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7:50 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
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The First Porn President  —  WASHINGTON — Why not just go with Dirk Diggler?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump privately trashes Rick Saccone  —  There's a reason Trump said hardly anything about Republican candidate Rick Saccone during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night that was supposed to promote his candidacy.  — The reason: Trump thinks Saccone is a terrible, “weak” candidate …
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Michael Tackett / New York Times:
White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away  —  GRAPEVINE, Tex. — Carol Rains, a white evangelical Christian, has no regrets over her vote for President Trump.  She likes most of his policies and would still support him over any Democrat.  But she is open to another Republican.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Gerson / The Atlantic:
The Last Temptation
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
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.
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Putin condemned for saying Jews may have manipulated U.S. election … Jewish groups and U.S. lawmakers condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion that the 2016 U.S. presidential election may have been manipulated by Russian Jews.  —  Putin's remarks came during a long …
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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Washington Post:   ‘Where is Ivanka?’ First daughter seeks control in dual role as White House aide
Talking Points Memo:   US Officials: No More Conditions Imposed On North Korea For Talks
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 …
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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
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.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A New York Times columnist blamed a far-left ‘mob’ for her woes.  But maybe she deserves them. … After retracting public comments three times in a little over a month, New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss defended her columns and tweets Friday, claiming a social media “mob” …
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: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Day-care worker gets 21 years for drugging children to go tanning … January Neatherlin told parents they couldn't pick up their children from Little Giggles day-care center between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. That three-hour period, she said, was nap time.  —  It was also CrossFit time and tan …
Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:
No Republican candidates on the Utah ballot this year?  It's a possibility after planned fix falters.  —  Imagine this year's ballot with no Utah candidates listed as Republicans.  —  Or, alternatively, the ballot listing only those Republicans who gathered signatures, while others who went through the GOP convention are shut out.
Discussion: RedState
Mark Landler / New York Times:
The Mideast Peace Plan Is Nearly Finished.  Is It Dead on Arrival?  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is putting the finishing touches on its long-awaited Middle East peace plan, three senior officials said on Sunday, and President Trump is likely to present it soon …
Discussion: Axios
Mirror.co.uk:
Britain's ‘worst ever’ child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even KILLED … Despite similar high-profile cases in Rochdale and Rotherham, authorities in Telford ­repeatedly failed to stamp out a network of abusers.
Discussion: National Review and Breitbart
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Elizabeth Warren refuses DNA test to prove Native American heritage  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Elizabeth Warren batted down calls for her to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage in an interview that aired Sunday.  —  “I know who I am.  And never used it for anything.
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
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
James Clapper avoids charges for ‘clearly erroneous’ surveillance testimony … Former intelligence chief James Clapper is poised to avoid charges for allegedly lying to Congress following five years of apparent inaction by the Justice Department.  —  Clapper, director of national intelligence …
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
For Stormy, controversy blows up into a club scene bonanza
Discussion: IJR and twitchy.com
CBS Baltimore:
Former Confederate Site In Baltimore Rededicated To Harriet Tubman
Discussion: theGrio and FOX40
Kimberly Veklerov / San Francisco Chronicle:
Deaths of homeless people go uncounted in Oakland — and most places
Discussion: Breitbart
Niv Elis / The Hill:
Trade adviser ascends in Trump White House
Discussion: Breitbart
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Just Suspended A Ton Of Accounts Known For Stealing Tweets
Axios:
Scoop: Trump told Netanyahu U.S. will pull out of Iran deal if big changes not made
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump Won Ohio Handily. Populist Democrats Want to Win It Back.
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make
Discussion: Splinter
Beth B. / twitchy.com:
James Woods OBLITERATES Lauren Hogg with THIS history lesson NO ONE should forget
Discussion: Instapundit and The Gateway Pundit
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Mnuchin: Trump's attacks on journalists, Dems are ‘campaign rally issues’
Discussion: Breitbart and Politico
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy
Discussion: Althouse
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: Splinter, KTLA and Washington Times
New York Post:
Parents up in arms after NYPD removes cops from schools
Discussion: IJR and Louder With Crowder
 

 
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