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1:55 PM ET, March 18, 2016

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NPR:
Transcript And Video: President Obama's Interview With NPR's Nina Totenberg  —  President Obama spoke with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg on Thursday about why he selected Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, why he thinks the judge deserves a hearing from the Senate …
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Seth Lipsky / New York Post:   By Hamilton's rules on Supreme picks, the Senate's right and Obama's wrong
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Obama: Refusal To Consider Nominee Damages Public's Faith In The Judiciary
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Politico
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The Court  —  When Judge John G. Roberts Jr. ran into hostile …
Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Allies Launch Plan to Undercut Donald Trump Now  —  Democrat's presidential campaign also readies a strategy of engaging Republican on issues without trading insults  —  Pro-Democratic groups are launching an orchestrated bid to weaken GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump ahead …
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Wall Street Journal:
A Trump Reality Check  —  He is the least commanding GOP front-runner since Ford.  —  Donald Trump won't debate his Republican rivals again but he will continue to argue on Twitter.  On Thursday the businessman demanded an apology after we—"the dummies at the @WSJ Editorial Board" …
Ari Melber / NBC News:
RNC Rules: Insiders Speak Out on Contested Convention  —  Brokered Convention?  Here are the Rules 1:46  —  If no presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates and Republicans face a contested convention this summer, a small group of party insiders will have huge sway over who wins …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Kasich could win a contested convention  —  In the event of a contested Republican convention this summer, John Kasich is the candidate most acceptable to GOP delegates.  —  That's according to members of The POLITICO Caucus - a panel of political insiders in seven battleground states …
Discussion: RedState, Scared Monkeys and Towleroad
CBS News:
Threatening letter sent to Donald Trump's son, Eric  —  NEW YORK — The Secret Service, FBI and New York Police Department are investigating what sources tell CBS News is a threatening piece of mail sent to Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump.  —  The mail, sent to Eric Trump at his posh Manhattan residence …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
As Hillary Clinton Sweeps States, One Group Resists: White Men  —  White men narrowly backed Hillary Clinton in her 2008 race for president, but they are resisting her candidacy this time around in major battleground states, rattling some Democrats about her general-election strategy.
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Black Dems aren't turning out for Hillary like they did for Obama
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and WND
Joe Klein / TIME:
To Take out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician
Discussion: Hot Air and Fox News
Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed:
People Are Freaking Out Over This Girl's Sad Picture Of Her Grandpa  —  Papaw made dinner for six grandkids, but only one showed up. :'(  —  This is Kelsey Harmon, a college softball player from Oklahoma.  —  On Wednesday night, Harmon tweeted a photo of herself having dinner with her grandfather.
CNN:
Belgian police checking if man detained is Paris terror attack suspect  —  (CNN)[Breaking news update at 12:59 p.m. ET]  —  Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam was captured alive Friday, a Belgian counter-terrorism source said.  Belgium's state broadcaster reported that the 26-year-old Abdeslam …
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Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam ‘arrested in Brussels terror raid’
Discussion: Telegraph and Common Dreams
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
How Donald Trump Bent Television To His Will  —  Staffers at the five major television networks are grappling with what role their organizations may have played in amplifying Donald Trump's successful campaign of insults, generalizations about minority groups, and at times flat lies.
David Brooks / New York Times:
No, Not Trump, Not Ever  —  The voters have spoken.  —  In convincing fashion, Republican voters seem to be selecting Donald Trump as their nominee.  And in a democracy, victory has legitimacy to it.  Voters are rarely wise but are usually sensible.  They understand their own problems.
Discussion: Instapundit
Rebekah L. Sanders / USA Today:
Bernie Sanders to Sheriff Arpaio: ‘Watch out, Joe’  —  Bernie Sanders addressed supporters in Phoenix Tuesday as Hillary Clinton rolled up primary victories in several states.  Sanders remained optimistic, saying “we are doing something very radical in American politics _ we are telling the truth.”
