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5:35 PM ET, April 9, 2018

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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump's Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen  —  The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Searched and Seized: F.B.I. Agents Raid Michael Cohen's New York Hotel  —  Law-enforcement agents spent several hours at the Loews Regency hotel on Monday morning, as they executed a search warrant against the president's personal lawyer.  Cohen's attorney said they were referred by Robert Mueller.
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Raids Trump Lawyer's Office  —  Investigators seize communications between President Donald Trump and longtime lawyer Michael Cohen  —  Federal investigators on Monday searched the office of President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, seizing communications between the lawyer …
NBC News:
FBI raids the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
Discussion: MSNBC, The Week and Mediaite
Washington Post:   FBI seizes records related to Stormy Daniels in raid of Trump attorney Michael Cohen's office
Bloomberg:   FBI Raids Office of Trump Lawyer Cohen on a Mueller Referral
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
An Internal Email Contradicts Scott Pruitt's Account of Controversial Raises  —  An email that suggests Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt personally signed off on a controversial pay raise for a favored aide last month is roiling the agency.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
In Letter to E.P.A., Top Ethics Officer Questions Pruitt's Actions  —  WASHINGTON — The federal government's top ethics official has taken the unusual step of sending a letter to the Environmental Protecting Agency questioning a series of actions by Administrator Scott Pruitt and asking the agency to take …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scott running for Senate in epic showdown with Nelson  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Rick Scott made his long-awaited Senate candidacy official Monday, setting up an epic battle against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson and testing the limits of whether a close alliance with President Donald Trump …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: As elections near, many older, educated, white voters shift away from Trump's party  —  (Reuters) - Older, white, educated voters helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016.  Now, they are trending toward Democrats in such numbers that their ballots could tip the scales …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP increasingly fears loss of House, focuses on saving Senate majority  —  Republicans are increasingly worried they will lose control of the House in the midterm elections, furiously directing money and resources to hold and potentially boost their narrow majority in the Senate.
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The past 48 hours of big Syria news, explained  —  Why Trump might be about to attack Syria — again.  —  Syria used chemical weapons against its own citizens, killing at least 42 adults and children.  President Donald Trump threatened a military response in a tweet, vowing …
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CNN:
Russia blames Israel for strikes on Syrian airbase
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Lawmakers urge Trump to respond to Syria attack but divided on how
Discussion: Politico, Fox News Insider and IJR
CBO's Publications:
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028  —  In CBO's projections, the economy grows relatively quickly this year and next and then more slowly in the following several years.  The federal budget deficit rises substantially, boosting federal debt to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:   Deficit to top $1 trillion per year by 2020, CBO says
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:   Analysis: Tax cuts, spending to raise deficit to $1T by 2020
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Federal Budget Deficit Projected to Top $1 Trillion in 2020
Discussion: Eschaton
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
CBO: GOP policies add nearly $1.6 trillion to deficit
Discussion: Politico
Juan Zamorano / Associated Press:
Trump family hotel business asked Panama president for help  —  PANAMA CITY (AP) — Lawyers representing U.S. President Donald Trump's family hotel business appealed to Panama's president for help days before an emergency arbitrator declined to reinstate the Trump management team to a luxury waterfront hotel.
Discussion: The Week
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun-Times:
Tammy Duckworth gives birth to girl: First senator to have baby while in office  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., on Monday gave birth to a daughter, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, becoming the first sitting senator to have a baby while in office.  —  Duckworth, who turned 50 on March 12 …
Herman Wong / Washington Post:
Fox News host slams incorrect reports saying graphic showed network is least trusted … Fox News host Howard Kurtz blasted reports that said his Sunday show mistakenly posted a graphic that showed the cable network is less trusted than its competitors.  —  “The Associated Press …
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Chuck Schumer / Associated Press:
Fox News Host: Graphic Posted at Wrong Point of Show
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Press
Sopan Deb / New York Times:
‘The Simpsons’ Responds to Criticism About Apu With a Dismissal  —  At the end of 2017, Hank Azaria, the voice behind Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a convenience-store owner on “The Simpsons” with a thick Indian accent, responded to a recent groundswell of criticism that the character was racist.
