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10:50 PM ET, March 16, 2018

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The Daily Beast:
John Kelly: Rex Tillerson Was on the Toilet When I Told Him He'd Be Getting Fired … Reporters gathered at the White House on Friday were stunned when Chief of Staff John Kelly shared a very embarrassing story about outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Kelly says Trump probably contributing to staff chaos stories  —  John Kelly acknowledged in an off-the-record session with reporters today that his boss, Donald Trump, is likely speculating about staff moves to people outside the White House and that reporters are then talking to those people.
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump and John Kelly Reach Truce  —  White House chief of staff had made cryptic comments suggesting he may have been the next senior adviser to step down  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly have settled on a truce, at least temporarily …
CNN:
Trump settles in as producer in chief
Discussion: The Root
Mark Landler / New York Times:   Spies, Not Diplomats, Take Lead Role in Planning Trump's North Korea Meeting
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump gives McMaster the Tillerson treatment
Washington Post:
FBI's Andrew McCabe is fired just before retiring.  Former deputy director became lightning rod for Clinton email and Russia probes.  —  McCabe, who had stepped down from his post earlier this year but remained an FBI employee, had been accused by the Justice Department's inspector general …
Discussion: twitchy.com and RedState
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI's Andrew McCabe is fired a little more than 24 hours before he could retire … Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire.  —  Sessions announced the decision in a statement …
Mike Levine / ABC News:   Former FBI deputy director fired just days before retirement to kick in
Wall Street Journal:
Andrew McCabe and Consequences
Discussion: RedState and National Review
Paul Grewal / Facebook:
Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook  —  We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook.  Given the public prominence of this organization, we want to take a moment to explain how we came to this decision and why.
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Daniels' lawyer says some alleged incidents took place during Trump presidency  —  Lawyer: Stormy Daniels was physically threatened  —  Washington (CNN)The lawyer representing the adult film star Stormy Daniels alleges that some of the accusations she's making against President Donald Trump occurred while Trump was in office.
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Washington Post:
Trump attorney accuses Stormy Daniels of violating nondisclosure agreement 20 times, claims right to seek $20 million in damages  —  Attorney Michael Cohen made the claim in papers filed in federal court Friday.  Cohen formed a limited liability corporation to strike the nondisclosure agreement …
Discussion: Mediaite
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:
Trump Moves Stormy Daniels Hush Money Suit to Federal Court
Discussion: Vox, CNN and Joe.My.God.
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Engineer of Florida Bridge Reported Cracks Days Before Collapse  —  MIAMI — An engineer reported cracks on a newly installed pedestrian bridge two days before it collapsed on a busy roadway here, killing at least six people, state officials said on Friday.  —  The report, by the lead engineer …
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Justice Department says it's considering public disclosure of Carter Page surveillance order  —  Former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page told Good Morning America hosts that he's never communicated with the president.  Carter is the focus of a Republican memo alleging the FBI abused surveillance rules to spy on him.
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Democrats May Seek Prosecution of Witnesses Who Misled House Intelligence Committee
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Marsh / Page Six:
Vanessa Trump hires criminal defense attorney for Donald Jr. divorce  —  Vanessa Trump hired a criminal defense attorney to represent her in her divorce from Donald Trump Jr. just as special counsel Robert Mueller subpoenaed the president's family business, The Post has learned.
CNN:
Pro-Trump group hires Carl Higbie, who shared N-Word laden post on Facebook in 2014  —  (CNN)WARNING: This story contains graphic language.  —  The new advocacy director at a nonprofit group aligned with President Donald Trump shared an N-word laden post written by someone else on Facebook in December 2014.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Mic and Raw Story
Tim Graham / The Buffalo News:
The O.J. Simpson interview: On prison, ‘retirement’ and football  —  In his first substantial interview in a decade and his first extensively about football since the 1990s, Simpson spoke to The Buffalo News earlier this week.  He talks about his time in prison, his life since his release, football, CTE and more.
