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12:50 AM ET, April 3, 2018

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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Pruitt Had a $50-a-Day Condo Linked to Lobbyists.  Their Client's Project Got Approved.  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company's pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt …
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House considered firing Pruitt  —  White House chief of staff John Kelly has considered the firing of embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt in the coming months as part of a wave of ousters of top officials causing headaches for the president, a senior administration official told POLITICO.
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
EPA explored private jet lease for Pruitt's travels last year  —  Aides to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt last year considered leasing a private jet on a month-to-month basis to accommodate his travel needs, according to current and former agency officials.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist-Owned Pad Was GOP Fundraising Hub
Discussion: Political Wire
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The worst Cabinet ever gets worse
Discussion: Mediaite
Jill McCabe / Washington Post:
The president attacked my reputation.  It's time to set the record straight.  —  Jill McCabe, an emergency room pediatrician, is married to former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.  —  I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician — someone who never thought …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Like, ‘How Can I F—k with Him?’”:  Trump's War with Amazon (and The Washington Post) Is Personal  —  With the West Wing finally calm, Trump is contemplating a multi-front campaign against Jeff Bezos.  —  For the first time in Donald Trump's presidency, the West Wing soap opera appears …
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Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone's Claim of a 2016 Julian Assange Meeting Draws Scrutiny  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has asked about an email during grand jury testimony  —  The special counsel investigating alleged links between Trump campaign associates and Russians is looking …
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Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Mueller investigating whether Roger Stone met with Assange: report
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News states support for Laura Ingraham despite advertiser fallout  —  Fox News is standing by its embattled host Laura Ingraham, who has seen advertisers flee her show over a tweet aimed at Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor David Hogg.  —  “We cannot and will not allow voices …
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Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
Russian bots are tweeting their support of embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Says Laura Ingraham Will Return
Discussion: CBS News and news.avclub.com
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox News Reaffirms Support for Ingraham: Won't Be Censored by ‘Agenda-Driven Intimidation Efforts’
Discussion: Booman Tribune, twitchy.com and FOX 61
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sinclair responds to criticism of media-bashing promos  —  Sinclair forces stations to air media-bashing promos, criticism goes viral  —  Critics are calling Sinclair's promos pro-Trump propaganda.  Now the company is defending the initiative, and calling it something much more mundane …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Wants to Promote Sinclair?  Let Him.  —  Our devotion to a free press knows no limits.  Well, almost no limits.  Should an outlet produce a news story or commentary that cuts too hard against the grain, who among us doesn't want to reconsider the wisdom of granting just any newspaper …
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
New Quotas for Immigration Judges as Trump Administration Seeks Faster Deportations  —  Rules were laid out in a message sent Friday to immigration judges  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has notified immigration judges that it will begin evaluating their job performance based …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration, seeking to speed deportations, to impose quotas on immigration judges
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump moves to force Stormy Daniels suit into arbitration  —  Lawyers for President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to order that an arbitrator resolve a dispute with Stormy Daniels, a former adult film actress, over an alleged “hush money” agreement reached weeks before the 2016 presidential election …
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump attorney seeks to force porn star's lawsuit into arbitration
Discussion: Political Wire
A Waspy Chick / The Forward:
How Dare Jewish Men Keep Breaking Up With Me  —  Editor's note: The following is a satirical response to a March 29 Washington Post op-ed entitled, “I am tired of being a Jewish man's rebellion.”  —  Hi there, readers!  It's me, a woman who will now cutesily compare myself to Carrie Bradshaw …
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Into U.A.E. Influence Broadens  —  Special counsel's latest inquiry into the activities of a U.S. ally suggests he is looking more closely at foreign influence in Washington  —  WASHINGTON—Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked questions about the work of a private consulting firm …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Saudi Crown Prince: Iran's Supreme Leader ‘Makes Hitler Look Good’  —  This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right enemies.  Among those who would celebrate his end are the leaders of ISIS, al-Qaeda …
