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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Biden advisers debate Stacey Abrams as out-of-the-gate V.P. choice — Close advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden are debating the idea of packaging his presidential campaign announcement with a pledge to choose Stacey Abrams as his vice president.
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New York Times:
Biden Weighing Unique Steps to Reassure Voters Concerned About His Age — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., aware that concerns about his age could weigh on his candidacy if he runs for the White House, has discussed two steps that could reassure voters about electing a 78-year-old president next year.
New York Times:
Doomed Boeing Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Company Sold Only as Extras — As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, they lacked two notable safety features in their cockpits. — One reason: Boeing charged extra for them.
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New York Post, Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Aides struggle to see strategy in Trump's Conway, McCain fights — He is a “whack job,” a “husband from hell,” and a “stone cold LOSER.” Those were just some of the insults President Donald Trump hurled on Wednesday at a once little-known corporate litigator who happens to be married …
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Townhall, Talking Points Memo, Daily Wire, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Washington Press and CNN
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Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Schwarzenegger Pulls No Punches in a Rare Rebuke of Trump — Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain saw in each other a willingness to buck the Republican Party and became fast friends and political allies. Mindful of McCain's legacy, the former California governor said on Wednesday …
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Mother Jones, The Hill, Fox News, CNN, UPROXX, Breitbart, Joe.My.God. and New York Post
Rebecca Shapiro / HuffPost:
Trump: 'I Didn't Get Thank You' For Approving John McCain's Funeral Arrangements
Trump: 'I Didn't Get Thank You' For Approving John McCain's Funeral Arrangements
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Politico, Bloomberg and BostonGlobe.com
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
‘Change Is Closer Than We Think.’ Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise — Every 10 minutes or so, someone knocks on the big wooden door of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office on Capitol Hill. The noise makes staffers stiffen. It's almost always a harmless fan …
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Axios and New York Post
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Wisconsin swing voters know AOC better than most 2020 Democrats
Wisconsin swing voters know AOC better than most 2020 Democrats
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The Daily Caller and The Week
CNN:
Former Trump confidante Hope Hicks to cooperate with House Democratic probe into Trump — (CNN)Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and long-time confidante of President Donald Trump, plans to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into potential obstruction of justice.
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Steve Cortes / Real Clear Politics:
Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis ‘Fine People.’ Here's Proof.
Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis ‘Fine People.’ Here's Proof.
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Breitbart
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
After Devin Nunes Sues a Parody Cow, It Surpasses Him on Twitter — Consider this: a parody account pretending to be an imaginary cow owned by Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican, is more popular on Twitter than the congressman, a day after he sued the account (and Twitter) for $250 million.
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Washington Post, The Wrap, UPROXX, The Mary Sue, The Week, The Stranger, The Guardian, SFist, Vox, Mediaite, Raw Story and claytoonz, more at Mediagazer »
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Marek Warszawski / Fresno Bee:
By suing Twitter and parody account @DevinCow, Nunes makes himself a laughingstock
By suing Twitter and parody account @DevinCow, Nunes makes himself a laughingstock
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
New Zealand to Ban Military-Style Semiautomatic Guns, Jacinda Ardern Says — CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced a national ban on all military-style semiautomatic weapons, all high-capacity ammunition magazines and all parts that allow weapons …
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Townhall, Los Angeles Times, RedState, Fortune, BBC, The Week and The First Street Journal
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
New Zealanders turning over firearms after mass shooting
New Zealanders turning over firearms after mass shooting
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ABC News, Daily Wire, Associated Press, Townhall, One America News Network, BuzzFeed News and RedState
Kate Lyons / The Guardian:
Jacinda Ardern bans all military-style semi-automatic guns and assault rifles - as it happened
Jacinda Ardern bans all military-style semi-automatic guns and assault rifles - as it happened
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Raw Story and Contemptor
New York Times:
Michael Steinhardt, a Leader in Jewish Philanthropy, Is Accused of a Pattern of Sexual Harassment — Several women said Mr. Steinhardt made sexual requests of them while they were relying on or seeking his support. He denies many of the actions attributed to him.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
BBC:
Brexit: Theresa May ‘hopes’ UK will leave EU with a deal — Theresa May has said she “sincerely hopes” the UK will leave the EU with a deal and she is still “working on” ensuring Parliament's agreement. — Arriving in Brussels, she said that she had “personal regret” over her request to delay Brexit …
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Politico, Fortune, Raw Story, Political Wire and Quartz
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Trump, Inc.:
Trump's Moscow Tower Problem — This week, we're exploring President Donald Trump's efforts to do business in Moscow. Our team — Heather Vogell, Andrea Bernstein, Meg Cramer and Katie Zavadski — dug into just who Trump was working with and just what Trump needed from Russia to get a deal done.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
How Trump is on track for a 2020 landslide — President Donald Trump has a low approval rating. He is engaging in bitter Twitter wars and facing metastasizing investigations. — But if the election were held today, he'd likely ride to a second term in a huge landslide …
Jordan Peterson:
Cambridge University Rescinds my Fellowship — From @CamDivinity, this morning (Wed, Mar 20, 2019): “Jordan Peterson requested a visiting fellowship at the Faculty of Divinity, and an initial offer has been rescinded after a further review.” — I visited Cambridge University in November of last year …
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Spectator USA, Breitbart, RedState, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
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Sarah Marsh / The Guardian:
Cambridge University rescinds Jordan Peterson invitation
Cambridge University rescinds Jordan Peterson invitation
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The American Conservative, Varsity Online and Hit & Run
Ernie Suggs / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Jimmy Carter gets new title: oldest living former president — At 94 years, 172 days the 39th president passes George H.W. Bush — When Jimmy Carter left office in 1980, the return home to Plains was not easy. His once flourishing farming business was more than $1 million dollars in debt …
Charles Kushner / Washington Post:
Here's the truth about my family and our business — Charles Kushner is a founder and principal of the Kushner Companies, a diversified real estate company. — Over the past two years, the news media have told a story about my family and our business with little regard for nuance, logic or even facts.
