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12:15 PM ET, March 30, 2018

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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 …
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CNN:
Senator: Pruitt security included Disneyland, Rose Bowl trips
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:   Pruitt arranged condo deal through energy lobbyist, source says
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 …
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Washington Post:
How Trump got to ‘yes’ on the biggest purge of Russian spies in U.S. history … In the days leading up to the largest expulsion of Russian spies in U.S. history, few people inside or outside the Trump administration knew exactly what the president would do.
Discussion: Shakesville
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Russian ambassador says ‘atmosphere in Washington is poison’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
U.S.-Russian relations worst Ambassador Antonov can remember
Discussion: Washington Post
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny.  I'm Not Going to Keep Watching.  —  It can be very difficult to separate the art from the artist.  In the case of Roseanne Barr and her critically acclaimed television show based on her life, it is nearly impossible.  I wasn't going to watch the reboot …
Discussion: Washington Post and IJR
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
ABC is about to announce Season 2 of ‘Roseanne’ reboot  —  Pro-Trump ‘Roseanne’ returns with strong ratings  —  Just days after “Roseanne” made a blockbuster return, ABC is set to order a second season, according to a source at the network.  —  The move is a no-brainer.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Roseanne Keeps Promoting QAnon, the Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory That Makes Pizzagate Look Tame
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed  —  Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today's leaked memo  —  “I've always thought our ‘open but punitive’ stance was particularly vulnerable to suicide bombers.”  —  The publication of a June 2016 memo describing the consequences of Facebook's growth-at-all-costs triggered …
CNN:
Source: Mueller pushed for Gates' help on collusion  —  (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, but with its central mission: investigating the Trump campaign's contact with the Russians.
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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 …
Discussion: RedState, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Noor Salman Is Acquitted in Pulse Nightclub Shooting  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Noor Salman, the widow of the man who gunned down dozens of people at the Pulse nightclub two years ago, was found not guilty by a federal jury on Friday of helping her husband carry out a terrorist attack in the name of the Islamic State.
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Emilee Speck / WKMG:
WATCH LIVE: Verdict reached in trial for widow of Pulse gunman
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Lexington Herald-Leader:
Lexington, more than 15 other districts cancel school over teacher absences after pension vote  —  Kentucky's two largest school districts in Jefferson and Fayette counties were among 26 across the state that closed schools Friday after hundreds of school employees refused to work following the legislature's passage of pension reform.
Discussion: Jacobin
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CBS News:
Widespread teacher absences close Kentucky schools amid anger over pension bill
Courier-Journal:
Kentucky teachers shut down schools in protest over the pension bill. Here's what we know
Discussion: WKYT-TV, VICE News and Splinter
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
David Hogg And Media Matters Team Up For Ingraham Boycott  —  Parkland student and pro-gun control activist David Hogg has teamed up with liberal activist group Media Matters to push a boycott campaign against Fox News host Laura Ingraham.  —  Ingraham knocked Hogg for complaining about colleges that rejected his applications.
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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.
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Sarah Sarder / Dallas Morning News:
Texas felon who 'didn't even want to go vote' gets prison time for voting illegally
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Congressman: FBI Report Says Andrew McCabe ‘Lied Four Times’ About Media Leaks  —  Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lied four times, including to James Comey, about his authorization of leaks to the media, according to a Republican lawmaker familiar with an internal FBI report recommending McCabe's firing.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
McCabe legal defense fund raises nearly $400K in less than a day
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: Axios, AOL, Political Wire and CNN
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 …
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.
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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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
House Intel Committee Findings Contradict Kushner's Testimony  —  Jared Kushner and his attorneys likely did not enjoy something they read when the House Intelligence Committee released its findings on Russian election interference last Thursday.  The report, drafted by Chairman Devin Nunes …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Syria bomb kills 2 coalition troops, including an American  —  KOBANI, Syria (AP) — A roadside bomb in northern Syria killed two coalition personnel, including an American, and wounded five others in a rare attack since the U.S.-led coalition sent troops into the war-torn country …
Discussion: New York Times and Axios
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New York Times:
Hope Hicks Is Gone, and It's Not Clear Who Can Replace Her
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