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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:

NRA Suspends Top Lawyer as Infighting Roils Group — Ousted President Oliver North warned board the NRA could lose its nonprofit status — Steve Hart, the longtime lawyer for the National Rifle Association board, has been suspended from that role, two people with knowledge of the move told The Daily Beast.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story

Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:

NRA's Wayne LaPierre Says He Is Being Extorted, Pressured to Resign — Group's longtime leader says Oliver North, president of the NRA, wants him out — Longtime National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre has told the group's board he is being extorted and pressured to resign …

New York Times:

Oliver North Says He Will Not Serve Another Term as N.R.A. President — INDIANAPOLIS — Lt. Col. Oliver North announced on Saturday that he would not serve a second term as the president of the National Rifle Association amid inner turmoil in the gun-rights group.

Discussion: Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair

USA Today:
NRA President Oliver North says he won't serve a second term after power struggle

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Reuters:
Oliver North stepping down as National Rifle Association president

Discussion: Political Wire

Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Insurgents Seek to Oust Wayne LaPierre in N.R.A. Power Struggle

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The Daily Beast:
NRA Takes a Shot at Its Own President, Oliver North, in Court

Discussion: Politico, TheBlaze, Joe.My.God., The Week, Raw Story and The Guardian

The Daily Beast:

Trump's Stonewalling Pushes House Democrats Towards Impeachment — “Trump's opacity is moving some members into the impeachment camp,” one Democratic lawmaker tells The Daily Beast. “Translation: it's always the cover-up that gets 'em.” — Donald Trump's declaration this week …

Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.

Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
White House Counsel: Official Who Cleared Jared Kushner Agrees to Hill Interview

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House OKs testimony — with limits — from ex-security clearance chief

Discussion: Axios

Rachael Bade / Washington Post: White House approves official's testimony after contempt threat

Annie Karni / New York Times:
To Trump, ‘Leakers Are Traitors and Cowards,’ and He Wants to Find Them

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA

New York Times:

The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. — Nationwide, the arrival of white homeowners in places they've long avoided is jolting the economics of the land beneath everyone. — RALEIGH, N.C. — In the African-American neighborhoods near downtown Raleigh, the playfully painted doors signal what's coming.

Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:

The Gray Race for the White House — “Joe Biden. He understands what's happening today.” — The newspaper ad ran a few weeks before the 1972 Senate election in Delaware, when the upstart 29-year-old was challenging a 63-year-old incumbent. The ad, which appeared in The News Journal …

Discussion: Washington Post

Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Holds Thousands of House Parties for Supporters

Discussion: New York Post

The Hill:
Biden allies launch super PAC

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Washington Post:

Hard-line views made Lou Dobbs a Fox powerhouse. Now he's shaping Trump's border policy. — One day in mid-March, President Trump gathered his top economic team at the White House to get its read on the state of the nation's financial health. — But before the Council of Economic Advisers finished …

Discussion: Politico and Joe.My.God.

Mike Barber / Richmond Times-Dispatch:

UVA basketball team will decline to visit White House after winning championship — CHARLOTTESVILLE - After winning the national championship, the Virginia basketball team won't be following the tradition of visiting the White House. — “We have received inquiries about a visit to the White House …

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Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Virginia's NCAA-winning basketball team declines White House invitation

Discussion: One America News Network, The Hill and TheBlaze

Rosalind Adams / BuzzFeed News:

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince's New Company Is Operating In Iraq — HONG KONG — A Hong Kong-based security and logistics company founded by Erik Prince is working in the south of Iraq, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. — Prince, a former Navy SEAL and the brother …

Discussion: Raw Story

Frances Robles / New York Times:

Russian Hackers Were ‘In a Position’ to Alter Florida Voter Rolls, Rubio Confirms — It was the day before the 2016 presidential election, and at the Volusia County elections office, near Florida's Space Coast, workers were so busy that they had fallen behind on their correspondence.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Daily Kos and Tampa Bay Times

Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:

Guantánamo Bay as Nursing Home: Military Envisions Hospice Care as Terrorism Suspects Age — With no sign that the prison will close, the Pentagon has begun planning for detainees to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Nobody has a dementia diagnosis yet …

Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:

The Raisin Situation — One man wanted to change the raisin industry for the better. He got more than he bargained for. — FRESNO, Calif. — Millennials just weren't eating raisins. So Sun-Maid, the century-old company with the iconic little red raisin boxes, hired someone to convince them that they should.

Globe and Mail:

Canada's new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture — An analysis of 150,000 chat room messages paints a picture of a group that is actively recruiting new members, buying weapons and trying to influence political parties

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:

Longtime conservative Peggy Noonan stomps all over Trump — and calls for a Democrat to replace him in 2020 — In her weekly column for the Wall Street Journal, longtime conservative columnist Peggy Noonan expressed dismay with President Donald Trump — saying he was given a chance to act like a president …

Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:

New York Times internationally prints antisemitic cartoon of Trump, Netanyahu — New York Times admits cartoon had antisemitic tropes and says it was an error of judgement to publish. — The New York Times International Edition ran a cartoon of an apparently blind US President Donald Trump wearing …

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Bloomberg:

Trump Playing Defense in Rust Belt as He Opens Re-Election Bid — First post-Mueller rally in Michigan aimed at shoring up base — As his 2020 campaign gears up, President Donald Trump is putting an early focus on the three Rust Belt states that sent him to the White House …

Discussion: Raw Story