Trump News for Tuesday, March 24, 2026

A Useful Way to Understand Trump’s Decision Making

Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic

The war in Iran is a reminder that market movements can play an important role in the president’s decision making.

Activists label Larry Ellison’s yacht ‘The Trump Propagandist’

Al Jazeera English

Led By Donkeys released a video showing members labelling Larry Ellison’s superyacht “The Trump Propagandist.”

Trump keeps up claims of talks with ‘the right people’ in Iran

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

US reportedly engaged in backchannel efforts, though Israel apparently not on same page, and military buildup continues.

Ex-Pussycat Dolls Member Believes Her Support for RFK Jr. Cost Her a Reunion Spot: ‘I Was a Liability’

Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone

Jessica Sutta believes her Make America Healthy Again views and support for RFK Jr. cost her the chance to reunite with the group for their upcoming 'PCD Forever' tour

WATCH: Travel disruption continues even after deployment of ICE agents to U.S. airports

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Berardi Immigration Law Managing Partner Rosanna Berardi answers questions about the role of ICE agents in U.S. airports.

China mapping ocean floor; Preps for submarine warfare with USA...

Pete Mckenzie, Reuters, AirForceTimes.com

China mapping ocean floor; Preps for submarine warfare with USA... (Second column, 2nd story, link) Related stories:Russian oil tanker playing chicken with Trump over Cuba... Developing... Beijing Publication Claims DC Has Two Months of…

NASA wants to put a $20 billion base on the Moon

Emma Roth, The Verge

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has big plans for the future of the agency, including the construction of a $20 billion lunar base that he said will establish an "enduring presence" on the Moon. Isaacman announced the news during NASA's Ignition event on Tu…

What is ICE actually doing at the airport?

Gaby Del Valle, The Verge

I arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport nearly five hours before my domestic flight. This is not my way - usually I roll up to the airport 30 minutes before boarding - but not even I have enough hubris to think that my good luck is more powerful th…

Long lines, unpaid TSA workers: Experts say US air travel system in crisis

Brian Osgood, Al Jazeera English

TSA workers face unpaid wages, causing long lines and staffing shortages at key US airports during shutdown chaos.

Why some airports have hours-long security lines, and others are a breeze

allisonkelly@businessinsider.com (Allie Kelly,Taylor Rains), Business Insider

TSA callout rates at some airports are up to 40%, while others are running smoothly. Here's why.

Trump claims US has achieved ‘regime change’, ‘received present’ from Iran

Al Jazeera English

US President Donald Trump has told reporters in the Oval Office that the US has achieved regime change in Iran.

NASA to spend $20bn on moon base, nuclear-powered Mars spacecraft

Elizabeth Melimopoulos, Al Jazeera English

The agency will increase robotic missions to the Moon and launch a nuclear spacecraft called Space Reactor 1 Freedom.

FERGUSON: Brace Yourselves. Recession Coming....

Niall Ferguson, Thefp.com

FERGUSON: Brace Yourselves. Recession Coming.... (First column, 10th story, link) Related stories:MOODY'S cuts rating on private credit fund... Wall St crisis spreads as shadow bank blocks withdrawals...

Cuba sends doctors on medical missions. The U.S. isn't a fan

Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR

It's a major source of revenue for the island. And it's controversial. Now countries are sending Cuban doctors home in response to pressure from the Trump administration.

Are US-Iran Talks Actually Happening?

BBC News

What do we know about negotiations to de-escalate the Iran war?

WATCH: President Trump hosts swearing-in ceremony for DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin

ABC News, Abcnews.com

The former Republican senator from Oklahoma replaces outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem after being appointed by Trump in early March.

US says they’re talking, Iran says they’re not. Who’s telling the truth?

Abubakr Al-Shamahi, Al Jazeera English

Critics say Trump's claim of negotiations is a tactic to calm the market, but could the Iranians be ready to talk?

Leaders of Elite Paratrooper Unit Ordered to Middle East as Trump Weighs Iran Ground War

Nick Turse, The Intercept

Government sources tell The Intercept that leadership of the storied 82nd Airborne Division have been ordered to the Middle East. The post Leaders of Elite Paratrooper Unit Ordered to Middle East as Trump Weighs Iran Ground War appeared first on The Intercept.

Why is Trump asking for Europe’s help in war on Iran?

Al Jazeera English

Former French Ambassador to the US Gerard Araud argues that Europe is right to avoid the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Senate confirms Trump's pick for new role of fraud enforcement at Justice Department

Jaclyn Diaz, NPR

The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs.

