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4:10 PM ET, March 8, 2019

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Ken LaCorte / Mediaite:
I Stopped the Stormy Daniels Story at Fox News.  Here's Why.  —  Two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, as the editorial head of Fox News online, I reviewed a draft news story that said porn actress Stormy Daniels had confirmed having an affair with Donald Trump a decade earlier.
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: White House leak to House Dems on Jared and Ivanka's clearances  —  From a White House source, the House Oversight Committee has obtained documents related to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's security clearances that the Trump administration refused to provide, according …
New York Times:
Bill Shine Resigns as White House Message Chief  —  Bill Shine, the former Fox News executive who joined the White House staff last summer to manage President Trump's communications operation, has resigned and will move to the re-election campaign, the White House announced Friday.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions for the President  —  The White House press briefing is dead.  It was awful, but we should still mourn it.  —  The President of the United States has called the media “the enemy of the people” dozens of times since taking office.
Discussion: Breitbart
John F. Harris / Politico:
Why Trump Loves the Fake News
ABC News:   Bill Shine, former Fox News executive, resigns from White House communications role
miamiherald:
Trump cheered Kraft's team to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where he was busted  —  Seated at a round table littered with party favors and the paper-cutout footballs that have become tradition at his annual Super Bowl Watch Party, President Donald Trump cheered the New England Patriots …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Democrats' Dilemma  —  MINNEAPOLIS—They have gathered in defiance of the freezing temperatures on a late February's night, scores of them twirling Somali flags in one hand and American flags in the other, crowding around the arrivals terminal and waiting to welcome one of their own.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar's Microaggression  —  Her words were bad.  The reaction was worse.  —  The identity politics fiasco surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been excruciating.  Half of me is angry at her.  The other half is furious for her.  —  Among the most basic anti-Semitic tropes …
JNS.org:   Cruz to introduce resolution condemning anti-Semitism
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Ilhan Communication  —  Column: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Here's how we can break up Big Tech  —  Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist.  Now they are among the most valuable and well-known companies in the world.  It's a great story—but also one that highlights why the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is bidding to be the policy pacesetter in the Democratic presidential primary, announced another expansive idea on Friday: a regulatory plan aimed at breaking …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Chelsea Manning sent to jail for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case  —  Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be held in jail until she testifies before a grand jury or that grand jury is no longer operating, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled Friday.
Discussion: The Verge, Task & Purpose and Fortune
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Chelsea Manning taken into custody for refusing to testify before secret grand jury  —  Chelsea Manning, an anti-secrecy activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose release of classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010 sparked worldwide controversy over transparency in the military …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners  —  Creators of firms that donated revealed by Guardian as Indian financier, lobbyist with links to Taiwan and Israeli real estate developer  —  Donald Trump's inauguration received tens of thousands of dollars …
Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops  — ‘Cost Plus 50’ plan could worsen tensions with key allies  — Frustration over spending by NATO countries behind proposal  —  For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren't paying enough.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
House passes sweeping election reform bill  —  The House on Thursday passed a massive voting rights, campaign-finance and ethics reform package — a centerpiece of the new Democratic majority's agenda.  —  The bill, known as H.R. 1 and dubbed the For the People Act by Democrats, was approved on a party-line 234-193 vote.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
House Passes the Most Significant Democracy Reform Bill in a Generation
Orion Rummler / Axios:   H.R. 1 passes in the House, moving promise of ethics and campaign finance laws forward
Robin George Andrews / New York Times:
If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together  —  Despite what Hollywood tells us, stopping an asteroid from creating an extinction-level event by blowing it up may not work.  —  Faced with the prospect of a sizable asteroid heading toward Earth and causing doomsday, humanity has come up with various responses.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
‘Whiter Every Election Cycle’: How Identity Evropa, a Far-Right Hate Group, Joined the GOP  —  According to leaked chat logs, the white supremacist group has actively reinvented itself as a ‘respectable’ group in order to entice Republicans.  —  The white nationalist group Identity Evropa …
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
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Media Matters for America:   Leaked chat messages show members of white supremacist group Identity Evropa are obsessed with Tucker Carlson
Fred Barnes / Washington Examiner:
None of this is normal  —  A front-page headline in the Washington Post the other day declared: “Trump keeps his grip on GOP.”  Hardly a scoop.  It's normal for a president to have a firm hold on his own party.  And President Trump, an outsider who latched onto the Republican agenda, is no exception.
