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3:45 PM ET, March 29, 2017

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Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Antiabortion activists face 15 felony charges over undercover videos that targeted Planned Parenthood  —  David Daleiden, right, leaves a courtroom after a hearing in Houston last year.  (Pat Sullivan / AP)  —  Two antiabortion activists whose controversial undercover videos accused Planned …
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Two activists who filmed undercover videos of Planned Parenthood charged with 15 felonies  —  The two antiabortion activists who mounted a hidden-camera investigation against Planned Parenthood officials have been charged with 15 felonies for violating the privacy of health-care providers …
David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S POLITICAL CRONIES FILE DISCREDITED CHARGES AGAINST DAVID DALEIDEN  —  The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news.  They tried the same collusion with corrupt officials in Houston, TX and failed: both the charges and the DA were thrown out.
Fox News:
Former Obama official discloses rush to get intelligence on Trump team  —  A former top Obama administration official has acknowledged efforts by her colleagues to gather intelligence on Trump team ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and to conceal the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How the White House and Republicans Blew Up the House Russia Investigation  —  The evidence is now clear that the White House and Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, have worked together to halt what was previously billed as a sweeping investigation of Russian interference in last year's election.
Aidan Quigley / Politico:
Nunes tries to blame Democrats for troubled Russia probe  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Wednesday tried to blame Democrats for the troubles plaguing the panel's investigation into Russia's apparent meddling in the election, as a prominent moderate Republican cast doubt on the future of the House probe.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Devin Nunes Is Dangerous
Discussion: The Hill
Circa:
2011 NSA minimization procedures submitted to the FISA Court
Discussion: RedState
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Health care debacle takes toll on Trump  —  Voter perceptions of President Donald Trump's job performance have eroded following the failure of a long-promised health care bill through Congress, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  —  Trump's approval rating dropped …
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Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Red state Dems say no to Gorsuch, refuse to surrender stolen Supreme Court seat without a fight
Discussion: Townhall.com and Politico
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reeling Republicans desperate for a win on Gorsuch
Discussion: Raw Story
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
The Fundamental Dishonesty of the Gorsuch Hearings
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and electionlawblog.org
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination is on track to change the Senate — and further divide the country
Discussion: Shareblue
Houston Chronicle:
Beto O'Rourke to challenge Ted Cruz in Texas' 2018 Senate race  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat and ex-punk rocker who pulled a stunning upset to win his House seat six years ago, plans to declare his candidacy on Friday for the Senate seat held by Ted Cruz, according to Democratic sources in Texas.
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Democrat O'Rourke to take on Cruz for Senate in 2018
Discussion: Axios
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Trey Gowdy Stands Up For Nunes: I Don't Care If Info Came From White House Or Waffle House If It's True
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Interior secretary hints border wall could be on Mexican land  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said America can't give away the Rio Grande to Mexico in the process of building President Trump's signature border wall, implying the structure could wind up standing partially on Mexican land.
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Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Former Christie ally sentenced to 24 months in Bridgegate scandal  —  NEWARK — Bill Baroni, a former Republican state senator and ally of Gov. Chris Christie, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in the George Washington Bridge lane closures, a bizarre political stunt …
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ABC News:
Former aide to Gov. Chris Christie gets prison term in bridge scandal
Discussion: Politico
The Hill:
How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans  —  The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons.  False reassurance is given …
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Sean Spicer's kiss of death: ‘Phenomenal’  —  The health care debacle, the travel ban setback, difficulties with Mexico, a slew of empty positions across the government — all are symptoms or causes of President Donald Trump's rocky first few weeks in office.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News, AOL and National Review
Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
Chelsea Clinton: ‘I Am Not Running for Public Office’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Since the election, there's been endless chatter that Chelsea Clinton might follow in her parents' footsteps.  But in an interview with Variety, she quashed those rumors.  —  “I am not running for public office,” Clinton said.
