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11:50 PM ET, March 29, 2018

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CNN:
Source: Mueller pushed for Gates' help on collusion  —  Ex-Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleads guilty  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team last year made clear it wanted former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates' help, not so much against his former business partner Paul Manafort …
NBC News:
Trump tells aides not to talk publicly about Russia policy moves  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's national security advisers spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new U.S. weapons to Ukraine to aid in the country's fight against Russian-backed separatists …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Advertisers Ditching Laura Ingraham's Show Over Attack On Parkland Survivor  —  The Fox News host mocked 17-year-old David Hogg for not getting into a few colleges.  —  Nutrish, the pet food line owned by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, tweeted Thursday that it will no longer advertise during …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
TripAdvisor says it will stop ads for right-wing TV host Laura Ingraham after she criticized Parkland shooting survivor  —  Online travel website TripAdvisor said it will stop advertising on right-wing host Laura Ingraham's television show after she attacked a survivor of the February Parkland, Florida school shooting on Twitter.
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Laura Ingraham Apologizes to Parkland Survivor as Advertisers Ditch Her Show … After right-wing star Laura Ingraham publicly mocked Parkland school-shooting survivor David Hogg for being rejected by multiple colleges, several companies have pulled their ads from her primetime Fox News show.
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Laura Ingraham, Facing Boycott, Apologizes for Taunting Parkland Survivor David Hogg  —  Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host, apologized under pressure on Thursday for taunting a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., as three companies confirmed they would pull advertising from her show.
Washington Post:
'You're a mother': Laura Ingraham faces boycott for taunting Parkland teen over college rejections
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators probing whether Donald Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia have been questioning witnesses about events at the 2016 Republican National Convention, according to two sources familiar …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Sessions names prosecutor investigating claims of FBI misconduct but declines to appoint special counsel  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed Thursday that Utah's top federal prosecutor, John Huber, is investigating a cluster of Republican-driven accusations against the FBI …
Ariane Lange / BuzzFeed:
The Disturbing Secret Behind An Iconic Cartoon  —  Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice were teenage Ren & Stimpy fans who wanted to make cartoons.  They say they were preyed upon by the creator of the show, John Kricfalusi, who admitted to having had a 16-year-old girlfriend when approached by BuzzFeed News.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Kellyanne Conway's husband deletes tweets critical of Trump  —  (CNN)Kellyanne Conway's husband has begun deleting a series of tweets he posted in the last month that are critical of President Donald Trump.  —  George Conway, a conservative lawyer Trump once considered nominating as solicitor general …
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New York Times:
Hope Hicks is Gone, and It's Not Clear Who Can Replace Her
Discussion: Bustle
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Kelly Loses White House Clout as Trump Blazes Own Path
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Russia Will Expel 150 Diplomats, as Tensions With West Reach Fever Pitch  —  LONDON — Intensifying Russia's clash with Europe and the United States, the Kremlin on Thursday announced that it would expel 150 Western diplomats and close the American consulate in St. Petersburg.
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Anders Aslund / Washington Post:   It's time to go after Vladimir Putin's money in the West
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:   Britain Signals Harder Look at Wealthy Russians and Russian Wealth
Mitch Mitchell / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Tarrant County woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegally voting in 2016  —  FORT WORTH  —  A judge sentenced a Rendon woman to five years in prison Wednesday for voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election while she was on supervised release from a 2011 fraud conviction.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
A bombshell report just confirmed the key underlying premise of the Trump-Russia dossier  —  A new report in The Guardian just confirmed the lede sentence of British intelligence officer Christopher Steele's Trump Russia dossier, which claimed that Russian efforts to recruit Donald Trump stretched …
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter
John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: More cabinet trouble for Trump?  EPA chief lived in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’  —  For much of his first year in Washington, President Trump's EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt occupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife …
New York Times:
A Coup at Veterans Affairs  —  If you're like us, your initial reaction upon hearing that President Trump had picked his personal physician to head the Department of Veterans Affairs was: “What?  You mean the guy who looks like a retired Grateful Dead roadie and said ‘unequivocally’ that Mr. Trump …
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Washington Post:
Trump's pick to head veterans department faces skepticism over his experience
Discussion: Here & Now
Michael W. Chapman / CNSNews:
Pope Francis: ‘There Is No Hell’ … In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just “disappear.”  This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.
Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Stephen Reinhardt, ‘liberal lion’ of the 9th Circuit, dies at 87  —  Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the liberal face of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, died Thursday afternoon, a court spokesman said.  He was 87.  —  The spokesman said Reinhardt died of a heart attack during a visit to a dermatologist.
Discussion: RedState
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:   A Prominent Liberal Federal Judge Died Unexpectedly At A Dermatologist's Office
Sun-Sentinel:
Crazed girls flood Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz with fan mail  —  Sun Sentinel  —  Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account.
New York Times:
E.P.A. Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars to Be Cleaner and More Efficient  —  The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers and giving …
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Washington Post:
Trump officials prepare to undo fuel-efficiency targets despite some automakers' misgivings
Keith BieryGolick / Cincinnati.com:
Student shot at Madison Schools in Ohio gets detention for school-shooting protest  —  MADISON TWP.  - In 2016, he was shot in his school's cafeteria while eating chicken nuggets.  He remembers falling on the ground, unsure what happened, watching students run away from him.
Discussion: Splinter
Yasser Okbi / Jerusalem Post:
Report: Israeli stealth fighters fly over Iran  —  Two IAF F-35 Adir fighter jets entered Iranian airspace undetected, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.  —  Two Israeli F-35 fighter jets entered Iranian airspace over the past month, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Thursday.
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The 2016 Exit Polls Led Us to Misinterpret the 2016 Election  —  Crucial disputes over Democratic strategy concerning economic distribution, race and immigration have in large part been based on Election Day exit polls that now appear to have been inaccurate in key ways.
Discussion: National Review
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Milo Yiannopoulos' charity for ‘white boys’ winds down as mystery remains over the $100,000 raised  —  A charity meant to provide college scholarships for white men started by Milo Yiannopoulos, self-described libertarian and professional internet troll, has shuttered its operations, Yiannopoulos confirmed to NBC News.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Joe.My.God.
Scott Rosenberg / Axios:
Media vs. Facebook: This time it's personal  —  Facebook and Google execs privately complain about the barrage of critical coverage they face, charging that media companies have a financial incentive to attack them and that media execs are settling scores.  They're right.
Brian Melley / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: California Judge: Coffee needs cancer warnings  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge ruled that California law requires coffee companies to carry an ominous cancer warning label because of a chemical produced in the roasting process.  —  Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle wrote …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Law & Crime
Helaine Olen / Washington Post:
Fake Kirsten Gillibrand flap reveals double standard in our politics  —  Here's a sentence I never thought I would need to write: Kirsten Gillibrand is not involved in a sex scandal.  —  Now I've got your attention, right?  —  That I even need to devote a blog post to this topic is evidence …
New York Times:
Wooing Saudi Business, Tabloid Mogul Had a Powerful Friend: Trump  —  In July, David J. Pecker, the chairman of the company that owns The National Enquirer, visited his old friend President Trump at the White House.  —  The tabloid publisher took along a special guest, Kacy Grine …
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trouble in candy land  —  How Peeps, pensions and a lawsuit threaten to upend the American retirement system  —  On April 1, hundreds of millions of marshmallow chicks and bunnies called Peeps will peer out from Easter baskets at American children.  —  They are a pastel symbol of Easter joy …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Exclusive: Russian ambassador pleads for help in securing Washington meetings  —  Congressional leaders won't meet with him.  Neither will the vice president or the White House chief of staff.  —  And the Russian ambassador says he is at his wit's end.  —  In a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch …
 
 
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
US to require would-be immigrants to turn over social media handles
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Trump Repeated A False Claim That The Border Wall Has Started Construction
Discussion: Mediaite
Sho Chandra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobless Claims Decline to Lowest Level Since January 1973
Discussion: Reuters and Daily Wire
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Conn. congresswoman kept aide on staff for 3 months after she learned of threat allegation
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Hamas to Swarm Israel's Border, Sparking Fear of New ‘Passover War’
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Blue Lives Matter:
Teacher Assigns Students To Write Anti-Gun Letters To Congress
Media Matters for America:
Fox News article on Stormy Daniels cites known white supremacist as a legal expert
New York Times:
Cuomo, in Writing, Reinterprets Fund-Raising Ban on Appointees
Discussion: NY State of Politics
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
More than 200 former diplomats are alarmed at the state of American diplomacy
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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