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2:05 PM ET, March 22, 2016

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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)
CNN:
2 explosions at Brussels airport, reports of several killed  —  Brussels, Belgium (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 4:44 a.m. ET]  —  An explosion has occurred at a subway station in Molenbeek, Brussels, according to CNN affiliate RTL.  The station is near the European quarter.
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.
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Calls for Border Closings, ‘A Lot More than Waterboarding’ After Attacks  —  “You have to get the information and you have to get it rapidly,” the Republican presidential front-runner said Tuesday morning following a series of deadly attacks in Brussels.
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.
MilitaryTimes:
American service member, family injured in Brussels attacks
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz cites Brussels terrorism to attack Trump
Josh Rogin / BloombergView.com:   Belgium Warned of Attacks. It Wasn't Enough.
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Cruz: “We Don't Need Another Lecture on Islamophobia”
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Daily Mail:
‘It was like the apocalypse.. you could see peoples’ …
Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
‘Why do they hate us so much?’  —  How the Brussels attacks strike …
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh
Washington Post:
Blasts leave ‘scores’ dead at Brussels airport and metro station
David Wright / CNN:
Donald Trump: Brussels ‘just the beginning’
Discussion: Jihad Watch and BizPac Review
Telegraph:
Brussels explosions: 34 killed and 170 wounded in two attacks as terrorists ‘remain at large’ - live
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
AIPAC rebukes Trump for anti-Obama comments  —  The president of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) rebuked Donald Trump  —  on Tuesday, scolding him for his harsh comments about President Obama.  —  “Last evening, something occurred …
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Can the media cover Trump minus the contempt?  —  The snide comments began to roll in before the Republican frontrunner even finished his speech.  —  “The Donald can read!” one critic snarled.  —  “He just cut and pasted his pandering remarks,” another sneered.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Conor Skelding / Politico:
Giuliani says he'll probably endorse Trump
Discussion: RedState
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.’
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The Unnerving Insecurities of Donald Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
Rick Madonik / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford, former Toronto mayor, dead after battle with cancer  —  Rob Ford, 46, seemed like an unstoppable political force, but the city councillor and former mayor could not beat cancer.  —  Former mayor Rob Ford, who was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2014, would have turned 47 on May 28.
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CNN:
Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford dies
Discussion: WNEP-TV and Business Insider
Andre Mayer / CBC News:
Rob Ford, former Toronto mayor, dead at 46
Discussion: American Spectator
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Ted Cruz Calls for Security Patrols in America's “Muslim Neighborhoods”  —  In the wake of the Brussels terror attacks Tuesday morning, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz suggested that the United States “empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Cruz calls for patrols of Muslim neighborhoods
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Trump Says He Will Delegate Supreme Court Appointments To The Heritage Foundation  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, in an apparent bid to placate conservatives who fear that he could appoint an insufficiently ideological justice if elected president, plans to release a list of 5-10 names sometime in the next week.
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Why President Obama Has the Constitutional Power to Appoint—and Not Just Nominate—a Replacement for Justice Scalia  —  University of Illinois College of Law & University of Chicago Law School  —  Abstract:  —  After Justice Antonin Scalia's recent death, politicians wasted no time before teeing …
Discussion: Balkinization
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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Washington Post:
Obama addresses the Cuban nation in historic Havana visit  —  HAVANA — President Obama addressed the Cuban people directly for the first time Tuesday morning, saying he had come “to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.”  —  The address in Havana's newly renovated Gran Teatro …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama to Cuba: I'm here to ‘bury’ Cold War rivalry
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Political Wire
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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