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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Accept North Korea's Invitation to Discuss Its Nuclear Program  —  WASHINGTON — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed …
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Victor Cha / New York Times:
What Will Trump Give Up for Peace with North Korea?  —  The announcement at the White House on Thursday evening that President Trump will meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, within two months raises more questions than it answers.  While the unpredictability of a meeting between …
Washington Post:
Trump's North Korea gambit blindsides U.S. diplomats … President Trump's high-wire gambit to accept a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sets off a scramble among U.S. officials to assemble a team capable of supporting a historic summit of longtime adversaries and determine a viable engagement strategy.
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
North Korea sets a dangerous trap for Trump. Disaster is far more likely than a Nobel.
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
They're No Joke: Nick Eberstadt on North Korea
Discussion: YouTube
NBC News:
Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements  —  President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
Discussion: Political Wire, CNN and VICE News
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New York Times:   Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Opens Door to Further Trouble for Trump
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
ABC: Cohen Brings On Another ‘Pit Bull’ Lawyer To Help With Stormy Daniels NDA
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Pro-Trump pastor: Stormy Daniels allegations ‘totally irrelevant’ to evangelical support for Trump
Discussion: RedState and Right Wing Watch
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Stormy Daniels' attorney argues ‘cover-ups matter’
Discussion: The Hill, FOX2now.com, FOX 61 and Mediaite
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him  —  Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country.  But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat.  —  “Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer …
New York Times:
Obama in Talks to Provide Shows for Netflix  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Donor's Meeting With Russian Executive Draws Scrutiny of Special Counsel Mueller  —  Witness testimony appears to conflict with Blackwater founder's account to House panel  —  A meeting in the Seychelles weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration between a Russian executive …
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Why Was George Nader Allowed Into the White House?
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Team Biden mulls far-out options to take on Trump in 2020  —  One possibility is picking a running mate out of the gate, perhaps someone younger or from outside of politics.  —  Joe Biden knows that winning in 2020 would require a shoot-the-moon set of circumstances and luck.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Biden aides prepping for 2020 run: report
Discussion: Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Trump's Trade War: How the Protectionists Beat the Free Traders  —  From the administration's early days, free-trade-advocate Gary Cohn battled tariff proponent Peter Navarro—while the president waited  —  WASHINGTON—From his earliest days in office, President Donald Trump instigated …
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
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Katherine Mangu-Ward / New York Times:
When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls  —  It's hard to tell who started it.  —  Was it the populist right, reared in the meme swamps of Reddit and 4chan, who emerged blinking into the daylight of politics and set about baiting anyone who disagreed with their chosen Republican king?
Discussion: The Mahablog
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
DNC vice chair Keith Ellison and Louis Farrakhan: ‘No relationship’? … Ellison, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and one of two Muslim members of Congress, faced questions about his association with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, when he sought the chairmanship of the DNC in 2017.
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AOL:   GOP Jewish Coalition demands resignation of 7 Democrats over ‘ties’ to Farrakhan
miamiherald:
Disgraced Parkland deputy heard shots inside school building, told cops to stay away  —  Roundly vilified for not entering a Parkland high school during a mass shooting, Broward Deputy Scot Peterson insisted publicly that he believed that gunfire was happening outside on campus — not from inside the building.
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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
155,215,000: Record Number of Americans Employed
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Quiet Exodus: Why Blacks Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches  —  FORT WORTH — Charmaine Pruitt wrote the names of 12 churches on a sheet of paper, tore the paper into 12 strips, and dropped them into a Ziploc bag.  It was Sunday morning and time to pick which church to attend.
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Amazon Knows Why Alexa Was Laughing at Its Customers  —  For weeks, users of Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa, have reported versions of the same unsettling event: being startled as they went about their day by Alexa letting out an eerie laugh.  —  Now, Amazon says that it knows why that's …
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
'It's killing the agency': Ugly power struggle paralyzes Trump's plan to fix veterans' care  —  Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is managing the government's second-largest bureaucracy from a fortified bunker atop the agency's Washington headquarters.
Associated Press:
Interior mum on whether Zinke spent $139K on office door  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Records show the Interior Department spent nearly $139,000 last year for construction at the agency that was labeled on a work order as “Secretary's Door.”  —  A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke …
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Economy Is Looking Awfully Strong  —  Blockbuster job growth in February suggests this economy, already nine years into expansion, may yet have room to run.  —  There are 39 pages in the Labor Department's February report on the employment situation in the United States …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”  —  This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Mike Pence urged ABC News star Joy Behar to apologize to Christians she offended - she didn't listen  —  Joy Behar apologized to Mike Pence for mocking his faith, but the vice president didn't get what he really wanted: A bigger mea culpa to “millions of Christians” who watch “The View.”
Washington Post:
Trump is all bluster on trade, but Democrats haven't shown voters they can do better  —  Democrats have yet to develop an economic message to counter Trump's talk on trade and tariffs. … Our commander in chief, noted admirer of military parades, might finally have his war: a trade war.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Treat Russia Like the Terrorist It Is  —  Whether the Skripal poisoning can be conclusively pinned on Moscow is beside the point.  —  It's too soon to conclude whether the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are Moscow's latest overseas victims.
Discussion: CNN, RedState and The Daily Beast
Foster Friess / USA Today:
We can stop school shootings.  I'll match your donations up to $2.5 million.  —  Nikolas Cruz, like many shooters, lacked positive role models.  Donating to these organizations can provide the help to avert similar tragedies.  —  If we are going to help avoid new generations of school violence …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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TMZ.com:
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Bloomberg:
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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

CNBC:
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