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.

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 …

A Florida Massage Parlor Owner Has Been Selling Chinese Execs Access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  The latest Trump political donor to draw controversy is Li Yang, a 45-year-old Florida entrepreneur from China who founded a chain of spas and massage parlors that included the one where New England …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

'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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows  —  More than 960 people crossed into the U.S. illegally from the northern border with Canada last year, according to data released from CBP.  —  DERBY LINE, Vermont — More than 960 people crossed into the U.S. illegally …

Howard Schultz's ‘nightmare’: How his first big gamble outside Starbucks ended in defeat  —  When Howard Schultz bought the Seattle SuperSonics in 2001, his friends told the Starbucks chief he was overestimating what he could do to save the struggling basketball franchise.

Amazon's Tax Breaks and Incentives Were Big.  Hudson Yards' Are Bigger.  —  At Hudson Yards, the expansive real estate development that is about to open in Manhattan, seven floors of retail are occupied by Fendi, Dior, Neiman Marcus and other high-end shops.

The Aristocracy of Victimhood  —  If anti-Semitism is wrong, it's no less wrong no matter how bad Ilhan Omar's childhood was. … Dear Reader (including Paul Manafort, who will finally have the time to catch up on back issues of this “news"letter),  —  Imagine a semi-prosperous middle …