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What Happened Today – March 18, 2026

Aerial view of the Morrill Fire showing scorched grazing land and smoke across Nebraska on March 14, 2026

The Morrill Fire burned across more than 800,000 acres of Nebraska grazing land in the largest wildfires in state history as Gov. Pillen sought a federal disaster declaration.

The Pentagon today asked the White House for $200 billion to continue a war that neither of them has the constitutional authority to declare. The Constitution assigns only Congress the power to declare war. Three weeks into bombing Iran, they’ve abandoned it for the third time. Wednesday’s war powers resolution failed 53-47 after Republicans voted … Read more

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