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10:55 AM ET, April 6, 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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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to be corrupted  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is in hot water over a condo.  It turns out that in 2017 he stayed for several months in a room co-owned by the wife of a bigshot energy lobbyist, and at one point met with a representative of that firm in his EPA office while he was staying there.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Lobbyist married to Pruitt's ex-landlord speaks out as EPA administrator's troubles deepen  —  FIRST IN PLAYBOOK ... STEVE HART SPEAKS — the lobbyist who is married to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's former landlord: “Williams & Jensen has always been committed …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Pruitt Test
Discussion: Mother Jones
CNN:
Trump floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt this week despite scandals
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Ana Navarro hilariously mocks Scott Pruitt's Fox News interview: ‘He made Betsy DeVos look like Einstein’
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs  —  Treasury also targets dozens of companies, officials, tycoons  —  Move follows Trump decision to expel 60 Russian diplomats  —  The Trump administration sanctioned seven Russian tycoons, 12 companies …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Putin Cronies
Discussion: Political Wire, AlBoeNEWS and The Week
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Treasury slaps sanctions on Russian oligarchs
Discussion: Washington Post
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:   Trump sanctions Putin's inner circle
Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Targets Allies of Putin in Latest Round of Sanctions
Discussion: Sputnik International
CNBC:   US sanctions several Russian officials and entities, including oligarch linked to former Trump …
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
April House Overview: Ratings Changes in 13 Districts  —  The good news for Republicans is that President Trump's approval rating has, on balance, ticked up from 38 percent to 40 percent since January as attention has shifted from unpopular GOP proposals on healthcare and taxes to the economy, tariffs and Stormy Daniels.
YouTube:
Republican Trey Gowdy Was Known For Being Hyperpartisan — Until Trump (HBO) … South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man.  He's even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Alayna Treene / Axios:   Trey Gowdy says being in Congress was largely a waste of time
Madeleine Albright / New York Times:
Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late?  —  Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.  —  On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.
Discussion: Shakesville and Hullabaloo
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes  —  Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust?  —  You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.
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Phoebe Weston / Daily Mail:
What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? …
Discussion: NewsBusters, BGR and VICE News
Tom Warren / The Verge:   Facebook secretly deleted messages Mark Zuckerberg sent on Messenger
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP's 2018 agenda  —  THE BIG IDEA: Leaders of the conservative Koch political network are mad about President Trump's tariffs, the failure to protect “dreamers” and runaway government spending.  They're frustrated that congressional leaders …
Discussion: NPR and The Week
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.  —  Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …
Axios:
Trump skipping White House Correspondents dinner  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will take President Trump's place at the White House Correspondent's Association annual dinner.
Discussion: Breitbart
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump says ‘pain’ from China tariffs will make US ‘much stronger’
Discussion: CNBC and The Week
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, The Mahablog and The Week
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
What's Driving Trump's Attacks on Amazon?  It's Personal  —  President's attacks on e-commerce company stem from its CEO Jeff Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post, which Trump says covers him unfairly, say people close to the White House  —  Early in President Donald Trump's term …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Poisoned Spy Sergei Skripal No Longer in Critical Condition  —  Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who was attacked in Britain with a nerve agent last month, is “no longer in a critical condition” and “improving rapidly,” the BBC reports.  Salisbury District Hospital said Skripal was …
Discussion: BBC, RedState and Politico
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The Daily Beast:   Britain Pinpoints Secretive Russian Facility That Made Deadly Nerve Agent
Catherine Philp / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Salisbury poison 'made at Russia's Porton Down'
Discussion: Politico, The Guardian and AOL
Sarah McCammon / NPR:
‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl  —  As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.
Discussion: Political Wire, CNBC and Raw Story
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Trump threat of $100 billion tariffs will ‘wake up’ China, Mitt Romney says  —  SANDY — U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney sees President Donald Trump's proposed $100 billion in new tariffs on China as a shot across the bow but doesn't think it would lead to trade war.
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seized bank accounts in Manafort probe  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office moved to seize bank accounts at three different financial institutions last year just one day before former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was indicted, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing Thursday.
Daily Mail:
Saudi crown prince says Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence  —  Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of ‘corrupt’ princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter: Sources  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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.
Associated Press:
Trump wants out of Syria, but don't say ‘timeline’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spoken: He wants U.S. troops and civilians out of Syria by the fall.  But don't call it a “timeline.”  —  Wary of charges of hypocrisy for publicly telegraphing military strategy …
Discussion: CNN and New York Magazine
 
 
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Park Geun-hye, South Korea's Ousted President, Gets 24 Years in Prison
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Andrew McCabe's GoFundMe Campaign Was Put Together by K Street PR Firm
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Courts Black Voters Anew. But an Obama Reference Stings.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a Genius
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Mexican president rebukes Trump over border threats
Los Angeles Times:
Dramatic photos show earthquake shaking cliffs at Santa Cruz Island
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Is the FBI Hiding?  —  The bureau still won't comply …
Discussion: Power Line
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Tenacity of Trump
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The Battle of Woke Island
Juli Briskman / Washington Post:
Why I'm suing for my right to flip off the president
Discussion: Politico and thegellerlawgroup
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Mulvaney gives big pay bumps to his hires at consumer agency
Discussion: New York Times and ThinkProgress
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
These Messages Show Julian Assange Talked About Seeking Hacked Files From Guccifer 2.0
Discussion: emptywheel and The Gateway Pundit
Katherine Mangu-Ward / Hit & Run:
By Firing Kevin Williamson,The Atlantic Shows It Can't Handle Real Ideological Diversity
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

 
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