Today’s edition of quick hits.

* The best thing I can say about the new Department of Homeland Security chief is that he’s not Kristi Noem: “Markwayne Mullin was sworn in as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday.”

* Israel isn’t just targeting Iran: “Israel intends to send more soldiers into Lebanon in the coming days, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the Israeli military spokesman, said in a news briefing on Tuesday. ‘We continue to reinforce and intensify the ground operation,’ he said.”

* A case worth watching: “Minnesota law enforcement officials sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its refusal to include them in investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and a third shooting by federal immigration officers.”

* Headed home: “The Taliban released an American citizen who had been held in Afghanistan for more than a year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday. Rubio said in a statement that Dennis Coyle, an academic originally from Colorado, ‘is on his way home’ after more than a year in captivity.”

* This unconfirmed reporting seems very easy to believe: “Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been pushing President Trump to continue the war against Iran, arguing that the U.S.-Israeli military campaign presents a ‘historic opportunity’ to remake the Middle East, according to people briefed by American officials on the conversations.”

* The White House’s crusade against Harvard is still ongoing: “The Trump administration escalated its pressure campaign on Harvard University with two new investigations into antisemitism on campus and the school’s admissions policies, issues the federal government has repeatedly scrutinized on the Ivy League campus.”

* Those who followed Rubio’s 2016 candidacy closely might remember this story, which is still lingering: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified in court that he had no knowledge that former Florida congressman David Rivera was lobbying on behalf of Venezuela’s government — as prosecutors later alleged — when he met with his longtime friend to discuss U.S. policy toward the South American country several times at the start of the first Trump administration.”

* The thing to remember about McDonald is that he’ll be the only prosecutor who reports to the White House, not the attorney general: “The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a new Justice Department division focused on prosecuting fraud, despite critics’ concerns over potential political pressure to target White House opponents. Colin McDonald, a top aide to the Justice Department’s second-in-command, was confirmed in a vote of 52 to 47 to serve as the assistant attorney general in charge of the new division cast by the Trump administration as a necessary effort to crack down on rampant fraud hurting American taxpayers.”

See you tomorrow.

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