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Hillary Has an NSA Problem  —  The FBI has been investigating Clinton for months—but an even more secretive Federal agency has its own important beef with her  —  For a year now, Hillary Clinton's misuse of email during her tenure as Secretary of State has hung like a dark cloud over her presidential campaign.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and The Week
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Anti-Trump forces contemplate the end  —  With Donald Trump marching toward a nomination that few believed he could win, Republicans once bent on defeating him are now reassessing their efforts to stop him.  —  Trump's dazed and demoralized adversaries find themselves at a defining moment …
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
Debriefing Mike Murphy  —  On a pleasant Super Tuesday afternoon — one of 10 or 11 Super Tuesdays we seem to be having this March — I am standing in the bloated carcass of that much-maligned beast known as The Establishment.  In the unmarked suite of a generic mid-Wilshire office building …
Kim Zetter / Wired:
A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case  —  It's been one of the worst-kept secrets for years: the identity of the person the government was investigating in 2013 when it served the secure email firm Lavabit with a court order demanding help spying on a particular customer.
Cassandra Sweet / Wall Street Journal:
Ivanpah Solar Plant May Be Forced to Shut Down  —  Federally backed project asks California regulators for more time to sort out its problems  —  A federally backed, $2.2 billion solar project in the California desert isn't producing the electricity it is contractually required to deliver to PG&E Corp. …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Power Line
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Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:   Obama-Backed Solar Plant Could Be Shut Down For Not Producing Enough Energy
Sandy Rashty / thejc.com:
Donald Trump is more than my boss, he is a patriarch  —  Michael Cohen doesn't sleep much.  As Donald Trump's right-hand man, there's no time to do so at the moment.  —  In his own words, as Trump's Special Counsel and Executive Vice President of the Trump Organisation, he handles …
Oliver Jj Lane / Breitbart:
‘Earth Hour’ Blackout Cancelled Because Of Migrant Rape  —  The annual virtue-signalling festival known as ‘Earth Hour’ won't be celebrated in one Swedish town this year, thanks to a sex-crime epidemic sweeping the municipality.  —  The small Swedish town of Östersund — population 44,300 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan huddles with anti-Trump donors  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. House Speaker Paul Ryan met Thursday night at a pricey French restaurant here with some of the party's biggest donors to assess a political landscape dominated by one vexing question: what to do about Donald Trump.
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Associated Press:
GOP-led House backs legal challenge to Obama on immigration
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rubio nears Cruz endorsement  —  Marco Rubio is close to endorsing Ted Cruz, but the two proud senators — and recent fierce rivals — have some details to work out first.  —  Cruz has to ask for Rubio's endorsement, and both sides need to decide that it will make a difference …
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Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times:
Out of Race, Marco Rubio Returns to the Senate
 
 
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Associated Press:
US GOV'T SETS RECORD FOR FAILURES TO FIND FILES WHEN ASKED
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dave Fehling / Houston Public Media:
Texas Game Wardens Are Now Looking For Poachers ... and Terrorists
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. sees new Chinese activity around South China Sea shoal
Discussion: The Diplomat
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Obama to pick first female four-star commander
Discussion: The Week
Henry Goldman / Bloomberg Business:
Stabbing Surge Stumps NYC Police, Sows Fear Among Residents
Brian M. Rosenthal / Houston Chronicle:
‘Jesus Shot’ at center of Miller's controversial, taxpayer-funded trip
Discussion: Raw Story
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Biden Names Leader for ‘Moonshot’ Cancer Campaign
Discussion: STAT and The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Angus Chen / NPR:
Stand To Work If You Like, But Don't Brag About The Benefits
Discussion: Fusion
Zachary Mider / Bloomberg Business:
Icahn Pares Ambitions for Tax-Reform Effort After Setbacks
Lauren French / Politico:
Endangered House Republicans: Trump who?
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Bridge Scandal Trial May Prevent a Trump-Christie Ticket
Discussion: RedState and Daily Kos
 

 
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