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12:55 PM ET, March 4, 2018

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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Trump Says Rep. Maxine Waters Needs ‘An IQ Test’ At Gridiron Dinner  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday night addressed the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, an event he skipped last year and one known for presidential humor.  —  Though he poked fun at his own administration's dysfunction …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Jokes Melania Might Leave Him at Gridiron Dinner … Just a few hours after he suggested that perhaps America should follow China's lead with the whole “president for life” thing, President Donald Trump took the stage to tell some jokes at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner …
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump pokes fun — and makes North Korea news — at Gridiron  —  President Donald Trump said late Saturday during a speech at the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington that “we will be meeting” with North Korea, indicating that negotiations about a potential dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea continue to advance.
Discussion: Fox News, Political Wire and Althouse
Washington Post:
‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.  —  These are the darkest days in at least half a year …
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
At a white-tie Gridiron dinner, President Trump tries joking: ‘I like chaos’
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a “rigged system” that still doesn't have the “right people” in place to fix it …
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David Shepardson / Reuters:   Trump praises Chinese president extending tenure ‘for life’
Gillian Wong / Associated Press:   China's Xi poised to make historic grab at indefinite rule
New York Times:
Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.  He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Senator says Trump making ‘huge mistake’  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump and trade (all times local):  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May has spoken with President Donald Trump and expressed “deep concern” about his threatened trade war with the European Union.
Discussion: Axios, Breitbart and ABC News
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National Journal:
GOP Panic Spreads to Pennsylvania  —  Republicans have spent over $9 million in a blue-collar district Trump carried by 20 points.  If the GOP can't win there, they're in deep trouble.  —  Republicans are learning an uncomfortable reality about the political environment for 2018: Tax cuts …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:   36 women flood Texas races to flip male-dominated House seats blue
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
It's a gusher of candidates due to Trump resistance and frustration with Congress
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden's Middle Class  —  STOCKHOLM — In the Stockholm suburb of Varby Gard, it was not unusual to see the figure of a 63-year-old man pedaling a bicycle home after the end of his shift as an aide for disabled adults, hunched against the icy wind of a Swedish winter.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
What if Republicans Win the Midterms?  —  WASHINGTON — A sizable portion of the American population has been convulsing with outrage at President Trump for more than a year.  Millions of people who previously took only mild interest in politics have participated in protests …
EW.com:
M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers dies at 75  —  M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers died of cancer on Saturday, his agent confirmed.  He was 75.  —  “I am very sad to report that David died this morning March 3, 2018 peacefully at his home in Newport, Oregon after a courageous battle with bladder cancer …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and ABC News
New York Times:
As Primaries Begin, Divided Voters Weigh What It Means to Be a Democrat  —  PALOS HILLS, Ill. — When Representative Daniel Lipinski, a conservative-leaning Democrat and scion of Chicago's political machine, agreed to one joint appearance last month with his liberal primary challenger …
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Denis McDonough: McConnell ‘watered down’ Russia warning in 2016  —  WASHINGTON — Former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “watered down” a warning about Russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election and defended …
Discussion: Political Wire
Houston Chronicle:
DA: Former prosecutor withheld key email in death row case  —  A former Harris County prosecutor withheld a key email that helped establish a clear alibi for Alfred Dewayne Brown in the high-profile murder case that eventually sent him to death row, District Attorney Kim Ogg said late Friday.
Discussion: The Root
Burt Mummolo / KTUL-TV:
Oklahoma teachers planning a statewide strike  —  Oklahoma teachers planning a statewide strike (KTUL)  —  Oklahoma teachers are fed up with state lawmakers.  A public school teacher in Stillwater created the Facebook group “Oklahoma Teacher Walkout - The Time is Now!” two days ago, and it has already gained more than 20,000 members.
Kristina Davis / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Mexican man assumes American's identity for 37 years, steals $361,000 in government benefits  —  It started as a rather straightforward Social Security fraud investigation — a man receiving disability benefits pretending to live in the United States when in fact he lived in Tijuana.
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
When Should Cultural Institutions Say No to Tainted Funding?  —  On Monday afternoon, Jerry Saltz, the longtime art critic at New York Magazine, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has gone nearly once a week for three decades.  After two hours of taking in “Golden Kingdoms …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
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David Nather / Axios:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Simon Marks / Politico:
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Nils Gilman / The American Interest:
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Teri Webster / TheBlaze:
Parkland student brags he hung up on Trump White House call, while classmate drops F-bomb on TV
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Trump confidant Chris Ruddy on the president's ‘inner Democrat’
Discussion: TheBlaze and Mediaite
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
How PragerU Is Winning The Right-Wing Culture War Without Donald Trump
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trade War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Trump vows to tax European cars if the EU fights back with tariff on U.S. goods
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Eric Holder predicts Robert Mueller charges Trump with obstruction of justice