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11:00 AM ET, March 24, 2019

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Pelosi tells Dems she'll reject highly classified briefing on Mueller findings  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Saturday she'll rebuff any efforts by the Justice Department to reveal details of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings in a highly classified setting …
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New York Times:
Attorney General Prepares to Brief Lawmakers and Trump on Report  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr and his team on Saturday pored over the highly anticipated report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, a senior Justice Department official said …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It's not the Democrats who'll have a problem addressing impeachment  —  We do not know the underlying contents or even the barest conclusions of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's final report as of this writing.  The range of outcomes for President Trump run from a declaration by Mueller that …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Barr scours Trump-Russia report to see how much to open
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
After claiming ‘no collusion’ at least 231 times, Trump says nothing about the end of the Mueller investigation
Discussion: Fox News and Power Line
New York Times:   At Democratic Campaign Events, Mueller Report Is Barely Mentioned
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi rejects any classified briefings on Mueller report
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:   Atty. Gen. William Barr not ready to share Mueller's ‘principal conclusions’ in Russia probe with Congress
Neal Kumar Katyal / Washington Post:
I wrote the special counsel rules.  The attorney general can — and should — release the Mueller report.
Discussion: The Week, New York Times and Vox
Abigail Abrams / TIME:
These Are All of the Other Investigations Donald Trump Faces  —  While Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his confidential report to the Justice Department on Friday, the investigations surrounding President Donald Trump and his associates are far from over.
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Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:   The vast attempt to undo the 2016 election has failed
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
‘There needs to be a reckoning’ for those who spread Russia collusion narrative: Mollie Hemingway
Hate Inc.:
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD  —  The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press.  Russiagate just destroyed it  —  Note to readers: in light of news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation is complete, I'm releasing this chapter of Hate Inc. early, with a few new details added up top.
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How to Understand the End of the Mueller Investigation (Hint: You Can't Yet)  —  I have a confession: I don't understand the reaction to the news of the Mueller investigation's end.  I don't understand the evident glee among some of the president's defenders.  I don't understand the gloom among some of the president's critics.
The Guardian:
Palestinian writer has fingers smashed in Gaza beating  —  Publisher says Atef Abu Saif, also a spokesperson for Fatah, almost killed by masked men  —  Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and Hazem Balousha in Gaza  —  A UK publisher has condemned an attack by masked men in Gaza on a Palestinian writer …
Joseph Berger / New York Times:
Rafi Eitan, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead at 92  —  Rafi Eitan, the canny Israeli spymaster who commanded the Nazi-hunting team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and many years later was unmasked as the handler of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the American Navy intelligence analyst …
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
It's Mueller time but don't forget: Trump has undermined the very idea of America  —  Partisan fury over the special counsel's report may obscure the ways the president has damaged our democracy  —  We may never know for sure whether Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to obtain Russia's help …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good  —  Screens used to be for the elite.  Now avoiding them is a status symbol.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Langlois has a new best friend.  She is a cat named Sox.  She lives on a tablet, and she makes him so happy that when he talks about her arrival in his life, he begins to cry.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Prosecutors suggest Paul Manafort may be trying to get $1 million out of his forfeiture  —  Can Manafort's sentence be challenged in court?  —  (CNN)Prosecutors suspect Paul Manafort might be trying to secretly claw back about a million dollars he agreed to hand over to the government …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘A punch in the gut’: Farmers hit by tariffs see crops swept away by flood  —  SIDNEY, Iowa — His farm is still cut off by floodwaters, so Iowa soybean farmer Pat Sheldon had to view the damage from the air.  On a helicopter ride over what seemed like an endless stretch of water …
Discussion: Econbrowser
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Democrat Gillibrand to deliver 2020 White House launch speech outside NY Trump hotel  —  (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will deliver a fiery first speech as an official presidential candidate in New York City on Sunday, calling U.S. President Donald Trump a “coward” …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Lauren Gardner / Politico:
Trump's U.N. pick showered key GOP senators with donations  —  If Ambassador Kelly Craft ends up before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the ritual grilling of presidential nominees, she'll be looking back at some of her favorite Republican senators.
Discussion: Raw Story
Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris makes a point in Houston: It's not just O'Rourke and Sanders who can draw crowds  —  HOUSTON — Sen. Kamala D. Harris made the first major policy announcement of her campaign Saturday, promising to use federal dollars to boost teachers' salaries as she spoke to a boisterous crowd at Texas Southern University.
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Arthur Allen / Politico:
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The great political parachute
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Islamophobic incidents rocket by 600% in UK during week after New Zealand terror attack
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Ocasio-Cortez still hasn't paid tax bill from failed business venture
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Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists
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Stars & Stripes:
Defense Department identifies two soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Discussion: Townhall and Task & Purpose
David Remnick / New Yorker:
It's Mueller Time  —  The special counsel's report is in …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Democrats are conspiring to reelect Trump
Washington Post:
The Islamic State's caliphate has been defeated, U.S.-backed forces say