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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 …
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 …
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 …
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Laura Ingraham Apologizes to Parkland Survivor as Advertisers Ditch Her Show … After right-wing star Laura Ingraham publicly mocked Parkland school-shooting survivor David Hogg for being rejected by multiple colleges, several companies have pulled their ads from her primetime Fox News show.
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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.
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.
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Laura Ingraham, Facing Boycott, Apologizes for Taunting Parkland Survivor David Hogg  —  Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host, apologized under pressure on Thursday for taunting a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., as three companies confirmed they would pull advertising from her show.
Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Advertisers Ditching Laura Ingraham's Show Over Attack On Parkland Survivor  —  The Fox News host mocked 17-year-old David Hogg for not getting into a few colleges.  —  Nutrish, the pet food line owned by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, tweeted Thursday that it will no longer advertise during …
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 …
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
ICE paves way to detain more pregnant immigrants
Discussion: The Daily Caller and thecut
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators probing whether Donald Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia have been questioning witnesses about events at the 2016 Republican National Convention, according to two sources familiar …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Brendan O'Connor / Splinter:
The Fascist Right Is Bloodied and Soiled  —  Recently, on a cold, gray Monday afternoon in East Lansing, Michigan, about 500 militant anti-fascists gathered in a parking lot with the intention of stopping Richard Spencer, the high-profile white nationalist, from speaking at Michigan State University.
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Media Matters for America:   Fox News article on Stormy Daniels cites known white supremacist as a legal expert
Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
A Partisan Combatant, a Remorseful Blogger: The Senate Staffer Behind the Attack on the Trump-Russia Investigation  —  Jason Foster, chief investigative counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, once blogged under the handle “Extremist,” expressing worry about a Muslim takeover and whether Joe McCarthy got a bum rap.
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.
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
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.
Helaine Olen / Washington Post:
Fake Kirsten Gillibrand flap reveals double standard in our politics  —  Here's a sentence I never thought I would need to write: Kirsten Gillibrand is not involved in a sex scandal.  —  Now I've got your attention, right?  —  That I even need to devote a blog post to this topic is evidence …
New York Times:
Cuomo, in Writing, Reinterprets Fund-Raising Ban on Appointees  —  After seven years as governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo has rewritten the disclaimer language on his campaign website that describes which of his appointees are banned from donating to his campaign, potentially opening the door for more appointees to contribute.
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.
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: Outside the Beltway and The Week
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.
Ryan Struyk / CNN:
More than half of Americans think Trump will lose in 2020.  But that hasn't doomed past presidents from getting reelected.  —  Kasich: ‘Big lift’ from Schwarzenegger 2020 support  —  Washington (CNN)A majority of Americans think President Donald Trump will lose his re-election bid in 2020 …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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
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
New York Times:
‘Kiss Up, Kick Down’: Those Recalling Bolton's U.N. Confirmation Process Say He Hasn't Changed  —  WASHINGTON — The last time — perhaps the only time — John R. Bolton inspired bipartisan agreement, it was over the shared conclusion that he was perhaps the least diplomatic personality …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Extreme vetting: State Dept. to demand tourists' social media history  —  New application will warn immigrants against female genital mutilation  —  The State Department will publish new rules this week that would require most visitors and immigrants to the U.S. to turn …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Russian News Service RT to Go Off the Air in the Washington Area  —  Broadcast stations' closing will also knock RT off local cable  —  U.S. intelligence calls RT part of Russia ‘propaganda machine’  —  Russia's English-language broadcasting network RT, described by U.S. intelligence agencies …
 
 
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Exclusive: Russian ambassador pleads for help in securing Washington meetings
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Trump says the US is leaving Syria ‘very soon’: ‘Let the other people take care of it’
Discussion: Political Wire
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
DCCC polling: Dem candidates should be open to working with Trump
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Judge denies Stormy Daniels's bid to expedite case against Trump over confidential agreement
Discussion: Political Wire
David Wolpe / New York Times:
Passover in a Land of Jewish Ghosts
WSJ:
10 YEARS AFTER THE CRISIS. … 1.  —  WHAT'S CHANGED
Discussion: Mother Jones and Boing Boing
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
‘Roseanne’ Star Sandra Bernhard: Women Who Support Trump Unable To Think For Themselves
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Vox:
“Otherwise, they subpoena”: White House lawyer Ty Cobb on why Trump is cooperating with Mueller
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
64% of assailants in mass attacks suffered from symptoms of mental illness, Secret Service report finds
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Shakesville