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7:05 PM ET, March 4, 2019

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Making of the Fox News White House  —  Fox News has always been partisan.  But has it become propaganda?  —  In January, during the longest government shutdown in America's history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande.
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Alana Goodman / Washington Examiner:
AOC's chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies  —  Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed …
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Daily Mail:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mom hopes daughter marries her boyfriend  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mother Blanca now lives in Florida and her Trump-supporting neighbors don't know the Democrat star is her daughter.
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Greenpeace co-founder tears into Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal: ‘Pompous little twit’  —  Patrick Moore, the co-founder of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, ripped into New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend as a “pompous little twit,” saying the Green …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems will take floor action to confront Omar's latest Israel comments  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats will take floor action Wednesday in response to controversial remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar about Israel, the second such rebuke of the freshman Democrat from party leaders in recent weeks.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar is the Steve King of the left  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar has, yet again, angered many House Democrats and Jewish groups by making anti-Semitic comments over the weekend.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the rest of the leadership need to realize that Omar (D-Minn.) has become their party's version of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
James Kirchick / Washington Post:
Jeremy Corbyn is thoroughly indecent  —  LONDON — Everything you need to know about the British Labour Party is contained in the fact that Luciana Berger is no longer a member and Alex Scott-Samuel is.  —  Two weeks ago Berger, a member of parliament, shocked the nation when she announced …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Omar's comments force Democrats to act on anti-Semitism measure
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Dems respond to Omar by drafting anti-Semitism resolution
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee delivered a flurry of document demands to the executive branch and the broader Trump world on Monday that detailed the breadth of the Democrats' investigation …
Discussion: Daily Kos and ABC11
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emptywheel:
Puzzling Through the House Requests
Washington Post:
House Democrats demand documents from more than 80 people and institutions affiliated with Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
James Comey / Washington Post:
Republicans are wrong.  Transparency is possible in the Mueller investigation.  —  James Comey is a former director of the FBI and a former deputy attorney general.  —  Attorney General William P. Barr will decide how much of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's findings and conclusions …
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Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general, leaves Justice Department … Matthew Whitaker, the former acting attorney general whose brief appointment generated intense controversy, resigned from the Justice Department over the weekend.  —  Justice Department officials said Whitaker's last day at the agency was Saturday.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Whitaker out at Justice Department  —  Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has left the Department of Justice.  —  A Justice Department spokesman told The Hill that Whitaker's last day was Saturday but did not expand on the circumstances surrounding his departure or his plans after leaving.
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It's Underpaying Many Men  —  SAN FRANCISCO — When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found that more men than women were receiving less money for doing similar work.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Google found it was underpaying more men than women for similar jobs
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
'Where are the women's teams?':  Trump ignores women's champions in White House sports ceremonies  —  President Trump on Monday became the first president since Bill Clinton to play host to a college football team that won a title in the NCAA's secondary division when he feted the North Dakota State Bison at the White House.
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Whether you call it impeachment or pre-impeachment, the Trump accountability era is here
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump on new investigation: ‘I cooperate all the time with everybody’
Discussion: CNN, CNBC, IJR and Politico
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Senate will pass resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday said that he expects a resolution blocking President Trump's emergency declaration to pass the Senate, but he does not believe lawmakers will be able to override a veto.
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Pelosi on Trump's veto threat: 'We'll fight him in the Congress' and courts
Discussion: Daily Kos and KBZK
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Multibillion-Dollar Money-Laundering Scheme Run By Russia's Largest Private Investment Bank Uncovered, Report Says  —  An almost $9 billion global money-laundering scheme allegedly set up and run by Russia's largest private investment bank and having close ties to the country's ruling elite …
Discussion: OCCRP, The Week and The Guardian
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The Guardian:   Banking leak exposes Russian network with link to Prince Charles
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller notifies judge that Trump friend Roger Stone posted Instagram image that could violate gag order  — Special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday notified a federal judge about an Instagram post by President Donald Trump's friend Roger Stone that could be in violation …
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
Pinkos Have More Fun Socialism is AOC's calling card, Trump's latest rhetorical bludgeon, and a new way to date in Brooklyn.  —  It's the Friday after Valentine's Day.  The radical publishing house Verso Books is throwing its annual Red Party, an anti-romance-themed banger.
Discussion: Washington Post, Splinter and Althouse
BuzzFeed News:
WWF's Secret War: One Of The World's Biggest Charities Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People  —  The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching.  A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the hidden human cost.  —  Down the road from the crocodile …
Eric H. Holder Jr / Washington Post:
Eric Holder: I won't run, but I will fight to elect the right Democratic president  —  Eric H. Holder Jr. was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015.  —  There is in the United States today a crisis of leadership — caused and perpetuated by an administration that uses fear to stoke divisions and lies to support broken policies.
Lamar White, Jr / The Bayou Brief:
District Director for U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins at the Center of Alleged Human Trafficking Ring  —  Pictured above: Pingjuan Xia and Jerod Prunty at D.C. Mardi Gras (Source: @PutLouisiana1st, Twitter), Xia and Prunty were arrested in Feb. 2019 (Source: Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Department).
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Keeps Pushing Deal to Send Nuclear Tech to Saudis  —  Congress raised “grave concerns” about the Trump administration's past attempts to send nuclear technology to the Saudis.  But Team Trump isn't done trying.  —  The Trump administration is still actively working to make a deal …
Associated Press:
Trump claims Cohen hearing may have hurt North Korea summit  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting that a congressional hearing Democrats arranged with his former personal attorney may have contributed to his failure to reach a summit deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
 
 
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HuffPost:
Steve King Promotes White Nationalist On Twitter ... For The Third Time
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
It's so dangerous to police MS-13 in El Salvador that officers are fleeing the country
Discussion: TheBlaze
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“We're F—ked.  Gavin Is Going to Get Jeff Back Together with MacKenzie”: Inside the Bezos Affair …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Record number of families, cold reality at border
Discussion: The Daily Caller
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra:
Attorney General Becerra Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump-Pence Administration's Title X Family Planning Rule
Associated Press:
Trump symbolically tightens embargo on Cuba
The Charlotte Observer:
NC sets dates for election redo forced by ballot tampering, as candidates line up
Discussion: NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Adele M. Stan / American Prospect:
Liar, Racist, Cheat: This is Your President, America — With the CPAC Seal of Approval
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele backs out of public appearance
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Mariah Carey's former manager Stella Bulochnikov Stolper suing Trump Russian associate Felix Sater
Discussion: Law & Crime
Shawn Donnan / Bloomberg:
Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy
Discussion: Vanity Fair and New York Times
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress About “Collusion” in General—Not just the Moscow Tower deal
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New Yorker
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kirstjen Nielsen digs in after surviving Trump's wrath
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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