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Story by Lesley Abravanel

The White House was busted for sloppy spin control after social media sleuths noticed they tried to cover up booing during President Donald Trump's visit to the Kennedy Center premiere of the musical Chicago.

The president and his wife, Melania (whom conspiracy theorists insisted was a body double), attended the Tuesday, March 31, performance and were loudly booed by the sparse audience.

The White House claimed unanimous applause via its official “Rapid Response 47” X account. Still, social media pounced on that claim, debunking the narrative of a purely positive reception by sharing unedited footage of the event that featured audible boos and jeers from the crowd.

Daily Caller couldn’t ignore the boos either, with reporter Reagan Reese admitting that “President Trump enters the Kennedy Center to loud cheers. Some boos, but the crowd drowned them out with more cheers.”

“The audience wasn’t so happy to see the Trumps. Donald and Melania Trump were booed during an appearance at the Kennedy Center. Some people never learn they are NOT the center of the universe,” noted another.

The New Republic agreed, writing, “Trump Booed at Kennedy Center Despite His Attempts to Overhaul It.”
Story by Steve Kopack

Stock futures dropped sharply and oil prices surged higher Thursday morning, after President Donald Trump's address to the nation about the Iran war failed to reassure markets that the fighting would be over soon.

S&P 500 futures dropped 1.7%, Nasdaq 100 futures tumbled 2% and Dow futures slid 600 points. Russell 2000 futures dropped more than 2%.

In his speech Wednesday, Trump said the war would end "shortly," but he pledged to conduct additional "extremely hard" strikes on Iran "over the next two to three weeks."
By Tucker Reals

What to know about the Iran war today:
President Trump repeated his assertions Wednesday night that U.S. objectives are nearly met and Iran's offensive capabilities "essentially decimated" after more than a month of war. In a speech, he offered no new information about those objectives, however, or any plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers, vowing only to continue U.S. strikes on Iran for two to three more weeks.

Investors took little heart in Mr. Trump's remarks. Oil prices have surged again, with global standard Brent crude trading up almost 6% around $108 per barrel early Thursday. U.S. gas prices averaging over $4 a gallon have already hit U.S. motorists, delivery drivers and farmers hard, and analysts say groceries are likely next.

Iran's military has dismissed Mr. Trump's assessment of its capabilities as "incomplete," promising "more destructive" attacks across the Middle East in retaliation for ongoing U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Christina Marie Plante was reported missing in May of 1994 from Star Valley when she was just 13 years old
Anna Betts

A woman in Arizona who went missing 32 years ago, when she was just 13 years old, has been found alive, authorities said this week.

Christina Marie Plante was reported missing in May 1994 from Star Valley, Arizona, after she “vanished without a trace from her community”, according to a statement released on Wednesday by the Gila county sheriff’s office.

Investigators said that she was last seen leaving her home on foot to go to the stable where her horse was, and “was not seen again”.

At the time, her disappearance prompted an extensive search effort involving local law enforcement, volunteers and regional resources. But despite “exhaustive ground searches, interviews, and investigative follow-up, no viable leads were developed”, the sheriff’s office said.
Story by Associated Press

Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to some of the deaths linked to the “Texas Killing Fields,” an area near Houston where the bodies of dozens of women were found beginning in the 1970s, saying they have solved a piece of a tragic mystery that has inspired books, movies and a Netflix documentary.

A stretch of land along Interstate 45 southeast of Houston was dubbed the “Texas Killing Fields” after the bodies of more than 30 women were found there.

Investigators believe multiple perpetrators may be responsible for the deaths of mainly girls and young women.

Court and jail records did not list an attorney who could speak on behalf of Elmore, who was arrested Tuesday and is being held without bond in the Galveston County Jail.

Miller and Cook were two of four young women whose bodies were found between 1984 and 1991 in a rural field off a desolate dirt road in League City, located about 28 miles (45 kilometers) southeast of Houston.
Story by Annabella Rosciglione

The White House posted and then rushed to delete an hour-long recording of an event with President Donald Trump that captured him lashing out at the Supreme Court after justices signaled expressed skepticism about his birthright citizenship case.

