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10:00 AM ET, March 4, 2018

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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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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 …
Discussion: Axios, KTLA and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump pokes fun — and makes North Korea news — at Gridiron  —  During a lighthearted address to journalists, the president suggests he's been in contact with North Korean officials, saying ‘we will be meeting.’  —  President Donald Trump said late Saturday that “we will be meeting” …
Discussion: Fox News, Political Wire and Althouse
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
At a white-tie Gridiron dinner, President Trump tries joking: ‘I like chaos’ … On Saturday night, President Trump was not having the sort of evening he prefers.  For starters, he was dressed in white-tie finery, not the golf-ready khakis he favors on weekends.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:   Live From the West Wing, Trump Pulls Back the Curtain
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
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.
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
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
Daniel J. Roth / Jerusalem Post:
WOMEN'S MARCH LEADERS REFUSE TO CONDEMN FARRAKHAN AFTER ANTISEMITIC SPEECH  —  In recent years, Farrakhan has embarked on a wide-ranging, anti-Jewish campaign, which has featured some of the most hateful speeches of his career.  —  NEW YORK - High-profile leaders of the popular Women's March movement …
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Right Can't Fight the Future … It seems axiomatic that the past and the future cannot exist at the same time.  Thanks to the space-time continuum, people from different centuries cannot live simultaneously.  The same goes for a nation, which cannot survive pulling toward the future and toward the past at once.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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 …
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 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trade War, What Is It Good For?  Absolutely Nothing  —  We've known all along that Donald Trump is belligerently ignorant about economics (and many other things).  But up to this point that hasn't mattered much.  He took office amid a sustained recovery that began under his predecessor …
Discussion: The Mahablog
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Peter Wehner / New York Times:   Trump's White House Is a Black Hole
David Nather / Axios:
Exclusive: Public doesn't trust Trump to prevent meddling in midterms  —  A majority of Americans have little to no faith that the Trump administration will stop foreign governments from interfering in the 2018 midterm elections, according to an Axios-SurveyMonkey poll.
Discussion: Political Wire
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Trump vows to tax European cars if the EU fights back with tariff on U.S. goods  —  In the first rumblings of a potential trade war, President Trump punched back Saturday at Canadian and European warnings that his steel tariff plan is “unacceptable” by threatening to slap a tariff on European cars if they try to take him on.
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs
 
 
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New York Times:
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Trump confidant Chris Ruddy on the president's ‘inner Democrat’
Discussion: TheBlaze and Mediaite
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Congressional, civil rights leaders gather at Civil Rights Memorial to honor movement's martyrs
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Woman's body found in trunk of car at Maine dealership
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 Earlier Items: 
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Eric Holder predicts Robert Mueller charges Trump with obstruction of justice
Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it
Michelle Krupa / CNN:
Philando Castile charity wipes out kids' lunch debt in district where he worked
Discussion: Mother Jones
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters:
Politico Writer Angry at Broward Sheriff for Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative
Discussion: twitchy.com and The College Fix
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Publicly slighting millions of NRA members isn't good for business - or America
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Daniel Ellsberg / CBS News:
Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates