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9:15 AM ET, March 27, 2018

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Talks of Bringing Back Rob Porter, Aide Accused of Spousal Abuse  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has stayed in touch with Rob Porter, the former White House staff secretary who stepped down after allegations that he had abused his two former wives came to light, according …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Larry Kudlow asks Gary Cohn's National Economic Council staff to stay on
Discussion: Axios
The Daily Beast:
Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan Latest Lawyers to Decline to Join Trump's Legal Team … Two more high-power attorneys have had to turn down President Donald Trump.  Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump reached out to them about representing him, and that they couldn't do it.
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“A Target, Not a Witness”: Will Trump's Legal B-Team Collapse Before Mueller?  —  The president's struggle to recruit experienced lawyers could mask more ominous concerns.  “As far as I can tell, Ty Cobb is the only attorney left on the Trump team with experience handling federal criminal investigations,” says one former prosecutor.
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Top Republican Lawyer: No One's Asking to Be on Trump's Legal Team
Washington Post:
Another prominent lawyer declines offer to represent Trump in Russia investigation
Discussion: Axios
San Francisco Chronicle:
Citizenship question on 2020 census may result in undercount  —  The size of your child's kindergarten class.  Homeland security funds for your community.  Natural disaster preparation.  Highway and mass transit resources.  Health care and emergency room services.
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Department of Commerce:
U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Reinstatement of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Decennial Census  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
Politico:
Census to add controversial question on citizenship status  —  The 2020 U.S. Census will include a controversial question about citizenship status, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, a move that sparked outrage from Congressional Democrats, civil rights groups and liberal state attorneys general.
Discussion: Fox News and twitchy.com
Emily Baumgaertner / New York Times:
Despite Concerns, Census Will Ask Respondents if They Are U.S. Citizens
Discussion: The Week and NPR
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
EXCLUSIVE: Stormy Daniels' Friend Alana Evans: I'm Also Going to Sue Michael Cohen … Stormy Daniels might not be the only porn star suing President Trump's attorney.  Alana Evans, a fellow adult-film actress, is planning her own defamation case against Michael Cohen, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels accuses Trump attorney of defamation … Stormy Daniels ramped up her legal battle against President Trump on Monday, alleging in court that his personal attorney Michael Cohen defamed her by insinuating that she lied about an affair with Trump more than a decade ago.
John Paul Stevens / New York Times:
Repeal the Second Amendment  —  Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement school children and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday.  These demonstrations demand our respect.
Discussion: Althouse and The Week
Ray Hagar / Nevada NewsMakers:
Rumor is Ryan will resign as U.S. House Speaker; Scalise will replace him, Amodei says  —  Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan may soon resign as Speaker of the U.S. House.  —  Amodei said he was repeating a rumor that's around Capitol Hill.
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Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Nevada lawmaker: ‘Rumor mill’ says Ryan headed for exit
Discussion: CNN and Breitbart
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
‘The speaker is not resigning:’ Ryan's office dismisses GOP lawmaker's rumor
Discussion: Political Wire and AOL
Wall Street Journal:
White House Probes Loans to Kushner's Business  —  White House attorneys are examining whether two loans totaling more than $500 million to Jared Kushner's family business may have violated any criminal laws or federal ethics regulations, according to a letter from a federal ethics agency.
Danny Vinik / Politico:
How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico  —  A POLITICO investigation shows a persistent double standard in the president's handling of relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria.  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As Hurricane Maria unleashed its fury on Puerto Rico in mid-September …
CNN:
CNN Poll: 42% approve of Trump, highest in 11 months  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating has rebounded to its highest level since the 100-day mark of his presidency, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, even as his approval ratings for handling major issues remain largely negative.
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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Trump's approval rating is *this* close to Obama's and Reagan's
Discussion: TheBlaze
Tim Hrenchir / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Linda Brown, center of Brown v. Board case, dies at 76  —  Linda Brown, who as a little girl in Topeka was at the center of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation in the United States, has died at age 76.  —  Brown's sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson …
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CBS News:
Jimmy Carter says John Bolton as national security adviser is “worst mistake” Trump has made  —  Former President Jimmy Carter says President Trump's choice of John Bolton as his new national security adviser is “the worst mistake” Mr. Trump has made.  —  “I have been concerned at some of the things he's decided.
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Hans A. von Spakovsky / Fox News:
Did Facebook's ‘favors’ for the Obama campaign constitute a violation of federal law?  —  Controversy continues to swirl around how the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from over 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge and used it to target ads to individuals …
Discussion: CNBC and The American Spectator
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different.
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show  —  Cambridge Analytica may have had access to the personal information of tens of millions of unwitting Americans, but a genuine debate has emerged about whether the company had the sophistication to put that data effectively …
Discussion: Axios, Splinter and ThinkProgress
David Dayen / New Republic:
Trump's Theater of Trade  —  The traditional media has spent the past few years being duped by grandiose Donald Trump announcements that wind up leading nowhere.  They're traveling that path again on the administration's trade agenda.  But this cycle of misinformation and overhype has a cost …
Discussion: CNNMoney, Bloomberg and The Week
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Associated Press:
Analysis: NKorean visit shows China still has role to play
The Daily Beast:
Whistleblower: Canadian Company Helped Republicans Target Voters  —  The whistleblower who exposed the data-harvesting tactics of Cambridge Analytica told a British government panel that a Canadian company worked on software that was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
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Reuters:   Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump and the West give Putin the fight he needs … Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  On Monday morning the United States, Canada and the European Union carried out a coordinated mass expulsion of Russian diplomats, responding to Moscow's alleged role in the March 4 poisoning …
Discussion: BBC, The Guardian, New Yorker and CNN
New York Times:
After Stormy Daniels, Republicans Face a Referendum on Trump's Conduct  —  WASHINGTON — When Representative Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania announced on Sunday that he would join more than 40 other congressional Republicans not seeking re-election in November, he left no doubt about the reason …
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
CBS Video Confusing.  Hogg Was on Campus.  —  UPDATE: This video shows Hogg apparently in a closet during the shooting:  —  His comments quoted below to CBS still don't make sense.  Did he leave campus and then violate the lockdown to enter campus and interview students?  How did he get home and back?
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Corey Lewandowski considering legal action against reporter who entered office without permission  —  Corey Lewandowski said he may take action against New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi after she admitted she entered his home office without permission.
 
 
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Putting the Ex-Con in Conservatism
Discussion: Splinter and Politico
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
The story behind 11-year-old Naomi Wadler and her March for Our Lives speech
Discussion: The Guardian, Vox and New Republic
Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg:
Facebook Says Zuckerberg Won't Give Evidence to U.K. Lawmakers
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Buttigieg Gets Closer to a 2020 Campaign
Discussion: RRH Elections
Ginger Hervey / Politico:
France to investigate murder of Holocaust survivor as a hate crime
Aileen Chuang / Associated Press:
Indiana Governor Signs Bill Mandating Abortion Information
Rich Lowry / National Review:
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Where Are the Left's Modern Muckrakers?
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Trump Does Trump, and Things Get Worse
Discussion: ThinkProgress and POLITICUSUSA
Kim Severson / New York Times:
What's Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War
Reuters:
Trump nominates Schumer aide to Federal Trade Commission
Online NewsHour:
In response to racist violence, more African Americans look to bear arms
Pamela Wood / Baltimore Sun:
Sheriff: Maryland high school shooter died by shooting himself
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
CNN:
Multiple suspicious packages sent to DC area military installations
Sara Ganim / CNN:
Sources: Zinke tells employees diversity isn't important
 

 
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