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Trump is wrong about Amazon on all counts  —  President Trump gets results.  His attacks on Amazon have tanked the company's stock.  —  It's hard to think of a more pointlessly destructive act of presidential jawboning in our history.  The online retailer is a jewel of our market economy …
TMZ.com:
Tiger Woods' Ex-GF Threatened Over NDA  —  Tiger Woods got his ex-girlfriend Kristin Smith to sign a non-disclosure agreement to make sure she kept her mouth shut about their nuclear breakup ... but she wants out of their deal — and now they're locked in a nasty legal war.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump heats up rhetoric on border, immigration as some supporters grow impatient  —  President Trump's sharp shift in tone on immigration this week from would-be dealmaker back to the hard-line stance he campaigned on comes amid signs that some of his conservative base is growing impatient …
USA Today:
The ‘condom snorting challenge’ is every parent's worst nightmare … A disturbing new viral trend has teenagers snorting unwrapped condoms as part of the “Condom Challenge.”  For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.  Buzz60  —  Viral videos posted on social media show teenagers snorting condoms …
Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed:
Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data  —  (Update: Late on Monday Grindr said it would stop sharing HIV status information with other companies.)  —  The gay hookup app Grindr, which has more than 3.6 million daily active users across the world …
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
New Poll: New Hampshire Republicans Aren't Totally Sold On Trump 2020  —  President Trump would probably win the New Hampshire primary if it were held today.  But at least one Republican who is considering running against Trump in 2020 could make it a close call, according to new polling data shared Monday with BuzzFeed News.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump leads Kasich, Flake among likely NH GOP voters
Discussion: Political Wire
Elizabeth Esty:
From being a room parent in a first grade classroom to serving on the library board, town council, state house and U.S. Congress, I went into public service to fight for equality, justice, and fairness.  It is one of the greatest honors of my life that the people of Connecticut's Fifth District elected me to represent them in Congress.
The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump ‘Cherishes’ Lou Dobbs So Much He Puts Him on Speakerphone for Oval Office Meetings … It is difficult to fully understand the Trump presidency without first understanding Lou Dobbs, the Fox Business powerhouse host and one of the main precursors to Trumpism.
New York Times:
Russia Presses Trump for White House Meeting With Putin  —  MOSCOW — Russia sought to move beyond last week's diplomatic confrontation with the West on Monday by pressing President Trump for a White House meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin that would undercut the perception …
Discussion: Politico
Bloomberg:
Stocks' Second-Quarter Start Is the Worst Since the Great Depression  —  If you feel like the second quarter has begun badly, you'd be right.  —  U.S. stocks are on track to have their worst April start since 1929, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.  The S&P 500 index slumped 2.4 percent …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
At Chicago nightclub, George Papadopoulos allegedly makes explosive new claim about Jeff Sessions  —  A chance encounter with a man at the center of the Russia investigation.  —  At a London bar in May 2016, after numerous drinks, Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos bragged …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Falsely Accused Parkland School Shooter Sues Alex Jones' InfoWars for Defamation … Marcel Fontaine, who was falsely declared a suspect in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting by conspiracy-theorist website InfoWars, is now suing Alex Jones for more than a million dollars.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
‘Fake News’ Threat to Media; Editorial Decisions, Outside Actors at Fault  —  Trump less trusted than CNN, MSNBC, and Fox as info source  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The news about “fake news” is not good, according to the Monmouth University Poll.  Large majorities of the American public believe …
 
 
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Stormy Effect’: Trump's support falls with women, rises with men in new poll
Discussion: TheBlaze and Political Wire
Barbara Starr / CNN:
US and British soldiers killed in Syria were on ISIS ‘kill or capture’ mission
CNN:
Two deaths, 54 other cases of severe bleeding tied to fake weed in Illinois
Discussion: The Week
John Archibald / al.com:
Jack Williams, ex-GOP chief Marty Connors, medical exec arrested on corruption charges
Discussion: Raw Story
Page Six:
Is Anna Wintour out at Vogue?
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Americans tell Interior to take a hike over proposed national park fee increase
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The Multiple Uses of Justice Scalia
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama eases into post-presidential life
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 Earlier Items: 
The Hill:
Bolton could be the first national security chief to prioritize religious freedom
Discussion: Breitbart and Politico
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller's office defends deal with Dutch lawyer to waive public records rights
Discussion: Power Line
Courier-Journal:
Public schools in all 120 Kentucky counties are closed Monday
Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
A Betrayal  —  The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13.