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8:00 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
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.
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Washington Post:
‘Not in a punch-back mode’: Why Trump has been largely silent on Stormy Daniels … The counterpuncher, so far, has held his punch.  —  President Trump exercised uncharacteristic public restraint Monday following a “60 Minutes” interview in which adult film star Stormy Daniels described …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Attracts 22 Million Viewers to ‘60 Minutes’
Discussion: Mediaite and The Moderate Voice
CNN:
Stormy Daniels sues Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for defamation
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.
Discussion: RedState, Raw Story, Mediaite, Axios and Vox
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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.
Washington Post:
Another prominent lawyer declines offer to represent Trump in Russia investigation
Discussion: Axios
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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: twitchy.com
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: Breitbart
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
‘The speaker is not resigning:’ Ryan's office dismisses GOP lawmaker's rumor
Discussion: Political Wire and AOL
Eli Watkins / CNN:   Paul Ryan denies rumor he will resign
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals.  But This One Is Different.  —  Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has everything: peculiar billionaires, a once-adored startup turned monolith, a political mercenary who resembles a Bond villain and his shadowy psychographic profiling firm …
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Hans A. von Spakovsky / Fox News:
Did Facebook's ‘favors’ for the Obama campaign constitute a violation of federal law?
Discussion: CNBC and The American Spectator
Reuters:
Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:   Silicon Valley has gone from liberating to creepy. Next stop, government regulation.
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.
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
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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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
White House Watch: Will There Be a Bolton Purge?
Discussion: BuzzFeed, The Daily Caller and NPR
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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Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Linda Brown, Symbol of Landmark Desegregation Case, Dies
CNN:
Multiple suspicious packages sent to DC area military installations  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI has taken custody of multiple suspicious packages sent to military locations in the Washington, DC area, a law enforcement official said Monday.  The official said two of the packages were sent to Fort Belvoir and Fort McNair.
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NBC4 Washington:
Suspicious Packages Found at Several Military Installations in D.C. Area
Discussion: NPR and The Gateway Pundit
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, The Week and Bloomberg
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Associated Press:
Analysis: NKorean visit shows China still has role to play
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 …
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Teenage Demagogues  —  Stoneman Douglas students' passion is not wisdom  —  All you needed to know about student activist David Hogg's speech at the “March for Our Lives” in Washington, D.C., over the weekend was that he affixed a price tag on the microphone to symbolize …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   'The View's' Meghan McCain lashes out at Parkland student David Hogg for using profanity to attack the NRA
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?
 
 
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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
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Where Are the Left's Modern Muckrakers?
Weekly Standard:
The Agency That Asked for Less Money
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
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Corey Lewandowski considering legal action against reporter who entered office without permission
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
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Publisher Pal Puts Saudi Propaganda Magazine in U.S. Supermarkets
John Eligon / New York Times:
They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists, Privately, Suffer as a Result.
The Guardian:
French waiter says firing for rudeness is ‘discrimination against my culture’
Discussion: The Week
Sara Ganim / CNN:
Sources: Zinke tells employees diversity isn't important
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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