Aid flotilla vessel arrives in Cuba amid US-driven energy crisis

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Activists say that aid delivery is small 'gesture of solidarity' meant to draw attention to US energy blockade.

Tether, the World’s Biggest Stablecoin, Is Finally Getting Its First Full Audit

Kyle Torpey, Gizmodo.com

After more than a decade of accusations, the company claims it will submit to a legitimate review of its finances.

Allegiant waives change, cancel fees through end of the government shutdown as security lines grow

David Slotnick, The Points Guy

Allegiant to waive change and cancel fees on flights through the end of the government shutdown; United and Delta issued narrower waivers linked to TSA lines.

The Israeli military wants several more weeks to fight Iran war, officials say

Daniel Estrin, NPR

The Israeli military estimates it would need several more weeks of fighting to complete its war goals in Iran, at a time when President Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war.

Iran names successor to security chief killed in US-Israeli attack

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, ex-IRGC commander, to replace late Ali Larijani as chief of Supreme National Security Council.

Prospect of US-Iran talks puts Netanyahu under pressure

BBC News

US President Donald Trump has pointed to diplomatic talks to end the offensive - but Israel might not yet be ready to walk away.

Anthropic challenges US Pentagon’s ban in San Francisco court showdown

Andy Hirschfeld, Al Jazeera English

Anthropic accuses Pentagon of unlawful retaliation over its refusal to loosen AI safety restrictions for military use.

WATCH: One of the two pilots killed in LaGuardia plane crash identified by family

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Antoine Forest has been identified by his family as one of the two pilots killed when a regional Air Canada jet collided with a Port Authority airport vehicle at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

WATCH: Remnants of missile found in West Bank village

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Residents of the West Bank village of Kifl Haris, near Nablus, found remnants of an unexploded missile on Tuesday as the war between the U.S. and Iran continues.

The Trump Admin’s Own Investigators Found No EU Internet Censorship. So They Ignored The Findings.

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

The Washington Post just published a deeply reported story about the Trump administration’s campaign to “expand free speech” in Europe. That headline alone should tell you something about how the story is framed — it takes the administration’s self-descriptio…

The AI Industry Is Lying to You

Edward Zitron, Wheresyoured.at

Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5000 to 18,000 words, incl…

O’Reilly: ‘Becoming apparent’ Trump administration won’t be able to change Iran regime

Tara Suter, The Hill

Conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly said Monday that it was becoming increasingly clear that the Trump administration will not be able to change the...

Questions swirl about status of peace talks as Trump touts progress, Iran pushes back

Mariam Khan, Hannah Demissie, Alexandra Hutzler, Abcnews.com

Strikes continued across the Middle East on Tuesday amid uncertainty over the state of talks between the U.S. and Iran.

Senior Citizen Successfully Votes by Mail After Ranting Against Voting by Mail

Claire Guinan, Jezebel

And despite actively trying to strip others of the power to do the same.

Amazon Says Its Cloud Facilities Were Disrupted Again Due to War in Iran

Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com

Iran has said American big tech is a new target.

Republicans Are Quietly Throwing Trump Under the Bus

Jacob Weindling, Jezebel

If the growing panic currently wafting off of Republican electeds doesn’t at least give you a contact high of hope, I don’t know what will.

Elon Musk Will Have to Face the Music in Lawsuit Over DOGE’s Government Overreach

Bruce Gil, Gizmodo.com

A federal judge allowed key parts of a lawsuit accusing Musk of wielding significant government power without Senate confirmation to move forward.

Iranian IRGC’s ties to Hezbollah deepen tensions in Lebanese politics

Justin Salhani, Al Jazeera English

Lebanon's prime minister said the IRGC is commanding Hezbollah and analysts agree the Iranian group is calling the shots

WATCH: President Trump touts ‘very strong talks’ with Iran as it denies negotiations

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Trump, after postponing U.S. strikes on Iran's energy infrastructure citing new negotiations with Tehran, said on Monday that talks will continue and that there are "major points of agreement."

Millions Are Being Wagered by People Who Seem to Know Exactly What Trump Will Post Next

Jim Vorel, Jezebel

With every Donald Trump post able to immediately move the market, who are these people to seem to know exactly what he will say in advance?

Will President Trump act on his threat to take Cuba?

