President Trump said he went to war to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear bomb, but Tehran demonstrated that it possesses an arguably more powerful weapon of deterrence against future attacks, @nancyayoussef reports: the Strait of Hormuz. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Iranians shows that he believes he is completely unconstrained by American law, international law, Congress, or public opinion, @GrahamDavidA argues: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Trump lashes out most fiercely when he feels cornered, which might explain his recent outbursts & ultimatum to Iran. While not the 1st US president to flout international law, Trump would be the 1st to advertise it ahead of time on a social-media site he owns. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.wired.com/snake-bros-a... The Antivenom Index is a little-known directory that for >50 years has connected Americans bitten by venomous exotic pets with the zoos that can save them. The Antivenom Index is an imperfect system in that zoos are acting as an unpaid de facto pharmacopeia.

www.wired.com/story/doj-mi... The acting head of DOJ’s voting section, Eric Neff, told a judge that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it collected. That wasn’t true; he later admitted DOJ was pooling the data & already analyzing it to identify voting irregularities.

www.wired.com/story/the-tr... Contrary to what intuition may suggest, the journey to the moon is not a direct, linear path connecting the Earth's surface with the lunar surface.

www.wired.com/story/us-bor... In the past, offensive challenge coins tied to Border Patrol have popped up on reseller websites and even reportedly in Border Patrol workplaces, but the government has denied responsibility for them.

grist.org/health/the-f... Congress may be in no hurry, but time is not on its side. If the country’s climate, long one of its greatest allies in the fight against malaria and other vector-borne maladies, is changing, then the US is due for an overhaul of its relationship with tropical illnesses.

grist.org/climate/the-... After one of the warmest recorded winters, much of the West is entering spring w/snowpack at historic lows & an early heat wave w/ triple digit temps. These woes could be straight out of a climate fiction novel. But the West’s no good, very bad winter was alarmingly real.

apnews.com/article/olde... Jonathan lives!

apnews.com/article/trum... A drone maker backed by President Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the US military led by their father.

“At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading” by but that’s because not enough teachers are asking them to, Walt Hunter writes: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Adults underestimate the power of simply telling a young person to read a book and vouching for it ourselves.

Public anger at Washington is rising, @yvonnewingett & @russellberman report; even TMZ is channeling the discontent. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... TMZ is urging readers to send photos & video of lawmakers fleeing DC & living it up while those responsible for protecting the homeland go unpaid.

The legal question in the birthright-citizenship case is jarringly easy to answer, @AdamSerwer argues, but “the more difficult question is what kind of country Americans want.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... US citizenship was consciously and deliberately not limited to “babies of slaves.”

Whoever leads the Justice Department after Pam Bondi “will be confronted with exactly the same problem" as she was, Quinta Jurecic argues: “Trump is asking his attorney general to do the impossible.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Costa Rican government has agreed to receive up to 25 deported migrants a week from the US, the latest deal in the Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to deport scores of people to “third countries”.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Republican Senator Thom Tillis, spoke out in defense of NATO, joining Sen McConnell & the Democrats, after Trump said he was “absolutely” considering withdrawing from the alliance after it refused to take part in the joint assault with Israel against Iran.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Trump has fired Pam Bondi as US attorney general, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the justice dept but still failed to please a president fixated on prosecuting political enemies & frustrated with the politically explosive release of the Jeffrey Epstein files

apnews.com/article/trum... Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for NPR and the PBS.

apnews.com/article/dona... Trump signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and to restrict mail-in voting, a move that swiftly drew legal threats from state Democratic officials ahead of this year’s midterm elections

apnews.com/article/trum... A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend construction of a $400 million ballroom it demolished the East Wing of the White House to make space for, barring work from proceeding without congressional approval.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Good introspectors are skilled at noticing their own behavior patterns without succumbing to excessive self-absorption. They don’t ruminate or let their own thoughts spiral around and around in dark, depressing doom loops.

projects.propublica.org/childhood-va... Before vaccines, death & disability stalked children. Then shots turned once-common infections into something doctors only read about in textbooks. When immunization rates drop, however, plagues from the past can come roaring back, as measles has.

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www.propublica.org/article/trum... The arrest & detention of immigrant parents with American citizen children, occurred twice as often after President Trump returned to office. In the first 7 months of his 2nd term, authorities arrested & detained parents of at least 11,000 US citizen children.

From a sitting President of the United States of America:

grist.org/science/long... Fungi are indispensable to most plant life. As many as 90% of plants use their roots to form symbiotic relationships w/vast webs of mycorrhizal fungi to, among other things, increase their nutrient & water absorption by orders of magnitude beyond that provided by soil alone

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... “I don’t think the American public has a sense that the food on our table is being produced by immigrant workers under conditions that would make Upton Sinclair turn over in his grave.”

apnews.com/article/ice-... President Trump’s decision to order federal immigration agents to US airports to help w/security during a budget impasse is drawing concerns that their presence may escalate tensions among air travelers frustrated over long waits & screeners angry about missed paychecks.

America needs a longevity revolution, @jon_rauch writes. As we approach 100-year lifespans, we need to rethink school, work, retirement—and what it even means to be old: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... The US has left pretty much the same people in power, but following orders from afar.

apnews.com/article/us-s... The new Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response will be based in Washington with about 200 staffers, the department said Friday, but on-the-ground operations are to be run from the regional hubs, which will be located in Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa.

apnews.com/article/pent... A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters’ access to the Pentagon, agreeing with The New York Times that key portions of the new rules are unlawful.

apnews.com/article/tsa-... Work to resolving the standoff intensified as border czar Tom Homan again met with a bipartisan senator group. Democrats demand changes to immigration enforcement practices by federal agents following the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

apnews.com/article/hono... Muddy floodwaters from severe rains inundated streets, pushed homes off their foundations, swallowed vehicles and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents in towns north of Honolulu on Friday as officials warned of the possible failure of a 120-year-old dam.

“We are roasting out here”—Rebecca Boyle reports on the consequences of record-hot temperatures in the American West. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

apnews.com/article/war-... “Our pets are not luggage, they are part of our families.” Greek interior and foreign ministries had worked together for days “so we can have this good result, for the animals and people to return home safely.”

apnews.com/article/worl... The US owes ~$280 million according to WHO. And Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues, such as lost access to data from other countries that could give America an early warning of a new pandemic.

apnews.com/article/bunn... An immigration judge has denied the asylum claim of the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy photographed in a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack as he was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that shook Minneapolis.

thehill.com/homenews/cam... California Gov. Gavin Newsom went after President Trump over a post calling dyslexia a “mental disorder.”

thehill.com/policy/inter... European leaders are speaking out to condemn the Trump administration’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian oil amid spiking energy rates resulting from the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

thehill.com/business/578... US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that Justice Department subpoenas of the Federal Reserve & its chair, Jerome Powell, may not be enforced. The judge quashed 2 subpoenas that sought records about a $2.5 billion renovation project.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Crush syndrome is characterised by ischemia/reperfusion-induced rhabdomyolysis, leading to systemic inflammation & high mortality. The therapeutic efficacy of inhaled NO via a portable, controlled-release device was studied in an experimental rat model.