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Associated Press:
Secret Service says man shoots himself outside White House — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service says a man shot himself outside the White House, and medical personnel are on the scene. — President Donald Trump is not at the White House — he's in Florida, but is set to return later Saturday.
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Daniel Ellsberg / CBS News:
Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates
Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Prompt Global Threats of Retaliation — WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump took a swing at United States trading partners by threatening stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, they hit back. They promised to retaliate against quintessential American goods …
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IJR, Bloomberg, Vox, Washington Monthly, AOL, The Last Refuge, NBC News, Washington Post, CNNMoney, CNBC and The Daily Caller
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Larry Kudlow / The Hill:
Trump must think twice about tariffs — BY LARRY KUDLOW, ARTHUR LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 03/03/18 07:00 AM EST THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas …
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Right Can't Fight the Future
The Right Can't Fight the Future
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Pew Research Center and The Daily Beast
Dan Merica / CNN:
A presidential milestone: Trump has spent 100 days in office at one of his golf clubs — WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.
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ThinkProgress and Mother Jones
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to launch major donor initiative after disastrous week
Trump to launch major donor initiative after disastrous week
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Hullabaloo, Vox, Shareblue Media and Political Wire
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump visits Fla. golf club ahead of remarks at Mar-a-Lago fundraiser
Trump visits Fla. golf club ahead of remarks at Mar-a-Lago fundraiser
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Splinter and Politicus USA
HuffPost:
Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast — Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies. — Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump secret … The 2016 election was less than a month away, and Donald Trump's attorney had blown the deadline for paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the future president.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Roy Moore embarrassed as Americans reject his pathetic pleas for cash — The GOP may be fine with giving money to accused sexual predators, but the American people are not. — Accused pedophile and failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is desperately begging for donations to cover …
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Why Italy's Insular Election Is More Important Than It Looks — ROME — The campaign before Italy's national elections on Sunday has been self-obsessed and often petty and unedifying. But it has been instructive about one thing: The political forces that have torn at the global order …
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Outside the Beltway and The Local
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CNNMoney:
Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channel — Facebook, YouTube fail to blunt conspiracy theories — Some of the biggest brands in the U.S. had ads running on the YouTube channels for far-right website InfoWars and its founder, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones …
Jackie Wang / Dallas Morning News:
Texas early voting numbers a ‘wake-up call’ for GOP as Democrats double their 2014 turnout — AUSTIN — With one day of early voting to go, turnout in the Democratic primary had nearly doubled since the last midterm election in 2014. — According to the Texas secretary of state's website …
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Outside the Beltway and Off the Kuff
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Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
Shortly before Trump announced tariffs, his former adviser dumped millions in steel-related stocks … President Trump's decision Thursday to impose crippling tariffs on the imports of steel and aluminum took many by surprise — particularly investors, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed …
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The Daily Beast, RedState, Politicus USA, CNBC, Washington Press, ABC News and New York Times
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute — On July 27, 2017, near the end of the one of the most compelling hearings yet on the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered an extraordinary insight. It shot through the proceedings like a comet.
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The Guardian, New York Times, Breitbart and Washington Monthly
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Lindsey Graham: War with North Korea would be ‘worth it’ in the long run — (R-S.C.) said this week that a war with North Korea would be “worth it” in the long term. — Graham made the comments in an interview with CNN. — “All the damage that would come from a war would be worth …
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CNN, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly and Political Wire
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn't seem so preposterous … MERRIAM, Kan. — And now, a report from the Midwest, where a gangly hope has arrived in the form of children enrobed in various assortments of khakis and blazers, because six teenage boys are running for governor of the state of Kansas.
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
The Silicon Valley elite's latest status symbol: Chickens — Their pampered birds wear diapers and have personal chefs — but lay the finest eggs tech money can buy — Excelling at his work, Land said, requires an obsessive focus on it. But maintaining that passion …
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Althouse, Instapundit and Mercury News
Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal:
In a Pennsylvania Steel Town, Donald Trump's Tariff Is a Winner — Local workers hope for more jobs and better pay from the president's proposed levies — BRADDOCK, Pa.—President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports have many economists and lawmakers worried about a coming trade war.
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
A ‘Bright Light,’ Dimmed in the Shadows of Homelessness — Nakesha Williams resisted help from social workers, friends and acquaintances, some who only knew her as a homeless woman, and others who knew of her past. — They met on a rainy morning several years ago, at the base of the Helmsley Building in Midtown Manhattan.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Week 41: Mueller's Digging Picks Up Speed — For the longest time, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of the Russia mess looked like a backyard drainage ditch. Into it flowed a regular stream of witnesses, evidence and press speculation. But when was it ever going to amount to anything real?
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Raw Story, The Guardian, Axios, Al Jazeera English, Politicus USA, NPR and Towleroad
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices, escalating its war with Google — Amazon currently sells a limited number of Nest products, but those will disappear from the site after it sells the inventory it has left.Nest decided to no longer work with Amazon selling the limited number of products it was selling on the site.
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The Verge, Engadget and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
Trump pushes Republicans to oppose crucial New York-New Jersey tunnel project … President Trump is pushing congressional Republicans not to fund a crucial infrastructure project — a long-delayed plan to build a new rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey — setting up a confrontation …
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New York Times and Axios