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5:20 PM ET, March 11, 2018

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To “60 Minutes” Airing Of A Stormy Daniels Interview  —  Anderson Cooper interviewed the adult film performer and director on Thursday.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC … Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The First Porn President  —  WASHINGTON — Why not just go with Dirk Diggler?  —  I mean, if you're going to pick a fake name to pay off a porn star you've dallied with, why choose something bland like David Dennison?  —  If you are, after all, Donald Trump, the king of grandiosity …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Stormy Daniels and Ted Kennedy  —  The Democrats are trying to make something out of Donald Trump's alleged dalliance, twelve years ago, with porn performer Stormy Daniels.  I wrote about it here.  Frankly, I don't think anyone cares.  —  But the story is interesting because it raises questions …
Matt Gillow / The Independent:
Whisper it, but maybe Trump isn't that bad after all  —  There's a lot to criticise, but let's face it: unemployment is down, major corporations are paying their bills, he's arranged a meeting with Kim Jong-un and he's advocating for gun control  —  Mention the President of the United States …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Mnuchin: Trump's attacks on journalists, Dems are ‘campaign rally issues’
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Talking Points Memo:   US Officials: No More Conditions Imposed On North Korea For Talks
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away  —  GRAPEVINE, Tex. — Carol Rains, a white evangelical Christian, has no regrets over her vote for President Trump.  She likes most of his policies and would still support him over any Democrat.  But she is open to another Republican.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Gerson / The Atlantic:
The Last Temptation
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Fox News host Jesse Watters to divorce after cheating on wife with 25-year-old employee  —  Fox News is in sleazy Watters yet again.  —  The network's prominent host Jesse Watters — who dined on Monday with President Trump — is in the midst of divorce due to an affair with a 25-year-old associate producer.
Discussion: NewsHounds blog, Raw Story and Mediaite
BBC:
Russian spy: Salisbury diners told to wash possessions  —  Up to 500 Salisbury pub-goers and diners have been told to wash possessions as a precaution after nerve agent traces were found.  —  Trace amounts of the substance used to poison ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter …
Discussion: Gizmodo and NPR
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
After Russian Spy Poisoning, Britain Tells Public to Wash Clothes and Use Baby Wipes
Discussion: New York Magazine
Associated Press:   UK official: Small traces of contamination found in spy case
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Why Tamika Mallory Won't Condemn Farrakhan  —  When I was 17, I was a scruffy-headed biracial black and Jewish teenager, and a furious Louis Farrakhan hater.  In the mid-1990s, Farrakhan's fame and influence was at its height; I had once been thrown out of a middle school gym class for calling the Nation of Islam leader a racist.
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A New York Times columnist blamed a far-left ‘mob’ for her woes.  But maybe she deserves them. … After retracting public comments three times in a little over a month, New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss defended her columns and tweets Friday, claiming a social media “mob” …
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Elizabeth Warren refuses DNA test to prove Native American heritage  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Elizabeth Warren batted down calls for her to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage in an interview that aired Sunday.  —  “I know who I am.  And never used it for anything.
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Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military personnel  —  SEE ALSO  —  Newly-released video of a mysterious object streaking over the Atlantic Ocean shows the Pentagon needs to take UFOs seriously, a researcher says.  —  The sensational two-minute clip captured by a camera aboard …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump wants new authority over polling places.  Top election officials say no  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact.
Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:
No Republican candidates on the Utah ballot this year?  It's a possibility after planned fix falters.  —  Imagine this year's ballot with no Utah candidates listed as Republicans.  —  Or, alternatively, the ballot listing only those Republicans who gathered signatures, while others who went through the GOP convention are shut out.
Jonathan Lis / Associated Press:
Vladimir Putin: Maybe ‘Jews With Russian Citizenship’ Meddled in U.S. Elections  —  Russia's Putin tells NBC ‘I do not care at all’ about alleged Russian meddling Israeli lawmaker says ‘hatred of Jews’ lies at the root of Putin's claim  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul.  Now It May Need to Be Altered.  —  WASHINGTON — The legislative blitz that rocketed the $1.5 trillion tax cut through Congress in less than two months created a host of errors and ambiguities in the law that businesses big and small are just now discovering and scrambling to address.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Wire
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump Won Ohio Handily.  Populist Democrats Want to Win It Back.  —  LORAIN, Ohio — President Trump's decree placing punitive tariffs on foreign steel raised an outcry in Washington: Republican leaders in Congress warned darkly of a market-rattling trade war.
Erin Donnelly / Yahoo:
Teen waitress gets college scholarship after photo of her cutting up a 78-year-old diner's food goes viral  —  act of kindness has reaped a huge reward for one Texas teen.  —  Evoni Williams, who works in a La Marque, Texas, Waffle House to save money for college, was photographed by a diner …
Discussion: theGrio, Breitbart, KVUE-TV and Fox News
 
 
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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Just Suspended A Ton Of Accounts Known For Stealing Tweets
Axios:
Scoop: Trump told Netanyahu U.S. will pull out of Iran deal if big changes not made
Liam Halligan / Telegraph:
With national debt still rising, now is not the time to spend, spend, spend
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Top ACLU Voting Rights Lawyer Rips Into Trump Expert's Evidence Of Kansas Voter Fraud
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make
Discussion: Splinter
Observer-Reporter:
EDITORIAL In 18th district election, Lamb is the best choice
Discussion: Politicus USA
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Beth B. / twitchy.com:
James Woods OBLITERATES Lauren Hogg with THIS history lesson NO ONE should forget
Discussion: Instapundit and The Gateway Pundit
Stephanie Stanton / KTTV:
Legal battle between Katy Perry and nuns over Los Feliz convent takes tragic turn
Discussion: NPR, Breitbart and FOX6Now.com
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Vote. That's Just What They Don't Want You to Do.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Gun Plan to Include Encouraging States to Allow Armed School Staff
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Post:
Parents up in arms after NYPD removes cops from schools
Discussion: IJR and Louder With Crowder
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In Trump-Russia probe, what's with that meeting in the Seychelles?
 

 
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