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2:00 PM ET, March 21, 2018

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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Kelly furious over leak of warning to Trump to not congratulate Putin  —  WaPo: Trump warned not to congratulate Putin  —  Washington (CNN)White House chief of staff John Kelly is furious about the quick leak of a warning to President Donald Trump to not congratulate his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin …
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New York Times:
White House Job Requirement: Signing a Nondisclosure Agreement  —  As a real estate executive and reality TV star, Donald J. Trump tightly controlled his image by insisting that everyone around him sign nondisclosure agreements threatening steep monetary penalties if they revealed anything about him or his company.
Washington Post:
Trump's national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin.  He did it anyway. … President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladi­mir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A GOP senator's remarkable admission about Trump and Mueller … THE MORNING PLUM:  —  President Trump just uncorked a new round of Twitter attacks this morning on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and on the English language, quoting one of his staunchest legal allies as follows …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
A stunning leak rattles Trump and his aides  —  One of the most startling leaks — and stunning revelations — of this whole administration has left President Trump and his senior staff furious and rattled.  The Washington Post reports in its lead story: “Trump did not follow specific warnings …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hannity rips Mueller's career: ‘Anything but impeccable’  —  Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity ripped special counsel Robert Mueller  —  late Tuesday, saying his career has been “anything but impeccable.”  —  “Everybody says, 'He's the greatest guy in the whole wide world.  Just trust us!'
NBC News:
Trump, master of the political insult, declines to chide Putin
Discussion: Axios
Tony Plohetski / Austin American-Statesman:
Austin bombing suspect, 24-year-old man, dies as police close in, chief says  —  5:50 a.m. update: The suspect in a string of bombings in Austin is dead, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed early Wednesday.  —  The name of the suspect, described only as a 24-year-old white man …
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NBC News:
Austin bomb suspect Mark Anthony Conditt blows himself up as SWAT team approaches  —  The suspect in a spate of bombings that terrorized residents of Austin, Texas, died early Wednesday after detonating an explosive inside his vehicle as a SWAT team tried to apprehend him on the side of a highway, officials said.
Austin American-Statesman:
Authorities: Bombing suspect was Pflugerville resident Mark A. Conditt  —  The suspected Austin serial bomber who apparently killed himself early Wednesday as authorities closed in on him was Pflugerville resident Mark A. Conditt, local and federal law enforcement sources told the American-Statesman and KVUE.
KVUE-TV:
LIVE: Austin bombing suspect dead; other devices may be out there, police say
CNN:
Austin bomber kills himself with explosive device
The Daily Beast:
Mark Anthony Conditt Reportedly Identified as Austin Bomber, Blew Himself Up After Police Chase
Discussion: Raw Story
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Suspect in Austin Bombings Blew Himself Up, Police Say
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
As Much As I Hate Seeing A Nazi Win Something...
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Newman concedes in Democratic Illinois congressional primary
Washington Post:
Miss. governor names Cindy Hyde-Smith to replace GOP Sen. Thad Cochran.  She will be first female U.S. senator from state.  —  Hyde-Smith is Mississippi's agriculture and commerce commissioner.  She would succeed Cochran, 80, who has battled health problems and will step down from his Senate seat April 1.
Discussion: Axios and RedState
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
White House opposed Republican picked to replace Cochran  —  White House officials this week told Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant that President Donald Trump did not plan to campaign for or endorse Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith if she was appointed to the state's open Senate seat, saying they were worried that the former Democrat would lose.
Discussion: Mississippi Today
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes  —  Let's get one thing straight: I am not a fan of Facebook.  I'm confident that social media is a cancer on our private lives and a source of derangement in our politics.  I take it for granted that the tech barons are acquiring the power to tilt elections …
Discussion: National Review, The Guardian and CNBC
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Cambridge Analytica Looked to Pounce on Russian Hacks, Email Shows … Cambridge Analytica hoped to capitalize on Russian hacking of Hillary Clinton and her ally, an email written by one of its employees indicates.  —  Emily Cornell, the employee, sent the email on July 29, 2016.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
John Bolton — eyed for Trump post — leads super PAC that employed Cambridge Analytica
Washington Post:
Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook data, according to former employee
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Karen McDougal is the woman with the best chance of bringing down Trump  —  There has been extensive media coverage of Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006.  Daniels' new attorney, Michael Avenatti, has been a fixture on TV.
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Alvin Chang / Vox:
Fox News really doesn't want to say “Trump” and “porn star” on air
Discussion: Washington Post
Tennessean.com:
New poll finds Bredesen with narrow lead over Blackburn in US Senate race  —  Former Gov. Phil Bredesen has a slight edge over U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in a new poll on the U.S. Senate race from a Democratic-leaning firm.  —  The poll, conducted by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Breitbart's readership plunges  —  Breitbart, the alt-right news site whose executive chairman Steve Bannon was pushed out in January after feuding with President Donald Trump, has lost about half its readership according to comScore, raising questions about its future.
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
A University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, history and philosophy … (Note: An earlier version dropped part of the university's full statement because of coding errors and said the school faced a $4.5 million deficit over two days rather than two years.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
University of Wisconsin campus proposes elimination of majors such as English, history
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
New York Times:
The End for Facebook's Security Evangelist  —  Alex Stamos, the Facebook executive who plans to leave the company by August amid a backlash over disinformation, has not been one to hold back.  —  Mr. Stamos, Facebook's chief information security officer, was often known to push superiors …
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky.
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Ben Penn / bnanews.bna.com:
Mulvaney, Acosta Override Regulatory Office to Hide Tips Rule Data  — Sources: DOL released rule to permit restaurant tip sharing over objections of regulatory chief Neomi Rao  —  Labor Department leadership convinced OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to overrule the White House regulatory affairs chief …
Karma Allen / ABC News:
Biden says he would have ‘beat the hell out’ of Trump in high school for disrespecting women  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden took fresh jabs at President Donald Trump on Tuesday while speaking at an anti-sexual assault rally, telling students at the University of Miami that he probably would have …
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Sanah Faroke / WSVN-TV:
Joe Biden speaks on sexual assault at UM for It's On Us campaign
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Children's Book About Mike Pence's Gay Bunny Jumps to No. 1  —  This is the story of a little gay bunny.  —  A little gay bunny who belongs to Vice President Mike Pence.  —  A little fictional gay bunny whose book is beating the memoir of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on the Amazon best-seller list.
Discussion: twitchy.com and NewsBusters
New York Times:
Minneapolis Officer Charged With Murder in Australian Woman's Death  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman last summer, an incident that led to protests and the ouster of the city's police chief, was jailed Tuesday on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: ‘We might need to build a wall between California and Arizona’  —  (R-Ariz.) proposed building a border wall between California and Arizona to protect the state.  —  “As we look in Arizona, we often look into the dangers of the southern border,” McSally said during …
 
 
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Bloomberg:
YouTube Bans Firearm Sales and How-To Videos, Prompting Backlash
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's bluster on Iran could set the Middle East ablaze
Discussion: New York Times
Caleb Hull / IJR:
WATCH: Pissed Off Dad GOES OFF on Principal for Allowing 12-Year-Olds to Hold Gun Control Walkout
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Donald Tusk calls on EU27 to endorse Brexit transition
Paul Ford / Bloomberg:
Silicon Valley Has Failed to Protect Our Data. Here's How to Fix It
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Sue Surkes / The Times of Israel:
Chief rabbi calls black people ‘monkeys’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The case against Facebook
 Earlier Items: 
WXIA-TV:
13-year-old arrested for ‘disgusting’ terroristic voicemails against Cobb NAACP
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
Idaho joins other red states with ‘abortion reversal’ law
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Hugo Martin / Los Angeles Times:
TSA denies accessing data on electronic devices carried by domestic airline passengers
Discussion: Associated Press
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Democrat: Whistleblowers say White House trying to oust broadcast board CEO
Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
Trump is right: The special counsel should never have been appointed
Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite and Axios
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Scandal Questions Never Asked, Much Less Answered
 

 
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Michael Kan / PCMag:
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers

Decrypt:
Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry

Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure
 
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