation is the Gulf Emirates’ and the Europeans’ to solve, and declare victory,” he added.

The president’s decision to deliver a major address about the war’s endgame, coming as an additional 2,500 U.S. Marines make their way to the region, may be primarily an attempt to assuage voters’ concerns and Wall Street’s unease about energy markets and the knock-on effects of the strait closure.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi is leaving her position, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, amid reports that he was frustrated with her handling of some of his key priorities.

"We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future," he said in a Truth Social post, adding that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would take over as the department's acting attorney general.

A senior administration official and a source familiar with the matter told NBC News that Bondi was fired.

Trump had grown “more and more frustrated” with Bondi in recent days, a person familiar with White House deliberations said, adding that while he likes her as a person, he doesn’t think she has “executed on his vision” in the way that he wants.

Blanche, who was formerly one of Trump's personal lawyers, thanked the president in a post on X.

"Pam Bondi led this Department with strength and conviction and I’m grateful for her leadership and friendship," he said. "Thank you to President Trump for the trust and the opportunity to serve as Acting Attorney General. We will continue backing the blue, enforcing the law, and doing everything in our power to keep America safe."

Bondi is the second Cabinet member to be axed by the president.Kristi Noem was fired last month as homeland security secretaryin a descent that mirrored Bondi’s. NBC News reported that Trump grew increasingly frustrated with Noem but that her performance at two congressional hearings is what finally cost her the job.

>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/bondi-fired-attorney-general-trump-rcna266378

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https://newrepublic.com/post/208460/fema-official-gregg-phillips-teleportation

>As CNN reported in late March, Phillips has spoken on multiple podcasts about his teleportation activities, which include having gone to a church and to the breakfast restaurant chain. On one of the podcasts, Phillips, who serves as associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Association, said, “Teleporting is no fun. It was real.” But a follow-up CNN report reveals that Phillips has since doubled down, posting repeatedly on social media that the experience is real and connected to his religious beliefs.

>On Truth Social late last month, Phillips wrote, “I know what I’ve experienced, I know Who I serve.” Replying to another detractor, Phillips posted, “I have no regrets for my words nor my faith in my Savior, Jesus Christ. The Bible has many examples of the power of God.” In still another post, Phillips cited a passage from the New Testament’s Book of Acts where the Holy Spirit “snatched” away the apostle Philip after a baptism on a road between Jerusalem and Gaza, and Philip is then described as showing up in the city of Azotus, miles away.

>On a podcast in January 2025, Phillips said of the Waffle House experience, “I was with my boys one time, and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House—this was in Georgia, and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was.”

>Phillips’s job at FEMA has a lot of responsibility, dealing with emergency aid, restoring infrastructure, search and rescue operations, and distributing disaster assistance amounting to billions of dollars. At least one high-ranking official at the agency has praised his efforts, calling him “FEMA’s best hope at this moment” when he was hired back in December.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-john-eastman-00851127

Long before John Eastman helped devise Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, he had another pet cause: ending birthright citizenship.

The idea was once relegated to obscure articles in right-wing journals and little-noticed debates before conservative groups. But Trump ushered it into the limelight on his first day back in office last year by issuing an executive order purporting to upend the well-established understanding that virtually everyone born on U.S. soil gets American citizenship.

Now, Eastman is about to realize a decades-long dream: getting the Supreme Court to consider his radical theory that the Constitution doesn’t automatically confer citizenship on those born in the U.S. The justices are set to hear oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of Trump’s policy.

Yet, when Trump signed his order on the subject last year, he made no mention of the former law school dean and Supreme Court clerk’s long advocacy for the cause. And while the Justice Department’s public briefs closely track Eastman’s arguments, they don’t cite his writings or acknowledge his role as the theory’s leading evangelist.

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https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-considering-pulling-out-of-nato/
President Donald Trump rattled NATO allies on Wednesday morning, as he strongly suggested that the U.S. was weighing whether to pull out of the transatlantic military alliance.

"I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration,” Trump told the Telegraph newspaper, when asked if he would think twice about the U.S.’s membership of the alliance after the Middle East conflict is over.

NATO allies have infuriated Trump by uniformly resisting joining the U.S. and Israeli assault on Iran, and rebuffed calls from the president for them to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical energy waterway that Tehran has effectively blocked in retaliation for the bombardment.

“I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” Trump added.

His remarks were published hours after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington may need to reconsider its relationship with NATO once the war against Iran is over, sharply escalating pressure on European allies that America accuses of withholding support.

Still, Trump cannot legally exit NATO unilaterally. Under a 2023 law passed under former President Joe Biden, a withdrawal would require backing from two-thirds of the Senate or an Act of Congress.

Trump also slammed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer again for Britain's refusal to back America in its war with Iran, and belittled the U.K.'s military.


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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/police-said-to-arrest-14-trying-to-smuggle-sacrificial-goat-onto-temple-mount/

The far-right legal aid organization Honenu says that 14 Jewish men and boys have been arrested by police for trying to smuggle sacrificial goats onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

In ancient times, Passover provided another chance for those who had not been able to bring the Passover sacrifice to the Jerusalem Temple to fulfill the religious commandment.

Past years have seen similar attempts around the religious festival to smuggle in goats for sacrifice on the Temple Mount, an ultra-sensitive site holy to both Jews and Muslims.

video: https://www.fcebook.com/aljazeera/videos/israelis-filmed-themselves-attempting-to-bring-goats-into-the-al-aqsa-mosque-com/918262201122330/