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4:20 PM ET, April 9, 2018

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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump's Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen  —  The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scott running for Senate in epic showdown with Nelson  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Rick Scott made his long-awaited Senate candidacy official Monday, setting up an epic battle against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson and testing the limits of whether a close alliance with President Donald Trump …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: As elections near, many older, educated, white voters shift away from Trump's party  —  (Reuters) - Older, white, educated voters helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016.  Now, they are trending toward Democrats in such numbers that their ballots could tip the scales …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP increasingly fears loss of House, focuses on saving Senate majority  —  Republicans are increasingly worried they will lose control of the House in the midterm elections, furiously directing money and resources to hold and potentially boost their narrow majority in the Senate.
Emily Goodin / ABC News:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott enters Senate race, setting up expensive challenge to Democrat Bill Nelson
Discussion: Politico, ThinkProgress and NBC News
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
An Internal Email Contradicts Scott Pruitt's Account of Controversial Raises  —  An email that suggests Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt personally signed off on a controversial pay raise for a favored aide last month is roiling the agency.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
In Letter to E.P.A., Top Ethics Officer Questions Pruitt's Actions  —  WASHINGTON — The federal government's top ethics official has taken the unusual step of sending a letter to the Environmental Protecting Agency questioning a series of actions by Administrator Scott Pruitt and asking the agency to take …
Juan Zamorano / Associated Press:
Trump family hotel business asked Panama president for help  —  PANAMA CITY (AP) — Lawyers representing U.S. President Donald Trump's family hotel business appealed to Panama's president for help days before an emergency arbitrator declined to reinstate the Trump management team to a luxury waterfront hotel.
Discussion: The Week
USA Today:
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he's left Facebook over data collection  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told USA TODAY he's leaving Facebook out of growing concern for the carelessness with which Facebook and other Internet companies treat the private information of users.
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Washington Post:   Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to Captiol Hill: “It was my mistake, and I'm sorry.”
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Not Resigning
Axios:
Read Mark Zuckerberg's testimony for Congress
Discussion: 444 and Althouse
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun-Times:
Tammy Duckworth gives birth to girl: First senator to have baby while in office  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., on Monday gave birth to a daughter, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, becoming the first sitting senator to have a baby while in office.  —  Duckworth, who turned 50 on March 12 …
CBO's Publications:
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028  —  In CBO's projections, the economy grows relatively quickly this year and next and then more slowly in the following several years.  The federal budget deficit rises substantially, boosting federal debt to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028.
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Federal Budget Deficit Projected to Top $1 Trillion in 2020
Discussion: Eschaton
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:   Deficit to top $1 trillion per year by 2020, CBO says
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
CBO: GOP policies add nearly $1.6 trillion to deficit
Discussion: Politico
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The past 48 hours of big Syria news, explained  —  Why Trump might be about to attack Syria — again.  —  Syria used chemical weapons against its own citizens, killing at least 42 adults and children.  President Donald Trump threatened a military response in a tweet, vowing …
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CNN:
Russia blames Israel for strikes on Syrian airbase
Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
Cynthia Nixon Wants to Legalize It  —  What would you say is harder: appearing in two concurrent Broadway shows when you were a full-time college student, or running for governor of New York State when most people know you only from “Sex and the City”?  I think that running for office …
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Washington Post:
Trump ‘did not want sprinkler protections’ in his Fifth Avenue high-rise, former safety official says
Discussion: ABC News and VICE News
Ksenia Galouchko / Bloomberg:
Russian Stocks Take Worst Hit Since Crimea on Sanctions, Syria  —  Ruble falls most globally; stocks drop most since 2014  —  Analysts warn other companies could be next for penalties  —  Russian stocks headed for their biggest drop in four years and the ruble slumped the most in the world …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Trump vs Putin? Time to Be ‘Scared’
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Financial Times:   Russian markets hit by US sanctions and Syria
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House has no plan for countering Comey  —  Former FBI Director James Comey is about to return to the national spotlight with the release of his memoir next week — but the White House is doing little to prepare for the onslaught, according to two officials.
Junot Díaz / New Yorker:
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma  —  “I never got any help, any kind of therapy.  I never told anyone.”  —  X—  Last week I returned to Amherst.  It's been years since I was there, the time we met.  I was hoping that you'd show up again; I even looked for you, but you didn't appear.
