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12:15 PM ET, March 21, 2018

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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Kelly furious over leak of warning to Trump to not congratulate Putin  —  WaPo: Trump warned not to congratulate Putin  —  Washington (CNN)White House chief of staff John Kelly is furious about the quick leak of a warning to President Donald Trump to not congratulate his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin …
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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 …
New York Times:
White House Job Requirement: Signing a Nondisclosure Agreement  —  As a real estate executive and reality TV star, Donald J. Trump tightly controlled his image by insisting that everyone around him sign nondisclosure agreements threatening steep monetary penalties if they revealed anything about him or his company.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A GOP senator's remarkable admission about Trump and Mueller … THE MORNING PLUM:  —  President Trump just uncorked a new round of Twitter attacks this morning on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and on the English language, quoting one of his staunchest legal allies as follows …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
A stunning leak rattles Trump and his aides  —  One of the most startling leaks — and stunning revelations — of this whole administration has left President Trump and his senior staff furious and rattled.  The Washington Post reports in its lead story: “Trump did not follow specific warnings …
NBC News:
Trump, master of the political insult, declines to chide Putin
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Congressional Republicans hesitant to antagonize Trump over Russia probe
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Tony Plohetski / Austin American-Statesman:
Austin bombing suspect, 24-year-old man, dies as police close in, chief says  —  5:50 a.m. update: The suspect in a string of bombings in Austin is dead, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed early Wednesday.  —  The name of the suspect, described only as a 24-year-old white man …
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NBC News:
Austin bomb suspect Mark Anthony Conditt blows himself up as SWAT team approaches  —  The suspect in a spate of bombings that terrorized residents of Austin, Texas, died early Wednesday after detonating an explosive inside his vehicle as a SWAT team tried to apprehend him on the side of a highway, officials said.
Austin American-Statesman:
Authorities: Bombing suspect was Pflugerville resident Mark A. Conditt  —  The suspected Austin serial bomber who apparently killed himself early Wednesday as authorities closed in on him was Pflugerville resident Mark A. Conditt, local and federal law enforcement sources told the American-Statesman and KVUE.
CNN:
Austin bomber kills himself with explosive device
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Suspect in Austin Bombings Blew Himself Up, Police Say
Washington Post:
Austin bombing suspect dies after detonating explosive as SWAT team closed in, police say
Discussion: Splinter
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 …
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
What The Dan Lipinski-Marie Newman Democratic Primary in Illinois Means
Discussion: Roll Call, Politico and NPR
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Newman concedes in Democratic Illinois congressional primary
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Top takeaways from the Illinois primary
Discussion: Vox and Associated Press
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes  —  Let's get one thing straight: I am not a fan of Facebook.  I'm confident that social media is a cancer on our private lives and a source of derangement in our politics.  I take it for granted that the tech barons are acquiring the power to tilt elections …
Discussion: The Guardian and CNBC
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:   Donald Trump's Pre-Presidential Media Dominance
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 …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Cambridge Analytica Looked to Pounce on Russian Hacks, Email Shows … Cambridge Analytica hoped to capitalize on Russian hacking of Hillary Clinton and her ally, an email written by one of its employees indicates.  —  Emily Cornell, the employee, sent the email on July 29, 2016.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tennessean.com:
New poll finds Bredesen with narrow lead over Blackburn in US Senate race  —  Former Gov. Phil Bredesen has a slight edge over U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in a new poll on the U.S. Senate race from a Democratic-leaning firm.  —  The poll, conducted by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling …
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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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Breitbart's readership plunges  —  Breitbart, the alt-right news site whose executive chairman Steve Bannon was pushed out in January after feuding with President Donald Trump, has lost about half its readership according to comScore, raising questions about its future.
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.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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Ben Penn / bnanews.bna.com:
Mulvaney, Acosta Override Regulatory Office to Hide Tips Rule Data  — Sources: DOL released rule to permit restaurant tip sharing over objections of regulatory chief Neomi Rao  —  Labor Department leadership convinced OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to overrule the White House regulatory affairs chief …
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress and Common Dreams
Hugo Martin / Los Angeles Times:
TSA denies accessing data on electronic devices carried by domestic airline passengers  —  The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that its airport security agents do not scan or review the data held on electronic devices carried by passengers on domestic flights.
Discussion: Associated Press
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New York Times:
Minneapolis Officer Charged With Murder in Australian Woman's Death  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman last summer, an incident that led to protests and the ouster of the city's police chief, was jailed Tuesday on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Democrat: Whistleblowers say White House trying to oust broadcast board CEO  —  (CNN)The top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee says whistleblowers have come forward to allege a plot to remove the current CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency which controls US-funded media abroad …
Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
Trump is right: The special counsel should never have been appointed  —  is right in saying that a special counsel should never have been appointed to investigate the so-called Russian connection.  There was no evidence of any crime committed by the Trump administration.
Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite and Axios
 
 
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WXIA-TV:
13-year-old arrested for ‘disgusting’ terroristic voicemails against Cobb NAACP
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Tom McTague / Politico:
Boris Johnson: Putin ordered spy attack to help reelection
Anh Do / Los Angeles Times:
Some OC residents: We want to help the homeless — just don't put them in our neighborhoods
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: ‘We might need to build a wall between California and Arizona’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
Idaho joins other red states with ‘abortion reversal’ law
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
It Begins: McCaskill Challenger Runs Ad With Hillary Take On Red-State Voters
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New York Times:
In Nafta Talks, U.S. Tries to Limit Junk Food Warning Labels
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CNN:
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Associated Press:
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Discussion: Axios
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Scandal Questions Never Asked, Much Less Answered
Adam Schiff / USA Today:
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