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• Morning Consult Poll: 52 Percent Still Feel Recession Effects
  
  According to the latest Morning Consult poll, 52 percent of Americans said they still feel the effects of the recession from 10 years ago.
• Mount Trumpmore Is President's Rock-Solid Desire
  
  President Donald Trump would love to see his face carved in stone alongside Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore.
• Chelsea Clinton Rips NYT Author's Misreported Facts
  
  Failing to fact-check "tidbits about me" in a new book about the journalist's time covering Hillary Clinton's political career, Chelsea Clinton ripped The New York Times reporter Amy Chozick in a Twitter rant.
• NRA Raises $2.4M in March, a 20-Year Record
  
  Attributing 20-year high month in fundraising to calls for stricter gun controls after the Parkland school massacre in Florida in February, the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund raised a record $2.4 million in March.
• Report: Joy Ann Reid's Award Yanked After Anti-Gay Slurs
  
  A media award to MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid has been pulled by an LGBTQ advocacy group after a slew of homophobic posts from a blog were revealed, according to a Mediaite report Tuesday.
• Report: Facebook Has Hosted Identity Thieves for Years
  
  Cybercriminals who advertised and sold social security numbers, alleged credit card numbers, addresses, and phone numbers of dozens of people have been hosted by Facebook for years, according to a Motherboard report.
• Two Police Officers, Civilian Shot in Dallas
  
  Two Dallas police officers were shot and critically wounded on Tuesday at a Home Depot Inc store and a civilian was also shot in the incident, Dallas police said on Twitter. Officials were searching for a suspect, according to the local CBS affiliate. Live television...
• Parkland Gun Rights Supporter Questioned After AR-15 Post
  
  A pro-gun student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas told The Daily Wire was yanked from class and grilled after about his trip to a gun range with his dad.
• White House Doctor Jackson to Fight for VA Job
  
  President Donald Trump's physician Ronny Jackson will not withdraw as the nominee to head the Veterans Affairs department and will fight allegations about his conduct that surfaced ahead of a Senate confirmation hearing, a White House official said on Tuesday.Jackson met...
• Report: Comey Hires Ex-US Attorney Fitzgerald as Lawyer
  
  Former FBI Director James Comey has hired former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in the event Comey is a potential witness in an obstruction case against Donald Trump, according to Talking Points Memo.
• Meghan McCain: Taking Time to 'Hang Out' With Dad
  
  "The View" co-host Meghan McCain is taking time off "hanging out" with her father, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as he battles brain cancer.
• Complaint: Obamacare Call Centers Committed Wage Theft
  
  Alleged wage theft at several Obamacare call center locations has government contractor General Dynamics Information Technology coming under fire, according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union.
• DOJ Awards $1M for Expenses, Overtime After Parkland Shooting
  
  To "pay salary and overtime expenses for first responders" who responded to the Parkland mass shooting in February, the Department of Justice has awarded $1 million to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, according to ABC News.
• Yeti 'Unwavering' on Gun Rights, Rips NRA's 'Inaccurate Statement'
  
  Yeti is simply "eliminating a group of outdated programs," and not cutting ties with the NRA, a spokeswoman from the popular cooler-maker company said Monday.
• Waffle House Shooter's Father Faces Legal Scrutiny
  
  The father of the suspected shooter in a quadruple slaying at a Waffle House near Nashville, Tennessee, faces legal scrutiny related to his son reacquiring weapons that had been given to the father.
• Tom Perez: DNC Lawsuit Needed to Preserve Democracy
  
  Complaining there was no sufficient action taken against Russia for its actions in the 2016 race, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Monday defended a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's campaign, WikiLeaks, and the Russian government.
• Denuclearization Successes Around the World
  
  Will North Korea give up the bomb? The answer may start becoming clear when South Korean President Moon Jae-in meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday.
• NRA after Yeti Cuts Ties with Pro-Gun Group: Not 'Sportsmanlike'
  
  The National Rifle Association on Saturday called Yeti unsportsmanlike for cutting ties with the pro-gun group, the Hill reports.
• Steve Brill: Fake New Hotline Ready For Roll-Out
  
  A service that uses journalists to rate thousands of news and information to weed out fake news sites is on the verge of announcing a fake news hotline, Axios reported.The hotline will be a secure, encrypted digital and telephone number for political candidates and voters...
• Nude Gunman Kills Three at Tennessee Restaurant: Police
  
  A man who was naked but for a green jacket shot and killed at least four people before a patron snatched his gun and tossed it over the counter at a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville, Tennessee early Sunday, police said. The gunman, armed with what was described as an...
• Axios: 14 Vulnerable States Cannot Guarantee Election Results
  
  With reports foreign entities are plotting potential attacks on U.S. elections in 2018, there are 14 states vulnerable to a cyber hack because they "lack 100 percent verification capabilities" and cannot "guarantee the accuracy of election outcomes," according to an Axios...
• DeSantis: Comey's Book Tour a 'Disaster," Blows up in Face
  
  Former FBI Director James' Comey's book tour has been "an absolute disaster," and the revelations have "blown up in his face," Rep. Ron DeSantis said Saturday.
• Barbara Bush Was 'First Lady of the Greatest Generation'
  
  Barbara Bush was the "first lady of the greatest generation."Addressing former presidents, ambassadors and hundreds of other mourners inside the nation's largest Episcopal church on Saturday, historian Jon Meacham recalled Barbara Bush's quick wit that made her so popular....
• President Remembers Barbara Bush, Family with 'Thoughts and Prayers'
  
  Minutes before the funeral for late former First Lady Barbara Bush began in Houston, Saturday, President Donald Trump said in a pair of tweets that his "thoughts and prayers" are with her family.
• Sports Stars, Dignitaries Arrive to Barbara Bush Funeral
  
  Former ambassadors along with sports and entertainment stars arrived on a gray, cloudy day to attend Saturday's private funeral for Barbara Bush at the nation's largest Episcopal church.

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