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12:45 PM ET, March 25, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump Won't Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago  —  President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase.
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Washington Post:
In another blow to Trump's efforts to combat Russia probe, diGenova will no longer join legal team … A lawyer who President Trump said last week would come on board to help handle his response to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Russia probe will no longer be joining the legal team.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Mediaite
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In a burst of tweets, Trump insists that he's happy with his legal team … President Trump ran through a litany of topics in a series of tweets early Sunday, commenting on a recent attack by a gunman in France, explaining why he believes a wall will still be constructed along the southern border despite …
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump to make ‘one or two major changes to his government’ soon: President's friend  —  A friend of President Donald Trump said that when he spoke to him yesterday the president said Trump told him “he's expecting to make one or two major changes to his government very soon,” but “that's going to be it.”
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Mediaite
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Washington Post:
Trump friend says president told him to expect one or two more major personnel changes … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A friend of President Trump said Sunday that the president has told him that he expects to make one or two more major personnel changes in his administration soon …
Associated Press:
Trump is staffing — or casting— from Fox  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's favorite TV network is increasingly serving as a West Wing casting call, as the president reshapes his administration with camera-ready personalities.  —  Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump friend: At least one more big change coming
Discussion: ABC News
Emily Witt / New Yorker:
The March for Our Lives Presents a Radical New Model for Youth Protest  —  The outcry against violence was delivered with a mix of pop sentiment, corporate coöperation, and an awareness of the socioeconomic privilege that allows certain voices to be heard louder than others.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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HuffPost:
The March For Our Lives Is Proof That Generation Z Can't Be Stopped
Discussion: AOL, CBS News and RealClearPolitics
Beth B. / twitchy.com:
Parkland survivor to gun control classmates: Don't use my sister's name to push your agenda
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Students Lead Huge Rallies for Gun Control Across the U.S.
Discussion: Axios, CNN, Political Wire and TalkLeft
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:   For Parkland Students, a Surreal Journey From ‘Normal’ to a Worldwide March
Washington Post:
‘Never again!’ Students demand action against gun violence in nation's capital
Randi Kaye / CNN:
Sandy Hook survivor joins Parkland students to say ‘Enough’
Discussion: WSVN-TV, WNEP-TV and KFOR-TV
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones  —  Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook's algorithms know who you called.  —  This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the data Facebook had collected from him in an archive he had pulled down from the social networking site.
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes  —  Washington (CNN)CNN commentator and former Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested students protesting for gun control legislation would be better served by taking CPR classes and preparing for active shooter scenarios.
Discussion: Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
‘Stormy Will Eat You Alive’: How a Porn Star is Making Trump World's Lives Hell … As the 2016 presidential campaign entered its homestretch, Donald Trump and his team were drowning in the fallout of the infamous “grab 'em by the pussy” tape and the torrent of sexual assault and harassment allegations …
Discussion: Mediaite
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New York Times:
Stormy Daniels, Trump's Unlikely Foe, Is ‘Not Someone to Be Underestimated’  —  One by one, the honorees came forward to be recognized: the wounded veteran, the tech executive and the noted porn star.  —  It was the 10-year reunion for Scotlandville Magnet High School's Class of 1997 in Baton Rouge …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
It's A Former NFL Player Vs. A Donald Trump Acolyte In A Battle For The Soul Of The Republican Party In Ohio  —  This spring, a primary for the open House seat here in Ohio's 16th congressional district will help shape the Republican Party's future — pitting the old and new versions …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
A Domestic Budget to Make Barack Obama Proud  —  President Obama finally got a Republican-controlled Congress to fund his domestic budget.  All it took was Donald Trump in the White House to get it done.  —  In the $1.3 trillion spending bill that President Trump reluctantly signed on Friday …
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Armed white men showed up to intimidate kids at #MarchForOurLives rallies — it didn't work  —  Nationwide protests swept America today, as a teenager-led protest against the epidemic of mass shootings.  —  But as with most protests, there were counter-protests.
Discussion: AOL
G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Sources: US Rep. Costello to drop out of PA-6 race before May primary  —  Sources have told City&State PA that Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello has decided not to seek reelection in Pennsylvania's hotly contested Sixth Congressional District.  —  Despite filing petitions on Tuesday to run …
Discussion: Roll Call and Political Wire
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CNN:   Rep. Ryan Costello will drop bid for reelection in Pennsylvania
Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times:
Don't Delete Facebook.  Do Something About It.  —  On March 16, as the buzzer sounded in perhaps the worst upset in N.C.A.A. tournament history, and my beloved University of Virginia went down to the 16th-seeded University of Maryland, Baltimore County, I had one thought: I need to deactivate my Facebook account.
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New York Times:   How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google
 
 
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump-Russia, by the (misleading) numbers
Discussion: RedState
Ryan Glasspiegel / The Big Lead:
CBS Sports Boss Sean McManus: Kentucky Loss “Really Hurt Us” [AUDIO]
Discussion: Kentucky Sports Radio
Mark Landler / New York Times:
As Ties With Mexico Fray, Kushner Works Quietly to Mend Them
Joshua Stewart / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Congressional candidate Diane Harkey suggests curfew, buddy system for House members
Discussion: Raw Story
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bolt the Oval Against Bolton
Dakin Andone / CNN:
11-year-old speaks up for the black girls whose stories don't make the front page
Discussion: AOL and Mediaite
Dakin Andone / CNN:
Paul McCartney was at the march in New York, close to the site where his friend John Lennon was shot to death
Discussion: Mediaite
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trade and the Cities (Wonkish)
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
How Trumpism has come to define the Republican Party
Dakin Andone / CNN:
Emma Gonzalez stood on stage for 6 minutes - the length of the Parkland gunman's shooting spree
Discussion: RedState and ThinkProgress
 

 
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