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8:15 PM ET, March 7, 2019

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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
New cracks emerge in Dem unity  —  House Democrats are showing more cracks in their united front just two months into the new Congress.  —  Leaders are scrambling to contain high-profile rifts between liberals and centrists on everything from the Green New Deal and “Medicare for all,” …
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Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
I've Faced the Charge of Dual Loyalty  —  I'm all for new voices in the U.S. Congress.  But lately, some of those new voices have been voicing some very old canards.  —  I'm talking about Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the newly elected Democrats who populate the 116th Congress.
Hussein Ibish / Bloomberg:   Ilhan Omar Is Hurting the Palestinian Cause
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Meghan McCain Breaks Down in Tears After Heated Anti-Semitism Debate: Omar's Comments Are ‘Very Scary’
Discussion: The Daily Beast, IJR and ABC News
The Babylon Bee:   Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That's Where Israel Is
Washington Post:
Paul Manafort says at his sentencing he feels ‘humiliated and ashamed’  —  Paul Manafort, President Trump's onetime campaign chairman, asked a judge for mercy at his sentencing Thursday for a host of financial crimes — conduct that could now earn the once high-flying political consultant years in prison.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Paul Manafort Sentenced To Less Than 4 Years In Prison In Mueller Probe  —  Trump's former campaign chairman still faces a separate sentencing in Washington, D.C.  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. A federal judge here sentenced former Trump campaign chairman and longtime Republican operative Paul Manafort …
Discussion: RedState and The Guardian
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Paul Manafort sentenced to 4 years in prison  —  President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced in a Virginia court to 4 years in prison for a laundry list of financial crimes, including bank fraud, tax fraud and hiding a foreign bank account.
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months for fraud in Mueller case
Kristine Phillips / USA Today:
Paul Manafort faces a prison sentence Thursday, capping the fall of Donald Trump's former campaign chair
Discussion: Townhall
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Eric Holder Says Next Democratic President Should Consider Court Packing  —  The former attorney general made the comments Thursday during a chat with the Yale Law National Security Group.  —  Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the next Democratic president should …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross broke law, violated Constitution in census decision, judge rules  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted in “bad faith,” broke several laws and violated the constitutional underpinning of representative democracy when he added a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick Who Repeatedly Weakened Voting Rights  —  Every Republican voted to make Eric Murphy, 40, a lifetime federal judge.  —  WASHINGTON The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Eric Murphy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, meaning a 40-year-old lawyer …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Embassy Staffers Say Jared Kushner Shut Them Out of Saudi Meetings  —  When a member of the administration travels overseas, the embassy often helps coordinate the trip.  Not when Jared Kushner meets his buddy MBS.  —  Officials and staffers in the U.S. embassy in Riyadh said they were not read …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
John Kelly, Out of White House, Breaks With Trump Policies  —  The former White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, on Wednesday declined to answer questions about the existence of a memo he wrote saying that President Trump had ordered officials to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance in May 2018.
New York Times:
Joe Biden's 2020 Plan Is Almost Complete.  Democrats Are Impatient.  —  WASHINGTON — The pieces for a Joseph R. Biden Jr. presidential campaign are falling into place: His nucleus of advisers has begun offering campaign positions to seasoned Democratic strategists.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today's Democratic Party  —  When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Biden in 1993 speech pushing crime bill warned of ‘predators on our streets’ who were ‘beyond the pale’
Discussion: Splinter
Reid Standish / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Cancels Journalist's Award Over Her Criticism of Trump  —  Jessikka Aro was to receive a “Women of Courage” prize.  Then officials read her Twitter feed.  —  Jessikka Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist, has faced down death threats and harassment over her work exposing Russia's …
Bloomberg:
Cohen Fires New Shot at Trump With Suit for Millions in Fees  — Ex-Trump lawyer claims he's owed at least $3.8 million  — Cohen says he appeared before Congress, Mueller for the firm  —  Michael Cohen sued the Trump Organization, claiming the president's family company stiffed …
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:   Out of the shadows: Loyal money man swept into Trump probes
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's time — high time — to take Fox News's destructive role in America seriously  —  Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors.  —  Now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about the overall problem of Fox News …
Associated Press:
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.
Wall Street Journal:
Martin Shkreli Steers His Company From Prison—With Contraband Cellphone  —  The disgraced pharmaceutical executive dubbed “Pharma Bro” remains the shadow power at the drug company that became a national lightning rod for jacking up the prices of rare drugs.
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Fearing mass GOP defections, Trump leans in to emergency fight  —  Sen. Ron Johnson made no secret of his displeasure with Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, worrying in late January that the president would take the “Emergency Act beyond where it's ever been.”
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Top House Republican attacks Nadler probe as unconstitutional  —  House Judiciary announces sweeping scope in Trump probe  —  (CNN)The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday charged that the sweeping investigation opened this week by the panel's chairman …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Vindicator:
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020  —  U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020.  —  Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, announced today that he has “decided the best place for me to continue fighting for Ohio and for the dignity of workers across the country …
Discussion: The Atlantic and POLITICUSUSA
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
How will we repair our democracy after Trump? H.R. 1 offers a clue.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
What Kirsten Gillibrand Is Missing: New York Endorsements for 2020
Bryce Covert / The Nation:
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Associated Press:
A nanny state? Vermont town elects goat as honorary mayor
Bloomberg:
Merkel Rejected U.S. Pressure to Provoke Russia's Navy, Sources Say
Discussion: News Agency UNIAN
Joel K. Goldstein / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Don't Sell Biden's Vice Presidential Experience Short
 Earlier Items: 
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Delaware may require Electoral College votes to go to national, not state winner
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Only Democrat Running to Challenge Trump on National Security
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal:
Philadelphia Is First U.S. City to Ban Cashless Stores
Discussion: Eater
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Settles on His Reelection Message
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Why I am critic, not a NeverTrump absolutist
 

 
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