Terry Gross, NPR

New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes conditions in Cuba, why it's vulnerable now — and what regime change would mean — considering the Castro family's entrenchment in the Cuban government.

WATCH: American held captive in Afghanistan released, Taliban says

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Dennis Coyle of Colorado was released after a letter from his family was sent requesting his release on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, the Taliban foreign ministry said.

Trump Banning All New Foreign-Made Routers As He Continues To Just Make Everything Worse

Zack Zwiezen, Kotaku

President Trump's White House is going to make it harder in the future to buy new routers

WATCH: Know your rights as ICE is deployed at airports

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Immigration lawyer Rosanna Berardi breaks down what ICE agents legally are allowed to do or restricted from doing at airports.

Who is Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s new homeland security chief?

Al Jazeera English

Here's what we know about Markwayne Mullin, who'll oversee Trump’s contentious crackdown on migrants in the US.

IRAN RAINS MISSILES INTO ISRAEL

The Straits Times

IRAN RAINS MISSILES INTO ISRAEL (Main headline, 2nd story, link) Related stories:NYT: TRUMP CONTINUES WAR FOR CROWN PRINCE GULF STATES TO JOIN FIGHT? OIL $100

Keir Starmer’s policy on the Iran war is a recipe for catastrophe

Jeremy Corbyn, Al Jazeera English

The British government has learned no lessons from the disaster that the US-UK invasion of Iraq was.

Is the US talking to Iran’s Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and who is he?

Sarah Shamim, Al Jazeera English

Iranian leaders, including Ghalibaf, have denied that talks with the US are under way.

Pakistan ‘ready to host US-Iran talks’: Can latest peace push work?

Abid Hussain, Al Jazeera English

Pakistan, Turkiye and Egypt are trying to broker talks. Analysts caution the chasm between the US and Iran remains wide.

Viral Video Shows Spring Breakers Answer Questions About The News In The Most Vapid Ways Imaginable

Gabija Saveiskyte, Boredpanda.com

“We’d get a bunch of girls in bikinis and make them run across the battlefield,” one student said when asked how he would defeat Iran.

Why America’s Catholic Bishops Started Sounding Liberal

Francis X. Rocca, The Atlantic

Trump’s second term has transformed the priorities of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy.

The US should end the war asap

John Feehery, Al Jazeera English

The best way to manage the fallout of the US-Israel war on Iran is to end it now.

Trump unveils national AI policy framework

Fox News

The Trump administration released a national AI framework addressing safety, jobs, energy use and free speech as the U.S. seeks to stay competitive globally.

WATCH: Cost of Easter rises as chocolate prices surge

ABC News, Abcnews.com

"GMA" looks at why Easter baskets are getting more expensive this year as chocolate prices climb.

‘Merger Synergies’: CBS News Fires Workers, Shutters 100 Year Old CBS Radio

Karl Bode, Techdirt

All modern major U.S. media mergers follow the same trajectory. Executives pump out a bunch of pre-merger lies about job creation and innovation that are parroted by a lazy access press, followed by the rubber stamping by corrupt regulators, followed by oodle…

Loud Explosions Reportedly Rock Tehran As Iran Warns Gulf Neighbors Of Energy Retaliation If Trump Attacks Power Grid: Dow Futures Trade Flat

Shomik Sen Bhattacharjee, Yahoo Entertainment

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include the latest developments. Iran warned Sunday it would strike the energy and water systems of Gulf...

How does the current global oil crisis compare with the 1973 oil embargo?

Hanna Duggal, Al Jazeera English

The 1973 oil embargo removed 4.5 million barrels per day from global supply. Today, that figure stands at 20 million.

Abandoned by America

George Packer, The Atlantic

An Afghan family in hiding waits in fear and hope.

ICE: $45 an Hour to Stand There. TSA: $0 an Hour to Keep You Safe

botonomous.ai, Botonomous.ai

ICE agents get paychecks. TSA officers get food banks. Same department. Same shutdown. Different bank accounts. Congress chose who eats and who doesn't.

DE-ESCALATION SKEPTICISM

Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

President Donald Trump started the fourth week of his war against Iran by offering the world some guarded optimism that the U.S. could soon be winding down its military operations. It was a claim that buoyed markets on Monday. But Iranian officials dismissed …

German president calls Iran war a disastrous mistake, in rare rebuke of Trump

By Andreas Rinke and Miranda Murray, Yahoo Entertainment

BERLIN, March 24 (Reuters) - The Iran war is a "disastrous mistake" that breaches international law, Germany's president said on Tuesday in an unusually...

