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2:05 AM ET, March 21, 2018

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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: Mediaite and IJR
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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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 …
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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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 …
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:   Lindsey Graham: Trump Firing Mueller Would Be an Impeachable Offense
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
The Daily Beast:
Prosecutor: Nikolas Cruz's Brother Wants to Set Up a Fan Club for Him  —  Zachary Cruz, the younger brother of confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, has allegedly discussed setting up a fan club for his jailed brother, prosecutors said Tuesday.  The allegation was made at a bond hearing …
Discussion: miamiherald
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Tim Swift / WPLG-TV:
Deputy suspended accused of sleeping on duty at Stoneman Douglas
Discussion: RedState, IJR and Daily Wire
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
Roberto Villalpando / Austin American-Statesman:
FBI confirms package in Southeast Austin FedEx is a bomb connected to Schertz, previous explosions  —  6:40 p.m. update: FBI officials have confirmed a suspicious package found Tuesday morning at a FedEx ground facility in Southeast Austin contained an explosive device, according to a news release.
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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.
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Politico:
Quinn apologizes for calling Nixon an ‘unqualified lesbian,’ but calls primary race a ‘distraction’
Discussion: Refinery29, Mediaite and New York Post
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
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Weekly Standard:
‘It Would Have Been Like Me Calling Castro’: Republicans Slam Trump for Congratulating Putin
Discussion: euronews
Calily Bien / KXAN-TV:
LIVE NOW: Reported package explosion at Goodwill on Brodie Lane  —  Emergency crews have cordoned off a Gooodwill in south Austin after a package reportedly exploded Tuesday evening.  —  The Austin Fire Department says the call came in at 7 p.m. at the Goodwill located at 9801 Brodie Ln., which is just north of Slaughter Lane.
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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.
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
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.
 
 
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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
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Google and Facebook can't help publishers because they're built to defeat publishers
Shaun King / The Intercept:
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution. He's Exceeding Expectations.
Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch:
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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
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Kaspersky's ‘Slingshot’ report burned an ISIS-focused intelligence operation
Discussion: Axios
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Farenthold weighs resigning from Congress
Discussion: Political Wire
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Smithsonian moves Michelle Obama portrait due to ‘high volume of visitors’
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
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