The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk's X as an "innovative" tool to help do it…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk
Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/31/israel-death-penalty-law-international-criticism
NATO partners, including the European Union, have largely refused to help secure the strait...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/trump-strait-of-hormuz-oil-prices-00851611
"While we acknowledge the important role of the EEOC to investigate discrimination, we also have an obligation to protect the rights of our employees. We continue to believe that requiring Penn to create lists of Jewish faculty and staff, and to provide personal contact information, raises serious privacy and First Amendment concerns. The University does not maintain employee lists by religion," the university's statement read…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/judge-penn-jewish-employees-list-trump
In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump's administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica…
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations
"We just happened to find a little stream that looked like it could be the Rio Grande," Owens says. "We said we were on the border. The reporter I was with simulated the beheading, walked across, and that's what we posted."
Owens says the video of the fake ISIS agent garnered a million views overnight...
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5763689/alex-jones-infowars-josh-owens-the-madness-of-believing
Defence minister outlines plans to destroy all homes and villages in area 'in accordance with the model in Gaza'…
The order "singles out two speakers and, on the basis of their speech, bars them from all federally funded programs," Moss, who was nominated by President Barack Obama, wrote. "It does so, moreover, without regard to whether the federal funds are used to pay for the nationwide interconnection systems, which serve as the technological backbones of public radio and television; to provide safety and security for journalists working in war zones; to support the emergency broadcast system; or to produce or distribute music, children's or other educational programming, or documentaries."
"It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch," Moss said…
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5768399/npr-pbs-trump-federal-funding
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington's crosshairs…
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/03/30/gaza-israel-un-criticize-us-sanction-00850477
The vast majority of constitutional scholars — and the weight of legal precedent — reject his view of the issue. The Constitution's 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to "all persons born … in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The Supreme Court ruled in 1898 that means a child born in the U.S. to foreign parents living in California acquired U.S. citizenship at birth.
However, Eastman and the administration argue that precedent only covers children of foreigners living permanently in the U.S., and that broader interpretations over the past 128 years that it guaranteed citizenship to almost anyone born on U.S. soil were mistaken...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-john-eastman-00851127
Foreign ministers Ishaq Dar and Wang Yi met in Beijing as Pakistan pushes for peacemaker role…
President has falsely claimed 'legendary' fraud for limiting mail-in ballots and himself voted by mail last week…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/trump-executive-order-restrict-mail-in-ballots
The case, Chiles v. Salazar, was brought by Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor who described herself as a practicing Christian who sometimes provides counseling informed by her faith. Chiles said she wished to offer talk therapy to minors who want to reduce feelings of same-sex attraction or feel more comfortable in their bodies.
Chiles isn't licensed to prescribe medicine or perform surgery, so the ruling does not directly impact states' power to regulate those sorts of interventions…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-ban-ruling-00851858
The judge said work on the $400 million project must halt pending congressional authorization...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/trump-white-house-ballroom-lawsuit-order-00852455
"As the Court expressly recognized, the First Amendment draws a line, which the government may not cross, at efforts to use government power — including the power of the purse — 'to punish or suppress disfavored expression' by others," Boutrous said in a statement. "The Executive Order crossed that line."…
"Serving the American people as FBI agents was the highest honor of our lives," they said in a statement. "We took an oath to uphold the Constitution, followed the facts wherever they led and never compromised our integrity. Our removal from federal service — without due process and based on a false perception of political bias — is a profound injustice that raises serious concerns about political interference in federal law enforcement."…
"This lawsuit seeks to reaffirm fundamental constitutional protections for FBI employees, ensuring they can perform their duties without fear or favor. We all benefit when law enforcement officers' only loyalty is to facts and the truth," said Eisenberg, who's with the firm of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP…
