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10:05 AM ET, April 3, 2018

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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Like, ‘How Can I F—k with Him?’”:  Trump's War with Amazon (and The Washington Post) Is Personal  —  With the West Wing finally calm, Trump is contemplating a multi-front campaign against Jeff Bezos.  —  For the first time in Donald Trump's presidency, the West Wing soap opera appears …
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Axios:
Why Trump thinks he's winning his war on media  —  Nothing helps President Trump more — or tightens his hold on his base more securely — than his cozy, mutually beneficial relationship with conservative TV.  Trump's feedback loop, including cable-news coverage, and mainstream media squawking …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Fox News: Look, We're Not Sinclair
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Wants to Promote Sinclair? Let Him.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Pruitt Had a $50-a-Day Condo Linked to Lobbyists.  Their Client's Project Got Approved.  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company's pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides  —  In early March, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt approached the White House with a request: He wanted substantial pay raises for two of his closest aides.
Discussion: Splinter, The Week and Raw Story
Washington Post:
EPA explored private jet lease for Pruitt's travels last year  —  Aides to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt last year considered leasing a private jet on a month-to-month basis to accommodate his travel needs, according to current and former agency officials.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist-Owned Pad Was GOP Fundraising Hub
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government  —  (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former …
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes.  That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster. … The headlines called it a non-event when Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided not to appoint a special counsel to look into the special counsel after all.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Was Authorized to Investigate Paul Manafort's Work for Ukraine  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller was authorized in a secret memo to investigate former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's work for the Ukrainian government, in addition to alleged collusion with Russian officials to interfere in the 2016 elections.
Discussion: Axios
Trish Turner / ABC News:
Court poised to hand down 1st sentence in Mueller probe
Discussion: Political Wire
Rich McKay / Reuters:
Mueller has broad authority to investigate Trump's former campaign boss
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jill McCabe / Washington Post:
The president attacked my reputation.  It's time to set the record straight.  —  Jill McCabe, an emergency room pediatrician, is married to former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.  —  I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician — someone who never thought …
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018  —  U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, says he raked in over $6.7 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first quarter of 2018.  It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’  —  David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, said he dislikes and fundamentally distrusts the print media, which he believes “serves no real purpose.”  In emails to New York, Smith said that print …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sinclair responds to criticism of media-bashing promos
Washington Post:
That caravan of migrants Trump was tweeting about?  Mexico stopped it. … VERACRUZ, Mexico — The Mexican government on Monday evening moved to break up the caravan of migrants moving through southern Mexico, with immigration officials registering the travelers and suggesting …
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Reuters:
Migrant caravan heading to U.S. border puts Mexico in tough spot with Trump
Discussion: Power Line and 105.9 FM and AM 630
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump heats up rhetoric on border, immigration as some supporters grow impatient
National Review:
Conservative Criticism of Trump Is Not Deluded  —  A response to Rich Lowry  —  One of the more significant frustrations of the Trump era is the lack of precise terminology for the debates required of it.  One such term is “Never Trump.”  It is vague enough to include a broad spectrum …
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Into U.A.E. Influence Broadens  —  Special counsel's latest inquiry into the activities of a U.S. ally suggests he is looking more closely at foreign influence in Washington  —  WASHINGTON—Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked questions about the work of a private consulting firm …
Discussion: Al Jazeera English and Raw Story
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
Markets That Climbed the Trump Bump Are Tumbling Down From It  —  Percentage change from Jan. 26 peak … Feb.  —  March  —  April  —  S. & P. 500  —  Percentage change from Jan. 26 peak … Feb.  —  March  —  April  —  The Trump Bump is becoming the Trump Slump.
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone's Claim of a 2016 Julian Assange Meeting Draws Scrutiny  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has asked about an email during grand jury testimony  —  The special counsel investigating alleged links between Trump campaign associates and Russians is looking …
Eric X. Li / Washington Post:
Why Xi's lifting of term limits is a good thing  —  Eric X. Li is a Shanghai venture capitalist and a trustee and chairman of the advisory committee of Fudan University's China Institute.  —  SHANGHAI — Western media and the Chinese chattering classes have been in an uproar since China's …
Umair Irfan / Vox:
The EPA is rolling back fuel efficiency standards  —  Weakening greenhouse gas targets for cars and trucks will help the dirtiest manufacturers while hurting the cleanest.  —  The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back one of the biggest, most impactful environmental regulations of the Obama era …
CNN:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounds alarm on New Deal rollback  —  Washington (CNN)Deep in a seemingly obscure Supreme Court case on Monday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounded an alarm for liberals: The New Deal may be under attack.  —  The conservative majority is undermining worker protections from the 1930s …
Michael Jones / The College Fix:
University event aims to combat ‘Christian Privilege’  —  George Washington University diversity workshop to be held four days after Easter  —  Just four days after Easter, George Washington University will host a training session for students and faculty that teaches that Christians …
Discussion: Breitbart
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Record Numbers of Female Candidates Competing in 2018 Elections  —  Unlike the past, these women hopefuls unabashedly push their gender; two appear in campaign videos breast-feeding their babies  —  WASHINGTON—The field of Democrats vying to run against GOP Rep. John Faso in upstate New York …
The Guardian:
Afghan woman shot in face builds new life in Canada after US rejection  —  Shakila Zareen, 23, lost much of her face after being shot by her husband but, after multiple surgeries and seeing her hopes of resettlement dashed, she has a new home in Vancouver  —  Ashifa Kassam in Toronto and Sune Engel Rasmussen
USA Today:
The ‘condom snorting challenge’ is every parent's worst nightmare … A disturbing new viral trend has teenagers snorting unwrapped condoms as part of the “Condom Challenge.”  For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.  Buzz60  —  Viral videos posted on social media show teenagers snorting condoms …
Human Rights Watch:
Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated  —  Officials Green-Light Shooting of Unarmed Demonstrators  —  (Jerusalem) - Senior Israeli officials who unlawfully called for use of live ammunition against Palestinian demonstrations who posed no imminent threat to life bear responsibility …
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Trump's Governing Just Like Obama With Congress Gridlocked  —  President has signed more executive orders than predecessor  —  He's griped to confidants about congressional inaction  —  President Donald Trump has entered what his predecessor called the “pen-and-phone” phase of his presidency …
Dennis Ross / Washington Post:
If Trump walks away from the Iran deal, Tehran will win  —  Dennis Ross, a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute, served in senior national security positions in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations.  —  I was not a fan of the Iran nuclear deal.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Elizabeth Esty:
From being a room parent in a first grade classroom to serving on the library board, town council, state house and U.S. Congress, I went into public service to fight for equality, justice, and fairness.  It is one of the greatest honors of my life that the people of Connecticut's Fifth District elected me to represent them in Congress.
 
 
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Putin Leaks Details To Embarrass Trump And Show Him Who's The Boss
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Woman says she was attacked by 2 women after telling them she was Trump supporter
Discussion: Washington Times
Amir Vera / CNN:
Teacher who ran white supremacist podcast she said was satire submits resignation
Discussion: theGrio, The Root and Law & Crime
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
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 Earlier Items: 
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump leads Kasich, Flake among likely NH GOP voters
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Stormy Effect’: Trump's support falls with women, rises with men in new poll
Discussion: TheBlaze and Political Wire
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Trump is wrong about Amazon on all counts
Discussion: Reuters and AOL
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
New Quotas for Immigration Judges as Trump Administration Seeks Faster Deportations