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11:10 AM 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.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor, joins Democrats' 2020 slate  —  John Hickenlooper, who served two terms as governor of Colorado, announced Monday that he is running for president, touting his accomplishments in a state that moved to the left during his time in office.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   John Hickenlooper jumps into crowded 2020 field with ground to make up
ABC News:
Former Colorado governor, touting diverse background, joins 2020 field
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and twitchy.com
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.
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
Exclusive: Pompeo on the failed North Korea talks, Otto Warmbier and his own trip to Iowa  —  WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to say if he believes that Kim Jong Un did not know about Otto Warmbier's mistreatment while the American college student was imprisoned in North Korea, as President Trump has asserted.
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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
As Trump and Kim Met, North Korean Hackers Hit Over 100 Targets in U.S. and Ally Nations
Discussion: Reuters
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bolton attempts damage control after Trump's Otto Warmbier remarks
Discussion: CNN, One America News Network and ABC11
Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:   Two sides of the globe, one painful lesson: Trump is debasing America
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Seb Gorka No Longer a Contributor at Fox News  —  Seb Gorka, pundit turned White House staffer turned pundit, is no longer a Fox News contributor, the network confirmed to Mediaite.  —  Gorka, a self-proclaimed national security expert, worked as a contributor for Fox News before he joined …
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:   CPAC Threatened to Ban Mediaite After Seb Gorka Complaint: ‘The F*cking Thinnest of F*cking Ice’
The Guardian:
Banking leak exposes Russian network with link to Prince Charles  —  Exclusive: investigation reveals how Troika Dialog channelled $4.6bn to Europe and US  —  A charity run by Prince Charles received donations from an offshore company that was used to funnel vast amounts of cash from Russia …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Guardian
Sen. Rand Paul / Fox News:
I support President Trump, but I can't support this National Emergency Declaration  —  In September of 2014, I had these words to say: “The president acts like he's a king.  He ignores the Constitution.  He arrogantly says, ‘If Congress will not act, then I must.’
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Matt Ford / New Republic:   Conservatives' Coming War on the Warren Court
Mike Allen / Axios:
House Democrats plan a slow-bleed strategy to publicly examine Trump's finances and presidency  —  House Democratic leaders worry impeachment proceedings against President Trump could backfire if they move too fast.  —  The state of play: They plan to pursue a slow-bleed strategy …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kirstjen Nielsen digs in after surviving Trump's wrath  —  Shortly after President Donald Trump returned last March from a visit to the San Diego border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen found herself in a familiar place — saying no to her boss.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!  —  Sebastian Gorka, late of the Trump Administration, stood before the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference last week and made plain the inner frenzy of a party that must place its hopes for 2020 in a President …
Washington Post:
President Trump has made 9,014 false or misleading claims over 773 days  —  Powered by his two-hour stemwinder at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2 — which featured more than 100 false or misleading claims — President Trump is on pace to exceed his daily quota set during his first two years in office.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Task & Purpose
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“I'm Sorry for the Tweet That I Sent”: Inside the Bonkers Michael Cohen-Matt Gaetz Apology  —  The exchange proved that the perils of entering Trump's inner circle have been lost on his newest loyalists.  —  Michael Cohen was trying to decompress.  He'd just returned to his hotel room …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
McGahn joins global law firm — and remains involved in Trump's judicial choices  —  Donald McGahn, the former White House counsel who at times clashed with President Trump over the ongoing special counsel probe but led his overhaul of the federal judiciary, told The Washington Post on Sunday …
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:   Jones calls on Congress to “put some teeth” back in the Voting Rights Act
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Charlottesville mystery: Who are the last two attackers of a black man in a parking garage?  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE — One man was sporting a red, bushy beard.  The second man, blond-haired, was wearing sunglasses and a tucked-in white, long sleeve shirt.  In footage seen hundreds of thousands of times …
Discussion: Axios
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump friend Roger Stone suggests Robert Mueller ‘framed’ him in Instagram post that could violate gag order  — Roger Stone on Sunday suggested he has been “framed” by special counsel Robert Mueller in an Instagram post.  — The post appeared to run afoul of Judge Amy Berman Jackson's …
Discussion: Towleroad Gay News and The Week
Reuters:
Exclusive: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma exploring bankruptcy - sources  —  (Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from thousands of lawsuits alleging the drug manufacturer contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping …
 
 
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Garrett M. Graff / New York Times:
How Giuliani Might Take Down Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Rachel Bovard / American Greatness:
Getting the Party of Infanticide on the Record
Ottawa Citizen:
Kolga and Gold: How the Kremlin distorts the past to divide us
David Siders / Politico:
Just What Does Beto Believe?
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Bernie Sanders sends a warning to 2020 rivals with rollicking weekend rallies
Discussion: Splinter
Victoria Jones / RealClearInvestigations:
Days After Comey Firing, McCabe's Team Re-Engaged Fired Dossier Author
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
NBC News:
Trump admin to let Americans sue some foreign firms doing business in Cuba
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Bill Maher's red-state hate will help get Trump re-elected
 Earlier Items: 
CBS News:
Transcript: Rep. Adam Schiff on “Face the Nation,” March 3, 2019
Discussion: Townhall and New York Post
Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Publisher embroiled in legal battle with Arkansas over law banning Israel boycotts
Discussion: Informed Comment
Lawrence Richard / SARAH PALIN:
EXPOSED: Bernie Plans To SLASH Military Funds To Fund Socialist Agenda
Bill Bostock / INSIDER:
Google, siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove widely-criticized government app …
Discussion: The Verge
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump campaign clarifies 5G policy after catching administration off guard
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Politico
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Assad wants to be back in the Arab fold. The U.S. stands in the way.
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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