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New York Times:
Deadly Explosions Bring Brussels Airport to a Halt — BRUSSELS — Two explosions killed at least one person and forced the evacuation of Brussels Airport around 8 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the authorities and news reports, halting arrivals and departures.
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BBC:
Brussels explosions: Airport and metro hit with ‘at least 13 killed’ — Several explosions have struck Brussels airport and the metro system, causing at least 13 deaths, Belgian media say. — Two blasts tore through the departures area of Zaventem airport shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT).
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: At least 23 dead after ‘suicide bombers’ attack American Airlines check-in desk at Brussels Airport - as SECOND ‘terror attack’ hits Metro station near EU headquarters — Shouts ‘in Arabic’ heard before two explosions went off near the American Airlines check-in desk at 8am (7am GMT)
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Mitch Prothero / BuzzFeed:
Belgian Authorities Overwhelmed By Terror Investigations — “It's literally an impossible situation,” one counterterrorism official told BuzzFeed News. — Michael Hastings Fellow — Reporting From — Brussels — BRUSSELS — Within minutes of a bomb blast at Brussels' main airport, mobile phone and internet networks crashed.
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump's Frightening Response To The Brussels Attacks — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is seizing upon the attacks in Brussels to again call for the Mexican border to be closed, Muslims to be banned from entering the country, and terrorism suspects to be waterboarded.
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Associated Press:
EXPLOSIONS ROCK BRUSSELS AIRPORT, SUBWAY; 28 REPORTED DEAD — BRUSSELS (AP) — Explosions, at least one likely caused by a suicide bomber, rocked the Brussels airport and subway system Tuesday, prompting a lockdown of the Belgian capital and heightened security across Europe. At least 28 people were reported dead.
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Josh Rogin / BloombergView.com:
Belgium Warned of Attacks. It Wasn't Enough. — Only days ago in Brussels, as Western leaders celebrated the arrest of a key terrorist suspect, Belgian officials warned that there were dozens more jihadists at large in the city and that more attacks were being planned. They couldn't have known how right they were.
Washington Post:
Blasts leave ‘scores’ dead at Brussels airport and metro station — BRUSSELS — Apparently coordinated terrorist explosions rocked Brussels Airport and a metro station Tuesday, leaving at least 26 dead and raising fears that attackers carried out retaliatory strikes after the arrest of a key suspect in last year's Paris massacres.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: ‘I would close up our borders’ after Brussels … GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump — on Tuesday said he would close the borders following a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Brussels. — “I would close up our borders to people until we figure out what's going on,” he said on Fox News's “Fox & Friends.”
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Calls for Border Closings, ‘A Lot More than Waterboarding’ After Attacks
Trump Calls for Border Closings, ‘A Lot More than Waterboarding’ After Attacks
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
Brussels explosions: multiple casualties after airport and metro blasts - live
Brussels explosions: multiple casualties after airport and metro blasts - live
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Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Donald Trump: Brussels is ‘catastrophic,’ waterboarding Paris suspect ‘would be fine’
Donald Trump: Brussels is ‘catastrophic,’ waterboarding Paris suspect ‘would be fine’
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Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Brussels Attacks: What We Know and Don't Know
Brussels Attacks: What We Know and Don't Know
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Guardian, The Federalist, The Week and Daily Kos
Fox News:
At least 31 killed in terror attacks at Brussels airport, Metro station
At least 31 killed in terror attacks at Brussels airport, Metro station
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Bryan McManus / Agence France-Presse:
Europe vows to defend democracy on ‘black day’
Post Opinions / Washington Post:
A transcript of Donald Trump's meeting with The Washington Post editorial board — BY POST OPINIONS STAFF March 21 at 6:04 PM — FREDERICK RYAN JR., WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER: Mr. Trump, welcome to the Washington Post. Thank you for making time to meet with our editorial board.
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
I asked Trump a policy question. Then he called me ‘beautiful.’ — Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination, met with The Washington Post's editorial board Monday to answer questions ranging from his views on NATO and the American criminal justice system …
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump reveals foreign policy team in meeting with The Washington Post … Donald Trump revealed part of his foreign policy advisory team and outlined an unabashedly non-interventionist approach to world affairs during a wide-ranging meeting Monday with The Washington Post's editorial board.
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Washington Post:
We met with Donald Trump. Electing him will still be a radical risk.
We met with Donald Trump. Electing him will still be a radical risk.
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Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, Guardian and The New Civil Rights Movement
Jeff Dunetz / The Lid:
WAPO Reporter Tries To Slander Trump W/ Fake Claim He Hit On Her
WAPO Reporter Tries To Slander Trump W/ Fake Claim He Hit On Her
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Washington Post, Althouse and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Bill Clinton knocks ‘awful legacy’ of last 8 years — 10k Shares — Former President Bill Clinton, stumping on behalf of his wife in Washington state on Monday, urged people to vote for Hillary Clinton “if you believe we've finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us.”
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Bill Clinton: Hillary can ‘put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us’
Bill Clinton: Hillary can ‘put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us’
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Strike 2: Bill Clinton again hits Obama and his ‘awful legacy’
Strike 2: Bill Clinton again hits Obama and his ‘awful legacy’
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Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Hillary Clinton goes full Neocon at AIPAC, Demonizes Iran, Palestinians — I once heard Hillary Clinton give her AIPAC speech at a university. It doesn't change much, just as US policy toward the Mideast doesn't change much. She was still a senator then.
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Can the media cover Trump minus the contempt?
Can the media cover Trump minus the contempt?
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Wall Street Journal
Senator Bernard Sanders / Bernie Sanders:
Sanders Outlines Middle East Policy
Sanders Outlines Middle East Policy
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Haaretz:
Trump Ahead of AIPAC Speech: Israel Should Repay U.S. for Aid
Trump Ahead of AIPAC Speech: Israel Should Repay U.S. for Aid
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New York Times:
Most Republicans Feel Embarrassed by Campaign, Poll Says — Alarmed by the harsh attacks and negative tone of their presidential contest, broad majorities of Republican primary voters view their party as divided and a source of embarrassment and think that the campaign is more negative than in the past …
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Fox News:
Report: Olivia Newton-John's boyfriend who vanished 11 years ago seen in Mexico — Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John (C) poses with her daughter Chloe and Patrick McDermott upon arriving February 26, 2001 for the opening night of “Mamma Mia!” at the Los Angeles Shubert Theatre. REUTERS
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Behind Trump's ‘job interview’ with Alicia Watkins — The woman who praised Donald Trump's military policy and inquired about veterans jobs at Trump Hotel during a press conference on Monday was not a member of the press. — Yet somehow, Alicia Watkins, a retired Air Force staff sergeant …
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Marcel Harmon / Salon:
Sam Brownback, America's worst governor: He's gutted Kansas with an ultraconservative, religious agenda — and it's getting worse — Brownback's extremist economics have the state in a fiscal hole. Now his nutty beliefs target our kids and schools — The Wicked Witch of the West …
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