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12:45 PM ET, April 4, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Susan Rice Unmasked  —  Obama's security adviser sought the name of at least one Trump official in intelligence reports.  —  Well, what do you know.  On the matter of who “unmasked” the names of Trump transition officials in U.S. intelligence reports, we now have one answer: Susan Rice, Barack Obama's national security adviser.
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CNN Goes on Rampage Against Susan Rice Bombshell, Instructs Viewers to Ignore Story  —  ‘We will not aid and abet the people trying to misinform you’  —  Since news broke Monday that the Obama Administration's National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, directed the “unmasking” …
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
I hope Susan Rice was keeping tabs on Trump's Russia ties.  —  The right-wing media is really excited about the new scoop from Eli Lake, national security columnist for Bloomberg View.  As connoisseurs of President Trump's Twitter feed know, in the alternative reality inhabited by the president …
Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
ABC, NBC Cover-Up Revelation Susan Rice Ordered Trump Aides Unmasked, CBS Defends  —  A massive revelation in the alleged surveillance of President Trump's aides broke Monday morning when Bloomberg reported that “[f]ormer National Security Adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons …
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
Former President Barack Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
McMaster staffing NSC with traditional GOP foreign policy hands
New York Post:
Fresh evidence the Russia ‘scandal’ is a Team Obama operation
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Susan Rice isn't a ‘smoking gun,’ but she does have some explaining to do
Discussion: Daily Wire and Power Line
Jay Caruso / RedState:
Dear CNN: Why Is a Former Obama Appointee Reporting on Susan Rice Revelation?
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Republican Health Proposal Would Undermine Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions  —  Throughout the debate to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump and Republican congressional leaders have insisted they would retain a crucial, popular part of the health law …
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Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
The House GOP Health Care Bill Is Very Much Alive  —  And it could be disastrous for the sick.  —  WASHINGTON House Republicans still don't have a deal to revive their health care bill, but the White House is laying the groundwork for negotiations to move quickly, meeting individually Monday …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Pence presents new healthcare offer to Freedom Caucus
Discussion: Breitbart, Axios and RedState
Scott Wong / The Hill:   Ryan tamps down expectations for new ObamaCare repeal bill
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Ryan says rekindled health-care talks in ‘conceptual stage’
Discussion: Shakesville
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Considers Far-Reaching Steps for ‘Extreme Vetting’  —  Foreigners entering U.S. could be forced to hand over phones, answer questions on ideology; changes could apply to allies like France and Germany  —  Foreigners who want to visit the U.S., even for a short trip …
The Daily Beast:
Assad Apparently ‘Gasses’ Civilians Days After Tillerson Hints He Can Stay in Power  —  Days ago, in Ankara, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled that the U.S. had no quarrel with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a man Tillerson's predecessor compared to Adolf Hitler after he slaughtered …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Washington Post:
Sessions orders Justice Department to review all police reform agreements  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to review reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide, saying it was necessary to ensure these pacts do not work against the Trump …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Sweeping Federal Review Could Affect Consent Decrees Nationwide
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mother Jones
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
A (probably futile) plea for sanity in the Senate  —  If you think there isn't enough extremism in American politics, this week's for you.  —  If all goes as expected, the week will conclude with the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court justice.  This outcome is lamentable.
