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2:35 PM ET, March 29, 2018

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David J. Shulkin / New York Times:
Privatizing the V.A. Will Hurt Veterans  —  It has been my greatest professional honor to serve our country's more than 20 million veterans.  Almost three years ago, I left my private sector job running hospitals and came to Washington to repay my gratitude to the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Kelly Loses White House Clout as Trump Blazes Own Path  —  Chief of staff out of loop for several key recent decisions  —  President and top aide at times now on different wavelengths  —  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has lost some of his clout following recent missteps …
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Fired VA Secretary Says White House Muzzled Him  —  Fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin tells NPR's Morning Edition that political forces in the Trump administration want to privatize the VA — and he was standing in the way.  —  “There are many political appointees in the VA …
CNN:
Trump being told he doesn't need a communications director or chief of staff  —  (CNN)Several of President Donald Trump's outside advisers have told him over the past week he requires neither a chief of staff nor a communications director, at least in the traditional definition of those jobs …
Jen Kirby / Vox:
Ronny Jackson, Trump's pick for VA secretary, is an unknown quantity  —  Trump's doctor said the president had “great genes.”  Now he's been tapped to lead the government's second-largest agency.  —  Donald Trump declared in a tweet that he's nominating White House doctor Ronny Jackson …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump heads to Ohio for first public appearance this week
Discussion: ABC News
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
TripAdvisor says it will stop ads for right-wing TV host Laura Ingraham after she criticized Parkland shooting survivor  —  Online travel website TripAdvisor said it will stop advertising on right-wing host Laura Ingraham's television show after she attacked a survivor of the February Parkland, Florida school shooting on Twitter.
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Washington Post:
'You're a mother': Laura Ingraham faces boycott for taunting Parkland teen over college rejections … Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is calling for advertisers to boycott Laura Ingraham's show after the Fox News host taunted the high school senior over his college rejections.
New York Times:
Trump Rings Up Roseanne Barr After Her Show Is a Ratings Winner  —  President Trump made a personal phone call on Wednesday to a political supporter with a huge megaphone — Roseanne Barr.  —  Mr. Trump called Ms. Barr to congratulate her on the revival of her comedy, “Roseanne,” and to thank her for her support.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:   Roseanne revival is a wake-up call for Hollywood
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Roseanne’ Revival's Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood, Prompts Soul-Searching
Discussion: NewsBusters and The Last Tradition
John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: More cabinet trouble for Trump?  EPA chief lived in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’  —  For much of his first year in Washington, President Trump's EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt occupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife …
Associated Press:
Rival Korean leaders to meet April 27 in historic summit  —  PAJU, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a border village on April 27, the South announced Thursday, for a rare summit that could prove significant in global efforts …
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Sun-Sentinel:
Crazed girls flood Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz with fan mail  —  Sun Sentinel  —  Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account.
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter  —  Exclusive: US authorities made inquiries even before 2016 election campaign into Trump property dealings in former Soviet Union … They wanted to build the Las Vegas of the Baltics.
Molly Ball / TIME:
Jeff Sessions Is Winning for Donald Trump.  If Only He Can Keep His Job  —  Sessions greets law-enforcement officers in Kentucky.  “The fundamental question is, Who rules the streets?” the U.S. Attorney General says.  “The government or the outlaws?”  Philip Montgomery for TIME
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
It Took 3 Different Court Orders for Scott Walker To Finally Hold Constitutionally Required Elections  —  After months of delay and Republican attempts to defy court orders, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker finally agreed to schedule special elections to fill vacant two state legislative seats.
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Jason Stein / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gov. Scott Walker calls special elections and Senate leader drops bill to sidestep court order
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Inside the Cutthroat Battle to Be the Next Hope Hicks  —  Hope Hicks plans to depart Washington by Good Friday, over a month after she resigned as the White House communications director on February 28.  She will leave behind a press operation that is inherently broken …
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
More than 200 former diplomats are alarmed at the state of American diplomacy … More than 200 former U.S. ambassadors and veteran diplomats have signed a letter expressing alarm over the slide in U.S. leadership in the world and urging senators to grill Mike Pompeo about his plans to reverse …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Carly Wanna / Yale Daily News:
Jeb fires Trump barbs at Yale talk  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's psychiatrist wants him to move past the 2016 presidential election.  —  “I'm not going to talk about the 2016 election,” Bush joked on Tuesday in a talk sponsored by the The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.
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Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The House Exodus  —  How the historically high number of open seats affects the November calculus  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — As of this writing, just 379 of 435 House districts will have incumbents running in them this November.  That's the second-lowest total of the post-World War II era.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Russia Will Expel 150 Diplomats, as Tensions With West Reach Fever Pitch  —  LONDON — Intensifying Russia's clash with Europe and the United States, the Kremlin on Thursday announced that it would expel 150 Western diplomats and close the American consulate in St. Petersburg.
