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10:55 AM ET, March 27, 2018

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John Paul Stevens / New York Times:
Repeal the Second Amendment  —  Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement school children and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday.  These demonstrations demand our respect.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Citizenship question on 2020 census may result in undercount  —  The size of your child's kindergarten class.  Homeland security funds for your community.  Natural disaster preparation.  Highway and mass transit resources.  Health care and emergency room services.
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Department of Commerce:
U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Reinstatement of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Decennial Census  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
Politico:
Census to add controversial question on citizenship status  —  The 2020 U.S. Census will include a controversial question about citizenship status, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, a move that sparked outrage from Congressional Democrats, civil rights groups and liberal state attorneys general.
Discussion: Associated Press and Fox News
Emily Baumgaertner / New York Times:
Despite Concerns, Census Will Ask Respondents if They Are U.S. Citizens
Discussion: NPR and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
The Tale of Stormy Donald  —  His willful self-indulgence catches up to President Trump.  —  Every sentient voter in 2016 understood that Donald Trump had a bad history with women.  He survived politically because his opponent had spent 20 years denying or apologizing for even worse behavior by her husband.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Spanks Trump Again  —  Because there is broad consensus that Donald Trump is a lewd degenerate, nothing Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress and director, told “60 Minutes” about their alleged 2006 sexual encounter was particularly astonishing.
Washington Post:
‘Not in a punch-back mode’: Why Trump has been largely silent on Stormy Daniels
NBC News:
FEC ruling on Stormy Daniels payment could take a year or longer
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
NBC News:
Stormy Daniels sues Trump lawyer, says he defamed her, broke campaign finance law
Discussion: AOL
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Talks of Bringing Back Rob Porter, Aide Accused of Spousal Abuse  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has stayed in touch with Rob Porter, the former White House staff secretary who stepped down after allegations that he had abused his two former wives came to light, according …
Ray Hagar / Nevada NewsMakers:
Rumor is Ryan will resign as U.S. House Speaker; Scalise will replace him, Amodei says  —  Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan may soon resign as Speaker of the U.S. House.  —  Amodei said he was repeating a rumor that's around Capitol Hill.
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Associated Press:   AP-NORC Poll: Trump benefiting from economic policies
CNN:
CNN Poll: 42% approve of Trump, highest in 11 months
The Daily Beast:
Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan Latest Lawyers to Decline to Join Trump's Legal Team … Two more high-power attorneys have had to turn down President Donald Trump.  Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump reached out to them about representing him, and that they couldn't do it.
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“A Target, Not a Witness”: Will Trump's Legal B-Team Collapse Before Mueller?  —  The president's struggle to recruit experienced lawyers could mask more ominous concerns.  “As far as I can tell, Ty Cobb is the only attorney left on the Trump team with experience handling federal criminal investigations,” says one former prosecutor.
Reuters:
Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters  —  LONDON (Reuters) - A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different.
Hans A. von Spakovsky / Fox News:
Did Facebook's ‘favors’ for the Obama campaign constitute a violation of federal law?
Discussion: CNBC and The American Spectator
The Daily Beast:   Whistleblower: Canadian Company Helped Republicans Target Voters
Danny Vinik / Politico:
How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As Hurricane Maria unleashed its fury on Puerto Rico in mid-September, knocking out the island's electrical system and damaging hundreds of thousands of homes, disaster recovery experts expected that only one man could handle …
Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Linda Brown, Symbol of Landmark Desegregation Case, Dies  —  Linda Brown, whose father objected when she was not allowed to attend an all-white school in her neighborhood and who thus came to symbolize one of the most transformative court proceedings in American history …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump and the West give Putin the fight he needs … Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  On Monday morning the United States, Canada and the European Union carried out a coordinated mass expulsion of Russian diplomats, responding to Moscow's alleged role in the March 4 poisoning …
Wall Street Journal:
White House Probes Loans to Kushner's Business  —  White House attorneys are examining whether two loans totaling more than $500 million to Jared Kushner's family business may have violated any criminal laws or federal ethics regulations, according to a letter from a federal ethics agency.
Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg:
Facebook Says Zuckerberg Won't Give Evidence to U.K. Lawmakers  —  Mark Zuckerberg has declined an invitation to testify  —  Social-media company is embroiled in a scandal about user data  —  Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he will not appear before a U.K. parliamentary committee …
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CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg won't appear before UK lawmakers
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
CBS Video Confusing.  Hogg Was on Campus.  —  UPDATE: This video shows Hogg apparently in a closet during the shooting:  —  His comments quoted below to CBS still don't make sense.  Did he leave campus and then violate the lockdown to enter campus and interview students?  How did he get home and back?
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump fundraiser turned to Foreign Affairs chair for help winning work in Romania  —  WASHINGTON  —  Top Donald Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy sought help last summer from the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and lobbyist Rick Gates, a key figure in the Russia influence probe …
Discussion: New York Times
Pamela Wood / Baltimore Sun:
Sheriff: Maryland high school shooter died by shooting himself  —  Austin Wyatt Rollins, the 17-year-old who opened fire on classmates at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland last week, injuring one and killing another, died by shooting himself in the head, officials investigating the case said Monday.
New York Times:
After Stormy Daniels, Republicans Face a Referendum on Trump's Conduct  —  WASHINGTON — When Representative Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania announced on Sunday that he would join more than 40 other congressional Republicans not seeking re-election in November, he left no doubt about the reason …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Trump Does Trump, and Things Get Worse … Amidst the numbing chaos that is the Trump administration, these past few days are worth reflecting on because three events have moved the needle in a bad direction.  —  1. The hiring of John Bolton highlights Donald Trump's instability …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and POLITICUSUSA
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Her son, facing murder charges, is being called an ‘alt-right killer.’ This mother blames herself.  … Her troubled son had been up for two nights straight, inconsolable over a breakup, when she pulled him into her bed to soothe him.  She never meant to doze, but woke with a start at 4:26 a.m.
Simon Schama / New York Times:
How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? … (((SEMITISM)))  —  Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump  —  238 pp.  St. Martin's Press.  $25.99.  —  Come November's midterm elections, the Republican candidate for the Third Congressional District of Illinois will be a Nazi.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Putting the Ex-Con in Conservatism  —  In 2010 an explosion at a coal mine operated by Massey Energy killed 29 men.  In 2015 Don Blankenship, the company's former C.E.O., was sent to prison for conspiring to violate mine safety standards.  In 2018, Blankenship appears to have a real chance …
Discussion: Common Dreams, Splinter and Politico
Roxana Kopetman / Orange County Register:
In response to California sanctuary law, Orange County Sheriff makes public inmates' release dates  —  The Orange County Sheriff's Department, whose leadership opposes the new California sanctuary law that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials, announced Monday …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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New York Daily News:
Legendary rocker Alice Cooper credits Jesus with curing him of alcoholism
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Neo-Nazi Gang Busted After Accidentally Discussing Murder While on Phone With 911
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Trump's Latest EPA Nominee Let Cancer-Causing Chemical Pollute Groundwater
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
The story behind 11-year-old Naomi Wadler and her March for Our Lives speech
Discussion: The Guardian, Vox and New Republic
Detroit Free Press:
Sources: Police arrest Larry Nassar's Michigan State University boss
Discussion: NPR, Law & Crime and The Week
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Buttigieg Gets Closer to a 2020 Campaign
Discussion: RRH Elections
Aileen Chuang / Associated Press:
Indiana Governor Signs Bill Mandating Abortion Information
 Earlier Items: 
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Teenage Demagogues  —  Stoneman Douglas students' passion is not wisdom
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Where Are the Left's Modern Muckrakers?
David Dayen / New Republic:
Trump's Theater of Trade
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Week and CNNMoney
Weekly Standard:
The Agency That Asked for Less Money
Kim Severson / New York Times:
What's Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Corey Lewandowski considering legal action against reporter who entered office without permission
Discussion: Mediaite
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show
Discussion: Splinter, ThinkProgress and Axios
 

 
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Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming

 
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