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2:25 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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John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA chief Pruitt joined by family in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's adult daughter used a second room in the Capitol Hill condo co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, ABC News has learned …
Discussion: Associated Press
CNN:
Senator: Pruitt security included Disneyland, Rose Bowl trips
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 …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Political Wire and thecut
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests
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 …
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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 NewsBusters
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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
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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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.
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
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Washington Post:
How Trump got to ‘yes’ on the biggest purge of Russian spies in U.S. history
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Shakesville
NBC News:
Russian ex-spy says he was on Kremlin ‘hit list’ along with poisoned Skripal
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Jayme Deerwester / USA Today:
Spokesman: Arnold Schwarzenegger stable after undergoing emergency open-heart surgery
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo …
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, VICE News and Splinter
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Lexington Herald-Leader:
Lexington, more than 15 other districts cancel school over teacher absences after pension vote
Discussion: Jacobin
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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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation
Discussion: New Republic and Jezebel
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 …
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 …
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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.
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Dan Freedman / Connecticut Post:
Esty under scrutiny over handling of alleged abuse
New York Times:
Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times From Behind or the Side, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds  —  Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was killed by the Sacramento police in his grandmother's backyard, was shot eight times from behind or the side, according to a private autopsy commissioned by his family.
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
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.
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.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Federal workers spill on life in Trump's Washington  —  One Health and Human Services employee swore off online dating after potential suitors repeatedly got upset that he worked for the Trump administration.  An Education Department fellow eagerly returned to teaching after listening to Betsy DeVos bash public schools.
Discussion: Jezebel, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
 
 
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Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Vatican scrambles after pope appears to deny existence of hell
Discussion: thecut and AOL
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone: Sam Nunberg Is a ‘Lying Asshole’ and ‘Psycho’
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Ricardo Cano / Arizona Republic:
Last Slide  —  Frustrated and desperate, Arizona educators …
Jeff McCall / The Hill:
CNN lost its way in struggle to find an audience
Bloomberg:
Amazon Severs Ties With Top Lobbying Firms in Washington
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump-era politics is a surreal nightmare and we can't wake up
Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg:
Cambridge Analytica Affiliate Gave John Bolton Facebook Data, Documents Indicate
Discussion: Common Dreams
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
House Intel Committee Findings Contradict Kushner's Testimony
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Wren / Politico:
My 72-Hour Safari in Clinton Country
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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