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8:35 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 …
Business Insider:   More than a third of millennials share Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's worry about having kids …
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
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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.
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general, leaves Justice Department
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:   Trump's New Attorney General Won't Recuse Himself in Mueller Probe
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Whether you call it impeachment or pre-impeachment, the Trump accountability era is here
emptywheel:
Puzzling Through the House Requests
Washington Post:
House Democrats demand documents from more than 80 people and institutions affiliated with Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
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: RedState and Front Page Magazine
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic  —  Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first permanent remission 12 years ago.  With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
Washington Post:
John Bolton puts his singular stamp on Trump's National Security Council  —  As national security adviser to President Trump, John Bolton has been the chief translator of Trump's un­or­tho­dox foreign policy views to the vast U.S. bureaucracy.  —  To his critics …
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Associated Press:   Trump claims Cohen hearing may have hurt North Korea summit
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 …
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: POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Ben Collins / NBC News:
On Amazon, a Qanon conspiracy book climbs the charts — with an algorithmic push  —  The book is currently No. 9 in all books about politics and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury's “Farhenheit 451,”  —  A book that pushes the conspiracy theory Qanon climbed within …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says  —  WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes …
Discussion: emptywheel and Lawfare
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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, emptywheel and Mediaite
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Jerome Corsi retracts and apologizes for 2018 story promoting Seth Rich conspiracy theory
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“We're F—ked.  Gavin Is Going to Get Jeff Back Together with MacKenzie": Inside the Bezos Affair, a Tale of Love, Lust, Uncertainty, and Way More Complexifiers Than Previously Imagined  —  “At the end of this, we're all going to look really, really bad,” says Michael Sanchez.
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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.
Discussion: The Hill, The White House and Politico
 
 
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Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:
The lengthy legal fight over Utah election law is over as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to accept GOP appeal
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
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Record number of families, cold reality at border
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lamar White, Jr / The Bayou Brief:
District Director for U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins at the Center of Alleged Human Trafficking Ring
Associated Press:
Trump symbolically tightens embargo on Cuba
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Keeps Pushing Deal to Send Nuclear Tech to Saudis
The Charlotte Observer:
NC sets dates for election redo forced by ballot tampering, as candidates line up
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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
Eric H. Holder Jr / Washington Post:
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