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12:45 PM ET, March 18, 2018

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Assails Mueller, Drawing Rebukes From Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump appeared on Sunday to abandon a strategy of deferring to the special counsel examining Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, lashing out at what he characterized as a partisan investigation …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Sources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Gowdy to Trump: ‘When you are innocent ... act like it’  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) urged President Donald Trump and his lawyer on Sunday to stop flailing at special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and to let the probe continue unimpeded.  —  “When you are innocent ... act like it …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump rails against Mueller investigation, dismisses McCabe's notes as ‘Fake Memos’ … President Trump fired off angry tweets Sunday morning railing against the Justice Department special counsel's Russia investigation and attacking the integrity of former FBI director James B. Comey and his former deputy …
Axios:
What McCabe told Mueller  —  Andrew McCabe says President Trump asked him: “What was it like when your wife lost? ...  So tell me, what was it like to lose?”  McCabe — the former FBI deputy director who was fired Friday night, 26 hours short of being eligible for a full pension …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Jeff Sessions may have violated his recusal pledge when he fired Andrew McCabe  —  Making the Justice Department inspector general's report public would help clear things up.  —  On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, allegedly …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Andrew McCabe was just offered a job by a congressman so he can get his full retirement.  And it just might work. … That's one way of protesting Andrew McCabe's firing as deputy FBI director, roughly a day before he was set to retire: At least one Democratic congressman has offered McCabe …
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump attacks FBI and Mueller investigation in morning tweets
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Sessions' Firing McCabe Violated His Promise to Recuse
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
CNN:
Mueller has McCabe memos documenting conversations with Trump
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
After McCabe firing, Trump attacks FBI, and his lawyer says Russia probe must end
New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Craven Firing of Andrew McCabe
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false documents with NYC  —  NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
New York Times:
Data Firm Tied to Trump Campaign Talked Business With Russians  —  When the Russia question came up during a hearing at the British Parliament last month, Alexander Nix did not hesitate.  —  “We've never worked in Russia,” said Mr. Nix, head of a data consulting firm that advised the Trump campaign on targeting voters.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
New York professor sues Cambridge Analytica to find out what it knows about him
The Guardian:   Staff claim Cambridge Analytica ignored US ban on foreigners working on elections
The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university
Ali Dukakis / ABC News:   Facebook blocks data group tied to 2016 Trump campaign
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Democrats hold double-digit lead for 2018 midterm elections  —  A new NBC News/WSJ poll also shows President Trump's approval ratings edging up  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats enjoy a 10-point advantage over Republicans in congressional preference for the 2018 midterm elections …
Discussion: Political Wire, Vox, Politicus USA and Axios
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Regain Double-Digit Advantage Over GOP in Voter Sentiment Poll  —  Republicans lost ground, even as Americans adopted more favorable view of Trump's job  —  Democrats have regained a double-digit advantage over Republicans as the 2018 midterm congressional campaign intensifies …
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
Britain Says It Has Proof Russia Stockpiled Lethal Nerve Agent  —  London — Britain has evidence that Russia has been manufacturing and stockpiling the nerve agent used in an attack on a former Russian double agent on British soil, the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said on Sunday.
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Terry Moran / ABC News:   Russian ex-spy's poisoning in UK believed from nerve agent in car vents; at least 38 others sickened: Sources
New York Times:
Kris Kobach's Voting Sham Gets Exposed in Court  —  This is part of a series on voting in America, which will run up to Election Day in November.  For part 1, on the importance of voting, go here.  —  The modern American crusade against voter fraud has always been propelled by faith.
Jeff Roe / New York Times:
Don't Run From Trump  —  HOUSTON — I'm here to tell my fellow Republicans, in particular Republican members of Congress and the Republican consulting class: You can run, but you can't hide.  —  President Trump may not be on the ballot in November, but the election will be a referendum on him …
 
 
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Legend says a load of Union gold went missing during the Civil War. Did the FBI just find it?
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
Women's March members bail over ties to Farrakhan
Discussion: IJR and Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
Nancy Pelosi Wants to Lead. More Democratic Candidates Want Her Out.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Edward Malnick / Telegraph:
Boris Johnson urged to place Russia sanctions on G7 agenda
Wall Street Journal:
Elizabeth Warren's Boomerang
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Dear Abby: A lesson for the midterms
Chris Riotta / Mediaite:
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump and the Truth: A President Tests His Own Credibility
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he's bought it.
Yonhap News Agency:
(LEAD) N.K. diplomat heads to Finland for semiofficial talks with Washington, Seoul
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Outrage over New Yorker mag's ‘repulsive’ body-shaming of President Trump
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Cinderella Story? It's True for U.M.B.C. in Academics, Too
Frances Stead Sellers / Washington Post:
Trump lawyer's efforts to suppress Stormy Daniels started in 2011
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Streiff / RedState:
John Kelly Learns a Hard Lesson About the Reality of the White House Press Corps