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5:15 PM ET, March 30, 2018

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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's protective detail broke down the door at the Capitol Hill condo where he was living, believing he was unconscious and unresponsive and needed rescue …
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Bloomberg:
EPA Chief's $50-a-Night Rental Said to Raise White House Angst  —  Pruitt apartment questions follow first-class flight reports  —  Washington lease is compared to an Airbnb-style arrangement  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's lease at a Washington apartment owned …
Washington Post:
As new details emerge, Scott Pruitt's housing arrangements come under scrutiny … Scott Pruitt's unusual housing arrangement during much of last year — when he paid a lobbyist a modest sum each night for staying in a Capitol Hill condo she co-owned — has generated a new round of scrutiny …
John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA chief Pruitt joined by family in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’
Discussion: ThinkProgress
CNN:
Senator: Pruitt security included Disneyland, Rose Bowl trips
Ralph Peters / Washington Post:
Why I left Fox News … You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room.  A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Ex-Fox News contributor: I was silenced on Russia because I didn't back Trump
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
Jeff McCall / The Hill:
CNN lost its way in struggle to find an audience
Discussion: TVNewser
Washington Post:
Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience … An obscure White House office responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the Trump administration's efforts …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests
Discussion: thecut
Cheryl K. Chumley / Washington Times:
David Hogg would've made a good brownshirt  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  David Hogg, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high-schooler who seems to have set himself up as Laura Ingraham's arch nemesis, has been making national television rounds of late, pretty much calling for adults to step aside …
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James Doubek / NPR:
Advertisers Ditch Laura Ingraham After She Mocks Parkland Activist
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
David Hogg And Media Matters Team Up For Ingraham Boycott
Discussion: Breitbart
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
At least 17 dead in school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Discussion: IJR and Bustle
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Stephon Clark was shot eight times, mostly in his back, according to autopsy requested by his family … Stephon Clark, the unarmed 22-year-old killed by Sacramento police officers earlier this month, was shot eight times, with most of the bullets hitting him in the back …
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally  —  American once touted as possible ambassador to EU tells of being detained at Boston airport and subpoenaed by Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia inquiry … A controversial London-based academic with close ties to Nigel Farage …
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Tom Winter / NBC News:   Trump ally detained, served with Mueller subpoena at Boston airport
Associated Press:
AP-NORC/MTV Poll: Young people run from Trump  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of young people believe President Donald Trump is racist, dishonest and “mentally unfit” for office, according to a new survey that finds the nation's youngest potential voters are more concerned about the Republican's performance …
Discussion: AOL, Axios and CNN
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TMZ.com:
Arnold Schwarzenegger — Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  10:40 AM PT — Arnold's people just told us the following ... the procedure was “to replace a pulmonic valve that was originally replaced due to a congenital heart defect in 1997.
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Saba Hamedy / CNN:
‘Clueless’ star Stacey Dash withdraws from congressional race  —  Washington (CNN)"Clueless" star and former Fox News commentator Stacey Dash is withdrawing her congressional bid, a representative for the actress confirmed to CNN Friday.  —  “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family …
Discussion: Raw Story and twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Congressman alleges McCabe lied to Comey, hinting at rift between FBI officials … The FBI's disciplinary office found that ousted deputy director Andrew McCabe lied to his boss, then-director James B. Comey, in October 2016 about having authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mashable
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Congressman: FBI Report Says Andrew McCabe ‘Lied Four Times’ About Media Leaks
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Greg Walters / VICE News:
Paul Manafort, a mysterious Russian jet, and a secret meeting  —  In August 2016, a private jet linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska traveled from Moscow to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.  The Gulfstream G550 (registration M-ALAY) landed shortly after midnight and …
Courier-Journal:
Kentucky teachers shut down schools in protest over the pension bill.  Here's what we know  —  James Crisp/Special to Courier Journal  —  A wave of school closures have swept Kentucky as teachers across the state, frustrated by a controversial pension reform bill passed Thursday night, requested substitutes or called in sick.
Discussion: WKYT-TV, Splinter and VICE News
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Lexington Herald-Leader:
Lexington, more than 15 other districts cancel school over teacher absences after pension vote
Discussion: Jacobin
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Denying Genetics Isn't Shutting Down Racism, It's Fueling It  —  Last weekend, a rather seismic op-ed appeared in the New York Times, and it was for a while one of the most popular pieces in the newspaper.  It's by David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard, who carefully advanced …
Vanita Gupta / Washington Post:
The bitter lie behind the census's citizenship question  —  Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department from 2014 to 2017.  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed a crucial test of leadership this week.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:   Census Bureau Expert Panel Rebukes Decision to Add Citizenship Question
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Affirmative Action for Reactionaries  —  Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul.  Thus I've occasionally read Kevin Williamson …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Noor Salman, widow of Pulse nightclub gunman, found not guilty on all counts  —  Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen, was found not guilty Friday in the only trial to stem from the deadly June 2016 shooting rampage.  —  Salman, 31, was accused of helping her husband plan …
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and TheBlaze
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Hartford Courant:
Elizabeth Esty Must Resign  —  Elizabeth Esty will likely spend the next several days defending her failure to take strong steps to protect a woman who'd been threatened and bullied — by a member of her own staff — by blaming the system and talking about the good she's done in Congress.
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton fires back at critics: No one told a man who lost an election to shut up  —  is striking back at critics telling her to “shut up” following her 2016 loss, saying, “They never said that to any man who was not elected.”  —  “I was really struck by how people said that to me …
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
A Huge Caravan Of Central Americans Is Headed For The US, And No One In Mexico Is Stopping Them  —  “If we all protect each other, we'll get through this together.”  —  Reporting From  —  San Pedro Tapanatepec, Mexico  —  Taking a drag from her cigarette, a Mexican immigration agent looked …
NBC New York:
Teen Mob Randomly Beats Man to Death on NJ Street: Prosecutors  —  Man Beaten to Death by Mob on NJ Street  —  Two teens have been arrested after a New Jersey man was beaten to death on the street by eight people in a seemingly random attack.  —  Police said the other suspects …
Discussion: Daily Wire
 
 
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Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Pope To World: Hell Does Exist
Discussion: Vox and twitchy.com
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
California voters are joining this party by mistake, but lawmakers aren't doing anything about it
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Oops! Scott Walker didn't endorse Leah Vukmir but for a short time it sure looked that way
VICE News:
How truth lost its meaning in Trump's America
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump tells advisers he wants U.S. out of Syria: senior officials
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Steve Gorman / Reuters:
Hawaii lawmakers approve medical aid in dying for terminally ill
Discussion: Infowars and Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Ricardo Cano / Arizona Republic:
Last Slide  —  Frustrated and desperate, Arizona educators …
Bloomberg:
Amazon Severs Ties With Top Lobbying Firms in Washington
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Minute by minute at Donald Trump's rambling Ohio ‘infrastructure’ speech
Adam Wren / Politico:
My 72-Hour Safari in Clinton Country
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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