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3:20 PM ET, March 10, 2019

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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
A mysterious payment to Paul Manafort's lawyer reveals a hidden chapter of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign  — Recent court filings are shedding new light on a mysterious $125,000 payment to lawyers for Paul Manafort, paid by a firm that has not been identified until now.
Amy Spiro / Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu to Rotem Sela: Israel is not a country of all its citizens  —  The prime minister responded to an Instagram post from Israeli actress Rotem Sela, who said the government must stop delegitimizing its Arab citizens.  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel …
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Associated Press:
Town by town, local journalism is dying in plain sight  —  WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer.  He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder.
Tessa Weinberg / ABC News:
National security adviser John Bolton says Trump is ‘as clear as clear can be’ on elimination of ISIS  —  White House national security adviser John Bolton told “This Week” Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz Sunday that President Donald Trump is “as clear as can be” when discussing the defeat of the Islamic State.
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Tessa Weinberg / ABC News:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ‘fears’ …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
‘The ISIS threat will remain,’ John Bolton says
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 3-10-19: White House National Security Adviser John Bolton
Andrew Kugle / Washington Free Beacon:
Castro Hits Sanders: He Wants to Write a ‘Big Check’ for Everything But Reparations  —  Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro criticized his fellow opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) during a Sunday interview on CNN's State of the Union.  —  Castro was asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
Reality ‘check’: Castro hits Sanders over slave reparations
Discussion: Associated Press
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
‘A major player’: Sanders gets props from the Democratic establishment
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Maduro Burned Aid Convoy  —  CÚCUTA, Colombia — The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela's authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his country were suffering from illness and hunger.
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and The Intercept
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
Discussion: New York Times
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Iowa poll: It's Biden vs. Bernie
Discussion: Splinter
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Ocasio-Cortez, at SXSW, blasts FDR, Reagan and capitalism, says political moderates are ‘meh’  —  U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed political moderates at the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, calling their views “misplaced” as she defended her progressive politics in a room full of supporters.
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Susan Warren / Bloomberg:
Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Capitalism as an ‘Irredeemable’ System
Discussion: Townhall, The Guardian and The Hill
New York Post:
Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes
Mother Jones:
The Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Trump Has Ties to Chinese Government-Linked Groups  —  The Cindy Yang caper takes another turn.  —  Li Yang, the Florida massage parlor entrepreneur who created and operated a business that sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Axios
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   BUSTED: Massage parlor owner reportedly raised money for Trump's 2020 reelection campaign from Chinese businessmen
Washington Post:
Trump to demand $8.6 billion in new wall funding, setting up fresh battle with Congress  —  President Trump on Monday will request at least another $8.6 billion in funding to build more sections of a wall along the Mexico border, setting up a fresh battle with Congress less than one month after Trump declared a national emergency.
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Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
Exclusive: In budget, Trump to ask Congress for $8.6 billion for border wall
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress, Axios, Politico and Splinter
Haley Byrd / CNN:
Justin Amash is the loneliest Republican in Congress  —  Washington (CNN)For most Republicans, life in the House minority is a big change.  But for Rep. Justin Amash, in a sense, it's more of the same.  —  “It's just a different set of people doing the wrong thing,” the Michigan Republican said in an interview with CNN.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Ethiopian Airlines Crash Kills at Least 150; 2nd Brand-New Boeing to Go Down in Months  —  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying more than 150 people crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said, killing everyone onboard.
Discussion: Associated Press, Splinter and Slate
Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
How Not to Lose to Donald Trump  —  Few could have predicted that President Donald Trump would be this good at surrendering the political advantage of a strong economy.  Not only is he now underwater in the three states that pushed him to victory in 2016—he's now unexpectedly vulnerable …
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: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
House Republican explains decision to vote against anti-hate resolution  —  Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) in an interview airing Sunday explained his decision to vote against a House resolution this week broadly condemning bigotry.  —  Zeldin, who is Jewish, said he thought the measure …
Discussion: Politico, IJR and twitchy.com
Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
McCabe ‘shocked’ by Manafort sentence  —  Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Sunday morning that he was surprised by the “incredibly lenient” sentence received by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.  —  A federal judge last week sentenced Manafort to 47 months in prison …
Discussion: Breitbart
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Adam Schiff: Erik Prince did not disclose 2016 Trump Tower meeting during testimony  —  House Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that Erik Prince was lying when he claimed last week that he testified about a 2016 meeting he had with foreign nationals at Trump Tower.
Discussion: Politico
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Quinta Jurecic / New York Times:   Will There Be Smoking Guns in the Mueller Report?
 
 
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Ken Jennings / New York Times:
What Alex Trebek Is Really Like  —  An ode to our generation's Cronkite.
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Dino-Ray Ramos / Deadline:
Jeff Zucker Says Trump Attempted To Block AT&T Merger, Continues To Call Out “State-Run” Fox News - SXSW
Discussion: Breitbart and Mediaite
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Amy Klobuchar Talks Health Care, Israel and, Yes, That Comb
Discussion: Mother Jones, Fox News and The Guardian
Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
Anne Frank center compares Jews fleeing Nazis to Islamic State terrorists
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Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Young Americans are embracing socialism
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Trump's legacy: conservative judges who will dominate US law for decades
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Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
A Tight and Tangled ‘Collusion’ Web
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New York Times:
Will Trump Trade the Future for a Hill of Beans?
Discussion: Althouse
Noah Berlatsky / CNN:
Let 16-year-olds vote  —  See children confront Feinstein over Green New Deal
Cockburn / Spectator USA:
Mueller vs Barr, and the battle to indict Trump
John Avlon / CNN:
A look back at Clinton's impeachment reveals the GOP's searing hypocrisy
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

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

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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