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Kristina Webb / Post On Politics:
Trump holds VA meeting at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night — SATURDAY UPDATE: The White House said President Donald Trump held a meeting to discuss the Department of Veterans Affairs while at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night. — “This evening President Trump had another meeting, including dinner …
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump's ‘major meeting’ on veterans affairs doesn't happen
Trump's ‘major meeting’ on veterans affairs doesn't happen
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump's ‘major meeting’ Friday on VA didn't take place
Trump's ‘major meeting’ Friday on VA didn't take place
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Post On Politics
St. Charles County Police Department:
#SCCPDNEWS: St. Charles County police responded to a medical emergency on Buckner Road at approximately 12:40 p.m. today (Saturday, March 18). Inside the home, first responders observed an unresponsive man and immediately administered lifesaving techniques. Unfortunately, the 90-year-old man …
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Chuck Berry Dies at 90; Helped Define Rock ‘n’ Roll
Chuck Berry Dies at 90; Helped Define Rock ‘n’ Roll
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Outside the Beltway, Althouse, Hullabaloo and Instapundit
Terence McArdle / Washington Post:
Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90
Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90
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Daily Kos and National Review
Jennifer Frederick / Billboard:
Chuck Berry, a Founding Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Dies at 90
Chuck Berry, a Founding Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Dies at 90
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Chuck Berry, Musician Who Helped Define Rock ‘N’ Roll, Dies at 90
Chuck Berry, Musician Who Helped Define Rock ‘N’ Roll, Dies at 90
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The Guardian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
What the Senate Should Ask Judge Gorsuch — When Judge Neil Gorsuch faces the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, will we see a series of crisp, clear exchanges on the nature of the Constitution, the role of precedent, the limits of Presidential power? Or will see what one legal scholar called …
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Washington Post and Hullabaloo
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Philly Cinco de Mayo celebration canceled over immigration crackdown fears — El Carnaval de Puebla, a major Cinco De Mayo celebration in Philadelphia, has been canceled following recent federal immigration crackdowns, organizers said. — Edgar Ramirez told a local NBC affiliate …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and ImmigrationProf Blog
Kevin Hardy / USA Today:
People are canceling their Iowa vacations because of Steve King's words … The Iowa Tourism Office generally receives about two complaints a month from travelers who leave the state peeved about picking up a speeding ticket or dissatisfied with an unpleasant hotel stay.
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Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:
Iowa tourism complaints skyrocket after Steve King's racist tweet
New York Times:
In One Rocky Week, Trump's Self-Inflicted Chaos on Vivid Display — WASHINGTON — Minutes before President Trump was to take the stage in Nashville last week to make his case for the health care overhaul he had promised, he received some unwelcome news that shifted his script.
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Raw Story and Mother Jones
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Graham keeping the heat on Trump's wiretapping claims — (R-S.C.) says he still plans to “to get to the bottom” of President Trump's claims that Trump Tower was wiretapped by the Obama administration during the 2016 election. — “We owe it to [Trump]; we owe it to the American people …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's White House, New York moderates spark infighting and suspicion — Inside the White House, they are dismissed by their rivals as “the Democrats.” — Outspoken, worldly and polished, this coterie of ascendant Manhattan business figures-turned-presidential advisers is scrambling …
Walter Olson / National Review:
Outrage on Wheels — The story that Trump's budget would kill the Meals on Wheels program was too good to check. But it was false. — It made for great copy — irresistibly clickable and compulsively shareable. “Trump's Budget Would Kill a Program That Feeds 2.4 Million Senior Citizens,” blared Time's headline.
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Hot Air, American Thinker and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump, Working-Class Zero — It's not unknown, of course. — In ancient Egypt, there was the symbol of the ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. Nerve-addled octopuses sometimes consume their own arms. — But we've never watched a president so hungrily devour his own presidency.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump makes latest visit to golf club — President Trump visited Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Saturday, marking his 10th golf course trip over eight weeks as president, according to an NBC News editor. — While White House officials reportedly declined to comment …
Chris Enloe / TheBlaze:
Bernie Sanders lectures America for ‘worshipping wealth’ — promptly gets annihilated for hypocrisy — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) took to Twitter Saturday to rail against the United States for being a nation that “worships wealth,” but Twitter quickly slapped back and proved he's a hypocrite.
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Fear, hope and deportations — VALLEY VIEW, Tex. — At 4:30 a.m. on a windy Monday, Tamara Estes swallows vitamin B12 for energy and krill oil for her arthritic fingers. Even with her nightly Ambien, she is always up before the sun, getting ready for a job that reminds her of what infuriates her about America.
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ImmigrationProf Blog
The Huffington Post:
George W. Bush Gave Us Donald Trump. Now He Wants To Be Forgiven. — But Americans shouldn't forget so easily. — We've all seen the picture. It's the opening of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and George W. Bush is sharing a brief snuggle with Michelle Obama.
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Eschaton
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Tomi Lahren Likely On Her Way Out At The Blaze — You'll Never Guess Who This Trump Dossier Source Met With — Two High School Students Charged In Rape Of 14-Year-Old Girl — Both recently arrived in the U.S. — 30 Countries Are Refusing To Take Back Illegal Immigrants Convicted Of Serious Crimes
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CNN:
Man arrested outside White House after jumping bike rack — (CNN)A man jumped over a bicycle rack in front of the White House on Saturday, briefly putting the complex into an escalated security posture, two law enforcement officials told CNN. — The man, who never made it to the White House fence …
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TheBlaze, Fox News, IJR, ABC News, KTLA, Politico, USA Today, RedState, The Guardian and Talking Points Memo
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