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5:50 AM ET, March 12, 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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Hadas Gold / CNN:
For Stormy, controversy blows up into a club scene bonanza  —  POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA (CNN)A propeller plane pulled an advertising banner across a darkening sky on Saturday afternoon.  —  “STORMY DANIELS LIVE TONIGHT @ SOLID GOLD POMPANO,” it said in large black letters.
Frances Stead Sellers / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels uncertain about fate of her ‘60 Minutes’ segment
Discussion: Breitbart
John Hinderaker / Power Line:   Stormy Daniels and Ted Kennedy
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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Observer-Reporter:
EDITORIAL In 18th district election, Lamb is the best choice
Discussion: Politicus USA
Washington Post:
White House vows to help arm teachers and backs off raising age for buying guns  —  The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but backed off President Trump's earlier call …
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Fox News:
White House backs off call to raise minimum age to buy long guns  —  The White House announced a series of recommendations Sunday night meant to stop school shootings, including a full audit and review of the FBI tip line after warnings about a student who killed 17 people at a Florida high school last month were not acted upon.
Discussion: Breitbart and IJR
New York Post:
Tour helicopter takes deadly crash into East River  —  A tourist helicopter plunged into the East River on Sunday night, killing two passengers and leaving three clinging to life after they were trapped inside the sinking vessel while the pilot scrambled to safety, police sources said.
Discussion: The Savage Nation
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New York Times:
5 People Killed in Helicopter Crash in East River Off Manhattan  —  The red helicopter carrying six people zoomed over the East River, flying along a popular route for sightseers who want to view the Manhattan skyline, but something appeared wrong with its path on Sunday evening.
Alizachasan / WPIX 11 New York:
East River helicopter crash leaves at least 2 dead, 3 in critical condition  —  MANHATTAN — At least two people were killed after a helicopter went down in the East River Sunday night, officials said.  —  The helicopter went into the water just south of East 86th Street around 7 p.m. Six people …
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Trump loves winning, but in his presidency and business, California has gotten in his way … President Trump's well-documented clashes with California owe plenty to politics, culture and personality.  But at bottom, what drives the president's toxic relationship with the nation's …
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:   Californians wish Trump would pay attention to more than just his border wall
Associated Press:
California here he comes! …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Betsy DeVos on guns, school choice and why people don't like her  —  The secretary of education has been one of the most criticized members of President Trump's Cabinet, but DeVos says she's “more misunderstood than anything”  —  Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a devout Christian grandmother …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's giddy spree  —  His staff have whiplash, but Donald Trump is having the time of his life.  He had one of his most joyous weeks of his presidency last week.  —  While senior officials and cabinet secretaries were struggling to keep up — and many eventually threw up their hands …
Ginger Hervey / Politico:
Knife attack at Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna leaves attacker dead  —  One soldier was injured, police say.  —  A man tried to stab a soldier outside the residence of the Iranian ambassador to Austria in Vienna and was subsequently shot dead, police told local media on Monday.
Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Elon Musk, speaking at SXSW, projects Mars spaceship will be ready for short trips by first half of 2019  — Elon Musk held a surprise question and answer session at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas on Sunday.  — The billionaire said SpaceX is on track to send …
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” …
Discussion: NewsBusters
BBC:
Rwanda Seventh-Day Adventist churchgoers killed by lightning  —  A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda on Saturday, an official said.  —  Most of the victims died instantly when lightning hit the church …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
After Appearing Before Mueller Grand Jury, Nunberg Urges Trump's Cooperation  —  Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg returned to cable television Sunday, following a Friday appearance before special counsel's Robert Mueller's grand jury, with a simple message for the President: Cooperate.
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 …
Washington Post:
‘Where is Ivanka?’  First daughter seeks control in dual role as White House aide … Ivanka Trump tried to travel to South Korea as the president's envoy — but she could not escape also being his celebrity daughter.  —  She peppered National Security Council experts in advance with questions …
Discussion: New York Magazine
 
 
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Susan Shapiro / New York Daily News:
Liberal feminists for Farrakhan? Tamika Mallory is on the wrong side of a bright moral line
Mark Landler / New York Times:
The Mideast Peace Plan Is Nearly Finished. Is It Dead on Arrival?
Discussion: Axios
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
James Clapper avoids charges for ‘clearly erroneous’ surveillance testimony
Discussion: IJR
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
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Day-care worker gets 21 years for drugging children to go tanning
Talking Points Memo:
US Officials: No More Conditions Imposed On North Korea For Talks
Axios:
Scoop: Trump told Netanyahu U.S. will pull out of Iran deal if big changes not made
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Why Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren Are Eyeing Ohio in 2018
Liam Halligan / Telegraph:
With national debt still rising, now is not the time to spend, spend, spend
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make
Discussion: Daily Kos and Splinter
New York Times:
G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul. Now It May Need to Be Altered.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Wire
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military personnel
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState