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6:05 PM ET, April 3, 2017

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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel  —  White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Susan Rice In Crosshairs as Potential Felon  —  A major development in the Obama spy/leak scandal: former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice has been identified as a person who repeatedly requested that associates of Donald Trump (and perhaps Trump himself) be unmasked in raw intelligence intercepts.
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's risk of impeachment rises
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times
Adam Housley / Fox News:
Susan Rice requested to unmask names of Trump transition officials, sources say
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats' Smug Faces
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel  —  The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish …
Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Nuclear Trigger Finger  —  In the 1944 noir film “Gaslight,” a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senators fear fallout of nuclear option  —  Senators in both parties are speculating that a blowup over President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court could lead not only to the end of the filibuster for such nominations, but for controversial legislation as well.  —  While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Patrick Leahy / U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:
Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Nomination Of Neil Gorsuch To Be An Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
Richard L. Hasen / Washington Post:
Neil Gorsuch got where he is because of a form of affirmative action
Discussion: Daily Kos and Common Dreams
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Democrats Have Votes to Halt Gorsuch Confirmation, Tally Shows
Bloomberg:
Democrats Choose Path on Gorsuch That Could Change Washington
Discussion: New York Magazine
Los Angeles Times:
Why Trump lies … Donald Trump did not invent the lie and is not even its master.  Lies have oozed out of the White House for more than two centuries and out of politicians' mouths — out of all people's mouths — likely as long as there has been human speech.
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Los Angeles Times:
Our Dishonest President … It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters.  The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Hit-and-run accidents fell after California gave those here illegally driver's licenses, study finds
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Rent in Washington: $15,000 a Month  —  Owner is a Chilean magnate who bought house for $5.5 million  —  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's daughter and her White House adviser husband, are paying $15,000 a month to rent their new home …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman
NBC News:
North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’  —  SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies.  —  Thae Yong Ho is the most high …
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Financial Times:
Trump ready to tackle North Korea alone — FT exclusive
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
White House, conservatives mull deal to revive Obamacare repeal  —  House conservatives and the White House are mulling a potential agreement to revive the GOP Obamacare replacement bill that was pulled from the House floor just over a week ago, POLITICO has learned.
Discussion: Axios
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
How to Lose a Majority  —  The very public intra-party fight …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Business Insider:
AOL and Yahoo plan to call themselves by a new name after the Verizon deal closes: Oath  —  When Verizon merges Yahoo with AOL after its acquisition of Yahoo closes, the newly created division will get a new name.  —  That new name is Oath, sources tell Business Insider.
ProPublica:
Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us  —  When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his sons in charge and claimed to distance himself from his sprawling empire.
Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Amid the storm, Devin Nunes' two worlds render vastly different judgments of him  —  At home, Devin Nunes remains what he has always been, an auspiciously successful man who rose swiftly to unexpected heights, a man high school teachers point to when they tell kids in this often-overlooked place what is possible in this world.
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Kieffer / Townhall.com:
Why Isn't Hillary Clinton in Jail?  —  She feels safe enough to “come out of the woods,” exactly the time for a Trump administration special prosecutor to launch a broadside.  —  Mentally strong people don't need five months to overcome setbacks.  Thomas Edison famously said: “I have not failed 10,000 times. ...
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The White House:
White House Releases Official Portrait of First Lady Melania Trump  —  The White House is announcing the release of the first official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump, taken in her new residence at the White House.  —  “I am honored to serve in the role of First Lady …
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump donates first-quarter salary to National Park Service  —  President Trump will donate his first three months of salary to the National Park Service, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced Monday.  —  “The president has spoken with counsel and made the decision to donate …
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Woman accused of threatening Sandy Hook parent jailed after she was a no-show for court  —  Lucy Richards was arrested on Saturday by Tampa City police.  She is accused of sending death threats to a Palm Beach County man whose son was murdered in the Sandy Hook mass shooting.  —  Sun Sentinel
Discussion: Raw Story
Douglas Perry / Oregonian:
The secret to Donald Trump's success might be his physical attractiveness, study concludes  —  President Donald Trump has insisted the mainstream media is pushing “FAKE NEWS!” and has called journalists the “enemy of the people.”  —  What follows might give him a reason to rethink that opinion.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The big Russia questions loom even larger  —  Following his extraordinary testimony last week, former FBI special agent Clint Watts appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.  This exchange, in which he explained Russia's “active measures” during the 2016 campaign, was eye-popping:
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Report: Android overtakes Windows as the internet's most used operating system  —  Mobile is today as important, if not more important, than desktops when it comes to the internet and apps.  A clear reminder of that comes with news of a report claiming that Google's Android has overtaken Windows …
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Tucker Carlson's Fighting Words  —  On Fox News, an unlikely star thrives in the tumult of Trump-era politics.  —  Tucker Carlson started wearing a bow tie in 1984, when he was in tenth grade at St. George's, a Rhode Island prep school with a dress code.  He stopped wearing a bow tie on April 11 …
Discussion: The Week and Axios
 
 
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Thousands of Android apps can ‘collude’ to leak information, research shows
Discussion: vtnews.vt.edu and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Musk Trolls Shorts as Tesla's Value Hits Record, Passes Ford
Discussion: CleanTechnica
Ben Taub / New Yorker:
The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl
Discussion: NPR
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Comedy Central Unveils ‘The President Show’ Weekly Series Starring Anthony Atamanuik As Donald Trump
Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Daily Wire
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did a Democratic congressional hopeful inflate his national security credentials?
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Contributor files sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News
Discussion: RedState
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump administration cracks down on visas for computer programmers
Discussion: RedState
Kristin Huang / South China Morning Post:
Chinese engineer ‘marries’ robot after failing to find a human wife
Discussion: Shanghaiist and The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Jim Acosta / Adweek:
These 15 Political Power Players in Media Are Keeping It Real in the Age of Fake News
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TVNewser
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Records show deep ties between FBI and Best Buy computer technicians looking for child porn
Discussion: The Verge
Timothy Mclaughlin / Reuters:
Kansas House fails in attempt to override Medicaid veto
Discussion: Mother Jones
Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
The Rising Retirement Perils of 401(k) ‘Leakage’
Discussion: Mother Jones and naked capitalism
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
EPA's Scott Pruitt Gets Eaten Alive by Fox
Discussion: Washington Post and ThinkProgress
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Sorry, Democrats. Trump's not going anywhere. You wouldn't like who would follow anyway.
Discussion: Hot Air and Scripting News
 

 
From Mediagazer:

The Guardian:
How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns

Rodney Tiffen / Inside Story:
Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel

 
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