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9:00 AM ET, March 4, 2018

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CNN:
Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a “rigged system” that still doesn't have the “right people” in place to fix it …
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Gillian Wong / Associated Press:
China's Xi poised to make historic grab at indefinite rule  —  BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping is poised to make a historic power grab as China's legislators gather beginning Monday to approve changes that will let him rule indefinitely and undo decades of efforts to prevent a return to crushing dictatorship.
New York Times:
Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.  He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration …
Discussion: KTLA and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.  —  These are the darkest days in at least half a year …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:   Live From the West Wing, Trump Pulls Back the Curtain
Teri Webster / TheBlaze:
Parkland student brags he hung up on Trump White House call, while classmate drops F-bomb on TV
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Jokes Melania Might Leave Him at Gridiron Dinner … Just a few hours after he suggested that perhaps America should follow China's lead with the whole “president for life” thing, President Donald Trump took the stage to tell some jokes at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump pokes fun — and makes North Korea news — at Gridiron  —  During a lighthearted address to journalists, the president suggests he's been in contact with North Korean officials, saying ‘we will be meeting.’  —  President Donald Trump said late Saturday that “we will be meeting” …
Discussion: Fox News and Althouse
Emily Heil / Washington Post:   At a white-tie Gridiron dinner, President Trump tries joking: ‘I like chaos’
New York Times:
Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden's Middle Class  —  STOCKHOLM — In the Stockholm suburb of Varby Gard, it was not unusual to see the figure of a 63-year-old man pedaling a bicycle home after the end of his shift as an aide for disabled adults, hunched against the icy wind of a Swedish winter.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trade War, What Is It Good For?  Absolutely Nothing  —  We've known all along that Donald Trump is belligerently ignorant about economics (and many other things).  But up to this point that hasn't mattered much.  He took office amid a sustained recovery that began under his predecessor …
Discussion: The Mahablog
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Peter Wehner / New York Times:   Trump's White House Is a Black Hole
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Right Can't Fight the Future … It seems axiomatic that the past and the future cannot exist at the same time.  Thanks to the space-time continuum, people from different centuries cannot live simultaneously.  The same goes for a nation, which cannot survive pulling toward the future and toward the past at once.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
36 women flood Texas races to flip male-dominated House seats blue  —  “We have a reached a tipping point.”  —  Fueled by anti-Trump backlash, a surge of women are putting their names on the ballot and running for office in Texas, with potentially momentous implications for the balance of power in the deep red state.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
It's a gusher of candidates due to Trump resistance and frustration with Congress
Discussion: Axios
EW.com:
M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers dies at 75  —  M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers died of cancer on Saturday, his agent confirmed.  He was 75.  —  “I am very sad to report that David died this morning March 3, 2018 peacefully at his home in Newport, Oregon after a courageous battle with bladder cancer …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and ABC News
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
When Should Cultural Institutions Say No to Tainted Funding?  —  On Monday afternoon, Jerry Saltz, the longtime art critic at New York Magazine, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has gone nearly once a week for three decades.  After two hours of taking in “Golden Kingdoms …
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs … President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day.  —  Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar …
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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Trump vows to tax European cars if the EU fights back with tariff on U.S. goods
Daniel J. Roth / Jerusalem Post:
WOMEN'S MARCH LEADERS REFUSE TO CONDEMN FARRAKHAN AFTER ANTISEMITIC SPEECH  —  In recent years, Farrakhan has embarked on a wide-ranging, anti-Jewish campaign, which has featured some of the most hateful speeches of his career.  —  NEW YORK - High-profile leaders of the popular Women's March movement …
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 …
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Trump confidant Chris Ruddy on the president's ‘inner Democrat’  —  You don't just roll up for lunch at Mar-a-Lago.  It's a private members club.  And also, most winter weekends, it is the residence of the president of the United States.  As a result, Chris Ruddy suggests we meet at my hotel …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Mediaite
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
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New York Times:
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
Congressional, civil rights leaders gather at Civil Rights Memorial to honor movement's martyrs
Nick Sambides Jr / Bangor Daily News:
Woman's body found in trunk of car at Maine dealership
Discussion: FOX40
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
How PragerU Is Winning The Right-Wing Culture War Without Donald Trump
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Eric Holder predicts Robert Mueller charges Trump with obstruction of justice
 Earlier Items: 
Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Press
Michelle Krupa / CNN:
Philando Castile charity wipes out kids' lunch debt in district where he worked
Discussion: Mother Jones
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters:
Politico Writer Angry at Broward Sheriff for Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Publicly slighting millions of NRA members isn't good for business - or America
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Daniel Ellsberg / CBS News:
Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute
Discussion: Washington Press and Raw Story
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

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Sources: OpenAI considered making a browser, discussed deals to power AI features on Samsung devices and search on sites and apps from Condé Nast and others

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

 
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