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TMZ.com:
O.J. Simpson Rips Colin Kaepernick, ‘Bad Choice Attacking the Flag’
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Trump's CIA Has Set Up Teams To Kill Terrorists  —  “Small teams are locating and killing bad guys.  That's what we are doing.”  The official in charge of the hit teams was a senior aide to CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who Trump just nominated to be secretary of state.
Discussion: Task & Purpose, The Week and Daily Kos
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Brett Stevens / Splinter:
The Smearing of Gina Haspel  —  In 1942, Virginia Hall, the notorious Allied spy, fled France, with Nazi spyhunter Klaus Barbie hot on her trail, hiking the snowy mountains that make up the border with Spain.  The opportunity presented itself to get word to her handlers in London.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Black man beaten in Charlottesville found not guilty of assaulting white supremacist … A black man brutally beaten at last year's white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville — and who was later charged with assaulting a white nationalist — was acquitted Friday.
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Hacker Adrian Lamo dies at 37  —  The coroner confirmed Lamo's death, but the circumstances of his passing are not yet known.  —  Adrian Lamo, a well-known hacker, has died at 37.  —  His father, Mario, posted a brief tribute to his son in a Facebook group on Friday.
Discussion: RT and The Verge
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Rep. Louise Slaughter dies at 88: A ‘giant’ and trailblazer for women  —  Congresswoman Louise Slaughter died Friday at age 88.  She served the greater Rochester community, starting as a Monroe County legislator in 1976.  Wochit  —  CONNECT  —  On Capitol Hill she was known …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Academy President John Bailey Under Investigation for Sexual Harassment (EXCLUSIVE)  —  John Bailey, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is under investigation for allegations of sexual harassment.  —  The Academy received three harassment claims on Wednesday …
Jordan Valinsky / CNNMoney:
Snapchat stock loses $800 million after Rihanna responds to offensive ad  —  Rihanna slams Snapchat for mocking her assault  —  Rihanna is the latest celebrity to send Snap's stock sliding.  —  The singer tore into the app on Thursday for allowing an offensive ad to appear on its platform.
Paul Rosenzweig / Lawfare:
The Trump Malignancy and the Book That Will Not Be Written  —  The malignant deviancy of the Trump Administration and Trumpist supporters in Congress continues apace.  The decision of the House Intelligence committee Republicans to close their investigation into Russian interference …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Corn?  Wheat?  It's All the Same to the New Yorker!  —  I subscribed to the New Yorker for a number of years, but finally canceled my subscription when I couldn't take the magazine's left-wing politics any more.  Those were the days when the New Yorker was famous for its scrupulous fact-checking.
Discussion: New Yorker and The Daily Caller
Jacob Heilbrunn / Politico:
No, Really, This Is Normal.  Did You Forget Bush-Cheney?  —  President Donald Trump may have reached a temporary truce with his chief of staff, John Kelly, but Rex Tillerson and, maybe, H.R. McMaster are out.  Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel are in and so, perhaps, is John Bolton.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
 
 
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Exclusive: AIDS researcher favored to be next CDC chief
Discussion: Axios
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Alleged paperwork forgery forces Theresa Greenfield to resubmit candidacy at literally the last minute
Stefanos Chen / New York Times:
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Michael Flynn campaigning for California congressional candidate
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Ryan C. Brooks / BuzzFeed:
This Is B-A-D: Some Democrats Are Sick Of A DIRE Email Strategy
Gianluca Mezzofiore / CNN:
Ski-lift failure in Georgia sends people flying into the air
Discussion: thecut and WIS-TV
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Georgia GOP pushes elimination of Sunday voting to suppress black turnout
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Shiho Fukada / Bloomberg:
Japan's Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
John Kiriakou / Washington Post:
I went to prison for disclosing the CIA's torture. Gina Haspel helped cover it up.
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
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