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10:15 PM ET, April 5, 2018

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New York Times:
Job Changes for E.P.A. Officials Who Questioned Scott Pruitt  —  WASHINGTON — At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management …
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Julianna Goldman / CBS News:
Scott Pruitt asked to use sirens in D.C. traffic and was told no for non-emergency  —  Several weeks after taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt was running late and stuck in Washington, D.C., traffic.  Sources tell CBS News that he wanted to use …
CNN:
Trump floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt this week despite scandals  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump floated replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as the scandal-ridden head of the Environmental Protection Agency has faced a growing list …
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Pruitt fell behind on payments for his $50-a-night condo rental  —  Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt was at times slow to pay the rent on his $50-per-night lease in a Capitol Hill condo, according to two people with knowledge of the situation — forcing his lobbyist landlord to pester him for payment.
Discussion: New York Times, The Week and Mediaite
Arn Pearson / Salon:
Exclusive: Scott Pruitt, Trump's embattled EPA chief, involved in shady 2011 real estate deal
Discussion: ABC News
Washington Post:
Top EPA ethics official says he lacked key facts about Pruitt's condo rental
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trade Sheet Says Pruitt's Fall Was Fall Out From Rob Porter Abuse Scandal
Discussion: RedState, Political Wire and CBS News
Katherine Mangu-Ward / Hit & Run:
By Firing Kevin Williamson,The Atlantic Shows It Can't Handle Real Ideological Diversity  —  Kevin Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic.  Since leaving National Review in March, the conservative writer has managed to produce just one column at his new perch, in which he declared the death of the libertarian moment.
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David French / National Review:
On the Cowardly Firing of Kevin Williamson  —  The Atlantic has caved to the intolerant mob and fired Kevin Williamson, and in so doing has contributed to a slanderous fiction — that Kevin is so beyond the pale that he has no place at one of the nation's premiere mainstream publications.
Discussion: alicublog
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson After Suddenly Realizing He Believes The Things He Says
Warren Henry / The Federalist:
Ta-Nehisi Coates And Jessica Valenti ProveThe Atlantic's Hypocrisy On Kevin Williamson
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
A Response to Kevin Williamson
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Trump's Most Influential White Nationalist Troll Is A Middlebury Grad Who Lives In Manhattan  —  Twitter troll “Ricky Vaughn” had a bigger influence on the 2016 election than NBC News and the Drudge Report.  Here's who he really is.  —  Who is Ricky Vaughn?
CNN:
Lewandowski to Democrats: I'm not answering your ‘f—ing’ questions  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains language some people may find offensive.  —  (CNN)Corey Lewandowski had a blunt message for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee: He wasn't going to answer their “fucking” questions.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Mueller probe tracking down Trump business partners, with Cohen a focus of queries  —  WASHINGTON  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators this week questioned an associate of the Trump Organization who was involved in overseas deals with President Donald Trump's company in recent years.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump says he didn't know his attorney paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump said Thursday that he did not know that his personal attorney paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 days before the presidential election to prevent her from publicly accusing Trump of having an affair.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:   Trump Denies Knowing of Any Hush Money Paid to Porn Actress
Tennessean.com:
Phil Bredesen holds double-digit lead over Marsha Blackburn in US Senate race, new MTSU poll shows  —  Former Gov. Phil Bredesen has a 10-point lead over U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, according to a new poll from Middle Tennessee State University.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Presidential whiplash stokes immigration crisis to justify troop surge  —  Trump orders National Guard troops to border  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's aides are caught in a never ending game of catch-up, trying to translate his sudden, impulsive demands into instant policy.
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Washington Post:
A rambling Trump tosses out the script — literally — in W. Va.
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump says he'll send as many as 4,000 troops to the border
Discussion: Politico, Splinter, Breitbart and RedState
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
These Messages Show Julian Assange Talked About Seeking Hacked Files From Guccifer 2.0  —  DMs tie Assange to a Russia-linked hacker — and raise new questions about his Seth Rich conspiracy theory.  —  Twitter DMs obtained by BuzzFeed News show that in the summer of 2016 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Robert Maguire / OpenSecrets.org:
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Mercer backed a secretive group that worked with Facebook, Google to target anti-Muslim ads at swing voters  —  As the final weeks of the 2016 elections ticked down, voters in swing states like Nevada and North Carolina began seeing eerie promotional travel ads …
Axios:
Trump fires next shot in China trade war  —  President Trump tonight says he's directed the U.S. Trade Representative to consider an additional $100 billion in tariffs on China, and that the administration may take other actions to “protect our farmers and agricultural interests.”
Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico and Mediaite
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Christina Farr / CNBC:
Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data  — Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients.
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Mulvaney gives big pay bumps to his hires at consumer agency  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's appointee to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has given big pay raises to the deputies he has hired to help him run the bureau, according to salary records obtained by The Associated Press.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Times
Associated Press:
Number of women running for US House seats sets record  —  CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress.
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Here's Don Jr. Talking About How It Sucks To Be At The Playboy Mansion With A Pregnant Wife  —  Has the president's son ever contemplated killing his dad for the money?  He once talked about that on the radio!  —  In January 2007, Adam Carolla broadcast his radio show, “The Adam Carolla Show …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“You Don't Attack a Kid”: Inside the Laura Ingraham Nightmare at Fox News  —  Ingraham may have erred terribly in assailing a Parkland survivor, but she has the support of the man in charge of Fox News.  “Rupert has been annoyed by what he perceives as cowardly behavior by his executives,” says one person close to the mogul.
Ramona Giwargis / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Ex-fiancee says Las Vegas GOP campaign adviser made her his slave  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks (Photo obtained by Las Vegas Review-Journal)  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks is pictured in this undated photo obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  Sparks is accused of sexually enslaving and battering his ex fiancee.
Melissa Jeltsen / HuffPost:
Everyone Got The Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong  —  And another, smaller injustice was obscured: the sadistic prosecution of Noor Salman.  —  Every mass tragedy begets a frantic search for answers, for a common understanding of what happened, for a narrative, and the 2016 Pulse massacre was no different.
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Former Trump aide approved ‘black ops’ to help Ukraine president  —  Exclusive: Paul Manafort authorised secret media operation that sought to discredit key opponent of then Ukrainian president … Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort authorised a secret media operation …
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Daily Beast Sues Department of Justice Over Nunes Memo  —  The Daily Beast has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice for multiple alleged violations of the nation's privacy laws.  —  Filed on behalf of the media outlet by attorneys with the James Madison Project …
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple's 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows  —  Yes, Mac Pro is coming in 2019  —  A year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was.  I joined a round-table discussion with Apple SVPs and a handful of reporters to get the skinny on what was taking so long.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Stuck in Third Place, Should CNN Abandon Its “Food Fight” Formula?  —  Despite its down-the-middle news brand, the network trails rivals Fox News and MSNBC in viewers and weathers daily attacks from the White House as critics bemoan a “clash model” of staging partisan debates that's now “outmoded.”
Discussion: Daily Wire
Katie McDonough / Jezebel:
Jezebel Regrets Its Decision to Hire Cannibal Witch as Writer-at-Large  —  It is not easy to admit our mistakes, particularly now, given the current media climate and general culture of intolerance on college campuses.  Still, we feel that we owe our readers an apology.
 
 
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