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5:50 PM ET, March 16, 2019

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Bevan Shields / Sydney Morning Herald:
Morrison government bans Milo Yiannopoulos in wake of Christchurch massacre  —  The Morrison government has banned Milo Yiannopoulos from entering Australia after the controversial right-wing commentator responded to the New Zealand mosque massacre by describing Islam as a “barbaric” and “alien” religious culture.
Discussion: Splinter and The Root
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump again punts on white supremacy after New Zealand attacks  —  (CNN)Once again, President Donald Trump is having a tough time calling out far right-wing white nationalism.  —  His response to the carnage in New Zealand, where 49 people died in an attack on two mosques …
ITV:
Egg cracked on head of Australian senator Fraser Anning who blamed New Zealand attack on Muslim immigration  —  An Australian senator who sparked outrage for blaming the New Zealand mosque shootings on Muslim immigration has been hit on the head with a raw egg.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump says he told House GOP to ‘play along’ on Mueller report vote  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday said he encouraged House Republicans to vote in favor of a resolution calling on the Justice Department to make Robert Mueller's final report public — despite tweeting a day earlier …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The House voted 420 to 0 to release the Mueller report.  So why is Lindsey Graham blocking the bill?  —  On Thursday, the House passed a bill urging the public disclosure of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report.  It did so nearly unanimously — the vote was 420-0.
Discussion: RedState and USA Today
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller's busy week offers new signs his report is coming soon
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Reuters
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Trump's Phone Friends May Be More Important Than His Staff.  So Who's He Calling?  —  Shortly after news broke this month that Bill Shine would resign as the White House communications director and deputy chief of staff, a person knowledgeable about his decision told me the former Fox News …
BBC:
Christchurch shootings: Brother proud of ‘hero’ mosque victim  —  The brother of a Pakistani man who was killed during Friday's mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, has told the BBC of his pride and pain.  —  Khursheed Alam said he was proud his brother, who was killed alongside his son, had tried to tackle the gunman.
Discussion: Fox News, New York Post and Hot Air
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ZB:
Attorney General: NZ will ban semi-automatic weapons
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Breitbart
New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke is 46.  Bernie Sanders is 77.  Does Age Matter Anymore for Democrats?  —  KEOKUK, Iowa — Diana Martinez, 70, looked at Beto O'Rourke, 46, and made her choice: It was time for Generation X to fix this country.  —  “Doesn't he remind you of Kennedy?”
Discussion: Politico and Althouse
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Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
O'Rourke apologizes for teen writings, rhetoric toward wife
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Seth Richardson / Plain Dealer:
Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke will visit Northeast Ohio Monday, sources say
Discussion: Michigan Advance
New York Times:
She Extols Trump, Guns and the Chinese Communist Party Line  —  JUPITER, Fla. — The Republican National Committee promised an “evening reception with Donald J. Trump” last March at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.  —  A contribution of $2,700 toward the president's re-election would get you in the door.
Discussion: electionlawblog.org and Raw Story
Tom Kington / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Witness in Berlusconi's bunga-bunga trial ‘poisoned’  —  A Moroccan-born model who attended Silvio Berlusconi's bunga-bunga dinners has died in hospital, allegedly killed by radioactive poisoning.  —  Magistrates opened a murder investigation after the death this month of Iman Fadil, 34 …
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Old CNN website was source of unvetted ‘random’ info used by author of anti-Trump dossier, docs reveal  —  Former British spy Christopher Steele confessed that he used an unverified report submitted to a CNN website, where “random individuals” can post information, for his salacious anti-Trump dossier.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Christopher Steele admitted using posts by ‘random individuals’ on CNN website to back up Trump dossier
Discussion: twitchy.com
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Judge Unseals Portions Of Christopher Steele's Deposition In Dossier Lawsuit
Discussion: CNN and Power Line
Stuart E. Eizenstat / Politico:
I've Seen Civil War Destroy the Democrats Before.  We Can't Let it Happen Again.  —  Maximalist ideology is a prescription for division and defeat. … I've lived through a Democratic Civil War before.  In fact, I've been in the middle of two of them.  The first was in 1968 …
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
At New Zealand vigil, Chelsea Clinton confronted over her criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar  —  When Chelsea Clinton showed up at a vigil Friday night in New York for victims of the New Zealand mosque massacre, she was confronted by a small group of college students who blamed her for inciting the violence.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Exclusive: Washington Autopsy Files Reveal Lesin Sustained Broken Bone In Neck  —  WASHINGTON — Mikhail Lesin, the former Russian press minister who turned up dead in a Washington hotel room in 2015, sustained a fracture to a neck bone just below the jaw line “at or near the time” of his death …
Team Warren:
My Housing Plan for America  —  In the middle of the 2008 housing crisis, I traveled to Nevada to hear from people who had lost their homes.  One of the people who spoke that day was Mr. Estrada.  He wore a jacket over his T-shirt and had on a red U.S. Marine Corps baseball cap.
Wall Street Journal:
Terrorist Suspect Traced His Radicalization to a Visit to France  —  The man charged with murder in the terrorist attacks in New Zealand wrote that what fueled him was a visit to Western Europe, in particular France.  Many of the ideas in his screed—including its title—echo the writings of 72-year-old French author Renaud Camus.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
As the Democratic field grows, Stacey Abrams weighs a presidential race  —  Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost her bid to become governor of Georgia last fall, has a series of decisions to make.  Should she run for the Senate in 2020?  Should she wait until 2022 to run again for governor?
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David Gelles / New York Times:
Wall Street Has Been Unscathed by MeToo. Until Now.
Washington Post:
The Trump administration is opening millions of new acres to drilling — and that's just the start
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg, the young and openly gay Midwest mayor, finds a voice in crowded Democratic presidential field
Discussion: UPROXX
Phil Prazan / KXAN-TV:
Castro releases 33 Texas endorsements the morning O'Rourke announces
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Why social media and terrorism make a perfect fit
 Earlier Items: 
Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
No voter ID approval for 12 UNC campuses, including Chapel Hill
Andrew Klavan / Daily Wire:
My Thoughts And Prayers  —  It was, I think, comedian Anthony Jeselnik …
Molly Pascal / Washington Post:
Muslims embraced us Jews when we were slain at worship. Now we must support them.
HuffPost:
Despite Crackdowns, White Supremacist And Neo-Nazi Videos Take Stubborn Root On YouTube