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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Calls Barr's Handling of Mueller Report ‘Distorted’ and ‘Misleading’ — The judge said the attorney general lacked credibility on the matter and said he would review the report to decide whether to make its redacted portions public. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge …
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Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Week
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Federal Judge Says He Needs to Review Every Mueller Report Redaction Because Barr Can't Be Trusted
Federal Judge Says He Needs to Review Every Mueller Report Redaction Because Barr Can't Be Trusted
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Daily Kos, Washington Post and Raw Story
emptywheel:
Questioning Bill Barr's “No Collusion” Propaganda, Reggie Walton Orders an In Camera Review of Mueller Report
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Judge demands unredacted Mueller report, questions Barr's ‘credibility’
Judge demands unredacted Mueller report, questions Barr's ‘credibility’
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Shero, Politico, Associated Press, Fox News and The Intellectualist
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's trip to CDC in flux after coronavirus scare — President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his scheduled Friday visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta even as the coronavirus outbreak escalates. — Trump's schedule Friday, which was released publicly at nearly midnight …
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IJR
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Politico:
A presidency of two for coronavirus: Trump hands his sidekick the job of a savior — Donald Trump is finally securing the presidency he's always wanted: He rallies the people. Mike Pence governs them. — As Trump prepares to decamp to his oceanfront club in West Palm Beach this weekend …
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Associated Press, One America News Network, No More Mister Nice Blog and Florida Politics
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Signs Coronavirus Emergency Spending Bill but Cancels Visit to C.D.C. — The president signed the $8.3 billion measure at the White House while he and aides gave conflicting reasons for why he scrapped the trip. — WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill …
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CNBC and Political Wire
TIME:
‘Doomed from the Start.’ Experts Say the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response Was Never Going to Work — The Trump Administration's strategy to combat COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, began with a relatively simple focus: keep it out of the United States.
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Daily Kos and Rolling Stone
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
The Trump administration's greatest obstacle to sending a clear message on coronavirus may be Trump himself
The Trump administration's greatest obstacle to sending a clear message on coronavirus may be Trump himself
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NBC News, The American Independent, PJ Media Home, POLITICUSUSA and Vanity Fair
Richard E. Besser / Washington Post:
As coronavirus spreads, the bill for our public health failures is due
As coronavirus spreads, the bill for our public health failures is due
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americamagazine.org and The Atlantic
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity — Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s. Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.
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National Review, PREVAIL, The Daily Dot, Slate, Outside the Beltway and Twitchy
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Calamitous Coronavirus Response — A whole-of-government mobilization to protect the president's ego. — Last month, after analyzing figures on epidemics since 1960, The Economist concluded that people die at a higher rate from such disease outbreaks in authoritarian countries …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Warren calls out Sanders for ‘organized nastiness’ and ‘bullying’ by his supporters — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for not taking steps to control the “organized nastiness” of some of his supporters during the presidential campaign.
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POLITICUSUSA, The Sun and The Week
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Associated Press:
Sanders struggles to expand supporter base after Warren exit
Sanders struggles to expand supporter base after Warren exit
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Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Why ‘Medicare for All’ wrecked Elizabeth Warren but not Bernie Sanders
Why ‘Medicare for All’ wrecked Elizabeth Warren but not Bernie Sanders
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Politico, The Atlantic, The Hill, Breitbart and Washington Post
Mara Gay / New York Times:
Why Southern Democrats Saved Biden — For those who live in the shadow of segregation and racial terror, the election is not about policy or personality. It's about something much darker. — Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board. — At the Lorraine Motel in Memphis …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Jim Clyburn Saves the Democrats
ABC News:
Controversial execution carried out despite pleas from advocates — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey refused to step in and stop the lethal injection. — The controversial execution of Nathaniel Woods was carried out late Thursday in Alabama just minutes after the Supreme Court denied a temporary stay, issued only hours earlier.
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Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Nathaniel Woods executed as accomplice in 2004 police murders
Nathaniel Woods executed as accomplice in 2004 police murders
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Common Dreams, UPI, Associated Press and The Daily Beast
Los Angeles Times:
Another campaign, another disappointment for women as Elizabeth Warren bows out — Just a few days ago, Vanessa Jackson marked the spot beside Elizabeth Warren's name on her Georgia ballot, hopeful she was casting her vote for the first female president of the United States.
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The Nation and OpenSecrets.org
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May Warren / Toronto Star:
Person who travelled to Vegas tests positive for coronavirus; Toronto Public Health monitoring — A person who travelled to Las Vegas for an international conference has tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total number of infections in Ontario to 24.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next coronavirus crisis — DRIVING THE DAY — THINK ABOUT THIS: What if this is only the beginning of the coronavirus economic downturn? Imagine if stocks keep on slipping and, even more concerning, if Americans truly stop traveling domestically and internationally over the spring and summer.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth smashes expectations for February as unemployment falls back to 3.5% — By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM — Nonfarm payrolls rose by 273,000 in February vs. a 175,000 estimate, while the unemployment rate edged lower to 3.5%. — Job gains were widespread, with health care adding 57,000 to lead the way.
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The Week
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The ‘Million Dollars Per Person’ Affair Is Telling — Herewith, a good example of why the Democratic Party is stuck in its current mode. … Obviously, the math here is spectacularly off. If Michael Bloomberg had divided the money he spent on his presidential run evenly among Americans, we would each have got $1.53, not $1 million.
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The Federalist, Washington Post, Townhall, The Daily Caller and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘This is absolutely abhorrent’: Nazi flag at Sanders rally sparks outcry, concerns about safety — Moments after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took the stage at his campaign rally in Phoenix Thursday night, the crowd was on its feet cheering madly for the Democratic presidential candidate.
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POLITICUSUSA, Common Dreams, The Week and Raw Story
New York Times:
'It's Pure Panic': A Wrenching Wait at Nursing Home Where Coronavirus Took Hold — Cut off from their relatives inside a virus-stricken nursing center, families are frantically searching for help and basic information. — KIRKLAND, Wash. — The hardest day of Debbie de los Angeles's life …
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The Nevada Independent
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Had a Problem With MSNBC. Then Came Super Tuesday. — After a string of primary losses, the Vermont senator turned to a news network his allies love to criticize. — Two weeks ago, in the bowels of a Las Vegas casino, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont confronted the president of MSNBC …
Washington Examiner:
Elizabeth Warren's pandering and dishonesty brought her campaign to an end — “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy.” — This embarrassing, obsequious, pandering line, tweeted by Elizabeth Warren in November as her campaign began …
Politico:
Trump loses another White House ‘original’ — Adam Kennedy, who led the White House's rapid response efforts on impeachment and other crises, including Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation battle, is leaving the government later this month, according to two White House officials.
Washington Post:
Tens of thousands of political ads on Facebook lacked key details about who paid for them, new report finds — Researchers discovered major gaps in Facebook's ad archive that could “enable a malicious advertiser to avoid accurate disclosure of their political ads,” they wrote
George Conway / Washington Post:
Why Schumer's apology about his Supreme Court remarks isn't enough — One of the bad things about bad behavior by politicians (particularly by Donald Trump, because he's president, but by others as well) is that it not only can encourage bad behavior by politicians of all ideological stripes but also can be cited to justify it.
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Fox News, The Federalist, IJR, NBC News and The Daily Signal
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Why Americans should care about Syria — The situation in Syria is catastrophic. The Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies are bombarding the rebel-held enclave of Idlib, continuing their wholesale slaughter of civilians. Turkey, drawn into the conflict by the chaos along its border …