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Raw Story and Associated Press
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
The Kingdom and the Kushners: Jared Went to Riyadh. So Did His Brother. — In late October 2017, Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, dropped into Saudi Arabia for an unannounced visit to the desert retreat of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was in the process of consolidating his power.
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
Nihilist in Chief — In the midst of this January's historic, senselessly protracted government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided it was time to put forward his vision of how government should properly function. So he took to the Washington Post op-ed section to deride …
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
The Real Reason the Media Constantly Gets Everything About Trump Wrong — The Washington Post has found the “real reason” why President Trump is supposedly “constantly losing in court.” But one has to read down to graf 15 in the story to learn it's because Democratic appointees are (brace yourselves) ruling against the president.
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Hullabaloo, Fortune and Mother Jones
Courier-Journal:
Bevin exposed his 9 kids to chickenpox, says vaccine not for everyone — In a move experts say is medically unsound — and can be dangerous — Gov. Matt Bevin said in a radio interview Tuesday that he deliberately exposed all nine of his children to chickenpox so they would catch the disease and become immune.
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Washington Post, Friendly Atheist, The Hill, Raw Story, Fox News, New York Post, Talking Points Memo, Boing Boing, Splinter and Joe.My.God.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A GOP governor doesn't believe in chickenpox vaccines. He took his nine kids to a pox party instead.
A GOP governor doesn't believe in chickenpox vaccines. He took his nine kids to a pox party instead.
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ABC News, Axios and Talking Points Memo
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Democrats Want To Kill The Electoral College Because They Fear The Constitution — The Left is increasingly comfortable attacking foundational ideas of American governance — The United States isn't a “democracy.” Though every American should have learned this fact in high school civics class …
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RedState, The Babylon Bee and Daily Wire
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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets — Fredrick Brennan founded the website 8chan as a home for unconstrained speech devoted to critiquing what he saw as the authoritarianism of leftist culture and politics. Now, he says, it has gone too far.
Politico:
Gillum's ‘red flag’ plan to stop Trump: 1M more Florida voters — Andrew Gillum announced a plan Wednesday to register and turn-out 1 million new and low-propensity Florida voters in an effort to crush President Donald Trump's reelection chances in the nation's largest swing state.
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Conservative News Today, Splinter and Bring it Home Florida
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
‘Florida Is Tired of Being a Cheap Date’: Andrew Gillum Wants to Help Democrats Win in 2020
‘Florida Is Tired of Being a Cheap Date’: Andrew Gillum Wants to Help Democrats Win in 2020
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Bring it Home Florida, Florida Politics and Axios
Jonathan Shorman / Wichita Eagle:
Kansas lawmakers take big step toward expanding Medicaid — Kansas lawmakers took a major step Wednesday toward expanding Medicaid, a change that could extend health coverage to 150,000 Kansans but potentially cost $47 million a year. — Lawmakers, ignoring Republican objections …
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Balloon Juice
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Instagram Is the Internet's New Home for Hate — When Alex, now a high-school senior, saw an Instagram account he followed post about something called QAnon back in 2017, he'd never heard of the viral conspiracy theory before. But the post piqued his interest, and he wanted to know more.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pence woos 2016 anti-Trumpers to bankroll billion-dollar reelection — The vice president is serving as a conduit and Trump translator for the traditional GOP donor set. — When Vice President Mike Pence appeared before some of the GOP's most powerful donors at the iconic Pebble Beach golf course …
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Talking Points Memo
Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Mayor Pugh says she paid taxes on book sales, calls inquiries a ‘witch hunt’ — Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she properly reported and paid taxes on all sales of her “Healthy Holly” books and called inquiries into her deals with the University of Maryland Medical System a “witch hunt.”
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Baltimore Brew