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5:00 PM ET, March 16, 2017

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The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member  —  Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction …
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Eli Clifton / BuzzFeed:
Top Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka Stonewalled When Asked If He Belongs To A Nazi-Allied Group  —  “Send a request to White House press,” Gorka told BuzzFeed News.  —  Sebastian Gorka, a top national security adviser to President Trump, stonewalled when BuzzFeed News asked about a report that he belongs to a Nazi-allied group.
Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Sebastian Gorka Denies Reported Affiliations with Vitézi Rend  —  Lord knows I've had my differences with The Forward before.  I have them still, and often.  They rarely unsettle me, if only because robust disagreements, especially on things that matter, are what we journalists should seek, not shun.
Jessica Estepa / USA Today:
Jewish organizations call for Sebastian Gorka's resignation for ties to far-right group  —  716 Shares  —  Jewish organizations called for the resignation of Trump aide Sebastian Gorka, after reports that Gorka has ties to a far-right group in Hungary.  —  The Forward reported Thursday that Gorka …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker: Trump might've leaked classified information  —  The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee suggested Thursday President Trump disclosed classified information during a Fox News interview the night before.  —  “In his effort to once again blame Obama …
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Fox News:
Trump says he will submit evidence of wiretapping to House committee ‘very soon’  —  President Trump discussed his tweeted accusation that President Obama ordered “wires” at Trump Tower tapped during last year's presidential campaign in an exclusive interview with Fox News' “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Senate Intelligence Committee finds ‘no indications’ of wiretapping, wider surveillance at Trump Tower
Discussion: Politico
Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Senate panel leaders: no evidence to Trump claim of Obama wiretap
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Chalian: Trump ‘looked like a third-grader’ in Fox interview
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump federal budget 2018: Massive cuts to the arts, science and the poor  —  President Trump on Thursday will unveil a budget plan that calls for a sharp increase in military spending and stark cuts across much of the rest of the government including the elimination of dozens …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research  —  President Trump's budget calls for a seismic disruption in government-funded medical and scientific research.  The cuts are deep and broad.  —  They also go beyond what many political observers expected.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Steep Cuts Face Rebuff in Congress Even With GOP Control
Discussion: Politico and Refinery29
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A day in the life of a poor American under Trump's proposed budget
Bloomberg:
Trump Budget Plan Declares War on ‘War on Poverty’ Programs
Washington Post:
What's getting cut in Trump's budget
Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn Worked for Several Russian Companies, Was Paid More Than $50,000, Documents Show  —  Former Trump national security adviser had business connections with Russia beyond RT that hadn't been previously known  —  President Trump's former national security adviser, Mike Flynn …
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump adviser Flynn paid by multiple Russia-related entities, new records show  —  Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser amid controversy over his contacts with Russia's ambassador, collected nearly $68,000 in fees and expenses from Russia-related entities in 2015 …
Discussion: ABC News, ThinkProgress, CNN and The Week
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Moscow paid $45,000 for Flynn's 2015 talk, documents show  —  RT, the Russian state-owned television network described by U.S. intelligence officials as “the Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet,” paid $45,386 for former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn to fly …
Discussion: CNBC and Raw Story
Kyle Becker / IJR:
Ex-President Obama Made ‘Surprise Visit’ to Hawaii, Just Days Before Judge Issued Travel Ban Ruling  —  Former president Barack Obama made a “surprise visit” to Oahu this week, just days ahead of a controversial ruling on President Trump's new travel ban executive order issued by a Hawaiian judge.
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump's attacks on judges who don't agree with him might be alienating the judges who do
Discussion: ABC News and New York Magazine
Nivea Serrao / EW.com:
Chelsea Clinton announces new picture book, She Persisted  —  Count Chelsea Clinton among the many people whom Elizabeth Warren inspired when she refused to be silenced in the Senate.  —  Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mulvaney justifies budget: We can't ask a coal miner to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting  —  As they fleshed out the budget blueprint released Thursday morning by the White House, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said officials from the administration …
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Science:
NIH, DOE Office of Science face deep cuts in Trump's first budget
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Can Big Bird survive Trump?
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
McDonald's tweets to Trump: ‘You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President’  —  McDonald's' in a tweet on its corporate account called President Trump “a disgusting excuse of a President” on Thursday morning.  —  The tweet, which was briefly pinned to the top of the account before being deleted …
Yashar Ali / Mother Jones:
Secret Service Agents Under Investigation for Taking Photos of Donald Trump's Sleeping Grandson  —  A source with knowledge of the information tells Mother Jones that two Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect Donald Trump III, President Donald Trump's grandson, took selfies with the eight year old while he was sleeping.
J. D. Vance / New York Times:
Why I'm Moving Home  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — In recent months, I've frequently found myself in places hit hard by manufacturing job losses, speaking to people affected in various ways.  Sometimes, the conversation turns to the conflict people feel between the love of their home and the desire to leave in search of better work.
Discussion: Althouse
Sophie Gilbert / The Atlantic:
The Real Cost of Abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts  —  On Thursday morning, President Trump's proposal for the federal budget confirmed a fact long suspected: the proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities …
Discussion: NPR, more at Mediagazer »
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Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Stephen Bannon Is a Fan of a French Philosopher...Who Was an Anti-Semite and a Nazi Supporter  —  Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump's chief strategist, recently spoke approvingly of the ideas of an anti-Semitic French intellectual who was sentenced to life in prison for cooperating with the Nazis during World War II.
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Lack of Oxford Comma Costs Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute  —  A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Sara Chodosh / Popular Science:
Humpback whales are organizing in huge numbers, and no one knows why  —  It flies in the face of typical humpback behavior  —  The world is ending and only the whales know.  At least, that's one explanation.  Humpback whales are normally pretty solitary—scientists used to call groups of 10 to 20 “large.”
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and AOL
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Debt ceiling returns, creating new headache for GOP  —  The legal limit on how much the United States government can borrow returns on Thursday, potentially setting up an intense political battle in Congress.  —  Lawmakers will have until sometime this autumn to raise the debt ceiling …
 
 
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Marcie Bianco / Vox:
Wendy Davis on why women need to drop the “being nice” act
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Disciples of a False Prophet
Henry Olsen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The Democrats' stance on immigration will lead to electoral disaster
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Rand Paul Responds to John McCain: Senator From Arizona Is “Unhinged” and “Past His Prime”
Discussion: Sputnik International
Washington Post:
Tillerson says diplomacy with North Korea has ‘failed,’ Pyongyang warns of war
Discussion: Hot Air and Associated Press
Snejana Farberov / Daily Mail:
Pro-Trump radio host Michael Savage claims he was assaulted while having dinner with his toy poodle Teddy
Discussion: IJR, TheBlaze and TMZ.com
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Dutch elections: Turkish minister claims ‘holy wars will soon begin in Europe’ after Geert Wilders beaten
 Earlier Items: 
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Neil Gorsuch Helped Defend Disputed Bush-Era Terror Policies
The Hill:
Conservative RSC says it's close to backing ObamaCare repeal bill
Discussion: Mother Jones
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Trump nominates Boeing VP for deputy Defense secretary
Discussion: RedState, Axios and Shakesville
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Immigrants are going hungry so Trump won't deport them
Sam Knight / The Guardian:
Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen's death
Discussion: Refinery29
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Increasing Significance of the Decline of Men
 

 
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