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Treasury Secretary Bessent says market woes are more about tech stock sell-off than Trump’s tariffs newsthirst.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters outside the West Wing after doing a television interview on the North Lawn of the White House on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.  Andrew Harnik | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the sell-off in the stock market is due more to a sharp pullback in…

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Mike Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal chats for national security work – report | Signal group chat leak newsthirst.

Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his team have created at least 20 different group chats on the encrypted messaging app Signal to coordinate sensitive national security work, sources tell Politico. The revelation, which cites four people with direct knowledge of the practice, follows heightened scrutiny of the administration’s handling of sensitive information…

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Michigan lawmaker Mallory McMorrow joins competitive 2026 US Senate race | US politics newsthirst.

Mallory McMorrow, a state senator from Michigan and rising star in the Democratic party, has announced her bid for the US Senate in what is expected to be one of 2026’s most competitive and high-profile contests. McMorrow, 38, launched her campaign on Wednesday to succeed Michigan’s retiring Democratic senator Gary Peters with a video that…

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MIT welcomes 2025 Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow Jess Speedie | MIT News newsthirst.

The MIT School of Science welcomes Jess Speedie, one of eight recipients of the 2025 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The announcement was made March 27 by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship, named after the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a sun-like star, was established in 2017 to provide postdocs with the opportunity to…

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