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Tom Namako / BuzzFeed:
An “Ashamed” Fox News Commentator Just Quit The “Propaganda Machine”  —  “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association,” Col. Ralph Peters wrote in an email to colleagues.  “Now I am ashamed.”  —  A retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News contributor quit Tuesday …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox News Analyst Quits, Calling Network a ‘Propaganda Machine’
Discussion: alicublog
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Fox News analyst blasts network as ‘propaganda machine’ while announcing departure
Discussion: IJR
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Analyst Quits, Calls Network a ‘Propaganda Machine’
Discussion: Mediaite
Channel 4 News:
Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump's data firm  —  An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran key parts of the presidential campaign for Donald Trump.  —  The British data company was secretly filmed discussing coordination between Trump's campaign …
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Washington Post:
Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook data, according to former employee … LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session … It's not just that he's silent in public.  Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain the company's role in a widening international scandal over the 2016 election.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Scientist at center of data controversy says Facebook is making him a scapegoat
Washington Post:
Trump's national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin.  He did it anyway. … President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladi­mir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section …
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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Reddit user claims to be Austin bomber, compares himself to ‘Zodiac Killer’ and says he wants world to ‘burn’
Discussion: IJR
The Daily Beast:
New Explosion in Austin Injures at Least One
Discussion: Associated Press and WSAV-TV
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Ex-Playboy Model Sues to Break Silence on Trump  —  A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies' efforts during …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Stormy History: The Seven-Year Battle Between the President and the Porn Star
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
President Trump Must Face Accusations of ‘Apprentice’ Contestant  —  A New York State judge ruled on Tuesday that a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who has said President Trump made unwanted sexual advances could go forward, raising the possibility of a public airing of other allegations of sexual misconduct against the president.
Discussion: Discourse.net and TalkLeft
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant can sue Trump for defamation
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Trump subjected to trifecta of sex-scandal lawsuits
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
New travel costs revealed for EPA head amid ongoing scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt spent more than $120,000 in public funds last summer for a trip to Italy that included a meeting of G-7 ministers and a private tour of the Vatican.
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Washington Post:
New documents show nearly $68,000 in recent premium flights, hotel stays for EPA's Pruitt
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Flake warns Trump of impeachment ‘remedy’ if Mueller probe is halted … Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), one of President Trump's most prominent Senate critics, told The Washington Post in an interview on Tuesday that he would support impeachment proceedings against Trump if the president ends …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Kris Kobach Just Got Humiliated in Federal Court  —  Judge Julie Robinson was losing patience.  Before the 2016 election, she had ordered Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to restore the right to vote to thousands of Kansans who'd been disenfranchised by a state law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:   Federal judge scolds Kobach for violating her trust at contempt hearing
Sun-Sentinel:
Two students arrested at Stoneman Douglas on weapons charges; deputy suspended for sleeping  —  Two students were arrested Tuesday for bringing knives to the Parkland school where 17 were killed by a gunman on Feb. 14 and a third is being mentally evaluated for making online threats.
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The Daily Beast:
Prosecutor: Nikolas Cruz's Brother Wants to Set Up a Fan Club for Him
Discussion: miamiherald
Tim Swift / WPLG-TV:
Deputy suspended accused of sleeping on duty at Stoneman Douglas
Discussion: RedState, IJR and Daily Wire
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Denounced by His Party as a Nazi, Arthur Jones Wins Illinois G.O.P. Congressional Primary  —  Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier described as a Nazi by the Illinois Republican Party, won the Republican primary on Tuesday in the state's Third Congressional District, a heavily Democratic district …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Washington Post
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Holocaust denier is officially the GOP nominee in Chicago-area House race
Discussion: Vox, KTLA and The Week
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Weekly Standard:
‘It Would Have Been Like Me Calling Castro’: Republicans Slam Trump for Congratulating Putin
Discussion: euronews
Pew Research Center:
Wide Gender Gap, Growing Educational Divide in Voters' Party Identification  —  College graduates increasingly align with Democratic Party  —  As the 2018 midterm elections approach, women and especially college graduates have moved toward the Democratic Party.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Pew Research Center:   1. Trends in party affiliation among demographic groups
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
The suspected Great Mills shooter, a teen, used a handgun.  It's tough for adults to buy one in Maryland.  —  The gun used by the suspected teenage shooter at a St. Mary's County high school is difficult for adults to buy under Maryland's tough gun laws.  —  Law enforcement officials …
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Andrea Diaz / CNN:
Parkland survivors to Great Mills students: 'We're here for you'
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Christine Quinn bashes ‘unqualified lesbian’ Cynthia Nixon  —  Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an openly-gay supporter of Gov. Cuomo, called Cynthia Nixon an “unqualified lesbian” a day after the actress announced she's going to challenge the governor in a primary.
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Lobbyist says he was nearly killed by man he hired to investigate Seth Rich's death … As conspiracy theories swirled around the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, lobbyist Jack Burkman took the unusual step of launching his own private investigation.
Ralph Peters / New York Post:
The world is descending into tyranny  —  It wasn't supposed to happen this way.  After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, democracy was supposed to be irresistible.  While some of us were more skeptical than others, even cynics allowed that freedom seemed to have the upper hand.
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Children's Book About Mike Pence's Gay Bunny Jumps to No. 1  —  This is the story of a little gay bunny.  —  A little gay bunny who belongs to Vice President Mike Pence.  —  A little fictional gay bunny whose book is beating the memoir of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on the Amazon best-seller list.
 
 
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Associated Press:
Rauner, Pritzker win primaries in Illinois governor's race
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
New poll finds health care a key issue for Nevada voters, low approval ratings for Trump, Heller
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Pennsylvania GOP moves to oust judges over gerrymandering decision
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Google and Facebook can't help publishers because they're built to defeat publishers
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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution. He's Exceeding Expectations.
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
RNC holding its spring meeting at Trump resort in Florida
Discussion: Raw Story
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney:
Where in the world is Mark Zuckerberg? Frustrated Facebook execs are asking
Discussion: KTLA and The Daily Beast
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Farenthold weighs resigning from Congress
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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