Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Came home to perhaps the coolest package ever from @washingtonpost. I am endlessly grateful to have been a part of the team that worked on the Jan 6 project and will always be grateful for this massive life moment.

MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls. Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —> nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…

NEWS: President Trump and Speaker Johnson discussing Florida Rep. Neal Dunn's terminal cancer diagnosis: Trump: "He would be dead by June." Johnson: "Okay, that wasn't public."

Today is my first day at Law360 covering all things legal! Send any tips to aneeta.mathur-ashton@law360.com or on Signal @anmathhh.37!

Quincy Jones Estate Sells Rights to HarbourView hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-in…

NEW: Rep. Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, told ABC News on Thursday that he is running for reelection — not announcing his retirement. abcnews.link/zRY0HIY

Breaking News: James Clyburn, the 85-year-old Democratic power broker from South Carolina, will seek an 18th House term, defying a push for generational change. nyti.ms/4btQuPE

EXCLUSIVE: 'George Michael: The Faith Tour,' a restored and remastered feature based on long lost film, is being lined up for a worldwide big screen release later this year, Deadline can reveal. George Michael Entertainment and Mercury Studios are behind the new and never-seen-before project, which will be accompanied by the release of an 18-track album of previously unheard performances by the pop icon. The film’s distributor and release dates are being kept under wraps for now but when it plays in theaters the plan is for it to open with an original short film by photographer Mary McCartney — daughter of Paul McCartney — contextualising the tour’s cultural significance. The short includes voiceover from an unheard interview given by Michael alongside unseen images captured by American photographer Herb Ritts and behind the-scenes footage of the Faith music video Watch the trailer here: deadline.com/2026/03/george…

New with @60Minutes: A whistleblower from the Global Health Incident Cell (GHIC), the secret CIA unit that investigated Havana Syndrome, says he believes the Russian intelligence services are behind directed energy attacks on Americans. theins.press/en/inv/290088.

BREAKING: Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who disclosed the Watergate tapes, dies at 99. apnews.com/article/alexan…

Breaking News: Mojtaba Khamenei was named Iran’s new supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by U.S.-Israeli strikes. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3Nm8MKt

BREAKING: A device ignited outside Zohran Mamdani's mayoral residence yesterday during an anti-Islam protest and counterprotest was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, New York City police say. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g…

Presidents Clinton, Biden and Obama — along with former first ladies Dr. Jill Biden and Secretary Hillary Clinton — arrived to the funeral service of the late Reverend Jesse Jackson on Friday.

“You’re imagining two beloved Massachusetts institutions, which is a Dunkin’ iced coffee and the Kennedy family dynasty,” said John Cluverius, a political scientist at UMass, Lowell. “The only thing the state likes more than Democrats is Dunkin’ Donuts.”

BREAKING: Rep. Tony Gonzales drops out of his House runoff race after admitting to an affair with his late aide. cbsn.ws/4lbYRnl

Trump announces he's replacing Noem with Sen. Mullin. Noem to become "special envoy" to the "Shield of the Americas" (sometimes dubbed the Donroe Doctrine). (So she almost certainly won't need to get Senate confirmation.)

Senator Sheehy joined Capitol Police in lifting up and ejecting anti war protestor Brian McGinnis from a SASC subcommittee hearing. McGinnis is a Green Party candidate running for Senate in N.C. An antiwar activist filmed the video below:

For one of my last pieces with @usnews, I sat down with @RepAuchincloss to talk about CNPV and his concerns with it. health.usnews.com/health-care/ar…

BREAKING: The U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been struck by two Iranian drones, according to two U.S. officials. The embassy was relatively empty given the overnight hours and no one is believed to have been injured, the U.S. officials said. abcnews.link/V9AaK7j

JUST IN: Iranian state media is confirming the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following a barrage of joint US-Israeli strikes. Follow live updates: cnn.it/4tZdoqk

Reza Pahlavi, Iran's exiled crown prince, praised the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the U.S. and Israeli strikes, saying in a statement that "the bloodthirsty despot of our time…has been erased from the face of history." Pahlavi called on Iran's military forces to avoid efforts to "preserve a collapsing regime," but instead to "help ensure Iran's stable transition to a free and prosperous future." "This may be the beginning of our great national celebration, but it is not the end of the road," he said.