The president privately hosted a group of MAGA pastors and religious allies Wednesday for an Easter luncheon at the White House. Trump made several bonkers remarks during the event, which was never meant to be seen by the public, as the White House quickly deleted the footage from its official pages.

The footage, however, was saved online by Business Insider reporter Bryan Metzger.
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.
By Tom Nichols

Americans have been waiting for their president and commander in chief to address the nation and explain why the country is at war. For weeks, Donald Trump has offered only snippets and sound bites about his decision to lead the United States into another conflict in the Middle East; his prime-time address this evening was, one assumes, aimed at informing and reassuring the American public.

Maybe he’d have been better off not trying. Trump’s critics (including me) have castigated him for refusing to go on television and provide a comprehensive explanation of the war to the American people. But given his performance this evening, perhaps he had the right instinct. His address did not come across as a wartime speech but instead was a disjointed series of complaints, brags, and exaggerations (along with a few outright lies) delivered by a man who looked and sounded tired. After his 19 minutes on the air—brisk by Trump’s standards—Americans could be forgiven for being even more concerned now than they were only a few days ago.
David Badash

After the Watergate scandal, President Jimmy Carter signed the Presidential Records Act into law. It requires official presidential records to be turned over to the National Archives when each president leaves office.

In 2022, after leaving office, President Donald Trump initially refused to fully comply, forcing the National Archives to travel to Mar-a-Lago to retrieve large quantities of records, including classified documents. Later, the FBI executed a search warrant to retrieve more classified materials.

Special Counsel Jack Smith investigated Trump’s handling of classified documents and in 2023, a grand jury indicted him, partially under the Espionage Act. That case was thrown out in 2024 by Judge Aileen Cannon.
Former White House Special Counsel Ty Cobb criticized Donald Trump’s late-night social media posts during a March 31 appearance, raising concerns about the former president’s mental fitness, a notable assessment from an ex-administration lawyer. On The Jim Acosta Show, Cobb cited Trump’s Truth Social messages and said the pattern supports his view. The remarks feed ongoing discussion of Donald Trump’s mental fitness as he nears age 80. Cobb served as special counsel from 2017 to 2018 during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and has since become a frequent critic. The video also references name mix-ups, a pronoun error regarding Ireland’s president on St. Patrick’s Day, and Trump’s denial that he has fallen asleep while working.
Matthew Rozsa

President Donald Trump may have declared imminent victory in Iran, but a conservative commentator warned on Thursday that Iran is the country that knows “what winning looks like” in that conflict.

“When this war ends in ‘two or three weeks’ the Iranian regime will be more securely in power than it was before the war and it will have demonstrated the power of a strategic weapon,” The Bulwark’s Jonathan V. Last wrote on Thursday. “America will have lost. Iran will have won. Let’s examine the scope of our defeat and their victory.”

Last reviewed America’s foreign policy history since 1946, when in the immediate aftermath of winning World War II the nation assumed the role of “the world’s policeman.” Now by invading Iran, breaking the country and then walking away, America is “abdicating” the responsibilities it assumed eighty years ago.
Story by Julia Ornedo

House Republicans are avoiding the spotlight as Americans sour on President Donald Trump’s tanking economy, warmongering, and chaotic leadership.

GOP lawmakers in swing seats up for re-election in November are keeping to themselves as the Department of Homeland Security remains stuck in the longest partial shutdown in U.S. history, The Atlantic reports.

The magazine revealed on Wednesday that only a single battleground Republican, Arizona Rep. David Schweikert, agreed to an interview request about the ongoing DHS shutdown, while over a dozen others up for re-election did not respond.

“Back in their districts, members of Congress—particularly swing-seat Republicans—seem to be in hiding,” the magazine writes. “Hardly any are holding town halls or other well-publicized events that could put them face-to-face with frustrated voters.”

The lack of public appearances is not because lawmakers are hard at work in Washington. The House is in Easter recess until April 14, leaving senators—who have already approved a funding measure—fuming over the lack of progress toward breaking the DHS budget impasse.
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