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1:20 PM ET, March 17, 2018

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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Lawyer: It's Time to End the Mueller Probe … President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down the Mueller probe.  —  Reached for comment by email about the firing …
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New York Times:
Andrew McCabe, a Target of Trump's F.B.I. Scorn, Is Fired Over Candor Questions  —  WASHINGTON — Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director and a frequent target of President Trump's scorn, was fired Friday after the Justice Department rejected an appeal that would have let him retire this weekend.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Lawyers Up … Andrew McCabe, formerly the deputy director of the FBI, has lawyered up.  Michael Bromwich of the Bromwich Group confirmed to The Daily Beast that he is representing McCabe for the purposes of the matter that led to his firing.
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 …
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 …
CNN:
READ: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's statement on his firing  —  (CNN)Statement by Andrew McCabe:  —  I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years.  I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
McCabe's Firing Chips Away at the Justice Department's Independence  —  Andrew McCabe, a former acting and deputy FBI director who had drawn the ire of President Trump, was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday evening, a decision that raises troubling questions about the independence …
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Says Special Counsel Inquiry Should Be Ended  —  A lawyer for President Trump said on Saturday that Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who is overseeing the special counsel's investigation into ties between Russia and Mr. Trump's campaign, should end the inquiry.
The Daily Beast:
McCabe: Trump's ‘Ongoing War’ On FBI Led to My Firing
Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer calls on Justice Department to immediately end Russia probe
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
Mike Levine / ABC News:
In his own words: McCabe claims firing part of ‘ongoing assault’ on Russia probe
Discussion: RedState, The Hill and IJR
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's fiery statement about Sessions's decision to fire him
Discussion: Common Dreams
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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.
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook bans Trump campaign's data analytics firm for taking user data
Axios:
John Kelly's day from hell  —  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly started yesterday with prescient bravado.  —  What we're hearing... The retired four-star Marine general told about 20 West Wing officials — including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster — in the 8 a.m. senior staff meeting …
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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.
miamiherald:
‘My little girl was trapped’: FIU student Alexa Duran died in bridge collapse, dad says  —  Florida International University student Alexa Duran was driving her gray Toyota SUV under a pedestrian bridge in front of the university on Thursday when it collapsed, trapping her car beneath the rubble.
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Engineer of Florida Bridge Reported Cracks Days Before Collapse
Discussion: The Week
miamiherald:
Bridge designer left state voice mail about cracks days before FIU bridge collapsed
Discussion: Axios
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 …
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump lawyer files to move Stormy Daniels lawsuit to federal court
Discussion: The Week and Daily Kos
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Mueller's Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards  —  Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes — and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable.  —  These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's failure …
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
History won't be kind, Republicans  —  THE NATION'S intelligence community concluded long ago that the Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election in an effort to hurt the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and help the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
The Intercept:
Democrats Want to Subpoena Apple to Find Out When Key Administration Officials Downloaded Encrypted Messaging Apps  —  On Wednesday, House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee released a memo laying out the steps they would have taken had they been in charge of the Trump-Russia investigation …
Matthew Bodner / Washington Post:
Russia to expel 23 British diplomats, close consulate in escalating row over poisoned ex-spy  —  MOSCOW — Russia will expel 23 British diplomats and close the British consulate in St. Petersburg in as part of its response to London's decision to expel Russian diplomats in an escalating row …
Discussion: Vox, Splinter and The Daily Caller
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James Marson / Wall Street Journal:   Russia to Expel 23 U.K. Diplomats as Spy Row Intensifies
Rafael Olmeda / Sun-Sentinel:
School officials worried about Nikolas Cruz and guns 18 months before mass shooting  —  Sun Sentinel  —  Eighteen months before Nikolas Cruz shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, staff were so worried about his fascination with guns that they banned him from practicing shooting skills …
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Charles Bethea / New Yorker:   The Troubled Tenure of Scott Israel, Sheriff of Broward County
 
 
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Josh Meyer / Politico:
FEC probes whether NRA got illegal Russian donations
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Secretive religious charity run by top US housing officials raises questions
Liz Goodwin / BostonGlobe.com:
In the shadow of a president's wrath: Visa lottery recipients tell their side of the story
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In California's rural, conservative north, there are big dreams for cleaving the state
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Eric Russell / Press Herald:
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Paul Demko / Politico:
Obamacare insurers just had their best year ever — despite Trump
Kathy Dobie / New York Magazine:
To Catch a Predator  —  The NYPD's top sex-crimes investigator tried …
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
National debt hits $21 trillion
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Corn? Wheat? It's All the Same to the New Yorker!
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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
 
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