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12:50 PM ET, March 16, 2018

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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump and John Kelly Reach Truce  —  White House chief of staff had made cryptic comments suggesting he may have been the next senior adviser to step down  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly have settled on a truce, at least temporarily …
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Washington Post:
Trump decides to remove national security adviser, and others may follow … President Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and is actively discussing potential replacements, according to five people with knowledge of the plans, preparing to deliver yet another jolt …
Associated Press:
Trump jokes 'who's next?' as tumult engulfs his White House  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump consumed Thursday morning's TV headlines with amusement.  Reports of tumult in the administration were at a feverish pitch — even on his beloved Fox News — as the president reflected …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump may hire multiple cable news personalities as part of shake-up  —  THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump's reality television presidency may be getting more star power for season two.  —  Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser …
CBS News:
White House shake-up: Chief of staff John Kelly may also be on the way out, sources say
Discussion: NBC News and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Trump's personal aide apparently lost White House position over gambling habit
Wall Street Journal:   Trump Plans to Oust National Security Adviser McMaster
CNN:
Sources: Trump ready to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser
Discussion: The Root and fox8.com
Sean Lahman / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter dies at 88  —  Democratic Congresswoman Lousie Slaughter, who had represented the Rochester area in Congress since 1987, has died.  She was 88.  —  Three sources confirmed the death to the Democrat and Chronicle Friday morning.
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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Rep. Louise Slaughter, N.Y. Democrat who championed women's rights, dies at 88 … Rep. Louise Slaughter, a folksy New York liberal who championed women's rights and American manufacturing for more than three decades as a Democratic congresswoman, and who became a top lieutenant …
Politico:
Rep. Louise Slaughter dies  —  Rep. Louise Slaughter died early Friday morning after having been hospitalized for a fall at her her Washington, D.C. residence last week.  —  Her chief of staff Liam Fitzsimmons said the 88-year old New York Democrat was surrounded by family at George Washington University Hospital.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Six women have come forward to Stormy Daniels' lawyer with similar stories  —  Stormy Daniels' lawyer said on Thursday that he has been approached by six other women with stories about President Trump  —  similar to that of the adult-film actress.  —  Michael Avenatti cautioned in an appearance …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Stormy Daniels' attorney claims she was physically threatened
New Yorker:
Barry Blitt's “Exposed”  —  Barry Blitt's latest cover for the magazine is his fifteenth to feature Donald Trump.  ("The gift that keeps on grifting," in Blitt's words.)  The image of Trump at the lectern, poised nude and cross-legged, recalls the prophet Bob Dylan, who once noted, in …
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
The Intellectual We Deserve  —  Jordan Peterson's popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape...  If you want to appear very profound and convince people to take you seriously, but have nothing of value to say, there is a tried and tested method.
Discussion: The Guardian and Crooked Timber
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Flake eyes 2020 primary challenge to stop Trump  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump.  And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Republican Jeff Flake: ‘My party might not deserve to lead’
Discussion: The Resurgent
The Siberian / Siberian Times:
Plane loses its $368 million cargo of gold, platinum and diamonds on takeoff  —  Gems and precious metals rain over Russia's coldest region as police and secret services stage emergency search.  —  The plane with ten tons of gold, platinum and diamonds lost part of its cargo after taking off from Yakutsk airport today.
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Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:   A plane's door flew open during takeoff, raining gold and silver over 16 miles of Siberia
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
Why Toys ‘R’ Us Is More Than a Business Story  —  Its vast inventory prepared us for an age of infinite choice.  —  I wasn't a Toys ‘R’ Us kid.  —  By the time the big box wonderland arrived in my hometown, I was a 25-year-old business reporter living 900 miles away.
Discussion: CBS Boston
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Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:   Toys R Us's baby problem is everybody's baby problem
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Federal court tosses out Obama-era rule requiring financial advisers to act in customers' best interests  —  A divided federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out an Obama-era Department of Labor (DOL) rule that required financial investment advisers to act in the best interest of their clients.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bernie Sanders / The Guardian:
The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy.  The rest of us shouldn't  —  The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our time.  Yet, it gets almost no coverage from the corporate media.
Reuters:
Russia to expel UK diplomats as crisis over nerve toxin attack deepens  —  Olzhas Auyezov, Guy Faulconbridge  —  ASTANA/LONDON (Reuters) - Russia is set to expel British diplomats in retaliation for Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to kick out 23 Russians as relations with London crashed …
Discussion: Axios
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Julia Marsh / Page Six:
Vanessa Trump files for divorce from Donald Trump Jr.  —  Vanessa Trump filed for divorce against her husband Donald Trump Jr. late Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.  —  The president's daughter-in-law filed for an uncontested proceeding, meaning she's not expecting a legal battle …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
NRA lawyer said to have had concerns about group's ties to Russia  —  WASHINGTON  —  Congressional investigators have learned that a longtime attorney for the National Rifle Association expressed concerns about the group's ties to Russia and possible involvement in channeling Russian money …
NBC News:
Possible Russian trolls try to register for Texas Democratic convention  —  Next Saturday, March 24, hundreds of Texas Democratic Party activists will gather at the Austin Hyatt Regency to nominate candidates for political office in Travis County, a kick-off event leading up to the 2018 midterm elections.
