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11:20 AM ET, March 10, 2018

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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Planning Begins for Kim Jong-un Meeting Some Trump Aides Believe Will Never Happen  —  WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump accepted an invitation to meet Kim Jong-un of North Korea, the White House began planning on Friday a high-level diplomatic encounter so risky and seemingly far-fetched …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump on Kim Talks: ‘Tell Him Yes’  —  U.S. officials rush to assemble a diplomatic strategy with little precedent in American history  —  Inside the Oval Office late Thursday, President Donald Trump interrupted a trio of South Korean officials as they analyzed an offer to meet …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Mediaite
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Three Key Questions About Donald Trump's Summit with Kim Jong Un  —  On February 21st, 1972, President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing to meet with Chairman Mao Zedong, ending twenty-five years of hostility between the United States and China.  The preparations had been painstaking …
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
World watches as Tillerson admits he doesn't care about imploding State Dept  —  More than 60% of career diplomats have left in the past year, but Tillerson says he doesn't “lose a wink of sleep” over it.  —  One of America's top Latin American diplomats left the State Department this week …
Discussion: CBS News
The Guardian:   Republican candidate's North Korea experience may not be all he claims
Washington Post:   A top U.S. diplomat in Latin America leaves in protest, swelling an exodus
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Damage control at White House to reverse Trump's stunning blunder
Sam Dolnick / New York Times:
The Man Who Knew Too Little  —  The most ignorant man in America knows that Donald Trump is president — but that's about it.  Living a liberal fantasy is complicated.  —  GLOUSTER, Ohio — At first, the experiment didn't have a name.  —  Right after the election, Erik Hagerman decided …
Discussion: Althouse and CANNONFIRE
Washington Post:
In a personal letter, Trump invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant … Donald Trump was so eager to have Vladi­mir Putin attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that he wrote a personal letter to the Russian president inviting him to the event, according to multiple people familiar with the document.
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Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Putin on U.S. election interference: 'I couldn't care less'  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has told NBC News that he “couldn't care less” if Russian citizens tried to interfere in the 2016 American presidential election because, he claims, they were not connected to the Kremlin.
Discussion: CNBC, RT and Balloon Juice
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NBC News:
Suspected gunman, 3 women found dead after hostages taken at California veterans home
Discussion: Breitbart and NBC News
Fox News:
Veterans Home of California in Yountville on lockdown after reports of shots fired, officials say
Associated Press:
3 hostages, gunman found dead in California veterans home
Discussion: IJR
Politico:
Search for Hicks replacement turns into West Wing food fight  —  Various White House factions are backing different candidates for communications director, while Trump is soliciting advice from Hicks on potential successors.  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday evening poked his head …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Going for a Clean Reset”: Fuming in the West Wing, Trump Prepares to Defenestrate Cuck Allies and Go Full MAGA
Jennie Willoughby / Washington Post:
I was married to Rob Porter. Here's what John Kelly doesn't get about abuse.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Trump lawyers seek to offer Mueller an interview in exchange for wrapping up probe: report
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Ryan Browne / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump getting a parade but tanks won't roll down Pennsylvania avenue  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will get his military parade, but it is unlikely to mirror the Paris Bastille Day event which inspired him as it will not involve any heavy military vehicles like tanks …
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Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
Trump will get the military parade he wanted — just not the tanks
Discussion: Reuters, TheBlaze and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump administration studies seeking the death penalty for drug dealers  —  The Trump administration is studying new policy that could allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug dealers, according to people with knowledge of the discussions, a sign that the White House wants …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
I would've aborted a fetus with Down syndome.  Women need that right. … There is a new push in antiabortion circles to pass state laws aimed at barring women from terminating their pregnancies after the fetus has been determined to have Down syndrome.  These laws are unconstitutional, unenforceable — and wrong.
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Dems still wrestling over superdelegates - a 2016 issue  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is back in the Senate minority.  Hillary Clinton is selling books and playing with grandchildren.  And the Democratic Party is still navigating the fallout from their bitter 2016 presidential nominating fight.
Discussion: Axios
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
A Sanders-Warren ticket could win big in 2020
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Cristina Alesci / CNN:
White House scolds Cabinet officials after embarrassing ethics reports  —  (CNN)The White House held private meetings with four Cabinet-level officials last month to scold them for embarrassing stories about questionable ethical behavior at their respective agencies, sources familiar with the sessions tell CNN.
Discussion: Washington Press
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
John Kelly Reportedly Stopped Trump's EPA Chief From Holding Public Debates Challenging Climate Change  —  White House chief of staff John Kelly stepped in to thwart an effort by Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to “stage public debates challenging climate change science,” according to the New York Times.
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Sweet Jesus, Will the NYT's Conservatives Ever Write About Anything but the “Intolerant Left” Ever Again?  —  David Brooks published a column in the New York Times on Friday complaining about the manner in which “[s]tudents across the country,” having become obsessed with “group identity,” …
Discussion: Eschaton
Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
NRA sues Florida over gun bill same day Gov. Scott signed it into law  —  The National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit this afternoon against the state to block a law that had just been signed by Gov. Rick Scott that prohibits gun sales to anyone between the ages of 18 and 21.
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment.  Now He Wants to Destroy Europe's.  —  MILAN — Stephen K. Bannon leaned back in an armchair opposite a copy of a painting by an Italian old master and explained his modest efforts to build a vast network of European populists to demolish the Continent's political establishment.
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
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