Thursday, March 13

🚨NATION

📌 21 Democratic Attorneys General sue over gutting of Education Department (NY TIMES) Federal student loan site down Wednesday (AP)

📌 Layoff plans are due Thursday. Feds are terrified. (POLITICO) Judge orders Trump admin to reinstate probationary workers fired at 6 agencies (FOX NEWS)

📌 Protesters arrested after storming Trump Tower to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil (CNN)

📌 White House withdraws CDC director nomination just before his Senate confirmation hearing (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates (CNN)

📌 Putin backs Trump's push for Ukraine ceasefire in principle, but says "there are issues" to discuss with U.S. (CBS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Dow slides and S&P enters correction territory as Trump’s trade war escalates (CNN)

📌 Meta stops ex-director from promoting critical memoir (BBC)

📌 SpaceX delays flight to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts after launch pad problem (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Disney holds small-scale Snow White premiere amid controversy (BBC)

📌 Meghan Markle announces her new podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder” (VOUGE)

📌 Blake Lively wins confidentiality order for sensitive information in Justin Baldoni suit (VARIETY)