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Washington Post:
Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel  —  The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Mercedes-Benz pulls ads from 'The O'Reilly Factor' — will others follow?  —  O'Reilly accuser: ‘My voice is not for sale’  —  Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it has “reassigned” its advertisements on “The O'Reilly Factor” following a report about five settlements with women who alleged sexual harassment …
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro  —  “If we've had a pause in upgrades and updates, we're sorry for that — what happened with the Mac Pro — and we're going to come out with something great to replace it.”  —  Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Wikipedia user ‘Sk-Gorka’ edited info about WH aide Sebastian Gorka's gun charge  —  (CNN)A Wikipedia user who goes by “Sk-Gorka” has extensively edited the Wikipedia page of White House aide Sebastian Gorka, including a section on criminal charges he faced for bringing a firearm into a Washington D.C. airport.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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NCAA.org:
NCAA Board of Governors' Position on HB2 Repeal  —  In August of 2016, the NCAA Board of Governors instructed the relocation of NCAA championships scheduled in North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year because of the cumulative impact HB2 had on local communities' ability to ensure a safe …
Donald J. Trump / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's Authoritarian Vision … Standing before the cheering throngs at the Republican National Convention last summer, Donald Trump bemoaned how special interests had rigged the country's politics and its economy, leaving Americans victimized by unfair trade deals, incompetent bureaucrats and spineless leaders.
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
CNN Had a Problem.  Donald Trump Solved It.  —  Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create.  —  At 3:58 on a recent Wednesday afternoon in Washington, CNN's largest control room was mostly empty but for a handful of producers hunched over control panels and …
Discussion: TVNewser
Ali Watkins / BuzzFeed:
A Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy  —  Carter Page told BuzzFeed News that he had been in contact with at least one Russian spy working undercover out of Moscow's UN office in 2013.  —  NEW YORK — A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents …
Tea Pain:
Data Patterns Suggest Trump Tower/Spectrum Health Ran a “Stealth Data Machine” With Russia  —  Jared Kushner is currently taking a victory lap, crowin' about his “Stealth Data Machine” that put Donald Trump over the top in the 2016 race.  Let's pry off the lid and peer into the inner-workings of this “Data Machine.”
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘If I have to get a lawyer, I will’: Trump voter upset the border wall will put her house on Mexico side  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Trump supporters in Texas are coming to the realization that their vote for the president may force some out them of their homes for less …
Discussion: CNN and The Root
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
‘It went off the rails almost immediately’: How Trump's messy transition led to a chaotic presidency  —  Two days after the November election, leaders of President Trump's transition team presented his inner circle with more than 100 names of candidates for key Cabinet and other senior positions in the new administration.
Discussion: Axios
Madison Park / CNN:
In a Trump-defying move, California's Senate passes sanctuary state bill  —  Sanctuary cities: what you need to know  —  San Francisco (CNN)In defiance of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, the California Senate passed a bill to limit state and local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Third Black Employee Sues Fox News for Racial Discrimination  —  Fox News' legal woes just keep getting bigger.  This morning, another black female employee in Fox News' payroll department is joining a racial discrimination lawsuit filed last week by two of her black colleagues.
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Kirsten Gillibrand Is Becoming a Progressive Champion.  Is a 2020 Run Next?  —  The Democrats' most unlikely holy warrior smells rebellion in the air.  —  As Kirsten Gillibrand ascended to the pulpit at the Bridge Street AME Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant in late February, the congregation seemed to tense with apprehension.
Discussion: twitchy.com
 
 
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Koch Brothers' Operatives Fill Top White House Positions, Ethics Forms Reveal
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
AP Story / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Border wall contractors brace for hostile site
Sam Thielman / The Guardian:
Tim Berners-Lee: selling private citizens' browsing data is ‘disgusting’
Discussion: Gizmodo, Raw Story and The Verge
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
At Trump's EPA, going to work can be an act of defiance
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Ill-Prepared to Stop Widespread Russian Information Warfare
Discussion: Shot in the Dark and Instapundit
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
What does the federal government spend your tax dollars on? Social insurance programs, mostly
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Tianna Gaines-Turner / Washington Post:
I told Paul Ryan what it's like to be poor. I wonder if he remembers me now.
Amna Nawaz / ABC News:
‘Young Turk’ online news host attempting a ‘hostile takeover’ of Democratic Party
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Name of Trump admin hire surfaced in Ashley Madison hack
Discussion: AOL
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Cummings calls Steve Bannon a ‘white supremacist-type’
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Mike Adams / Townhall.com:
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Fox News Cancels Red Eye
 

 
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William Christou / The Guardian:
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