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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War — The president falsely claims that tariffs are paid “directly” to the U.S. Treasury by China and indicates these nonexistent Chinese funds will cover the subsidy cost. — President Donald Trump is seeking …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning — China is set to fire the next salvo in the escalating trade conflict with the United States, announcing on Monday it will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods at the start of next month.
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Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Breitbart
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is staking reelection on one of his biggest lies — President Trump has spent the past 24 hours tweeting manically about trade, repeating the absurd falsehood that China is paying us billions in tariffs. We keep hearing that this shows Trump “doesn't understand” how tariffs work.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's China grudge match may be spinning out of control — NEW YORK — Donald Trump the Dow Man and Donald Trump the Tariff Man found themselves back on a collision course Monday as U.S. markets tanked and fear of a full-scale trade war between the world's two largest economies reemerged with a vengeance.
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Associated Press, Outside the Beltway and Fortune
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Chinese State Media Calls Donald Trump's Tariffs ‘Irrational’ Because They Will ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’
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Bloomberg, New York Times and ABC News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Call Tlaib Anti-Semitic for Saying Something Nice About Israel — The Republican Party, which has a hair-trigger sensitivity to left-wing anti-Semitism as censorious as any social justice warrior, has whipped itself into its latest frenzy over comments by Representative Rashida Tlaib.
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Townhall, Fox News, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Yahoo News, IJR, HillReporter.com, Common Dreams, Daily Wire, RedState, twitchy.com, The Federalist and The Week
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
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Politico, NB Blog and Washington Post
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Republicans are ignoring reality to twist Rep. Tlaib's ‘calming’ Holocaust remarks
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National Review, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and twitchy.com
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won't Endorse His Theory of Victimhood — On March 24, Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report that stressed positive news for President Donald Trump. The redacted text of the report …
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American Greatness, Raw Story, HillReporter.com and Mediaite
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What's the Real Reason Trump Is Stonewalling Congress? — Maybe he wants to avoid more bad publicity. Or maybe it's something worse. — If President Donald Trump thinks he's been totally exonerated, as he says, why is he stonewalling Congress? Why wouldn't he want special counsel Robert Mueller …
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Hullabaloo, Raw Story, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Moderate Voice
CNN:
How Donald Trump Jr. and Richard Burr hit an impasse — Erin Burnett: Why is Trump afraid of Don Jr. subpoena? — (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. is balking at answering more questions about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and the pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project, two sources familiar …
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Anna Flagg / New York Times:
Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime? — It's a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it. — A lot of research has shown that there's no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States.
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Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, TalkLeft, ImmigrationProf Blog, Splinter and twitchy.com
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up — Mayor de Blasio's NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows.
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Gothamist, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Inside the Pampered and Personalized World of DC's VIP Diners — The big restaurant lie: Everyone is treated the same. — Sometimes maître d' Michael Arnaud has to play bad cop. Granted, he wears a wide smile above his green bow tie and greets every customer of Joe's Seafood …
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HillReporter.com, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Elizabeth Warren: “Betsy DeVos is the worst secretary of education we've seen”
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
How Does Donald Trump Keep Getting Away With It? — Hint: From Congress to the courts, people keep treating Trump like a “normal” president. It's time to stop. — Every day, President Donald Trump or his minions say something stupid, wrong, or demonstrably false.
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Rolling Stone and No More Mister Nice Blog
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Accuses Trump of Pay Discrimination: 'The Numbers Don't Lie' — The ex-Trump aide claims she was paid substantially less per month than her male counterpart for the same work. — Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former Apprentice star who campaigned for President Trump and then followed …
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BuzzFeed News, Mediaite, Shareblue Media, The Week and Raw Story
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap — (CNN)It seems a crazy idea that any president would actually want to be impeached. — But Donald Trump has so subverted Washington logic with his wild, norm-crushing presidency that there is now a serious conversation …
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The Resurgent, Outside the Beltway and Front Page Magazine
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Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
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Hullabaloo
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden. Don't Buy It. — Real journalists want to report the truth, wherever it takes them. Peter Schweizer wants to reelect Donald Trump. — Michael Tomasky — Are we really going to do this again, Fourth Estate?
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Bloomberg:
Pompeo Fails to Sway Allies on Iran in Awkward Surprise Visit — Cites intel threats in meeting U.K., French, German envoys — Defying Trump, Europeans say Iran nuclear deal must stand — U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo made scant progress persuading European Union counterparts …
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube's Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl — “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. Its executives only have themselves to blame. — What does a 14-year-old girl dressed in a chador have to say on YouTube to amass more than 800,000 followers?
Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: How money flows from Amazon to 8chan — Follow the money from the world's most valuable company to a racist troll haven — You may or may not know about the 8chan website—but you are familiar with its work. The rudimentary message board is a wellspring of racism, violence …
Associated Press:
NYC mayor says he'll decide this week on presidential run — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio staged a chaotic press event Monday in the lobby of Trump Tower in which he said he will announce this week whether he's running for president. — Speaking at a podium steps from the spot …
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Politico and Washington Post
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
De Blasio mocked by protesters at raucous Green New Deal rally inside Trump Tower
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New York Post and Daily Wire
The Daily Beast:
One-Time #Resistance Hero Rod Rosenstein Was Trump's Leak-Hunter-in-Chief — The Trump administration is on pace for a record number of leak prosecutions—thanks in part to a man hailed by the president's fiercest critics. — Rod Rosenstein was a #Resistance hero—and one of Donald Trump's …
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Raw Story and Columbia Journalism Review
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania — One of the Democrats running for president is a youthful former Rhodes Scholar who speaks more than one language and cut his teeth as a two-term mayor. The other is Pete Buttigieg.
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Front Page Magazine, Big League Politics and NBC News
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
What we don't know about how a uterus works is going to hurt us all — I was trying to schedule a sonogram last year when my understanding of a basic scientific principle was totally upended. The nurse, attempting to discern how pregnant I might be, turned out to be utterly uninterested in the date of conception.
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