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7:05 PM ET, March 9, 2018

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NBC News:
Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements  —  President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
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Tom Llamas / ABC News:
Email not proof of porn star payoff: Cohen  —  The lawyer for Stormy Daniels says emails show President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen was using his Trump Organization email just days before the 2016 election as he arranged the wire transfer of a $130,000 payment to the adult film star …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The President and the Porn Star: A Story's Slow Rise Above the Din  —  WASHINGTON — If a porn-tinged hush payment falls in a news din already torqued to maximum volume, does it make a sound?  —  It seems to be getting there, despite North Korean intervention.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Evan Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels Absolutely Slays Trump Trolls on Twitter
Discussion: The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Opens Door to Further Trouble for Trump
Discussion: Daily Kos
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Pro-Trump pastor: Stormy Daniels allegations ‘totally irrelevant’ to evangelical support for Trump
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Seek Deal With Mueller to Speed End of Russia Probe  —  Legal team seek to use interview with president as leverage in negotiations  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's lawyers are seeking to negotiate a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that uses an interview …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Damage control at White House to reverse Trump's stunning blunder … At the White House press briefing room lectern, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders essentially walked back President Trump's promise of unconditional talks with Kim Jong Un by the end of May.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and YouTube
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Victor Cha / New York Times:
What Will Trump Give Up for Peace with North Korea?
Steve Bousquet / Tampa Bay Times:
Gov. Rick Scott signs gun, school security legislation over NRA opposition  —  Parkland parents attend bill signing ceremony at Capitol in Tallahassee.  —  After extensive discussions with the families of victims, Gov. Rick Scott signed new gun restrictions Friday in response to last month's massacre …
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Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:   NRA sues Florida over gun bill same day Gov. Scott signed it into law
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:   Florida Governor Signs Gun Limits Into Law, Breaking With the N.R.A.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump's Latest Pardon Shows The Best Way To Get One: Go On Fox News  —  By comparing his case to Hillary Clinton's, a Navy sailor and his lawyer were able to grab Fox's attention — and the president's.  —  WASHINGTON A former Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized possession …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Trump pardons former Navy sailor imprisoned for taking photos on nuclear submarine, White House says
Discussion: TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump pardons sailor in submarine photos case
Discussion: Associated Press, ABC News and NBC News
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli sentenced to 7 years in prison — says, ‘This is my fault’  — Convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli is sentenced for securities fraud related to two hedge funds he ran and to his former drug company Retrophin.  — The notorious “pharma bro” …
Discussion: NPR, IJR, TheBlaze, Dealbreaker and The Verge
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Bloomberg:
Martin Shkreli Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
The Sam Nunberg exit interview: 'Now the game's over'  —  WASHINGTON — We in the media might not have Sam Nunberg to kick around anymore.  Then again, who knows for sure?  —  Late Thursday evening, hours before he appeared before a grand jury hearing as part of special counsel
Discussion: Raw Story
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Nunberg arrives at Mueller grand jury
Discussion: ABC News and Mediaite
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's hotel group wrote $151,470 check to the U.S. Treasury as it handed over all 2017 profits from business with foreign governments  — Trump Organization wrote the check on Feb. 22, representing all the hotel and related profits from foreign governments that it could account for
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him  —  Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country.  But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat.  —  “Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
GOP senator: Justice Kennedy is going to retire this summer
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Leslie Dyste / KTVU-TV:
3 hostages taken, shots fired at Yountville Veterans Home  —  Woman on lockdown at Yountville Veterans Home speaks with KTVU  —  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (KTVU) - Three people were taken as hostages and shots were fired at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville — the largest in the United States …
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New York Times:
The E.P.A Chief Wanted a Climate Science Debate.  Trump's Chief of Staff Stopped Him.  —  Want the latest climate news in your inbox?  You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter.  —  John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head …
Discussion: Politico, Axios and The Daily Caller
John D. Feeley / Washington Post:
Why I could no longer serve this president  —  John D. Feeley, who retired this week as a U.S. diplomat, will soon be working with Univision and the Fusion Media Group on immigration-themed content.  —  Shortly after the Charlottesville riots last August, I made the private decision to step …
Discussion: Political Wire
KQCA-TV:
Bay Area coffee shop won't serve police for ‘safety of customers’  —  Hasta Muerte Coffee: ‘We need support of the actual community to keep this place safe, not police’  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  A coffee shop in Oakland is refusing to serve law enforcement officers for the …
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Sergio Quintana / NBC Bay Area:
Coffee Shop in Oakland Refuses to Serve Police Officers
Yahoo:
‘Stand down’: How the Obama team blew the response to Russian meddling  —  Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books) by Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump getting a parade but tanks won't roll down Pennsylvania avenue  —  Here's how other countries do military parades  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will get his military parade, but it is unlikely to mirror the Paris Bastille Day event which inspired …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Quiet Exodus: Why Blacks Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches  —  FORT WORTH — Charmaine Pruitt wrote the names of 12 churches on a sheet of paper, tore the paper into 12 strips, and dropped them into a Ziploc bag.  It was Sunday morning and time to pick which church to attend.
Katherine Mangu-Ward / New York Times:
When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls  —  It's hard to tell who started it.  —  Was it the populist right, reared in the meme swamps of Reddit and 4chan, who emerged blinking into the daylight of politics and set about baiting anyone who disagreed with their chosen Republican king?
 
 
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Nida Khan / US News:
The Center of Endless Attention
Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
Cost for California bullet train system rises to $77.3 billion
Discussion: Hit & Run
Eric M. Fraser / SCOTUSblog:
Antitrust state-action immunity argument postponed because of possible settlement
Peter Coy / Bloomberg:
After Defeating Cohn, Trump's Trade Warrior Is on the Rise Again
Kristina Sgueglia / CNN:
Rand Paul attacker pleads guilty
The Guardian:
Russian spy attack: focus falls on Salisbury cemetery
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The Hill:
Scott Pruitt is leading the EPA toward greatness
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Mike Pence urged ABC News star Joy Behar to apologize to Christians she offended - she didn't listen
 

 
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