Associated Press:
Trump wildlife protection board stuffed with trophy hunters  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new U.S. advisory board created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Mediaite, The Week and Axios
Tim Alberta / Politico:
‘God Made Me Black on Purpose’  —  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — At the end of Forest Avenue, a narrow artery slicing through blocks of muddy lots and decaying one-story homes, Tim Scott kicks at the gravel and waits.  He had shared a table Saturday night with the world's wealthiest man …
Will Garbe / daytondailynews:
Ohio lawmaker: Allow students age 18-plus to carry guns in high school  —  Law-abiding high school students age 18 years or older should be able to carry long guns inside public high schools, state Rep. Niraj Antani, R-Miamisburg, told the Dayton Daily News in an interview Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story
Terrence T. McDonald / New Jersey Online:
Jersey City's 4,000-member teachers union strikes for first time since 1998  —  Gallery: Jersey City teachers go on strike  —  JERSEY CITY — Strike!  —  Jersey City's public-school teachers walked off the job for the first time in 20 years today, leading to confusion and some chaos across …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Zahra Hirji / BuzzFeed:
A Member Of Trump's Cabinet Actually Said “Konnichiwa” When Asked About Japanese Internment Camps  —  When asked whether the US would keep giving grants for preserving the history of Japanese-American confinement, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke responded with a Japanese greeting, “Konnichiwa.”
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
In a first, an undocumented immigrant is appointed to a statewide post in California … A 33-year-old woman has become the first undocumented immigrant named to a statewide post in California.  —  Lizbeth Mateo, an attorney and immigrant rights activist, was appointed to an advisory committee …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Let our airlines compete: Maybe more dogs will reach their destinations  —  Why shouldn't the best foreign airlines be able to carry passengers between American cities?  —  CONNECT  —  So United Airlines has apologized for killing a passenger's dog.  Reportedly, a flight attendant ordered …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Comey to come out hot on book tour, correct lies  —  Look for fired FBI Director James Comey to come out hot on the book tour that begins 30 days from now for “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” out April 17 from Flatiron Books.  —  We're told: Comey has been quiet …
Discussion: Mediaite and Politico
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Russian Twitter trolls stoked racial tension in wake of Sherman Park rioting in Milwaukee before 2016 Trump election  —  The fires of the Sherman Park unrest in Milwaukee had barely burned out in August 2016 before Russian Twitter trolls sought political gain by stoking the flames of racial division.
Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard:
This City Just Passed the First Bitcoin Mining Ban in the US  —  Plattsburgh, New York has imposed an 18-month moratorium on Bitcoin mining to prevent miners from using all the city's cheap electricity.  —  On Thursday evening, the city council in Plattsburgh, New York unanimously voted …
John Kiriakou / Washington Post:
I went to prison for disclosing the CIA's torture.  Gina Haspel helped cover it up. … I was inside the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters on Sept. 11, 2001.  Like all Americans, I was traumatized, and I volunteered to go overseas to help bring al-Qaeda's leaders to justice.
John D. Sutter / CNN:
‘We are the forgotten people’: It's been almost six months since Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Ricans are still dying  —  Video by Leyla Santiago and Khushbu Shah, CNN  —  Photographs by Erika P. Rodriguez for CNN  —  Additional reporting and translation by Cristian Arroyo for CNN
Discussion: Common Dreams
 
 
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Jon Wiener / Los Angeles Times:
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Shiho Fukada / Bloomberg:
Japan's Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
Michelle Martin / Reuters:
Facing far-right challenge, minister says Islam 'doesn't belong' to Germany
Discussion: Politico
Kathleen Gray / Detroit Free Press:
Online voter registration gets overwhelming support in the state Senate
Philip Elliott / TIME:
Democrats Shouldn't Get Too Cocky About Their Big Win in Trump Country
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Associated Press:
Romanian Court Rejects Man's Claim That He's Alive
Discussion: The Week
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles barred from enforcing nearly all gang injunctions, federal judge rules
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Emily Goodin / ABC News:
The Note: More political shock waves possible
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and Political Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cabinet shakeups give Democrats a chance to block Trump picks
Discussion: Splinter and Climate Home News
New York Times:
Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says