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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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Jeanine Pirro's Show Is Bumped by Fox, to the President's Chagrin
Jeanine Pirro's Show Is Bumped by Fox, to the President's Chagrin
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ThinkProgress, The Gateway Pundit, Joe.My.God., CNBC, twitchy.com, Raw Story, Splinter, Common Dreams and Media Matters for America
Washington Post:
Mulvaney says it's ‘absurd’ to link New Zealand mosque attacks to Trump's rhetoric
Mulvaney says it's ‘absurd’ to link New Zealand mosque attacks to Trump's rhetoric
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Politico, Contemptor and Mediaite
Elliot Hannon / Slate:
Fox News Pulls Host Jeanine Pirro's Show From Air Following Anti-Islam Remarks
Fox News Pulls Host Jeanine Pirro's Show From Air Following Anti-Islam Remarks
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Vox, Mother Jones, Mediaite and Townhall
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Trump defends Fox News' Jeanine Pirro after Islamophobic comments
Trump defends Fox News' Jeanine Pirro after Islamophobic comments
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Sun-Sentinel, New York Post and The Daily Beast
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News' ‘Judge Jeanine’ Won't Air This Saturday
Fox News' ‘Judge Jeanine’ Won't Air This Saturday
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Raw Story and Big League Politics
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.
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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.
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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.
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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” …
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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 …
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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 …
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
It's Time to Confront the Threat of Right-Wing Terrorism
It's Time to Confront the Threat of Right-Wing Terrorism
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New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times and NPR
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.
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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.”
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IJR, Breitbart, One America News Network and Big League Politics
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 …
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Telegraph, Bloomberg, Breitbart and One America News Network
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 …
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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 …
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Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.
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.