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| Good morning. It’s Friday, March 6, and most Americans will spring forward into daylight saving time this weekend. Watch out for these potential impacts on your body. Now let’s catch up. | |
 | President Donald Trump is replacing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. | - A controversial tenure: The public has soured on her agency’s aggressive immigration enforcement. Trump picked Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) to be her successor.
- The fallout: Democrats cheered Noem’s departure, but said it is not enough to end the DHS shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters “the rot is deep.”
- What else to know: A DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months.
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 |  | Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to target U.S. forces, officials say. | | | A building beside the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain was damaged by an Iranian drone over the weekend. (Reuters) | - According to officials: Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets. It is the first indication another major U.S. adversary is participating in the war, even indirectly.
- Inside Iran: U.S. and Israeli strikes have decimated the top ranks of political and military leadership, but the regime is still maintaining its grip. See who holds power on this chart.
- In Congress: A senator helped drag an anti-war protester from a hearing — watch here.
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 | Trump is preparing to defy parts of his MAGA base in Texas. | - How? He plans to endorse John Cornyn, a senator he once called a “RINO,” over MAGA favorite Ken Paxton in a Republican primary. That has dismayed some Trump supporters.
- Yesterday: Rep. Tony Gonzales, another Texas Republican, dropped his reelection bid after acknowledging that he had an affair with an aide who later set herself on fire and died.
- According to a new poll: Most Americans think their fellow citizens are bad people.
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 | A strict new Kansas law is forcing trans residents to hand over their driver’s licenses. | | |
 | Housing is so expensive that people earning $200,000 can qualify for help. | | | San Francisco offers loans of up to half a million dollars for first-time home buyers; a single person with income up to $218,200 can apply. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) | |
 | Pregnant women’s use of Tylenol appeared to drop after warnings from Trump. | | |
 | The National Zoo is feeding poop to a baby elephant. | | | Linh Mai is the first elephant to be born at the D.C. zoo in almost 25 years. (Roshan Patel/Smithsonian National Zoo) | - Why? Because 4-week-old calf Linh Mai has diarrhea. The feces from another, healthy Asian elephant calf in Columbus is being mixed with her formula to help her.
- Does that work? The treatment, which introduces healthy bacteria, has been successful in other animals (including humans.) Linh Mai may be the first elephant patient.
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