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Month: March 2025

Trump administration highlights drug cartels as major national security threat but omits climate change

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US intelligence community’s annual threat assessment led with the threat from drug cartels for apparently the first time in the report’s nearly 20-year history, according to Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton and a CNN review of previous assessments, highlighting a top agenda item for President Donald Trump. The

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Central Cascades Wilderness Permit system opens for reservations on April 1

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Deschutes and Willamette National Forests announced Tuesday that reservations for the Central Cascades Wilderness Permit system will begin on Tuesday, April 1. Central Cascades Wilderness Permits are required for all overnight use within the Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, and Three Sisters Wilderness areas from June 15 through Oct. 15. Here’s

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Top intel officials shift responsibility on to Hegseth for sending potentially classified info to Yemen strike group chat

By Zachary Cohen and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Several of President Donald Trump’s top national security officials, at times with assistance from a top Senate Republican, shifted responsibility to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for sending potentially classified information that appeared in a group chat about US military strikes in Yemen that a

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