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9:45 AM ET, March 19, 2018

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Newly Emboldened, Trump Says What He Really Feels  —  For months, President Trump's legal advisers implored him to avoid so much as mentioning the name of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, in his tweets, and to do nothing to provoke him or suggest his investigation is not proper.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
A huge clue about Mueller's endgame  —  Axios has learned that special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump's lawyers.  The top two topics that Mueller has expressed interest in so far …
Alex Ward / Vox:
Andrew McCabe's firing and Trump's anti-Mueller tirade, explained  —  “The president of the United States is unhinged.”  —  President Donald Trump's unprecedented attacks on federal law enforcement turned even more vindictive over a series of jarring events last weekend.
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump: Expect Trump to Attack Mueller More Directly … On Saturday, Donald Trump did something he'd never done before, something his closest advisers had warned him not to do: He tweeted Robert Mueller's name.  —  But what seemed like a frantic, even panicked, bit of late-night lashing-out is actually a sign of things to come.
Bob Bauer / Lawfare:
The President and His Lawyers, Part II: The Attorney General and the Saturday Night Pre-Massacre
Discussion: RedState, USA Today and CNN
Howard Altman / Tampa Bay Times:   Former FBI agent Fred Humphries calls McCabe firing justified
Financial Times:
Cambridge Analytica scrambles to halt Channel 4 exposé  —  Cambridge Analytica, the data firm alleged to have used the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge in its work for Donald Trump's election campaign, is trying to stop the broadcast …
Discussion: Raw Story, BostonGlobe.com and Mediaite
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Facebook investigating employee's links to Cambridge Analytica  —  Social media giants grilled on ‘fake news’  —  Facebook told CNN it is looking into ties between one of its current employees and Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Under Pressure Over Data Breach
Discussion: CNNMoney
Matt Rosoff / CNBC:
Facebook is facing its biggest test ever — and its lack of leadership could sink the company
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Democrats fume over Parscale's limited answers on Russian digital meddling
Discussion: Political Wire and CANNONFIRE
Washington Post:
Facebook may have violated FTC privacy deal, say former federal officials, triggering risk of massive fines
New York Times:
Facebook's Role in Data Misuse Sets Off a Storm on Two Continents
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
What Hope Hicks Knows  —  The departure of the Trump whisperer has left the White House in even deeper chaos.  Which surely pleases some outsiders angling to get back in.  —  On the morning of Wednesday, February 28, Hope Hicks arrived at the White House just after 8 a.m. Within a week …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump had senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements.  They're supposed to last beyond his presidency. … Back in April 2016, when the notion of Donald Trump in the White House still seemed fanciful, The Post's Robert Costa and Bob Woodward sat down with Trump, and Costa, at one point …
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KCEN-TV:
Trump pushed White House staff to sign non-disclosure agreements: report
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Two injured in explosion in Austin, police say … Austin police are investigating an explosion on the city's southwest side that caused multiple injuries, authorities said Sunday night.  —  Two men in their 20s were injured in the explosion on the 4800 block of Dawn Song Dr. …
Discussion: The Root and Outside the Beltway
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Dakin Andone / CNN:
Austin bombs were ‘meant to send a message,’ authorities believe
Discussion: WPIX 11 New York, fox8.com and KTLA
Wil Cruz / ABC News:
Explosion in Austin injures 2 men, authorities say; fourth incident this month
Washington Post:
D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’ … A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather.  —  D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. …
New York Times:
Sons of Rich Black Families Fare No Better Than Sons of Working-Class Whites  —  Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds, according to a sweeping …
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Washington Post:
Kushner Companies confirms meeting with Qatar on financing … Jared Kushner's father met with Qatar's finance minister three months after President Trump's inauguration, a New York City session at which funding for a financially troubled real estate project was discussed, the company acknowledged Sunday.
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘I Thought There Would Be More Jeff Flakes, More John McCains, More Bob Corkers’  —  What was it like inside the partisan hot mess that was the House Intelligence Committee's investigation of President Trump and the 2016 Russian election meddling?  —  Republicans abruptly shut down the probe last week …
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Axios:   House Intel Russia head's nightmare: a “cyber bomb” on Election Day
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Conaway walks back comment after saying House Intel didn't probe collusion
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Republicans bet their Senate majority on Trump  —  His approval rating is perpetually underwater, and the pandemonium surrounding his presidency only grows the longer he's in the job.  —  But Senate Republicans are nevertheless making a counterintuitive, all-in bet that President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Axios
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside Apple's Secret Plan to Develop and Build its Own Screens  —  The company has a secret manufacturing facility in California  —  Apple Watch to be first Apple product with MicroLED technology  —  Apple Inc. is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time …
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Uproar after New Jersey high school allegedly suspends students over gun-range photo  —  A New Jersey high school came under fire Friday after it allegedly suspended two students over a gun photo taken during a family visit to a shooting range.  —  News of the unnamed students' suspension circulated through …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Wall Street Journal:
Wynn Attorney Claims Woman Advanced Extortionist Demands  —  Records filed with Nevada court also make clear that at least two women have received settlements from the casino magnate after lodging complaints about his behavior toward them  —  LAS VEGAS—A lawyer for Steve Wynn …
Christina Rexrode / Wall Street Journal:
Higher Deposit Rates May Finally Be Coming to Your Bank Account  —  With Fed poised to raise interest rates a sixth time, savers so far have seen few rewards  —  Is the sixth time the charm?  The Federal Reserve has raised short-term rates five times since late 2015, but banks largely stood pat …
 
 
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Allison Klein / Washington Post:
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
No location, no agenda: Trump administration scrambles for North Korea talks
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Michael Flynn ‘putting his life back together’ after guilty plea in Mueller probe
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Eric Teetsel / The Federalist:
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Norah O'Donnell / CBS News:
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Ukraine calls for sanctions against Gerhard Schröder
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Poisoning of Russian ex-spy puts spotlight on Moscow's secret military labs
James Bamford / New Republic:
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
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Lisa Ryan / thecut:
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Discussion: Splinter, Deadline and WPIX 11 New York
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
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Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
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