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4:50 PM ET, March 13, 2018

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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Personal Assistant Is Fired  —  John McEntee was escorted out of White House for unspecified security issue  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted out of the White House on Monday, two senior administration officials said.
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Washington Post:
Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief Pompeo … President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.
Wall Street Journal:
‘Rex, Eat the Salad:’ Inside the Awkward Relationship Between Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump  —  Cabinet post was a sharp change for a former Exxon Mobil CEO who was used to calling the shots  —  WASHINGTON—In a private room in China's Great Hall of the People in November …
Discussion: The Root, Splinter and Raw Story
CNN:
Longtime Trump aide fired over financial crime investigation  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source familiar with his firing told CNN.
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
New C.I.A. Deputy Director, Gina Haspel, Had Leading Role in Torture  —  WASHINGTON — As a clandestine officer at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Rex Tillerson has been fired.  Experts say he did damage that could last “a generation.”  —  Tillerson was “one of the worst secretaries of state” in modern history, according to experts from across the political spectrum.  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired by President Donald Trump …
New York Times:
Trump Answers Questions on Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo: Full Transcript  —  President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ousted Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and intended to replaced him with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director.  —  Mr. Trump answered questions about the shake …
Associated Press:
Trump fires Tillerson at State, replacing with CIA's Pompeo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, ending Tillerson's difficult tenure by tweeting an ouster …
New York Times:
Rex Tillerson Out as Trump's Secretary of State, Replaced by Mike Pompeo  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ousted Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and will replace him with Mike Pompeo, now the C.I.A. director, ending the 14-month tenure of the nation's chief diplomat …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Key vacancies at the top at State Department
New York Times:
John McEntee, Trump Aide, Is Forced Out Over Security Issue, but Joins Re-election Campaign
Discussion: Politico
The Daily Beast:
State Department Staffers Cry ‘Hallelujah’ Over Rex Tillerson's Downfall
Discussion: Washington Post
NBC News:
Tillerson says U.K. spy poisoning ‘clearly’ came from Russia
Washington Post:
In the end, no one was more surprised that Tillerson was fired than Tillerson
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios
Daily Mail:
Trump dramatically FIRES Rex Tillerson on Twitter without telling him personally …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Rex Tillerson gets to keep the big tax break he got as secretary of state
Discussion: Raw Story
mccain.senate.gov:   STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON LEADERSHIP CHANGES AT STATE DEPARTMENT & CIA
Reuters:   White House shakeup shows Trump tired of hearing ‘no’ for an answer
Elise Labott / CNN:
White House fires top Tillerson aide
Discussion: CBS News and Shareblue Media
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Gina Haspel, Trump's CIA Pick, Ran a Laboratory for Torture
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov found dead at his London home  —  Close friend of late oligarch Boris Berezovsky claimed political asylum in UK after being convicted of fraud … A Russian exile who was close friends with the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in his London home, his lawyer has said.
Discussion: NPR and The Daily Caller
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Roland Oliphant / Telegraph:
Russian businessman and close associate of Boris Berezovsky found dead in Britain, lawyer says  —  A close associate of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in Britain, it has been reported.  —  Nikolai Glushkov, a former deputy director of Aeroflot, died at the age of 69 …
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
ICE spokesman resigns, citing fabrications by agency chief, Sessions, about Calif. immigrant arrests … The San Francisco spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resigned over what he described as “false” and “misleading” statements made by top-ranking officials …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
ICE spokesman quits over officials' claim of 800 eluding arrest
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Manafort could face ‘rest of life in prison,’ judge says  —  Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, runs a significant risk of spending the rest of his life in prison and the evidence against him by special counsel Robert Mueller's office seems strong, a federal judge declared in an order made public on Tuesday.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
CNN:
Trump asking for advice on Stormy Daniels situation  —  Daniels offers to return hush money to Trump  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been seeking counsel from confidantes on how he should handle the Stormy Daniels situation, a source close to the President tells CNN.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:   Stormy Daniels discussed alleged affair with Trump on 2007 radio show, host says
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
A Tale of Two Women, and Two Eras
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Techdirt
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Roger Stone claimed contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016, according to two associates … In the spring of 2016, longtime political operative Roger Stone had a phone conversation that would later seem prophetic, according to the person on the other end of the line.
Tom Shortell / Morning Call:
Confused voters try to figure out who's voting in Pennsylvania's special election  —  Of The Morning Call  —  Voters in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District are heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck special election that's caught national attention.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Alex Roarty / Press Association:
Abortion debate is over inside the Democratic Party  —  Conor Lamb is a Marine, talks tough on crime, and sounds downright Republican on an issue like natural gas fracking — exactly the type of politician Democrats have traditionally turned to when contesting elections in deeply conservative areas.
Eric Sullivan / Esquire:
Shia LaBeouf Is Ready To Talk About It  —  The actor sets out to save his career—and his soul.  —  PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW BROOKES  —  Shia LaBeouf is nervous about this story—"I have so much fear about this thing," he confesses to me when we first meet—and it drives him to do what he's always done …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Harry Pettit / Daily Mail:
Huge solar storm set to slam Earth tomorrow  — It coincides with the formation of ‘equinox cracks’ in the sun, which form around the equinoxes on March 20 and September 23 and weaken the magnetic field  —  By , HARRY PETTIT FOR MAILONLINE  —  A huge solar storm is heading for Earth, and it's likely to hit tomorrow.
Discussion: Mashable
Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
How Conservative Activists Catfished Twitter  —  Mo Norai has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade.  He's done stints at Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple, but only as a contract worker, meaning he has missed out on the tech giants' storied perks, benefits and job security.
Connor Sheets / al.com:
Etowah sheriff pockets $750k in jail food funds, buys $740k beach house  —  Etowah sheriff pocketed over $750,000 in inmate-feeding funds  —  In September, Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin and his wife Karen purchased an orange four-bedroom house with an in-ground pool and canal access …
Discussion: The Root
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Shane Smith: I'm Stepping Down as Vice CEO  —  Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith announced Tuesday afternoon that he is stepping down from the media company's top role.  In a memo to staff, obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast, Smith confirmed that his friend, former A&E Networks CEO Nancy Dubuc …
 
 
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Christian Gollayan / New York Post:
Dog dies after United flight attendant forces it into overhead bin
Discussion: FOX 61
Sun-Sentinel:
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and NPR
Aaron Gordon / Village Voice:
‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
Michael Wilner / Jerusalem Post:
Israeli officials meet Qatari, Saudi and UAE counterparts at White House
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and Daily Wire
Ryan Lovelace / National Law Journal:
Lawyer for Assange Leaves Miller & Chevalier as Mueller Probe Heats Up
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump demands aides pump up anti-China tariffs
David Welch / Bloomberg:
GM Plans to Launch Airbnb for Your Car
 Earlier Items: 
Circa:
Hillary Clinton: US did not ‘deserve’ Trump presidency
Summer Ballentine / Columbia Missourian:
Greitens likely won't campaign for Hawley for U.S. Senate
Discussion: Political Wire
US Department of State:
I. Steven (Steve) Goldstein
Discussion: Breitbart and CNBC
New York Times:
Joseph Percoco, Ex-Cuomo Aide, Found Guilty in Corruption Trial
New York Times:
The Needle's Back. Maybe This Time, It Will Really Be Wrong.
Michael Doran / National Review:
The Real Collusion Story
CNN:
FBI tried to contact ‘sex coaches’ in Thai jail
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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