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5:45 PM ET, March 30, 2018

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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's protective detail broke down the door at the Capitol Hill condo where he was living, believing he was unconscious and unresponsive and needed rescue …
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Bloomberg:
EPA Chief's $50-a-Night Rental Said to Raise White House Angst  —  Pruitt apartment questions follow first-class flight reports  —  Washington lease is compared to an Airbnb-style arrangement  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's lease at a Washington apartment owned …
Washington Post:
As new details emerge, Scott Pruitt's housing arrangements come under scrutiny … Scott Pruitt's unusual housing arrangement during much of last year — when he paid a lobbyist a modest sum each night for staying in a Capitol Hill condo she co-owned — has generated a new round of scrutiny …
John Santucci / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA chief Pruitt joined by family in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’
Discussion: ThinkProgress
CNN:
Senator: Pruitt security included Disneyland, Rose Bowl trips
Ralph Peters / Washington Post:
Why I left Fox News … You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room.  A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Ex-Fox News contributor: I was silenced on Russia because I didn't back Trump
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
Jeff McCall / The Hill:
CNN lost its way in struggle to find an audience
Discussion: TVNewser
Washington Post:
Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience … An obscure White House office responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the Trump administration's efforts …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests
Discussion: thecut
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally  —  American once touted as possible ambassador to EU tells of being detained at Boston airport and subpoenaed by Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia inquiry … A controversial London-based academic with close ties to Nigel Farage …
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Trump ally detained, served with Mueller subpoena at Boston airport  —  A professor and author who once presented himself as a possible Trump administration ambassador to the European Union was detained and questioned by the FBI at Boston Logan airport and served a subpoena …
CNN:
Federal investigators question Ted Malloch in special counsel probe  —  The Mueller investigation: Who could be next?  —  (CNN)The FBI this week detained and questioned Ted Malloch — who says he was an informal Trump campaign adviser in 2016 who was rumored last year to be a candidate …
Cheryl K. Chumley / Washington Times:
David Hogg would've made a good brownshirt  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  David Hogg, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high-schooler who seems to have set himself up as Laura Ingraham's arch nemesis, has been making national television rounds of late, pretty much calling for adults to step aside …
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James Doubek / NPR:
Advertisers Ditch Laura Ingraham After She Mocks Parkland Activist
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
At least 17 dead in school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Discussion: IJR and Bustle
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
David Hogg And Media Matters Team Up For Ingraham Boycott
Discussion: Daily Wire and Breitbart
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Stephon Clark was shot eight times, mostly in his back, according to autopsy requested by his family … Stephon Clark, the unarmed 22-year-old killed by Sacramento police officers earlier this month, was shot eight times, with most of the bullets hitting him in the back …
Saba Hamedy / CNN:
‘Clueless’ star Stacey Dash withdraws from congressional race  —  Washington (CNN)"Clueless" star and former Fox News commentator Stacey Dash is withdrawing her congressional bid, a representative for the actress confirmed to CNN Friday.  —  “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family …
Associated Press:
AP-NORC/MTV Poll: Young people run from Trump  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of young people believe President Donald Trump is racist, dishonest and “mentally unfit” for office, according to a new survey that finds the nation's youngest potential voters are more concerned about the Republican's performance …
Discussion: AOL, Axios and CNN
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Noor Salman Is Acquitted in Pulse Nightclub Shooting  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Noor Salman, the widow of the man who gunned down dozens of people at the Pulse nightclub two years ago, was found not guilty by a federal jury on Friday of helping her husband carry out a terrorist attack in the name of the Islamic State.
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Washington Post:
Noor Salman, the Orlando nightclub shooter's wife, acquitted of charges she aided 2016 massacre
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Noor Salman, widow of Pulse nightclub gunman, found not guilty on all counts
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and TheBlaze
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Greg Walters / VICE News:
Paul Manafort, a mysterious Russian jet, and a secret meeting  —  In August 2016, a private jet linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska traveled from Moscow to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.  The Gulfstream G550 (registration M-ALAY) landed shortly after midnight and …
Hartford Courant:
Elizabeth Esty Must Resign  —  Elizabeth Esty will likely spend the next several days defending her failure to take strong steps to protect a woman who'd been threatened and bullied — by a member of her own staff — by blaming the system and talking about the good she's done in Congress.
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Hartford Courant:
Former Elizabeth Esty Aide: Congress Enables Domestic Violence and Harassment
Discussion: Washington Post
Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Pope To World: Hell Does Exist  —  Things got a little heated at the Vatican this week when an Italian journalist reported that Pope Francis denied the existence of hell.  —  Apparently, the fiery 93-year-old avowed atheist reporter, Eugenio Scalfari of La Repubblica, set the social-media world aflame …
Discussion: Washington Post, Vox and twitchy.com
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Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Vatican scrambles after pope appears to deny existence of hell
Discussion: New York Magazine, AOL and thecut
TMZ.com:
Arnold Schwarzenegger — Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  10:40 AM PT — Arnold's people just told us the following ... the procedure was “to replace a pulmonic valve that was originally replaced due to a congenital heart defect in 1997.
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Denying Genetics Isn't Shutting Down Racism, It's Fueling It  —  Last weekend, a rather seismic op-ed appeared in the New York Times, and it was for a while one of the most popular pieces in the newspaper.  It's by David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard, who carefully advanced …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Affirmative Action for Reactionaries  —  Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul.  Thus I've occasionally read Kevin Williamson …
Vanita Gupta / Washington Post:
The bitter lie behind the census's citizenship question  —  Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department from 2014 to 2017.  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed a crucial test of leadership this week.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:   Census Bureau Expert Panel Rebukes Decision to Add Citizenship Question
Washington Post:
Congressman alleges McCabe lied to Comey, hinting at rift between FBI officials … The FBI's disciplinary office found that ousted deputy director Andrew McCabe lied to his boss, then-director James B. Comey, in October 2016 about having authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mashable
CNN:
Trump's ‘mini me’ could (partly) fill Hicks' void  —  How Daniel Scavino went from caddie to Trump insider  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has wondered aloud over the past weeks — to pretty much anyone listening — who would occupy the singular role of confidant and conspirator that long-time top aide Hope Hicks was leaving behind.
Discussion: The Western Journal
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton fires back at critics: No one told a man who lost an election to shut up  —  is striking back at critics telling her to “shut up” following her 2016 loss, saying, “They never said that to any man who was not elected.”  —  “I was really struck by how people said that to me …
 
 
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Mick Krever / CNN:
Top United Nations official ‘forced himself on me,’ employee says
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
California voters are joining this party by mistake, but lawmakers aren't doing anything about it
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
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NBC New York:
Teen Mob Randomly Beats Man to Death on NJ Street: Prosecutors
Discussion: Daily Wire
VICE News:
How truth lost its meaning in Trump's America
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump tells advisers he wants U.S. out of Syria: senior officials
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation
 Earlier Items: 
Ricardo Cano / Arizona Republic:
Last Slide  —  Frustrated and desperate, Arizona educators …
Bloomberg:
Amazon Severs Ties With Top Lobbying Firms in Washington
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Minute by minute at Donald Trump's rambling Ohio ‘infrastructure’ speech
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today's leaked memo