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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News' ‘Judge Jeanine’ Won't Air This Saturday — “Judge Jeanine” isn't holding court Saturday night. — Fox News Channel replaced tonight's broadcast of Jeanine Pirro's weekly program with a repeat episode of its documentary series “Scandalous,” just days after the 21st Century Fox …
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New York Times, Raw Story, Big League Politics and The Gateway Pundit
Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine:
The Endgame of White Supremacy Is Always Death — At least 49 people were killed on Friday in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, by a man whose name — by his own admission — is irrelevant. It is irrelevant, according to a 74-page manifesto he allegedly wrote …
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TheBlaze, Slate and National Observer
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Paul Sakkal / The Age:
Fraser Anning lashes out after he was egged by teenager — Queensland senator Fraser Anning struck out twice with an open hand at a teenager who smashed an egg on the back of his head during a media conference at a right-wing rally in Melbourne on Saturday.
Ryan W. Miller / USA Today:
Teen smashes egg on Australian senator who blamed immigrants for New Zealand mosque attacks
Teen smashes egg on Australian senator who blamed immigrants for New Zealand mosque attacks
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ABC, NPR, Breitbart, Joe.My.God. and Townhall
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.
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Fox News, New York Post and Hot Air
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Phil Smith / Radio New Zealand New Zealand Headlines:
Attorney-General David Parker back-tracks on comments about gun control
Attorney-General David Parker back-tracks on comments about gun control
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump again punts on white supremacy after New Zealand attacks
Trump again punts on white supremacy after New Zealand attacks
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Hullabaloo, Slate, The Guardian and Breitbart
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
New Zealand prime minister says gun laws will change after attack
New Zealand prime minister says gun laws will change after attack
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One America News Network, Breitbart, Big League Politics, CNN and FOX31 Denver, more at Mediagazer »
Calla Wahlquist / The Guardian:
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern urged to act quickly to ban semi-automatic weapons
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern urged to act quickly to ban semi-automatic weapons
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Slate, Townhall, Daily Wire, Common Dreams, Joe.My.God., New Zealand Herald, Breitbart, Vox and New York Post
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 …
Jane Lee / Reuters:
Backstory: How Reuters uncovered Beto O'Rourke's teenage hacking days — (Reuters) - Reuters reporter Joseph Menn exclusively revealed on Friday that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke belonged to one of the best-known groups of computer hackers as a teenager.
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The Daily Caller, The Right Scoop, Daily Wire, Breitbart, Fortune, twitchy.com, New York Times, Des Moines Register, Washington Times, Mediaite, Tennessee Star, Engadget and Fox News
David Weigel / Washington Post:
He's running — almost. Joe Biden gets ahead of himself in Saturday speech, to cheers from the crowd. — DOVER, Del. — Former vice president Joe Biden is expected to announce soon whether he will seek the White House in 2020. On Saturday night, he seemed — for a moment — to get ahead of himself.
Discussion:
Politico and The Daily Beast
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:
Hullabaloo, electionlawblog.org and Raw Story
John Bowden / The Hill:
Buttigieg says campaign gained enough donors to be on debate stage — South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) said Saturday that his campaign raised enough individual donors to guarantee a spot at the first Democratic Party debate of the 2020 cycle. — Buttigieg, who is exploring a White House bid …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Facebook faces fresh questions over when it knew of data harvesting — Allegations come as US prosecutors investigate claims of cover-up — Facebook is facing explosive new questions about when senior executives knew of Cambridge Analytica's abuse of users' data, one year on from when the scandal …
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Forbes, Engadget and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
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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Washington Monthly, CNN, Mediaite and The Last Refuge
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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.
Khaled Diab / Washington Post:
White supremacists and radical Islamists sound exactly alike — Two hateful ideologies mirror each other's paranoia and scorn. — If a terrorist were to claim that their attack was intended to “add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society …
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Observer+, Breitbart and The Atlantic
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
New Zealand attack exposes how little the U.S. and its allies share intelligence on domestic terrorism threats — The United States and its closest allies have spent nearly two decades building an elaborate system to share intelligence about international terrorist groups …
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 …
New York Times:
How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood — Today's ‘snowplow parents’ keep their children's futures obstacle-free — even when it means crossing ethical and legal boundaries. — Nicole Eisenberg's older son has wanted to be a star of the stage since he was a toddler, she said.
Discussion:
Althouse
David Gelles / New York Times:
Wall Street Has Been Unscathed by MeToo. Until Now. — On Dec. 14, 2017, Sara Tirschwell was called into an unscheduled meeting with the general counsel and chief compliance officer of her employer, the giant asset-management firm TCW. Ms. Tirschwell, 53, was an experienced investor …
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?”
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Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
O'Rourke apologizes for teen writings, rhetoric toward wife
O'Rourke apologizes for teen writings, rhetoric toward wife
Discussion:
POLITICUSUSA and Axios
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.
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Calla Wahlquist / The Guardian:
Australia cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's visa after Christchurch comments
Australia cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's visa after Christchurch comments
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Al Jazeera, Raw Story, The Week and Contemptor