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10:50 AM ET, March 31, 2018

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Laura Ingraham Says She'll Take Planned Vacation Amidst Controversy  —  Laura Ingraham is taking avacation next week.  Now the question is whether a controversy swirling around the host will go on hiatus as well.  —  The popular Fox News Channel host - her “Ingraham Angle” …
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The Hill:
Ingraham announces break from her show amid backlash over Parkland student … Fox News host Laura Ingraham is taking vacation time even as advertisers flee her show “The Ingraham Angle” over a feud with a high school student who advocates gun control.  —  Ingraham on her show Friday night described …
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Parkland survivor David Hogg to John McCain: ‘Why do you take so much money from the NRA?’
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams on Parkland Students Becoming ‘Advocates’: ‘These Kids Better Saddle Up’
Discussion: Daily Wire
New York Times:
Russian Accused of Hacking U.S. Technology Firms Is Extradited  —  PRAGUE — A Russian man accused of hacking the systems of three American technology companies in 2012, possibly compromising the personal information of more than 100 million users, was extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic on Friday.
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New York Times:
Trump Advisers Urge Tougher Russia Policy After Expulsions  —  WASHINGTON — Some senior Trump administration officials are pressing for more aggressive action toward Russia, hoping to persuade a reluctant President Trump to change his approach after a week of mass diplomatic expulsions …
Sewell Chan / New York Times:   14 Million Visitors to U.S. Face Social Media Screening
Media Matters for America:
NRA board member Ted Nugent calls Parkland students poor, pathetic liars with no soul  —  Nugent: “The evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul”  —  From the March 30 edition of Newsmax's The Joe Pags Show:  —  Loading the player reg...  TED NUGENT: The level of ignorance goes beyond stupidity.
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The Daily Beast:
Ted Nugent: Parkland's Student-Activists Are ‘Soulless’ Liars  —  Classic rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent has attacked Parkland's teenage school shooting survivors-turned-gun control activists, calling them “mushy brained” and “soulless” liars.  In an appearance on The Joe Pags Show late Friday …
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Washington Post:
As new details emerge, Scott Pruitt's housing arrangements come under scrutiny
Gal Tziperman Lotan / Orlando Sentinel:
Foreman: Jury ‘convinced’ Noor Salman knew Mateen was plotting attack, but couldn't convict  —  The foreman of the Noor Salman jury contacted the Orlando Sentinel with a statement about what the three days of deliberations were like for the 12 people who acquitted the widow of the Pulse shooter, Omar Mateen.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and CBS Miami
Aaron Smith / CNNMoney:
Megachurch pastor charged with defrauding elderly investors  —  Federal authorities have charged the pastor of a Texas megachurch and a Louisiana financial planner with defrauding elderly investors out of more than $1 million.  —  Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston and Gregory Alan Smith of Shreveport …
Discussion: TheBlaze and ABC News
Washington Post:
From Mueller to Stormy to ‘emoluments,’ Trump's business is under siege … The carefully maintained secrecy around President Trump's finances is under unprecedented assault a year into his presidency, with three different legal teams with different agendas trying to pry open the Trump Organization's books.
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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Cosmopolitan:
Stacey Dash Is Withdrawing From the California Congressional Race
Discussion: Washington Times and Mediaite
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump accuses Amazon of ‘Post Office scam,’ falsely says The Post is its lobbyist … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump escalated his assault on Amazon on Saturday, accusing the online retail giant of a “Post Office scam” and falsely stating that The Washington Post operates as a lobbyist for Amazon.
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 …
Discussion: AOL
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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.
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 …
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Deloerabrust / americamagazine.org:   Vatican: Claim that pope denied hell's existence is unreliable
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
How Will the Midterm Elections Play Out?  Watch Pennsylvania  —  One thing has become clear about the midterm elections, which will determine the political script for the rest of President Trump's term: Pennsylvania is where much of the action will be.  —  Democrats eager to take control …
Cathie Anderson / Sacramento Bee:
Stephon Clark ‘deserved it,’ nurse wrote on Facebook.  Now she's no longer working for Kaiser.  —  Kaiser Permanente has parted ways with a nurse whose Facebook comments about Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police on March 18, incited a social media firestorm after an activist put them in the spotlight.
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times From Behind or the Side, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds
Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Freezes Funds for Syrian Recovery, Signaling Pullback  —  Order to State Department to hold off on spending jibes with president's call for an early exit  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump froze more than $200 million in funds for recovery efforts in Syria as his administration …
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Republicans Are Clinging Frantically to Power … The Republican Party is building a wall.  Not the one Donald Trump promised his supporters Mexico would pay for (and then American taxpayers would pay and now, apparently, the U.S. military).  The GOP is desperately seeking to build …
Discussion: Raw Story
Janelle Okwodu / Vogue:
Forget the Painted Eggs: This Is How Miley Cyrus Does Easter  —  You can always count on Miley Cyrus to do things her way—even when it comes to Easter.  While the rest of us will be busy breaking out the Paas egg kits or stockpiling Cadbury chocolates, the pop star has something glitzier planned.
Discussion: Breitbart and Hollywood Life
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
How to Get $29 Million for Classroom Projects?  Just Ask  —  There was the class of Iowa teenagers seeking supplies for the homeless, and a Texas teacher who wanted $150 in headphones for her elementary school students.  —  In Illinois, one educator wanted a set of laptops to better prepare …
Zack Kopplin / The Daily Beast:
New Video: Cop Called Alton Sterling a ‘Stupid Motherf**ker’ After Killing Him … BATON ROUGE, Louisiana—The cop who killed Alton Sterling called him a “stupid ass motherfucker” after shooting him six times at point-blank range, videos released Friday show.
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
 
 
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Matthew Bodner / Washington Post:
One by one, European ambassadors learn they're being expelled from Russia
Discussion: The Atlantic
Reuters:
Businesses, consumers uncertain ahead of China VPN ban
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
A Christian Publisher Was Running The Same Ad Fraud Scheme As Newsweek Media Group
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Top government ethics chief Walter Shaub and staff used Headspace meditation app to deal …
Discussion: thecut and Talking Points Memo
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Trump admits less than quarter of proposed refugees at six-month mark
Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Immigration chief in San Francisco apologizes for social media post seen as offensive
Discussion: Raw Story
Hannah Furness / Telegraph:
Pippa Middleton's father-in-law investigated over ‘rape of minor’
Discussion: Bustle, thecut and Hollywood Life
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abc7ny.com:
Suffolk County district judge apologizes, admits he's serial underwear stealer
Discussion: Raw Story and myfox8.com
BBC:
Gaza-Israel border: Clashes ‘leave 16 Palestinians dead and hundreds injured’
Anna Flagg / New York Times:
The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Jews Are Being Murdered in Paris. Again.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
Trump's ‘mini me’ could (partly) fill Hicks' void
Mick Krever / CNN:
Top United Nations official ‘forced himself on me,’ employee says
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
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