President Donald Trump says “Liberation Day” is coming. On Wednesday, he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods. The details of Trump’s next round of import taxes are still sketchy. Most economic analyses say average U.S. families would have to absorb the cost of his tariffs in the form of higher prices and lower incomes. Trump is inviting CEOs to the White House to say they're investing billion in new projects to avoid the import taxes. It's also possible the tariffs are short-lived if Trump feels he can cut a deal after imposing them.

Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to formulate a response to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government as one group takes a front and center role: military veterans. Former service members have been acutely affected by the Republican president’s actions, including layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs and a Pentagon purge of archives that documented military diversity. Trump is determined to continue slashing the federal government, but the burden will only grow on veterans. Veterans make up roughly 30% of the federal workforce and often tap government benefits they earned with their military service. Democrats have zeroed in on protecting veterans, introducing legislation to shield them from mass layoffs.

Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic. This was reported by the magazine in a story posted online Monday. The National Security Council said the text chain “appears to be authentic.” Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said the material in the text chain “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing." Just two hours after Goldberg received the details of the attack on March 15, the U.S. began launching a series of airstrikes.

The handful of remaining perfect brackets in the NCAA Tournament busted out on Sunday, ending the hopes of millions against exceptionally long odds. The final perfect brackets on Yahoo Sports and CBS Sports were shredded with Saturday’s games. Top-seeded Florida’s 77-75 win over two-time reigning national champion UConn continued the carnage on Sunday. Duke’s 89-66 win over Baylor then left one remaining perfect bracket on ESPN’s tracker and it didn’t last long. That bracket imploded with Kentucky’s win over Illinois, creating 24.3 million imperfect brackets. The Wildcats’ win also killed off the last bracket of the 34 million on the NCAA’s platform.

Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation in one North Carolina county as emergency crews fought separate fires in an area of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene, while South Carolina’s governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety issued a mandatory evacuation Saturday night for parts of Polk County in western North Carolina. The agency warns residents could be trapped, injured, or killed if they remain in the impacted areas. In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster has declared a state of emergency as part of an effort to stop a blaze in Pickens County called the Table Rock Fire that started Friday in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Measles cases in West Texas are still rising two months after the outbreak began. Local public health officials say they expect the outbreak to last for at least several more months and the case number is likely an undercount. More people have received a measles, mumps and rubella vaccination this year in Texas and New Mexico compared to last year, though officials would like it to be higher. Pharmacies across the U.S., especially in Texas, are seeing more demand for MMR shots. University of North Carolina epidemiologist Justin Lessler says measles has a slow way of spreading that makes it especially hard to contain.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order calling for the shutdown of the Education Department. The Republican president's plan is expected to be announced Thursday and was disclosed by a White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity before the announcement. Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, completing its dismantling is most likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979. A White House fact sheet says the order would direct Secretary Linda McMahon “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” of the Education Department and return education authority to the states.