Discussion: The Week
CBS Sacramento:
Sacramento Home For Sale, But Not To Trump Supporters  —  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A Sacramento area home is up for sale, but it comes with a catch.  —  The homeowner has a political preference in mind for the next owner of her house, which has been in her family for decades.
Harry Litman / Washington Post:
We may know why Paul Manafort has kept quiet.  But his bet is still risky.  —  Harry Litman practices law at the firm Constantine Cannon and teaches constitutional law at the University of California at San Diego.  He served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department …
Michael Bartiromo / Fox News:
Father crashes daughter's proposal, holds up sign reading ‘Say no’  —  It was a moment Allison Barron and Levi Bliss would remember for the rest of their lives.  —  No, we're not talking about Levi's proposal — although that was certainly memorable, too.  We're talking about the moment Allison's dad …
Discussion: AOL
TMZ.com:
Larry King Says the Second Amendment Was Created to Fight Off Slave Uprisings  —  Larry King has an interesting tidbit for why the Second Amendment should be repealed — and it's got to do with what he says is the real reason it was created ... to fight off slaves.
Michael W. Chapman / CNSNews:
Pope Francis: ‘There Is No Hell’ … In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just “disappear.”  This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.
McDonald's Corporation:
McDonald's Triples Crew Tuition Assistance for Restaurant Employees, Lowers Eligibility Requirement to 90 Days  —  Company also extends Career Online High School and College Advisory services to restaurant employees' family members  —  McDonald's Corporation today announced it will allocate $150 million …
David Wolpe / New York Times:
Passover in a Land of Jewish Ghosts  —  BARCELONA — This Passover I am in Spain, land of Jewish ghosts.  Spain was once a place where Jewish piety and poetry flourished.  Now it is full of neglected sites and abandoned synagogues.  Fewer than 50,000 Jews remain.
WSJ:
10 YEARS AFTER THE CRISIS. … 1.  —  WHAT'S CHANGED  —  Good Times Are Back in the Market  —  The government pumped trillions of dollars into the economy to stabilize the banking system.  Bank stocks lagged behind the market but got a boost after November 2016, when Donald Trump …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Boing Boing
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
ICE Now Detaining Pregnant Women, Thanks to Trump Order … Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending its practice of automatically releasing pregnant women from detention, according to internal communications reviewed by The Daily Beast.  —  This is because of President Donald Trump's executive order …
Discussion: CNN, Axios and Splinter
Marc Bernardin / Hollywood Reporter:
Wes Anderson's ‘Isle of Dogs’: Is Cultural Appropriation Hollywood's Next Big Battleground?  —  Who gets to make what art?  And where should we draw the line between ripping off and paying homage to another culture, asks a Hollywood Reporter columnist.  —  I grew up on a steady diet …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The A.V. Club / news.avclub.com:
Onion Inc. has unionized  —  We've decided to form a union here at Onion Inc., home of The A.V. Club and our sister sites The Onion and ClickHole.  First, all of The A.V. Club staff, along with an overwhelming majority of Onion Inc. staff, signed cards signaling our desire to unionize.
Steve Gardner / USA Today:
Los Angeles Rams' male cheerleaders make NFL history  —  SportsPulse: NFL owners voted on Tuesday to overturn the league's confusing catch rule, but will the new verbiage make a difference?  USA TODAY Sports' Mike Jones thinks so.  USA TODAY Sports  —  CONNECT
Discussion: ABC News, TheBlaze and CBS Los Angeles
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Kathy Griffin Is Returning to TV, and Still Taking on Trump  —  Almost a year after Kathy Griffin appeared in a widely condemned photograph that depicted her holding the severed head of President Trump, this comedian and actress is making a TV comeback of sorts.
Discussion: Towleroad and AOL
 
 
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Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
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Associated Press:
Austin Police Chief Labels Serial Bomber A ‘Domestic Terrorist’ For The First Time
Discussion: The Root
Ivan Penn / New York Times:
It's the No. 1 Power Source, but Natural Gas Faces Headwinds
Discussion: Bloomberg and ThinkProgress
Kansas City Star:
McCaskill asked black leaders to push back on criticism of her campaign. No one would.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Extreme vetting: State Dept. to demand tourists' social media history
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
‘Roseanne’ Star Sandra Bernhard: Women Who Support Trump Unable To Think For Themselves
Discussion: twitchy.com
Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Vox:
“Otherwise, they subpoena”: White House lawyer Ty Cobb on why Trump is cooperating with Mueller
Brendan O'Connor / Splinter:
The Fascist Right Is Bloodied and Soiled
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
James Comey cashing in after being fired by Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Tom Steyer's Impeachment Campaign Is Building Him a Political Death Star
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
64% of assailants in mass attacks suffered from symptoms of mental illness, Secret Service report finds
Discussion: Shakesville
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Ben Shapiro to take his podcast to radio
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
In Arizona Race, Conservatives View Stormy Daniels as a ‘Little Hard to Believe’
Discussion: the daily howler
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Scalise comeback fuels talk of succeeding Ryan