MAGA Senator Exposes How Trump Killed Deal to End Shutdown

Yahoo Entertainment

A Former Prisoner of the Iranian Regime Watches Trump’s War

Jason Rezaian, The New Yorker

A journalist who was wrongfully detained for five hundred and forty-four days never got to say goodbye to Tehran. Now he’s fielding messages about chaos and destruction in the home he left behind.

Iran says no talks with US, calls Trump statements a ‘bluff’

Al Jazeera English

Iranian officials have dismissed statements by Trump as a ‘bluff’, denying any direct or indirect talks with the US.

As Trump blocks asylum seekers, Supreme Court to decide if US must review claims

Devin Dwyer, Abcnews.com

A major legal battle over the ability of asylum seekers to apply for refuge in the U.S. at ports of entry along the border with Mexico lands at the Supreme Court.

Trump delivers farmers another financial blow with Iran war

Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR

Some of President Trump's policies, the latest being the war in Iran, are testing his support among farmers who are being burdened with higher costs.

ICE deployments created chaos for cities and cost them millions, NPR analysis finds

Jaclyn Diaz, NPR

Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.

Morning news brief

Michel Martin, NPR

Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war in Iran, postponing threatened strikes on its power plants, but Iran denies such talks happened; ICE agents were deployed to U.S. airports Monday.

Trump takes aim at windmills despite increasing energy costs

Tamara Keith, NPR

President Trump's mission to fight renewable wind energy comes at a time of rising energy costs.

Despite Trump’s peace talk claims, US-Israeli attacks continue to hit Iran

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Huge explosions were heard in Tehran and other cities, as Iran denied it held talks with the US to end the war.

Jon Stewart Takes Aim at Trump Sending ICE Into Airports: ‘It’s So Fucking Stupid’

Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone

"Who the fuck even thought it was a good idea to send America's most hair-trigger agency into America's most hair-raising environment?"

Where do reported US-Iran ‘negotiations’ leave Israel?

Simon Speakman Cordall, Al Jazeera English

Israeli analysts describe confusion as US President Trump unexpectedly shifts from threatened strikes on Iran to talks.

ICE agents deployed to US airports: Which airports are affected?

Elizabeth Melimopoulos, Al Jazeera English

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were reportedly sent to 14 airports, including New York’s JFK.

US-Israel war on Iran: What’s happening on day 25 of attacks?

Elizabeth Melimopoulos, Al Jazeera English

Trump claims talks on with Iran, as he holds off on energy attacks, but Tehran denies any negotiations.

Trump administration deploys ICE agents at airports across US

Al Jazeera English

The Trump administration has deployed ICE agents to airports across the United States.

Oil back above $100 as conflicting reports emerge on US-Iran talks

BBC News

Stock markets had originally rebounded on Monday said Trump said he would hold off strikes on Iran.

US markets surge after Trump announces he’s postponing strikes on Iran

Al Jazeera English

Major US financial markets opened higher after US President Donald Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran.

Trump Administration Tries To Rein In RFK Jr. As A Midterms Liability

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

I’ve obviously talked a great deal about how RFK Jr. and his activity as the Secretary of HHS has been a massive health liability for the American public. The implementation of his batshit anti-vaxxer stances have, of course, grabbed most of the headlines her…

Senate confirms Sen. Markwayne Mullin as DHS secretary

Luke Barr, Abcnews.com

Mullin was nominated to replace Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

Markwayne Mullin confirmed as the next secretary of Homeland Security

Ximena Bustillo, NPR

The Oklahoma Republican comes to the helm in the midst of a shutdown that has left some 100,000 of the department's more than a quarter-million employees working without pay.

WATCH: Video shows moment jet slams into fire truck at LaGuardia, killing both pilots

ABC News, Abcnews.com

An Air Canada plane slammed into a fire truck in its path while coming in to land at New York City's LaGuardia Airport. The pilot and co-pilot were killed, and dozens were injured.

WATCH: Jewish ambulances outside London synagogue set on fire in antisemitic act

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Authorities say surveillance video shows three suspects pouring accelerant onto the vehicles before lighting them.

Iran war live: Tehran says Trump’s peace talk claims are ‘fake news’

Ted Regencia, Zaid Sabah, Al Jazeera English

Iran's Revolutionary Guard calls Trump a 'deceitful American president', accuses him of 'contradictory behaviour'.