Discussion: The Week, Unfogged, Longreads and Jezebel
Associated Press:
To hell with it: Trump increasingly weary of staff advice  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The speech was written.  A cast of relatable Americans with emotional stories was standing by to reinforce the message.  But President Donald Trump was in no mood to play along.
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
MSNBC's Joy Reid: What If Trump Refuses To Be Arrested By Federal Marshals?  —  Sunday on her weekend morning program, MSNBC's Joy Reid seriously discussed a situation where President Trump refused a subpoena and would have to be arrested and put in jail until he testified before a grand jury.
Sopan Deb / New York Times:
‘The Simpsons’ Responds to Criticism About Apu With a Dismissal  —  At the end of 2017, Hank Azaria, the voice behind Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a convenience-store owner on “The Simpsons” with a thick Indian accent, responded to a recent groundswell of criticism that the character was racist.
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Linda Holmes / NPR:
‘The Simpsons’ To ‘The Problem With Apu’: Drop Dead
Discussion: Vox and Hit & Run
GQ:
Cardi B's Money Moves  —  The rapper responsible for last year's most unexpected hit emerged from a singular New York City story of strip clubs, gangs, and below-board basement butt injections.  Navigating new fame and a new record, Invasion of Privacy, Cardi B is fighting to stay true …
Discussion: BPR, Mashable and fox5sandiego.com
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The Sam Harris debate  —  Ezra and Sam Harris debate race, IQ, identity politics, and much more.  —  There's a lot of backstory to this podcast, which is covered in more detail in this piece.  —  The short version is that Sam Harris, host of the Waking Up podcast, and I have been going back and forth …
Katherine Krueger / Splinter:
Clarence Thomas' Wife Posts Memes Trashing Parkland Kids and Comparing Gun Control to Holocaust  —  In a stunning demonstration of what Facebook is for now, Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is using her account to post memes attacking survivors …
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Sophomoric and substantial: The college journalism career of James Comey  —  WASHINGTON — His vivid tales of Oval Office meetings have captivated Washington.  His writings — contemporaneous memos from meetings with President Trump — are Exhibit A in an investigation into potential obstruction of justice.
Discussion: Raw Story
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Univision Forces Out Gizmodo CEO as Company Weighs Deep Cuts … Gizmodo Media Group's top executive is exiting the company—a sign that parent Univision plans to get more directly involved with its flagship digital media property as it weighs deep cuts.  —  The Daily Beast has learned …
Pew Research Center:
Bots in the Twittersphere  —  The role of so-called social media “bots” - automated accounts capable of posting content or interacting with other users with no direct human involvement - has been the subject of much scrutiny and attention in recent years.  These accounts can play a valuable part …
Robert Burgess / Bloomberg:
Trump Has Lost the Confidence of Investors  —  Equities, bonds and the dollar are showing anything but trust in the president's stewardship.  —  President Donald Trump likes to equate the rally in stocks since the November 2016 elections with confidence in him and his policies.
Associated Press:
Kremlin aide: Russia's centuries-long romance with West over  —  MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin's adviser says Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West and is bracing for a new era of “geopolitical loneliness.”
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
2018 campaigns are not ready for Robert Mueller  —  WASHINGTON  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation could upend the 2018 midterm elections — whether it reveals wrongdoing at the highest levels or exonerates the president.  And yet campaign officials and party insiders on both sides are unprepared for it.
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Interior Official Compared Parkland Students To Nazis, Promoted Conspiracies  —  A high-ranking official at the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation has repeatedly shared conspiracy theories on his personal Facebook page, a review by TPM found, including posts calling the students …
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
Lili Bayer / Politico:
Orbán poised to tighten grip on power  —  BUDAPEST — Viktor Orbán's critics are bracing for another tough four years.  —  Having secured a third straight term with a landslide election win, the Hungarian prime minister is arguably more powerful at home than any other head of government in the European Union.
Discussion: One America News Network and Index
Aaron Gell / Task & Purpose:
'They Didn't Have To Kill Him': The Death of Lance Corporal Brian Easley  —  This article was published in collaboration with the editorial team at Longreads.  —  The thing that everyone remembered about the man in the light gray sweatshirt was how composed he was, how polite and respectful.
The Intercept:
How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria  —  It is a horrifying artifact of our digital era: a jumpy 18-minute-and-49-second cellphone video of a Skype call.  Glimpses of an Arabic-language keyboard and laptop screen can be seen as the audio plays through tinny speakers.
 
 
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Peter Navarro / Financial Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
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USA Today:
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The Hollywood Reporter:
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