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5:30 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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Fox News's propaganda isn't just unethical — research shows it's enormously influential  —  Without the “Fox effect,” neither Bush nor Trump could have won.  —  Jane Mayer, the New Yorker's longtime star investigative reporter, has a fantastic new longform piece out detailing the extent …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are set to take a big step toward impeaching Trump  —  Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, is set to demand documents from more than 60 people related to President Trump and his businesses.  As Nadler puts it, this is necessary because Trump has been …
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 …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Inane and anti-Semitic’: Rep. Jerry Nadler blasts Rep. Jim Jordan for tweet using ‘$’ to spell Trump foe Tom Steyer's name  — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Monday blasted Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio for an ‘inane AND anti-Semitic’ tweet that spelled billionaire …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House Democrats open sweeping corruption probe into Trump's world  —  A key House committee with the power to impeach President Donald Trump kicked off a sweeping new investigation on Monday with document demands from the White House, Trump's namesake company, charity, transition team …
emptywheel:
Puzzling Through the House Requests  —  In this post, I'll try to make sense of the requests House Judiciary Committee sent out today.  —  The requests — which they've run by Mueller and SDNY — don't all make sense.  Generally, people are being asked for the documents they've already turned over …
Washington Post:
House Democrats demand documents from more than 80 people and institutions affiliated with Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
Mike Allen / Axios:
House Democrats plan a slow-bleed strategy to publicly examine Trump's finances and presidency
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
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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 …
Daily Mail:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mom hopes daughter marries her boyfriend
Discussion: The Hill
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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Omar's comments prompt House vote on anti-Semitism measure
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Dems respond to Omar by drafting anti-Semitism resolution
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.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Whitaker out at Justice Department
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Whether you call it impeachment or pre-impeachment, the Trump accountability era is here
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
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
Washington Post:
White House works to limit GOP defections, criticism ahead of vote to nullify Trump's emergency declaration
Discussion: Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
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
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.
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
New York Times:
Pressed by Climate Activists, Senate Democrats Plan to ‘Go on Offense’  —  WASHINGTON — Facing a showdown vote as early as this month over the embattled “Green New Deal,” Senate Democrats are preparing a counteroffensive to make combating climate change a central issue of their 2020 campaigns …
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Pro-Trump Conspiracy Peddler Jerome Corsi Apologizes to Seth Rich's Family  —  Corsi retracted a column parroting the baseless conspiracy that Rich and his brother hacked the DNC in 2016  —  WASHINGTON - The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder …
Emily Cadei / Sacramento Bee:
Big-dollar donors, including Donald Trump, fueled Kamala Harris' political rise in California  —  Asked last week if she believes President Donald Trump is a racist, California Sen. Kamala Harris told The Root, “I don't think you can reach any other conclusion.”
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress About “Collusion” in General—Not just the Moscow Tower deal  —  Analysts are still picking through all the crimes in which Michael Cohen directly implicated his former boss, President Donald Trump.  Among the most significant crimes are those offences …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New Yorker
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 …
 
 
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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
Adele M. Stan / American Prospect:
Liar, Racist, Cheat: This is Your President, America — With the CPAC Seal of Approval
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
Bloomberg:
Holdout Jeff Bezos Confronted by Amazon Moms Demanding Day Care
Discussion: Observer and GeekWire
 Earlier Items: 
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
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The Intercept:
Sanders, Warren, Ocasio-Cortez, and Other Lawmakers Sign Pledge to End America's “Forever Wars”
Aaron Haviland / The Federalist:
I THOUGHT I COULD BE A CHRISTIAN AND CONSTITUTIONALIST AT YALE LAW SCHOOL. I WAS WRONG
Discussion: Instapundit
Garrett M. Graff / New York Times:
How Giuliani Might Take Down Trump
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Charlottesville mystery: Who are the last two attackers of a black man in a parking garage?
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
President Trump has made 9,014 false or misleading claims over 773 days
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kirstjen Nielsen digs in after surviving Trump's wrath
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 

 
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