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4:30 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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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Defends Congratulating Putin: ‘Getting Along ... Is A Good Thing’  —  In the wake of a report that he ignored his national security team's advice not to congratulate Russian president Vladimir Putin on Putin's recent re-election, President Donald Trump defended the exchange Wednesday.
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.
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 …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hannity rips Mueller's career: ‘Anything but impeccable’
Discussion: RedState
Mark Zuckerberg:
I want to share an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation — including the steps we've already taken and our next steps to address this important issue.  —  We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you.
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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 …
Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg to face questions in CNN interview exclusive  —  Zuckerberg's mentor: Crisis could destroy Facebook  —  Five days after a data scandal first upended Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to give a rare interview with CNN.  —  Zuckerberg will sit down with CNN's Laurie Segall …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Special Counsel studies Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytics, sources say  —  As questions have mounted about data firm Cambridge Analytica's alleged misuse of Facebook data from up to 50 million user profiles, it has not only caught the eye of Congressional investigators …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The case against Facebook
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.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Suspect in Austin Bombings Blew Himself Up, Police Say
CNN:
Austin serial bombing suspect's grandmother says he's a loving man from a tight family
Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say  —  Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor …
Discussion: Raw Story
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, witnesses say  —  Hackers offered personal data about future Nigerian president and future PM of St Kitts and Nevis, sources say … The data analytics firm that worked on the Donald Trump election campaign was offered material …
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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.
Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
John Bolton — eyed for Trump post — leads super PAC that employed Cambridge Analytica
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
20,000 Republicans just voted for an actual Nazi  —  The former head of the American Nazi Party ran for the Republican nomination of Congress in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District.  No Republican stepped up to oppose him.  —  On Tuesday, despite his vocal Holocaust denial …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
As Much As I Hate Seeing A Nazi Win Something...
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and Rewire.News
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: Vox and Mississippi Today
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:   Trump Vents His Anger Over Border Wall Funding
Washington Post:
Miss. governor names Cindy Hyde-Smith to replace GOP Sen. Thad Cochran. …
Discussion: Axios and RedState
Jane Coaston / Vox:
Watch: Tucker Carlson rails against America's demographic changes  —  “This is more change than human beings are designed to digest,” he said.  “How would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood?”  —  On his top-rated Fox News show Tuesday night, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson opined …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Mediaite
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 …
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
Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
Trump is right: The special counsel should never have been appointed  —  is right in saying that a special counsel should never have been appointed to investigate the so-called Russian connection.  There was no evidence of any crime committed by the Trump administration.
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Bloomberg:
YouTube Bans Firearm Sales and How-To Videos, Prompting Backlash  —  Google's new policy prohibits promotion of guns, bump stocks  —  At least one video gun blogger ditched YouTube for PornHub  —  YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions …
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
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 …
Lawfare:
Will We Ever Learn What Bob Mueller Knows?  —  Over the weekend, Jon Lovett—a former speechwriter for President Obama and a fixture of the Pod Save America podcast—tweeted an interesting question: … Later, on the show itself, he and his cohosts discussed the matter.  “It's an open question,” Lovett said.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Dana Rubinstein / Politico:
With congestion pricing on sidelines, Cuomo doubles down on controversial subway-funding measure
Discussion: Curbed NY and New York Post
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
EPA spent almost $118,000 on Scott Pruitt's flights, many of them first class
Matthew Schneier / New York Times:
Bill Cunningham Left Behind a Secret Memoir
Discussion: thecut
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Zinke brought security team to vacation in Turkey and Greece, records show
Discussion: VICE News
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump to announce anti-China tariffs tomorrow
Discussion: CNBC and Politico
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Fed hikes rates and raises GDP forecast again
Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg and The Week
Tallahassee Democrat:
FBI searching home linked to Tallahassee white supremacist after false claims
Discussion: Raw Story
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users With Ads So They Pay for Music
 Earlier Items: 
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Probed by FEC for Possible Campaign-Finance Violations
Caleb Hull / IJR:
WATCH: Pissed Off Dad GOES OFF on Principal for Allowing 12-Year-Olds to Hold Gun Control Walkout
Sue Surkes / The Times of Israel:
Chief rabbi calls black people ‘monkeys’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: ‘We might need to build a wall between California and Arizona’
Karma Allen / ABC News:
Biden says he would have ‘beat the hell out’ of Trump in high school for disrespecting women
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Children's Book About Mike Pence's Gay Bunny Jumps to No. 1
Discussion: twitchy.com and NewsBusters
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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