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8:40 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.
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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.
miamiherald:
Massage parlor magnate helped steer Chinese to Trump NYC fundraiser, attendee says  —  A Chinese-American massage-parlor entrepreneur arranged for a group of Chinese business executives to attend a paid fundraiser for President Donald Trump in New York City at the end of 2017, according to a source who was present at the event.
Noah Berlatsky / CNN:
Let 16-year-olds vote  —  See children confront Feinstein over Green New Deal  —  Noah Berlatsky is the author of “Nazi Dreams: Films about Fascism.”  The views expressed here are solely the author's.  View more opinion articles on CNN.  —  (CNN)My son follows the news closely; he watches John Oliver every week.
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 …
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
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.
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.
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 …
David Siders / Politico:
'It's a bit much': Beto drags out his 2020 tease at South by Southwest  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Beto O'Rourke took his 2020 campaign tease to South by Southwest on Saturday — and even by this city's eccentric standards, the act was getting weird.  —  With a thick crowd waiting in front …
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: Politico and The Daily Beast
 
 
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Paul Manafort Was an Agent of Ukraine, Not Russia
Discussion: American Greatness
KCRW:
The House condemns hate
ABC News:
Presidential hopefuls make appearances at South by Southwest Festival
Discussion: Washington Post
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
As residents flee New York's high taxes, state uses intrusive audits to get cash from defectors
Discussion: Breitbart, CNBC and Front Page Magazine
CREW:
Presidential Profiteering: Trump's Conflicts Got Worse in Year Two
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Springing forward to daylight saving time is obsolete, confusing and unhealthy, critics say
Discussion: Slate
NBC News:
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows
Discussion: Axios
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Aristocracy of Victimhood
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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
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.
Washington Post:
Howard Schultz's ‘nightmare’: How his first big gamble outside Starbucks ended in defeat
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
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
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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