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3:55 PM ET, March 17, 2019

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump tells Fox to ‘bring back’ Jeanine Pirro; source says she was suspended for Islamophobic remarks  —  New York (CNN Business)Jeanine Pirro, whose show did not air on Saturday night, was suspended by Fox News after her widely criticized commentary doubting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's patriotism …
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Washington Post:
Mulvaney says it's ‘absurd’ to link New Zealand mosque attacks to Trump's rhetoric
Discussion: Politico, Contemptor and Mediaite
Elliot Hannon / Slate:
Fox News Pulls Host Jeanine Pirro's Show From Air Following Anti-Islam Remarks
Discussion: Vox, Mother Jones, Mediaite and Townhall
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Trump defends Fox News' Jeanine Pirro after Islamophobic comments
Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times:
Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing and FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system  —  Federal Aviation Administration managers pushed its engineers to delegate wide responsibility for assessing the safety of the 737 MAX to Boeing itself.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Financial Times
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Trump Renews Attacks on John McCain, Months After Senator's Death  —  WASHINGTON — Tucked between St. Patrick's Day greetings and repeat criticism of a rerun of “Saturday Night Live,” President Trump demonstrated that not even death provides a respite from his wrath on Twitter.
Discussion: Politico, CNBC and New York Post
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump again takes aim at John McCain over dossier, prompting rebuke from Meghan McCain
Discussion: Raw Story, Bloomberg, Breitbart and Splinter
John Bowden / The Hill:
Washington Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns  —  Washington's state Senate passed a bill this week that would drop President Trump from the state's 2020 presidential ballot until he releases his tax returns.
Discussion: Townhall
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke acknowledges ‘privileges’ afforded to him because of race and gender  —  On an Iowa presidential campaign swing, O'Rourke praised the diversity of the large Democratic field.  —  WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke said that he's been afforded “privileges” …
Discussion: The Root
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Beto O'Rourke would likely pick a woman for vice president: ‘That would be my preference’
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Ruben Navarrette Jr. / USA Today:   For Latinos, ‘Beto’ O'Rourke is just another privileged white guy trying to manipulate them
Wichita Eagle:
‘The Lord will get me to the right place’: Pompeo opens door to future Kansas run  —  When Mike Pompeo thinks about what's next, he thinks about Kansas.  —  He's ruled out a U.S. Senate run in 2020.  But on the eve of Pompeo's first official visit to Kansas since his meteoric rise …
Discussion: Politico
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's 2020 map from hell  —  Recent polling in a slew of states that carried President Trump to his thin win in 2016 show him starting 2020 in a deep hole.  —  What's new: Based on demographic changes, Republicans for the first time have authentic worries about Arizona, Georgia, Texas and other states they once took for granted.
Nicholas Casey / New York Times:
‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters  —  Yansnier Arias knew it was wrong.  It violated the Constitution, not to mention the oath he took as a doctor in Cuba.  —  He had been sent to Venezuela by the Cuban government, one of thousands of doctors deployed …
Washington Post:
'Let's get this party started': New Zealand shooting suspect narrated his chilling rampage  —  The recording blinked to life shortly after 1:30 p.m. Friday to reveal the ordinary gray interior of a Subaru Outback.  The overcast skies of the late New Zealand summer filtered through the windshield …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
New Zealand attack exposes how little the U.S. and its allies share intelligence on domestic terrorism threats
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Martin Matishak / Politico:
Trump spy agency nominee marooned in Senate standoff  —  Sen. Chuck Grassley is accusing the Trump administration of stonewalling him over a request for documents related to the Russia investigation, and he's taking it out on the president's nominee for a critical U.S. intelligence post.
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Mulvaney: ‘Absurd’ to say that Trump's rhetoric influenced New Zealand attack  —  Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney defended President Donald Trump on Sunday, calling suggestions his rhetoric on immigration influenced a mass shooting last week at two mosques in New Zealand “absurd.”
Laura Greenhalgh / Politico:
May asks MPs for ‘honourable compromises’ to back Brexit deal  —  Prime Minister Theresa May today asked Britain's MPs to “stand together as democrats and patriots” to back her Brexit deal.  —  Writing in the Telegraph, May lent heavily on the prospect that delays to Brexit could force Britain …
John Bowden / The Hill:
Missouri lawmaker files bills requiring some residents to own AR-15s, handguns  —  A Republican lawmaker in Missouri wants to require adults in his state to purchase handguns and AR-15 rifles.  —  Two bills introduced by state Rep. Andrew McDaniel would require residents to purchase firearms …
Discussion: KTLA and Political Wire
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
RNC links ‘noted Irishman’ Beto O'Rourke's heritage to 1998 DWI arrest  —  The Republican National Committee on Sunday sent out a tweet linking Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's Irish heritage to his 1998 drunken-driving arrest, in an attack that a scholar said raises questions …
BuzzFeed News:
We Confronted Chelsea Clinton At The Christchurch Vigil.  Here's Why.  —  Yesterday we posted a video of Leen confronting Chelsea Clinton at a vigil for the victims of the white supremacist New Zealand mosque massacre.  Today, we woke up to over 100,000 people talking about it on Twitter.
 
 
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Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
The rich buying names on college buildings is ‘legal bribery,’ Gov. Gavin Newsom says
Michael Corkery / New York Times:
As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
Discussion: Reason
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
This 8-Year-Old Chess Champion Will Make You Smile
Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast:
It's Time to Attack White Nationalism for the Terror Group It Is
Discussion: Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Senator Gillibrand formally launches presidential campaign
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Radicalism kills. Why do we only care about one kind?
New York Times:
How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood
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Khaled Diab / Washington Post:
White supremacists and radical Islamists sound exactly alike
John Bowden / The Hill:
Buttigieg says campaign gained enough donors to be on debate stage
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine:
The Endgame of White Supremacy Is Always Death
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Mother Jones
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Facebook faces fresh questions over when it knew of data harvesting
Discussion: Engadget and Forbes