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Linda Holmes / NPR:
‘The Simpsons’ To ‘The Problem With Apu’: Drop Dead
Discussion: Vox and Hit & Run
Financial Times:
Russian markets hit by US sanctions and Syria  —  Russian stocks suffered their worst session in four years and the country's bonds and currency plunged as the impact of new US sanctions against its economy and fears over increased conflict in Syria ravaged markets.
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Ksenia Galouchko / Bloomberg:
Russian Stocks Take Worst Hit Since Crimea on Sanctions, Syria
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Trump vs Putin? Time to Be ‘Scared’
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
USA Today:
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he's left Facebook over data collection  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told USA TODAY he's leaving Facebook out of growing concern for the carelessness with which Facebook and other Internet companies treat the private information of users.
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Not Resigning
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House has no plan for countering Comey  —  Former FBI Director James Comey is about to return to the national spotlight with the release of his memoir next week — but the White House is doing little to prepare for the onslaught, according to two officials.
Junot Díaz / New Yorker:
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma  —  “I never got any help, any kind of therapy.  I never told anyone.”  —  X—  Last week I returned to Amherst.  It's been years since I was there, the time we met.  I was hoping that you'd show up again; I even looked for you, but you didn't appear.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake  —  For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
MSNBC's Joy Reid: What If Trump Refuses To Be Arrested By Federal Marshals?  —  Sunday on her weekend morning program, MSNBC's Joy Reid seriously discussed a situation where President Trump refused a subpoena and would have to be arrested and put in jail until he testified before a grand jury.
Associated Press:
To hell with it: Trump increasingly weary of staff advice  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The speech was written.  A cast of relatable Americans with emotional stories was standing by to reinforce the message.  But President Donald Trump was in no mood to play along.
Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
Cynthia Nixon Wants to Legalize It  —  What would you say is harder: appearing in two concurrent Broadway shows when you were a full-time college student, or running for governor of New York State when most people know you only from “Sex and the City”?  I think that running for office …
GQ:
Cardi B's Money Moves  —  The rapper responsible for last year's most unexpected hit emerged from a singular New York City story of strip clubs, gangs, and below-board basement butt injections.  Navigating new fame and a new record, Invasion of Privacy, Cardi B is fighting to stay true …
Discussion: BPR and Mashable
Pew Research Center:
Bots in the Twittersphere  —  The role of so-called social media “bots” - automated accounts capable of posting content or interacting with other users with no direct human involvement - has been the subject of much scrutiny and attention in recent years.  These accounts can play a valuable part …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The Sam Harris debate  —  Ezra and Sam Harris debate race, IQ, identity politics, and much more.  —  There's a lot of backstory to this podcast, which is covered in more detail in this piece.  —  The short version is that Sam Harris, host of the Waking Up podcast, and I have been going back and forth …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Univision Forces Out Gizmodo CEO as Company Weighs Deep Cuts … Gizmodo Media Group's top executive is exiting the company—a sign that parent Univision plans to get more directly involved with its flagship digital media property as it weighs deep cuts.  —  The Daily Beast has learned …
Robert Burgess / Bloomberg:
Trump Has Lost the Confidence of Investors  —  Equities, bonds and the dollar are showing anything but trust in the president's stewardship.  —  President Donald Trump likes to equate the rally in stocks since the November 2016 elections with confidence in him and his policies.
Katherine Krueger / Splinter:
Clarence Thomas' Wife Posts Memes Trashing Parkland Kids and Comparing Gun Control to Holocaust  —  In a stunning demonstration of what Facebook is for now, Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is using her account to post memes attacking survivors …
Associated Press:
Kremlin aide: Russia's centuries-long romance with West over  —  MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin's adviser says Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West and is bracing for a new era of “geopolitical loneliness.”
The Intercept:
How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria  —  It is a horrifying artifact of our digital era: a jumpy 18-minute-and-49-second cellphone video of a Skype call.  Glimpses of an Arabic-language keyboard and laptop screen can be seen as the audio plays through tinny speakers.
 
 
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Discussion: The Hill and Politico
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Interior Official Compared Parkland Students To Nazis, Promoted Conspiracies
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story