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8:30 PM ET, April 3, 2018

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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 …
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Emily Kirschenheuter / KRON:
Shooter dead, at least 3 injured in YouTube shooting  —  SAN BRUNO (KRON) - A woman shot multiple people Tuesday before turning the gun on herself at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, according to police.  —  Sources tell KRON4 that the shooting appears to be the result of a domestic dispute.
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
YouTube Shooting: Woman Shot Boyfriend, Then Killed Herself … A federal law-enforcement official told The Daily Beast that a woman in her thirties shot her boyfriend Tuesday at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California.  —  That female assailant is now dead, the official added.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Dana Rohrabacher immediately links shooting at YouTube to ‘illegal aliens’  —  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) appeared on Fox Business Network amid breaking news reports of a shooting at YouTube headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.  —  The interview occurred less than an hour after the shooting …
NBC News:
YouTube shooting: Female suspect dead at firm's HQ in San Bruno, California
NBC Bay Area:   Police Respond to Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno
Justin Carissimo / CBS News:
Police respond to “active shooter situation” at YouTube's California headquarters — live updates
Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC:
Female suspect in YouTube HQ shooting is dead: NBC News
Discussion: RedState
Sam Dorman / IJR:
After YouTube HQ Shooting, Witness Says, 'I Didn't Have a Gun on Me, But I Wish I Did'
Discussion: GeekWire
Recode:
Four people have been shot at YouTube HQ in Silicon Valley
Washington Post:
Mueller told Trump's attorneys the president remains under investigation but is not currently a criminal target … Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III informed President Trump's attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate the president but does not consider him a criminal target …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Rosenstein gets new top deputy for Russia probe  —  Washington (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has picked a veteran prosecutor to help him oversee the Russia probe at the Justice Department as the Special Counsel's investigation deepens.  —  Ed O'Callaghan will serve …
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Discussion: National Review
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
Washington Post:
Top Pruitt aide at EPA also shopped for housing on his behalf
CNN:
Trump appointee at Defense Department resigns after CNN reveals birther postings  —  (CNN)A political appointee at the Department of Defense has resigned after a CNN KFile inquiry about controversial postings he made on Facebook.  —  Todd Johnson is a former Trump campaign state director …
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Where Will Conservatives Draw the Line on Trump?  —  This is personal, not policy.  —  You have to feel bad for conservatives and Republicans who have been dragged into a debate over whether Amazon is a valuable company.  To engage earnestly with the idea that Jeff Bezos's disruptive online retailer …
Discussion: CNBC and National Review
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:   On Rhetoric and Reality  —  I think all of Dan's points below …
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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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.
Facebook:
Authenticity Matters: The IRA Has No Place on Facebook  —  This morning we removed 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts — as well as 138 Facebook Pages — that were controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA).  Many of the Pages also ran ads, all of which have been removed.
Bloomberg:
Sinclair Employees Say Their Contracts Make It Too Expensive to Quit  —  Noncompetes, forced arbitration and a liquidated damages clause can equal 40 percent of annual salary.  —  , and  —  After Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. drew widespread criticism for having anchors read a statement taking aim …
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Eliot Nelson / HuffPost:
Sinclair Journalists Worry They're Being Watched: 'There's A Lot Held Over Us'
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The all-consuming tribalism of Trump's Republican Party, in one 30-second ad … As metaphors for the Trump-led Republican Party go, it's difficult to beat Rep. Todd Rokita's new ad in the Indiana Senate race.  —  In 30 seconds, the Republican congressman from Indiana discusses no policy issues …
People.com:
Inside Tiffany Trump's Strained Relationship with Her Dad: ‘They Go Months Without Speaking’  —  With rare, back-to-back appearances spanning three states, Tiffany Trump and her father, President Donald Trump, seem to be on something of a father-daughter reunion tour.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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.
MJ Lee / CNN:
Stormy Daniels requests ‘suspicious’ bank information related to hush payment  —  Avenatti: Trump popping champagne too soon  —  (CNN)A lawyer for Stormy Daniels is asking the Treasury Department to release information filed with the government by a bank about “suspicious” …
Discussion: RedState
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
How to Win an Argument About Guns  —  Tragically, predictably, infuriatingly, we're again mourning a shooting — this time at YouTube's headquarters — even as the drive for gun safety legislation has stalled in Washington.  Polls show that nine out of 10 Americans favor basic steps …
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.
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. …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election  —  President Trump has said repeatedly that Russian interference didn't matter in the 2016 election, and he has suggested — wrongly — that the intelligence and law enforcement communities have said the same.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Daily Caller
 
 
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