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3:30 PM ET, March 18, 2016

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Rebekah L. Sanders / USA Today:
Bernie Sanders to Sheriff Arpaio: ‘Watch out, Joe’  —  Bernie Sanders addressed supporters in Phoenix Tuesday as Hillary Clinton rolled up primary victories in several states.  Sanders remained optimistic, saying “we are doing something very radical in American politics _ we are telling the truth.”
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Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Allies Launch Plan to Undercut Donald Trump Now  —  Democrat's presidential campaign also readies a strategy of engaging Republican on issues without trading insults  —  Pro-Democratic groups are launching an orchestrated bid to weaken GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump ahead …
Wall Street Journal:
A Trump Reality Check  —  He is the least commanding GOP front-runner since Ford.  —  Donald Trump won't debate his Republican rivals again but he will continue to argue on Twitter.  On Thursday the businessman demanded an apology after we—"the dummies at the @WSJ Editorial Board" …
Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Sanders says Clinton does not have ‘insurmountable lead’
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Black Dems aren't turning out for Hillary like they did for Obama
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and WND
Joe Klein / TIME:
To Take out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician
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Daily Mail:
‘We got him!’:  Police capture world's most wanted man as ISIS fugitive behind Paris attacks …
Fox News:
Fugitive Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam wounded in anti-terror raid, Belgian media report
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
CNN:
Source: Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam captured
NPR:
Transcript And Video: President Obama's Interview With NPR's Nina Totenberg  —  President Obama spoke with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg on Thursday about why he selected Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, why he thinks the judge deserves a hearing from the Senate …
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Seth Lipsky / New York Post:
By Hamilton's rules on Supreme picks, the Senate's right and Obama's wrong  —  Somewhere Alexander Hamilton is smiling.  For the battle that's beginning over President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court vindicates the famous Founder's assurances on judicial appointments.
Discussion: Western Journalism
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The Court  —  When Judge John G. Roberts Jr. ran into hostile …
Discussion: Washington Post, Vox and Salon
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Obama: Refusal To Consider Nominee Damages Public's Faith In The Judiciary
Discussion: Fusion, LifeNews.com, Politico and Vox
Ari Melber / NBC News:
RNC Rules: Insiders Speak Out on Contested Convention  —  Brokered Convention?  Here are the Rules 1:46  —  If no presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates and Republicans face a contested convention this summer, a small group of party insiders will have huge sway over who wins …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Kasich could win a contested convention  —  In the event of a contested Republican convention this summer, John Kasich is the candidate most acceptable to GOP delegates.  —  That's according to members of The POLITICO Caucus - a panel of political insiders in seven battleground states …
CBS News:
Threatening letter sent to Donald Trump's son, Eric  —  NEW YORK — The Secret Service, FBI and New York Police Department are investigating what sources tell CBS News is a threatening piece of mail sent to Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump.  —  The mail, sent to Eric Trump at his posh Manhattan residence …
Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed:
People Are Freaking Out Over This Girl's Sad Picture Of Her Grandpa  —  Papaw made dinner for six grandkids, but only one showed up. :'(  —  This is Kelsey Harmon, a college softball player from Oklahoma.  —  On Wednesday night, Harmon tweeted a photo of herself having dinner with her grandfather.
Sandy Rashty / thejc.com:
Donald Trump is more than my boss, he is a patriarch  —  Michael Cohen doesn't sleep much.  As Donald Trump's right-hand man, there's no time to do so at the moment.  —  In his own words, as Trump's Special Counsel and Executive Vice President of the Trump Organisation, he handles …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Editor of top US Jewish newspaper: Boycott Trump at AIPAC
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Slantpoint
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
How Donald Trump Bent Television To His Will  —  Staffers at the five major television networks are grappling with what role their organizations may have played in amplifying Donald Trump's successful campaign of insults, generalizations about minority groups, and at times flat lies.
David Brooks / New York Times:
No, Not Trump, Not Ever  —  The voters have spoken.  —  In convincing fashion, Republican voters seem to be selecting Donald Trump as their nominee.  And in a democracy, victory has legitimacy to it.  Voters are rarely wise but are usually sensible.  They understand their own problems.
Discussion: Instapundit
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Hillary Has an NSA Problem  —  The FBI has been investigating Clinton for months—but an even more secretive Federal agency has its own important beef with her  —  For a year now, Hillary Clinton's misuse of email during her tenure as Secretary of State has hung like a dark cloud over her presidential campaign.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and The Week
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Anti-Trump forces contemplate the end  —  With Donald Trump marching toward a nomination that few believed he could win, Republicans once bent on defeating him are now reassessing their efforts to stop him.  —  Trump's dazed and demoralized adversaries find themselves at a defining moment …
Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post and ABC News
Chelsea E Manning / Guardian:
When will the US government stop persecuting whistleblowers?  —  The National Insider Threat Task Force subjects officials to surveillance and fear, and uses me as an example.  Those with legitimate concerns should be empowered to speak out  —  The US government is heavily invested …
Discussion: RT and Boing Boing
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Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
Debriefing Mike Murphy  —  On a pleasant Super Tuesday afternoon — one of 10 or 11 Super Tuesdays we seem to be having this March — I am standing in the bloated carcass of that much-maligned beast known as The Establishment.  In the unmarked suite of a generic mid-Wilshire office building …
The Cook Political Report:
2016 HOUSE RACE RATINGS FOR MARCH 18, 2016  —  Likely: These seats are not considered competitive at this point, but have the potential to become engaged.  —  Lean: These are considered competitive races, but one party has an advantage.  —  Toss-Up: These are the most competitive; either party has a good chance of winning.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump is counting on an anti-trade backlash that doesn't appear to exist  —  Donald Trump offers largely orthodox conservative policy solutions on economic issues, with the important exception of trade.  On the question of trade deals, Trump is offering a right-wing nationalist spin …
 
 
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Agence France-Presse:
Move over Che: Obama's the new poster in town
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Avianne Tan / ABC News:
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Discussion: KFOR-TV
Associated Press:
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
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Discussion: The Week
Henry Goldman / Bloomberg Business:
Stabbing Surge Stumps NYC Police, Sows Fear Among Residents
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Brian M. Rosenthal / Houston Chronicle:
‘Jesus Shot’ at center of Miller's controversial, taxpayer-funded trip
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Lauren French / Politico:
Endangered House Republicans: Trump who?
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