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4:45 AM ET, March 10, 2019

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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Not even in the race, Joe Biden leads herd of Democrats; Bernie Sanders close behind  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders lead the pack among likely Iowa caucusgoers, according to a new Iowa Poll in March 2019.  Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker also chart.
Discussion: Raw Story, Axios and Political Wire
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CNN:
Iowa Poll: Biden and Sanders stand out among likely caucusgoers  —  Washington (CNN)The field of Democrats seeking the party's nomination for president in 2020 is one of the largest the party has seen, but for Iowa's most likely caucus attendees, two names stand above the rest …
Natasha Korecki / Politico:   Iowa poll: It's Biden vs. Bernie
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders-Style Politics Are Defining 2020 Race, Unnerving Moderates
Discussion: Mother Jones
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
It Exists: DOJ Finds Letter Ordering Scrutiny of Uranium One, Hillary Clinton  —  Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote the letter on Nov. 22, 2017 for Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber.  Read it here.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  After it claimed no such document existed …
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Clark Pettig / American Oversight:
Sessions Letter Shows DOJ Acted on Trump's Authoritarian Demand to Investigate Clinton  —  American Oversight has uncovered the signed directive from former Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructing a federal prosecutor to carry out President Trump's authoritarian demand to investigate Hillary Clinton.
John Avlon / CNN:
A look back at Clinton's impeachment reveals the GOP's searing hypocrisy  —  John Avlon is a CNN senior political analyst and anchor.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author's own.  View more opinion articles on CNN.  —  (CNN)There's an old saying in American politics …
Liam Quinn / Fox News:
CNN to be sued for more than $250M over ‘vicious’ and ‘direct attacks’ on Covington High student: lawyer  —  CNN is likely to be hit with a massive lawsuit worth more than $250 million over alleged “vicious” and “direct attacks” on Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, his lawyer has told Fox News.
New York Post:
Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to pass sweeping tax hikes on the wealthy, but the freshman lawmaker might want to take care of her own unpaid tax bill first.  —  Brook Avenue Press, a company she founded in 2012 …
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
As residents flee New York's high taxes, state uses intrusive audits to get cash from defectors
Discussion: Front Page Magazine, CNBC and Breitbart
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Unloads on Fox News ‘Journalists’ at SXSW: ‘They Chose to Work at Fox’  —  ‘The fact is they work at a place that has done tremendous damage to this country,’ the CNN president said at SXSW.  —  Matt Wilstein  —  AUSTIN, Texas—After the Democratic National Committee …
Washington Post:
Trump invokes new demand for extracting billions of dollars from U.S. allies  —  In private discussions with his aides, President Trump has devised an eye-popping formula to address one of his long-standing complaints: that allies hosting U.S. forces don't pay Washington enough money.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Real Horror of the Anti-Vaxxers  —  This isn't just a public health crisis.  It's a public sanity one.  —  How many studies do you have to throw at the vaccine hysterics before they quit?  How much of a scientific consensus, how many unimpeachable experts and how exquisitely rational an argument must you present?
Discussion: Raw Story and ThinkProgress
David Siders / Politico:
'It's a bit much': Beto drags out his 2020 tease at South by Southwest  —  The Texas Democrat confirmed more than a week ago that he'd made his decision on a potential run for president.  He just won't say what it is.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Beto O'Rourke took his 2020 campaign tease to South …
Cockburn / Spectator USA:
Mueller vs Barr, and the battle to indict Trump … A good rule in journalism is, or ought to be: Never predict.  (Just report.)  So Cockburn has some explaining to do, having quoted one source saying that Robert Mueller would hand in his report yesterday.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What you do and don't do when one party loses its mind and the other might, too  —  We have gone from a robust two-party democracy to one in which the Republican Party has lost moral legitimacy, intellectual honesty and fidelity to the Constitution, while the Democratic Party flirts with socialism, tribalism and isolationism.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Yes, the Republican Party has changed since 2016. You think the Democratic Party hasn't?
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Democrats are weirdly unified these days
Discussion: Daily Kos
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Springing forward to daylight saving time is obsolete, confusing and unhealthy, critics say  —  The annual time change is under legislative challenge in states and in Congress.  —  This weekend, Americans will once again navigate their complex relationship with the chronically confusing and arguably misnamed daylight saving time.
Discussion: Slate
CREW:
Presidential Profiteering: Trump's Conflicts Got Worse in Year Two  —  INTRODUCTION  —  President Trump's January 11, 2017 announcement that he would not divest from his interests in the Trump Organization while serving as president caused an ethics uproar.
Washington Post:
Is Paul Manafort's sentence too light?  He fared worse than many fraudsters, data shows.  —  Paul Manafort's prison sentence of less than four years on bank- and tax-fraud charges Thursday sparked outrage from commentators who said it was too light a punishment for his crimes.
Discussion: CNN and RedState
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Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Manafort's Judge Gave This Jamaican Woman More Time for Similar Crimes
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Manafort's 47 Months: A Sentence That Drew Gasps From Around the Country
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Ken White / The Atlantic:
6 Reasons Paul Manafort Got Off So Lightly
Discussion: Hit & Run, USA Today and New York Times
 
 
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Paul Manafort Was an Agent of Ukraine, Not Russia
Discussion: American Greatness
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
HHS to divert up to $385M from health programs to shelter migrant children
Discussion: Raw Story
KCRW:
The House condemns hate
ABC News:
Presidential hopefuls make appearances at South by Southwest Festival
Discussion: Washington Post
NBC News:
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows
Discussion: Axios
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Aristocracy of Victimhood
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Arrests in domestic terror probes outpace those inspired by Islamic extremists
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
WTOP:
Richmond's new FBI chief was lead agent in Mueller's office
 Earlier Items: 
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos effort to delay special-ed regulations rejected by court
Discussion: Axios
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Amazon's Tax Breaks and Incentives Were Big. Hudson Yards' Are Bigger.
Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
Alabama's Roy Moore is ‘seriously considering’ a 2020 Senate run
Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and Reuters
Washington Post:
Howard Schultz's ‘nightmare’: How his first big gamble outside Starbucks ended in defeat
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
Washington Post:
Lisa Murkowski and Joe Manchin: It's time to act on climate change — responsibly
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Bruce Ohr's Testimony Contradicts Testimony Provided By Rosenstein And Simpson
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
In another blow to Trump, judge rules in favor of ACLU in family separations case
Discussion: Splinter, ACLU, POLITICUSUSA and USA Today
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Teen Fiction and the Perils of Cancel Culture
Discussion: Jihad Watch
 

 
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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

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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