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12:20 PM ET, March 31, 2018

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Laura Ingraham Says She'll Take Planned Vacation Amidst Controversy  —  Laura Ingraham is taking avacation next week.  Now the question is whether a controversy swirling around the host will go on hiatus as well.  —  The popular Fox News Channel host - her “Ingraham Angle” …
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The Daily Beast:
Ted Nugent: Parkland's Student-Activists Are ‘Soulless’ Liars  —  Classic rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent has attacked Parkland's teenage school shooting survivors-turned-gun control activists, calling them “mushy brained” and “soulless” liars.  In an appearance on The Joe Pags Show late Friday …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Media Matters for America:
NRA board member Ted Nugent calls Parkland students poor, pathetic liars with no soul  —  Nugent: “The evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul”  —  From the March 30 edition of Newsmax's The Joe Pags Show:  —  Loading the player reg...  TED NUGENT: The level of ignorance goes beyond stupidity.
Discussion: Mediaite
The Hill:
Ingraham announces break from her show amid backlash over Parkland student … Fox News host Laura Ingraham is taking vacation time even as advertisers flee her show “The Ingraham Angle” over a feud with a high school student who advocates gun control.  —  Ingraham on her show Friday night described …
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Parkland survivor David Hogg to John McCain: ‘Why do you take so much money from the NRA?’
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump accuses Amazon of ‘Post Office scam,’ falsely says The Post is its lobbyist … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump escalated his assault on Amazon on Saturday, accusing the online retail giant of a “Post Office scam” and falsely stating that The Washington Post operates as a lobbyist for Amazon.
New York Times:
Russian Accused of Hacking U.S. Technology Firms Is Extradited  —  PRAGUE — A Russian man accused of hacking the systems of three American technology companies in 2012, possibly compromising the personal information of more than 100 million users, was extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic on Friday.
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New York Times:   Trump Advisers Urge Tougher Russia Policy After Expulsions
Sewell Chan / New York Times:   14 Million Visitors to U.S. Face Social Media Screening
Aaron Smith / CNNMoney:
Megachurch pastor charged with defrauding elderly investors  —  Federal authorities have charged the pastor of a Texas megachurch and a Louisiana financial planner with defrauding elderly investors out of more than $1 million.  —  Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston and Gregory Alan Smith of Shreveport …
Discussion: The Root, TheBlaze and ABC News
Cathie Anderson / Sacramento Bee:
Stephon Clark ‘deserved it,’ nurse wrote on Facebook.  Now she's no longer working for Kaiser.  —  Kaiser Permanente has parted ways with a nurse whose Facebook comments about Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police on March 18, incited a social media firestorm after an activist put them in the spotlight.
Will Sommer:
Roseanne Barr is tweeting about QAnon, a new Pizzagate-style conspiracy theory  —  The success of ABC's “Roseanne” reboot has brought new attention to comedian Roseanne Barr's belief in the absolutely crazy “QAnon” conspiracy theory.  —  Barr alluded to the theory on Twitter on Friday night, baffling her followers.
Washington Post:
From Mueller to Stormy to ‘emoluments,’ Trump's business is under siege … The carefully maintained secrecy around President Trump's finances is under unprecedented assault a year into his presidency, with three different legal teams with different agendas trying to pry open the Trump Organization's books.
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
CNN:
Internal FBI report shows discrepancy between McCabe and Comey accounts  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)The internal FBI report that served as grounds for the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe includes key testimony from his former boss that shows a discrepancy with McCabe's public statements …
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Caught Up in a Killing Spree, and Facing Charges  —  ATLANTA — Friday's acquittal of Noor Salman, the widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub in 2016, on charges that she helped carry out and cover up the attack, likely means that no one will ever be convicted in connection with the siege.
Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Freezes Funds for Syrian Recovery, Signaling Pullback  —  Order to State Department to hold off on spending jibes with president's call for an early exit  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump froze more than $200 million in funds for recovery efforts in Syria as his administration …
Gal Tziperman Lotan / Orlando Sentinel:
Foreman: Jury ‘convinced’ Noor Salman knew Mateen was plotting attack, but couldn't convict  —  The foreman of the Noor Salman jury contacted the Orlando Sentinel with a statement about what the three days of deliberations were like for the 12 people who acquitted the widow of the Pulse shooter, Omar Mateen.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and CBS Miami
CNN:
White House frustrated with EPA's Pruitt for apartment controversy  —  Washington (CNN)Senior White House aides are exasperated with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, the already embattled Cabinet secretary who now finds himself at the center of an expanding controversy …
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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 …
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Cosmopolitan:
Stacey Dash Is Withdrawing From the California Congressional Race
Discussion: Washington Times and Mediaite
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Outrage Over Kevin Williamson  —  You had the right to remain silent.  Now every word you've ever uttered, and every one you ever will, can and will be held against you.  —  I'm sorry to have to write you, for two reasons.  Sorry, first, that you have to endure having your character assailed …
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
A Judge Just Ruled That The Trump Administration Cannot Block Undocumented Pregnant Teens From Getting Abortions  —  The decision, which will stay in place while a larger class action suit moves forward, is a big win for the American Civil Liberties Union, who have been fighting a lawsuit …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
How Will the Midterm Elections Play Out?  Watch Pennsylvania  —  One thing has become clear about the midterm elections, which will determine the political script for the rest of President Trump's term: Pennsylvania is where much of the action will be.  —  Democrats eager to take control …
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Exclusive: Google employees organize to fight cyber bullying at work  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - About 100 Google U.S. employees concerned about cyber bullying inside the company have organized into a group proposing new policies for conduct at the unit of Alphabet Inc, five people involved in the effort said in recent interviews.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Ann Coulter to Donald Trump: Beware the Former Trumpers  —  Donald Trump has a boatload of problems.  Ann Coulter, the author of a 2016 book titled “In Trump We Trust,” is now one of them.  —  A week ago, when he signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill with nothing for his promised border wall …
Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Pope To World: Hell Does Exist  —  Things got a little heated at the Vatican this week when an Italian journalist reported that Pope Francis denied the existence of hell.  —  Apparently, the fiery 93-year-old avowed atheist reporter, Eugenio Scalfari of La Repubblica, set the social-media world aflame …
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Deloerabrust / americamagazine.org:   Vatican: Claim that pope denied hell's existence is unreliable
 
 
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Matthew Bodner / Washington Post:
One by one, European ambassadors learn they're being expelled from Russia
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
A Christian Publisher Was Running The Same Ad Fraud Scheme As Newsweek Media Group
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Top government ethics chief Walter Shaub and staff used Headspace meditation app to deal …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and thecut
Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Immigration chief in San Francisco apologizes for social media post seen as offensive
Discussion: KTLA and Raw Story
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Republicans Are Clinging Frantically to Power
Discussion: Raw Story
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Suffolk County district judge apologizes, admits he's serial underwear stealer
Discussion: Raw Story and myfox8.com
Zack Kopplin / The Daily Beast:
New Video: Cop Called Alton Sterling a ‘Stupid Motherf**ker’ After Killing Him
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
BBC:
Gaza-Israel border: Clashes ‘leave 16 Palestinians dead and hundreds injured’
Anna Flagg / New York Times:
The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
CNN:
Trump's ‘mini me’ could (partly) fill Hicks' void
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale 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

Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Apple News adds a Live Activity widget to track the results of the US elections in real time on iPhone, iPad, and Watch

 
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