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
2 Black Women Sue Fox News, Claiming Racial Discrimination  —  Fox News, whose chairman, Roger Ailes, was ousted last year after a string of sexual harassment claims, is facing new allegations of discrimination.  —  In a lawsuit filed Tuesday night in State Supreme Court in the Bronx …
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them  —  They betrayed you for chump change  —  Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data.  Lawmakers provided no credible reason …
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ABC News:
Woman in custody after ‘criminal’ incident near Capitol; police say ‘no nexus to terrorism’  —  U.S. Capitol Police have apprehended a female driver after she nearly hit several officers and struck another vehicle near the U.S. Capitol, police said this morning.
Michelle Krupa / CNN:
Russian dressing is actually from Nashua, New Hampshire  —  (CNN)The White House press secretary tried to twist a cap on reporters' questions Tuesday about the Trump team's alleged ties to the Kremlin.  —  “If the President puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russia connection,” Sean Spicer said.
Discussion: Breitbart
Adelle Nazarian / Breitbart:
Menendez to AIPAC: Steve Bannon a ‘White Nationalist’  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) took aim at President Donald Trump Chief White House Strategist Stephen K. Bannon on Tuesday, falsely claiming that “white nationalist dog whistles” were being “blown by Steve Bannon in the West Wing.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
How to lose friends and ‘exfoliate’ people — Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is caught between 2 worlds, and his friends are cutting ties  —  Signing up to carry out Donald Trump's vision of America has come at a cost to many of the president's closest allies.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Democrats Have a Shot in a Georgia District Dominated by Republicans  —  In a special election, anything can happen.  —  “Anything” may already be happening in the special election in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, heralded as a key test of whether Democrats can capitalize on President Trump's unpopularity.
New York Times:
President Trump Risks the Planet  —  That didn't take long.  —  Only 10 weeks into his presidency, and at great risk to future generations, Donald Trump has ordered the demolition of most of President Barack Obama's policies to combat climate change by reducing emissions from fossil fuels.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Favorite Fighter Jet Keeps Starving Pilots of Oxygen  —  Navy still has no solution to recurring ‘physiological events’  —  Trump favors Boeing's Super Hornet over Lockheed's F-35C  —  As President Donald Trump pushes for the Pentagon to buy more of Boeing Co.'s F-18 aircraft …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dow Jones Newswires:
Whatever Happened to Free Trade?  —  Companies and countries are scrambling to adjust to a strange new world created by a decade of economic retrenchment and an upswing in populism.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Boston Herald:
Lawmaker's post warning of raids in Brockton roils ICE officials  —  Federal immigration officials are blasting a Brockton lawmaker for inciting “panic” after she took to Facebook to warn illegal immigrants about a rumored ICE sweep — a brazen move one fellow lawmaker said could put “lives in danger.”
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's poll numbers are low.  But the people who put him in office say it's not time to judge him — yet  —  Trump supporter David Ambrulavage attends a minor league hockey game at the Mohegan Sun Arena — where Donald Trump held a rally during the election — in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times)
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Census: Immigration to bust 100-year record, continue surging
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Dems Could Take House in 2018  —  GOP majority looks shaky …
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Senate Intel Committee May Interview Ex-UK Spy Christopher Steele
Discussion: CNBC
David Daley / Washington Post:
Trump can't stop the Freedom Caucus. He has GOP gerrymandering to blame.
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Graham Moomaw / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Anti-establishment GOP candidate in Virginia governor's race looks to ride Confederate nostalgia to Richmond
Discussion: Washington Post and Politicus USA
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
Tom Perriello Is Not Bernie Sanders
Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg:
Domino's Will Begin Using Robots to Deliver Pizzas in Europe
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Anna Palmer / Politico:
SCOOP: WHITE HOUSE eyeing young lawyers for judgeships …
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
President Trump's company pursues second Washington hotel
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Embattled DNC Asks All Staffers For Resignation Letters
 

 
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Esha Dey / Bloomberg:
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