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Air Force Secretary Wilson to resign, leaving new vacancy  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, who was considered a top candidate to become the next secretary of defense, has decided to resign after almost two years to return to academia …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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David Byler / Washington Post:
Everyone is underestimating Trump.  It could hurt Democrats and Republicans alike.  —  We live in an era of horribly misinformed political decision-making.  In 2015, the Trump-skeptical Republican elite believed that Trump would naturally fade over the course of the primary …
Discussion: CNN
Andrew Das / New York Times:
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Sues U.S. Soccer for Gender Discrimination  —  All 28 members of the world champion United States women's national team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation on Friday, a sudden and significant escalation of a long-running fight …
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Michael Avenatti law firm files for bankruptcy protection again; creditor objects  —  Eagan Avenatti, the longtime firm of lawyer Michael Avenatti, filed late Thursday for federal bankruptcy protection.  It's the second time in two years that it has sought court protection from its creditors.
Discussion: Breitbart
Daniel Hemel / Politico:
Democrats Demanded Trump's Tax Returns.  Then They Dragged Their Feet.  —  Demanding the president's tax returns “is one of the first things we'd do” when Democrats control the House of Representatives, now-Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her hometown San Francisco Chronicle less than a month …
Discussion: CNN and taxpolicycenter.org
New York Times:
Endeavor Returns Money to Saudi Arabia, Protesting Khashoggi Murder  —  There was much to celebrate last spring when Ariel Emanuel, the chief executive of the talent agency Endeavor, helped throw a splashy Hollywood party for Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
She Got 5 Years For Voting Illegally Once.  Paul Manafort Got Less Time For Years Of Cons.  —  “What I would like is for Trump to review my situation and Pardon me,” wrote Texas prisoner Crystal Mason.  —  Crystal Mason found out that Paul Manafort was sentenced to less than four years …
Discussion: CNN, CNBC and New York Times
David Roth / Deadspin:
What You Need To Know About Meghan McCain's Jewish Heritage  —  Meghan McCain, daughter of the late statesman and presidential candidate John McCain and co-host of ABC's The View, has taken an increasingly prominent role during the recent national conversation over the troubling rise of antisemitism in American politics.
Discussion: Splinter
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Case for Reparations  —  A slow convert to the cause.  —  I've been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America's divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor.  There's been a haunting sensation the whole time that is hard to define.  It is that the racial divide doesn't feel like the other divides.
Discussion: Tennessee Star
 
 
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
‘Simpsons’ Episode Featuring Michael Jackson's Voice to Be Pulled
Rebecca Rainey / Politico:
DOL overtime proposal is out
Justice News:
Venezuelan Minister And Former Vice President Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah Charged With Violations …
Washington Post:
In Venezuela, massive blackout continues as Maduro blames U.S. for outages
ProPublica:
Senators Urge IRS to Focus on Big-Time Tax Cheats, Citing ProPublica Stories
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Trump Wants To Expand Overtime Pay, But To Way Fewer Workers Than Obama Did
Alex Yablon / Foreign Policy:
Trump Is Sending Guns South as Migrants Flee North
Discussion: The Trace
 Earlier Items: 
Charles Tiefer / Forbes:
Judge Who Let Manafort Off Easy With 47 Months Was A Reagan Appointee
William J. Burns / The Atlantic:
How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Club for Growth, Once a Sometimes Thorn in GOP's Side, Joins the Party—and Team Trump
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for the Struggle Session
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
More bad news for President Donald Trump in latest Michigan poll
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Jamie Weinstein / The Bulwark:
The Great Hungarian Snowflake
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The ‘Otherwise Blameless Life’ of Paul Manafort
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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