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11:40 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.
USA Today:
Donald Trump needs to fire EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, not promote him
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Ana Navarro hilariously mocks Scott Pruitt's Fox News interview: ‘He made Betsy DeVos look like Einstein’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
CNN:
Trump floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt this week despite scandals
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
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump says trade war is “already lost,” and he “probably won't” attend White House Correspondents Dinner  —  President Trump said in a radio interview aired Friday that the U.S. isn't in a trade war because the trade war is “already lost,” and said he “probably won't” attend …
Discussion: Splinter and ThinkProgress
Axios:
Trump skipping White House Correspondents dinner
Discussion: Breitbart
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs …
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
Discussion: New York Magazine
USA Today:
U.S. imposes new sanctions on 7 Russian oligarchs and 17 government officials
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC
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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP's 2018 agenda
Discussion: The Week
Phoebe Weston / Daily Mail:
What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? …
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
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump says ‘pain’ from China tariffs will make US ‘much stronger’
Discussion: CNBC and The Week
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
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
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.
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 …
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
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
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: RedState
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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
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
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Anthony Scaramucci on Bannon and back-stabbing in DC  —  It has taken a Herculean effort to pin down Anthony Scaramucci.  Our lunch was originally scheduled for last November.  Then Scaramucci stumbled on an old tweet by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber, which compared the language he used …
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
Juli Briskman / Washington Post:
Why I'm suing for my right to flip off the president  —  Juli Briskman is a marketing and public relations professional living in Sterling.  —  One sunny Saturday last fall, I hopped on my bike and headed out for a ride near my home in Virginia.  President Trump decided to spend …
Discussion: Politico and thegellerlawgroup
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: New York Times and ThinkProgress
 
 
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
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‘Chappaquiddick’ is a long-overdue dismantling of the Kennedy myth
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
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Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Courts Black Voters Anew. But an Obama Reference Stings.
Discussion: Raw Story
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Mexican president rebukes Trump over border threats
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Townhall
Los Angeles Times:
Dramatic photos show earthquake shaking cliffs at Santa Cruz Island
 Earlier Items: 
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Is the FBI Hiding?  —  The bureau still won't comply …
Discussion: Power Line
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Tenacity of Trump
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Battle of Woke Island
The Daily Beast:
Britain Pinpoints Secretive Russian Facility That Made Deadly Nerve Agent
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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An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

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Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

Reuters:
Prince Harry's lawsuit against News Group Newspapers moves towards trial; all but one other litigant in the roughly 40 lawsuits against NGN have settled
 
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