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5:30 PM ET, April 6, 2018

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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Lobbyist couple had to change the locks on Pruitt  —  Scott Pruitt was only supposed to be living in the Capitol Hill condominium that has become a focal point of his latest ethics controversy for six weeks last year while he got settled in Washington - but the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
White House Chief of Staff Urges Trump to Remove EPA Chief Pruitt  —  Trump resists calls for Pruitt resignation as White House reviews controversies  —  WASHINGTON—White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told President Donald Trump last week that he is convinced Environmental Protection …
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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Staffers Are Freaking Out Even More Than Usual Right Now  —  Axios editor Mike Allen is a consummate Establishmentarian who has spent his career laboring to win the approval of elites in both parties.  Yesterday, Allen published a column headlined “The case for extreme worry.”
Associated Press:
The Latest: White House conducts ethics review of Pruitt
Discussion: Politico and Axios
New York Times:
Chief of Staff Advised a Resistant Trump to Fire the E.P.A. Chief
Discussion: Townhall, Climate Depot and IJR
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Congrats, Jeff Goldberg.  You Just Martyred Kevin Williamson.  —  Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg climbed out on a limb last month to add conservative fire-breather and Never Trumper Kevin D. Williamson of National Review to join his growing staff.
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Kevin Williamson is wrong. Hanging women who have an abortion is not pro-life
Discussion: Townhall
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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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Bill Browder, A Staunch Putin Critic, Praises Trump Administration's New Sanctions
Discussion: BPR
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: CNBC, Townhall, Politico and Political Wire
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Michelle Obama: My husband was ‘the good parent’ compared to Trump  —  likened her husband's presidency to having “the good parent” at home at a women's leadership conference on Thursday.  —  At the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston, Obama appeared to take shots at President Trump
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Virginia Kruta / The Daily Caller:
Michelle Obama: My Husband Was ‘The Good Parent,’ Trump Is ‘The Fun Parent’  —  Former first lady Michelle Obama threw a few barbs at President Donald Trump while speaking to a group of women at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday.  —  Asked whether she would consider …
Discussion: The Hill, NBC10 Boston and Mashable
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 …
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Dallas Morning News:
Blake Farenthold resigns abruptly from Congress  —  This is a developing story.  —  WASHINGTON — Corpus Christi Republican Blake Farenthold abruptly resigned from Congress Friday afternoon, less than four months after dropping reelection plans under siege for crude and verbally abusive office behavior.
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:   U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold resigns from Congress
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.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kudlow just learned of Trump's latest tariffs move last night  —  The president's top economic adviser has spent the past week tirelessly pushing the White House's controversial trade proposals.  —  National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow appears to have been blindsided …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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
Discussion: Splinter and ThinkProgress
Denver Post:
As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved … The photo on the left shows 142 members of The Denver Post's newsroom staff in the newspaper's lobby on May 15, 2013, a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting.
Facebook:
Making Ads and Pages More Transparent  —  We believe that when you visit a Page or see an ad on Facebook it should be clear who it's coming from.  We also think it's important for people to be able to see the other ads a Page is running, even if they're not directed at you.
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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.
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.
New Yorker:
What About “The Breakfast Club”?  —  Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.  —  Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world,” released a restored version of “The Breakfast Club,” …
Discussion: IndieWire, Jezebel and Decider
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Mueller obtains evidence about Seychelles meeting  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year, when he described a meeting in Seychelles with a Russian financier close …
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: Weekly Standard and Political Wire
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.
Michelle Fabio / Forbes:
Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And ‘Media Influencers’  —  In today's installment of “I'm Not Terrified, You Are,” Bloomberg Law reports on a FedBizOpps.gov posting by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the relatively benign-sounding subject, “Media Monitoring Services.”
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 …
Bloomberg:
Kushner, CIM to Get $600 Million JPMorgan Loan for Brooklyn Site  —  Closing took months so bank could assess deal's risk  —  Twenty-one story tower will go up as NYC real estate slows  —  An investor group including Kushner Cos. is set to receive a loan of about $600 million …
 
 
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Colin Lecher / The Verge:
The feds have seized classifieds website Backpage, according to a notice on the site
Discussion: BGR, more at Mediagazer »
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle Likes Cable News, Despite Bloomberg's Prediction
Laura Saunders / Wall Street Journal:
Top 20% of Americans Will Pay 87% of Income Tax
Michael Sykes / Axios:
Sanders: Trump “absolutely” still believes trade wars are easy to win
Discussion: Political Wire and Breitbart
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
A Recording Of A CNN Boss Admitting The Company Wasn't Paying Any Attention To Gender Pay Has Leaked
Discussion: Daily Wire and Mediaite
Timothy Puko / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Looks to Protect Domestic Car Makers From Foreign Competition
Discussion: Axios and Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Kenya Barris, Creator of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Said to Seek an Exit From ABC
Discussion: theGrio
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Former postman found with 400kg of undelivered mail in Italy
Discussion: AOL
Tara Golshan / Vox:
If taxes aren't working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks?
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
A key Virginia GOP state senator says he is willing to break ranks and vote to expand Medicaid
Washington Post:
Rallying Nation  —  In reaction to Trump, millions of Americans …
Discussion: Common Dreams, The Root and Splinter
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
He Says He's an Innocent Victim. Robert Mueller Says He's a Spy.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Thousands of Indian Women Find Their American Dreams in Jeopardy
Discussion: Jezebel
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Bloomberg:
A look at Crunchyroll's challenges, including current and former employees saying its management is out of touch, as Disney and Netflix's expand into anime

 
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