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12:00 PM ET, April 1, 2017

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
11 key points to remember about Trump-Russia affair  —  The Trump Russia investigation has spread in so many directions, and sparked so much crazy commentary, that it's hard to keep track of it all.  So here is a guide to help you keep your eye on the ball:  —  1) Substance is what matters, Part 1.
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Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Political Walls Are Closing In On Donald Trump  —  Not 100 days into the Trump presidency, one thing is abundantly clear: it is completely unsustainable as it is operating today.  —  There are even rumblings in the seams of Washington that Trump may not last the summer …
Fox News:
Intelligence official who ‘unmasked’ Trump associates is ‘very high up,’ source says  —  The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday.
Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
More and more reports are coming out that show the Obama administration had surveilled …
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Last Refuge
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Devin Nunes Knows
Discussion: Breitbart
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kushner's privileged status stokes resentment in White House  —  In a White House where President Donald Trump commands reverence, Jared Kushner often refers to the president by one name: Donald.  And while cable TV can dominate the president's mood and set the agenda for senior administration staff …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Bannon earned more than half a million dollars from entities tied to GOP donors  —  Steve Bannon, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, earned more than half a million dollars last year from entities linked to a pair of major conservative donors, according to documents released …
New York Times:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Still Benefiting From Business Empire, Filings Show  —  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump's daughter and son-in-law, will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business still worth as much as $741 million …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Stephen K. Bannon, architect of anti-globalist policies, got rich as a global capitalist
Discussion: Forbes
Wall Street Journal:
President Trump's Advisers Made Big Money, Disclosures Show
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:   Bannon's Made Millions in Shaping Right-Wing Thought
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump's closest aides hail from ranks of financial elite
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mediaite
New York Times:
Bill O'Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up  —  About $13 million has been paid out over the years to address complaints from women about Mr. O'Reilly's behavior.  He denies the claims have merit.  —  For nearly two decades, Bill O'Reilly has been Fox News's top asset …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Democrats Know the Election Was Legitimate but Persist in a Dangerous Fraud  —  Putin is smiling.  —  orrifying!" inveighed an indignant Hillary Clinton at the last presidential debate, less than three weeks before Election Day.  What so horrified her?  Donald Trump's refusal to pledge …
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
You're the puppet: Spicer revives Trump's unhinged attacks on Clinton as Russia scandal grows
Discussion: NBC News
Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
Tom Price Intervened on Rule That Would Hurt Drug Profits, the Same Day He Acquired Drug Stock  —  On the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
White House ponders reorganization after health care debacle  —  Less than three months into Donald Trump's White House, top advisers are exploring organizational changes to stabilize an administration consumed by crisis and chaos.  —  Following the failure to advance health-care legislation …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
April Ryan finds herself in the Trump spotlight
Discussion: Daily Kos
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump's White House struggles to get out from under Russia controversy
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump tells NBC to stop covering Russia story  —  President Trump on Saturday called for NBC News to devote more attention to his unproven claims that President Obama spied on him and stop covering the investigations into Russia's interference in the election.
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Stephen King / The Guardian:
Stephen King on Donald Trump: ‘How do such men rise?  First as a joke’  —  The only way to find out: inject a panel of fictional voters with truth serum...  started thinking Donald Trump might win the presidency in September of 2016.  By the end of October, I was almost sure.
CNN:
National Security Council No. 2 offered post in Singapore  —  (CNN)K.T. McFarland, a former Fox News analyst brought in as the No. 2 at the National Security Council by the fired national security adviser Michael Flynn, has been offered the post of US ambassador to Singapore, sources familiar with the situation tell CNN.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Grassley asks State for details on Clinton's security clearance
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
I-85 collapse: Three arrested after major fire under Atlanta highway  —  Atlanta (CNN)A man has been arrested on suspicion of intentionally setting a huge fire that brought down part of an elevated interstate highway in Atlanta, a collapse that is expected to complicate traffic for months in one of the nation's most congested cities.
Discussion: The Root, The Week and KTLA
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
New EPA documents reveal even deeper proposed cuts to staff and programs  —  The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new more detailed plan for laying off 25 percent of its employees and scrapping more than 50 programs including pesticide safety, water runoff control …
Discussion: Vox
 
 
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Deborah Yetter / Courier-Journal:
Judge temporarily stops abortion clinic shutdown
Discussion: CNN and LifeNews.com
Sophia Bollag / Associated Press:
FEDERAL OFFICIALS DEFEND IMMIGRATION ARRESTS IN COURTHOUSES
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Trump set to sign executive orders to stop trade abuses
Discussion: RedState
Steven Camarota / Foreign Affairs:
The Case Against Immigration  —  Why the United States Should Look Out for Itself
CNN:
First on CNN: New terrorist laptop bombs may evade airport security, intel sources say
Discussion: twitchy.com
Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
Nikki Haley is kicking anti-Semites in the UN to the curb
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Joe Biden indirectly knocks Clinton's failed campaign
Discussion: Liberal Values, Shakesville and AOL
Ruth Sherlock / Telegraph:
Exclusive: The most powerful Briton in America on what it's really like in Donald Trump's White House
Discussion: Business Insider
New York Times:
‘Penis Seat’ Causes Double Takes on Mexico City Subway
Discussion: NPR and Althouse
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Favorite Health-Care Idea Is to Stick It to Mothers
Discussion: Washington Post
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
After ‘classy’ N.C. restaurant bans kids, critics fume — and reservations surge
Discussion: Mother Jones
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
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Hannah Lang / Reuters:
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