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2:15 PM ET, March 11, 2018

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To “60 Minutes” Airing Of A Stormy Daniels Interview  —  Anderson Cooper interviewed the adult film performer and director on Thursday.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC … Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Stormy Daniels and Ted Kennedy  —  The Democrats are trying to make something out of Donald Trump's alleged dalliance, twelve years ago, with porn performer Stormy Daniels.  I wrote about it here.  Frankly, I don't think anyone cares.  —  But the story is interesting because it raises questions …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The First Porn President  —  WASHINGTON — Why not just go with Dirk Diggler?  —  I mean, if you're going to pick a fake name to pay off a porn star you've dallied with, why choose something bland like David Dennison?  —  If you are, after all, Donald Trump, the king of grandiosity …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Matt Gillow / The Independent:
Whisper it, but maybe Trump isn't that bad after all  —  There's a lot to criticise, but let's face it: unemployment is down, major corporations are paying their bills, he's arranged a meeting with Kim Jong-un and he's advocating for gun control  —  Mention the President of the United States …
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New York Times:
‘Is There Anything More Fun Than a Trump Rally?’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself
Lisa Wardle / PennLive:
Trump says ‘the world is watching’ Pennsylvania during campaign rally for Saccone
Discussion: NPR
Washington Post:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump again calls for the death penalty for drug dealers
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump touts GOP candidate — and talks drug dealers, 2020 and Oprah in whirlwind rally
Discussion: Splinter
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Fox News host Jesse Watters to divorce after cheating on wife with 25-year-old employee  —  Fox News is in sleazy Watters yet again.  —  The network's prominent host Jesse Watters — who dined on Monday with President Trump — is in the midst of divorce due to an affair with a 25-year-old associate producer.
Discussion: NewsHounds blog, Raw Story and Mediaite
BBC:
Russian spy: Salisbury diners told to wash possessions  —  Up to 500 Salisbury pub-goers and diners have been told to wash possessions as a precaution after nerve agent traces were found.  —  Trace amounts of the substance used to poison ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter …
Discussion: NPR
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
After Russian Spy Poisoning, Britain Tells Public to Wash Clothes and Use Baby Wipes
Discussion: New York Magazine
Associated Press:   UK official: Small traces of contamination found in spy case
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Why Tamika Mallory Won't Condemn Farrakhan  —  When I was 17, I was a scruffy-headed biracial black and Jewish teenager, and a furious Louis Farrakhan hater.  In the mid-1990s, Farrakhan's fame and influence was at its height; I had once been thrown out of a middle school gym class for calling the Nation of Islam leader a racist.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Mnuchin: Trump's attacks on journalists, Dems are ‘campaign rally issues’  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” that President Trump's verbal attacks against Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters, as well as journalists like Todd, should be set aside as “campaign rally issues.”
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Warren: 'I'm not running for president'
Jonathan Lis / Associated Press:
Vladimir Putin: Maybe ‘Jews With Russian Citizenship’ Meddled in U.S. Elections  —  Russia's Putin tells NBC ‘I do not care at all’ about alleged Russian meddling Israeli lawmaker says ‘hatred of Jews’ lies at the root of Putin's claim  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested …
Erin Donnelly / Yahoo:
Teen waitress gets college scholarship after photo of her cutting up a 78-year-old diner's food goes viral  —  act of kindness has reaped a huge reward for one Texas teen.  —  Evoni Williams, who works in a La Marque, Texas, Waffle House to save money for college, was photographed by a diner …
Discussion: KVUE-TV, theGrio, Breitbart and Fox News
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump wants new authority over polling places.  Top election officials say no  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact.
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military personnel  —  SEE ALSO  —  Newly-released video of a mysterious object streaking over the Atlantic Ocean shows the Pentagon needs to take UFOs seriously, a researcher says.  —  The sensational two-minute clip captured by a camera aboard …
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul.  Now It May Need to Be Altered.  —  WASHINGTON — The legislative blitz that rocketed the $1.5 trillion tax cut through Congress in less than two months created a host of errors and ambiguities in the law that businesses big and small are just now discovering and scrambling to address.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Wire
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy  —  Resistance must take the form of the affirmation of the values and institutions that the President has scorned and threatened.  —  Minute by minute, the wheels are coming off the clown car that is the Trump Administration.
Discussion: Althouse
Amy Held / NPR:
Steve Bannon Takes Anti-Establishment Message Overseas: ‘Let Them Call You Racists’  —  Both have suffered political falls and on Saturday in Lille, France, Steve Bannon, the onetime chief White House strategist, and Marine Le Pen, who lost the French presidency to Emmanuel Macron in May …
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James McAuley / Washington Post:
‘Let them call you racists’: Steve Bannon delivers fighting speech to France's National Front
 
 
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A New York Times columnist blamed a far-left ‘mob’ for her woes. But maybe she deserves them.
Discussion: Salon
Stephanie Stanton / KTTV:
Legal battle between Katy Perry and nuns over Los Feliz convent takes tragic turn
Discussion: NPR, Breitbart and FOX6Now.com
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Martin Sheen adds to his presidential resume with CNN's ‘American Dynasties: The Kennedys’
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
ABC Shelved ‘Black-ish’ Political Episode Over ‘Creative Differences’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Discussion: The Root and Mashable
New York Times:
Vote. That's Just What They Don't Want You to Do.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Gun Plan to Include Encouraging States to Allow Armed School Staff
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Post:
Parents up in arms after NYPD removes cops from schools
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In Trump-Russia probe, what's with that meeting in the Seychelles?
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Gerson / The Atlantic:
The Last Temptation
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump says he hopes Oprah runs: ‘It would be a painful experience for her’
Discussion: Althouse
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
How One Child's Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Plumes Seen at Plutonium Plant May Belie Kim's Disarmament Talk
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
Discussion: Boing Boing
New York Times:
The Missing Obama Millions
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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