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5:30 PM ET, April 3, 2018

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KRON:
Active shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno  —  CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE  —  There is an active shooter at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, according to San Bruno Police.  —  Sources tell KRON4 that a woman shot her boyfriend.  We're also hearing reports that the shooter is “down” but police have not yet confirmed that.
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Los Angeles Times:
Active shooting at YouTube headquarters brings huge police response  —  An active shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., sparked panic and a massive police response Tuesday.  —  Several YouTube employees sent tweets Tuesday afternoon, saying employees were racing …
NBC Bay Area:
Police Respond to Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno  —  Live Video Coverage from NBC Bay Area  —  Police are investigating an active shooter at YouTube's office in San Bruno, California, on Tuesday.  —  San Bruno Police tweeted: “Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive.”
Discussion: Recode and The Daily Beast
Steve Almasy / CNN:   Shooting reported at YouTube HQ, several people taken to hospitals
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government  —  (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
What Mueller's Most Conspicuous Silence Suggests  —  But the emails!  —  It's not just an increasingly worn rejoinder to any story of chaos and disaster in the Trump administration.  It's also an interesting question to ask about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Washington Post:
Justice official authorized Mueller to investigate whether Trump campaign chair colluded with Russia … Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was authorized by a top Justice Department official to investigate whether Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign …
Discussion: National Review
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In a footnote, Mueller sends a warning shot to Trump
Discussion: Vox, VICE News, emptywheel and The Week
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes.  That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides  —  In early March, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt approached the White House with a request: He wanted substantial pay raises for two of his closest aides.
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Clare Foran / CNN:
How EPA's Scott Pruitt avoided tough questions on Tuesday  —  Washington (CNN)As questions swirled over whether or not he can hold onto his administration post, embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appeared calm on Tuesday as he touted the agency's decision …
Washington Post:
That caravan of migrants Trump was tweeting about?  Mexico stopped it. … VERACRUZ, Mexico — The Mexican government on Monday evening moved to break up the caravan of migrants moving through southern Mexico, with immigration officials registering the travelers and suggesting …
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New York Times:
Trump Says He Plans to Order Military to Guard Border  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that he planned to order the military to guard parts of the southern border until he can build a wall and tighten immigration restrictions, proposing a remarkable escalation of his efforts …
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump proposes sending troops to U.S.-Mexico border until wall is built
Discussion: ABC News, Breitbart, Axios and Oath Keepers
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’  —  David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, said he dislikes and fundamentally distrusts the print media, which he believes “serves no real purpose.”  In emails to New York, Smith said that print …
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Bloomberg:
Sinclair Employees Say Their Contracts Make It Too Expensive to Quit
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018  —  U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, says he raked in over $6.7 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first quarter of 2018.  It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: US suspects listening devices in Washington  —  For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages.
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Trump is finally making investors nervous  —  Investors spent most of last year ignoring the president's antics.  They're not anymore.  —  If the stock market was in a Trump rally before, it's in a Trump slump now — even if the president would rather not admit it.
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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
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Milton Friedman Predicted Socialism Would Kill Democracy. Instead, Trump Is.
Discussion: National Review
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Hollywood Reporter:
Don't Be Fooled, ‘Roseanne’ Is Really TV's Most Anti-Trump Show  —  The NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist argues the politics on the revived sitcom are played for laughs like on ‘All in the Family’ or the ‘Colbert Report,’ but the daily economic struggles of the Conner family actually make a pointed anti-Trump statement.
Politico:
Trump: I could have ‘very good relationship’ with Putin  —  At a joint news conference with Baltic leaders, the president said ‘getting along with Russia is a good thing.’  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he might get along quite well with Russian President Vladimir Putin — or that he might not.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   Trump: ‘Everyone’ Agrees 'Nobody's Been Tougher On Russia Than I Have'
Michael Jones / The College Fix:
University event aims to combat ‘Christian Privilege’  —  George Washington University diversity workshop to be held four days after Easter  —  Just four days after Easter, George Washington University will host a training session for students and faculty that teaches that Christians …
Ashraf Khalil / Associated Press:
Marco Rubio on gun control: It depends who he's talking to  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was one week after the fatal shootings at a Parkland, Florida, high school, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was looking to show solidarity with an angry crowd of parents and students in his home state.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
'I can't breathe': Asheville police video shows white officer beating, choking black jaywalking suspect … Johnnie Rush was trying to get home from a long shift at the Cracker Barrel.  —  Then he got stopped for jaywalking — an encounter with the police department in Asheville, N.C. …
Tulsa World:
‘Go ahead, be pissed at me’: Oklahoma lawmaker, upset at teachers' decorum, vows not to vote for education … As the statewide teacher walkout entered its second day, some lawmakers are criticizing the behavior of those protesting at the Capitol.  —  Rep. Josh Cockroft …
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
The Clarion Ledger:
Next Slide  —  A poll commissioned by Democrat Mike Espy's U.S. Senate campaign shows him leading Republicans Cindy Hyde-Smith and Chris McDaniel in a three-way race as the two Republicans split votes.  —  The poll was taken by Chism Strategies in the days after Gov. Phil Bryant announced …
Corey Robin:
Why is the media—including the liberal media—supporting these teachers' strikes?  —  I've been amazed—in a good way—at how positive is the media coverage of all these teacher wildcat strikes and actions in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona.  Particularly from liberal media outlets.
 
 
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The all-consuming tribalism of Trump's Republican Party, in one 30-second ad
People.com:
Inside Tiffany Trump's Strained Relationship with Her Dad: ‘They Go Months Without Speaking’
Discussion: Political Wire and thecut
MJ Lee / CNN:
Stormy Daniels requests ‘suspicious’ bank information related to hush payment
Discussion: RedState
Courier-Journal:
Sen. Mitch McConnell calls Trump's tariffs a ‘slippery slope’ that would hurt Kentucky
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Trump's Campaign Said It Was Better at Facebook. Facebook Agrees
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Roseanne is bringing conservative American women out of the closet
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Thank You, Jeff Sessions
 Earlier Items: 
Susan Scutti / CNN:
Unusual forms of ‘nightmare’ antibiotic-resistant bacteria detected in 27 states
Discussion: NPR and CBS Dallas
Orlando Sentinel:
Congressman Darren Soto's wife arrested at Walt Disney World
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Politico:
Trump, McCarthy look to cut billions from budget deal they just passed
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
What the Supreme Court Doesn't Get About Racism
New York Times:
What Is Your City's Twin?  —  Let's imagine that you're looking …
Jill McCabe / Washington Post:
The president attacked my reputation. It's time to set the record straight.
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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