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11:35 AM ET, March 11, 2018

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New York Times:
‘Is There Anything More Fun Than a Trump Rally?’  —  MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The trip was ostensibly an effort to help Republicans stave off a deflating defeat in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that President Trump won by 20 points.  —  And in a rally at Pittsburgh's airport …
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Trump: “Maxine Waters A Very Low I.Q. Individual”  —  President Trump addresses a campaign rally for Pennsylvania special House election candidate Rick Saccone.  Saccone is the Republican candidate for the 18th Congressional district, a seat that was held by a Republican who resigned.
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself
Matt Gillow / The Independent:   Whisper it, but maybe Trump isn't that bad after all
Washington Post:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump again calls for the death penalty for drug dealers
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump touts GOP candidate — and talks drug dealers, 2020 and Oprah in whirlwind rally
Discussion: Splinter
Paul Kane / Washington Post:   The GOP's messages don't seem to be working in Pennsylvania. Is that a warning sign?
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump urges support for GOP House candidate
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
New York Times:
Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response  —  President Trump is in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the impeachment process about joining the White House to help deal with the special counsel inquiry, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Warren: 'I'm not running for president'
Alessia Grunberger / CNN:   Sen. Warren says she isn't running for president in 2020
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: Raw Story and Mediaite
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Farrakhan Conundrum  —  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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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 …
Discussion: Haaretz, Breitbart and The Hill
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, KVUE-TV, Breitbart and Fox News
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: RedState and Washington Post
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: Political Wire
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In Trump-Russia probe, what's with that meeting in the Seychelles?  —  It's become a hot topic in coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation: A Trump supporter met with a Russian in the Seychelles in January 2017, and something consequential may or may not have happened.
Michael Gerson / The Atlantic:
The Last Temptation  —  One of the most extraordinary things about our current politics—really, one of the most extraordinary developments of recent political history—is the loyal adherence of religious conservatives to Donald Trump.  The president won four-fifths of the votes of white evangelical Christians.
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.
New York Post:
Parents up in arms after NYPD removes cops from schools  —  The last NYPD cops assigned full-time to New York City public schools are being moved out — despite nationwide calls for heightened security in the wake of last month's Florida shootings.  —  As the nation mourned the 17 victims …
New York Times:
The Missing Obama Millions  —  Much of the political commentary since the presidential election has focused on two groups of party switchers: those who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 and those who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Steve Bannon: ‘Let them call you racist ... Wear it as a badge of honor’  —  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday told a crowd of far-right French politicians to let people label them as “racist,” and to consider it “a badge of honor.”
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Storm Durham:
I was fired today.  I was fired by a Department of Virginia... Social Services the people who are supposed to be there to keep kids safe and develop families into better people for each other.  I was fired today due to having a concealed carry permit.  Was my gun on me?
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Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:   Virginia Social Worker: I Was Fired Over My Concealed Carry Permit
 
 
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy
Discussion: Althouse
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
ABC Shelved ‘Black-ish’ Political Episode Over ‘Creative Differences’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Discussion: The Root and Mashable
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
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump says he hopes Oprah runs: ‘It would be a painful experience for her’
Discussion: Althouse
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The First Porn President  —  WASHINGTON — Why not just go with Dirk Diggler?
 Earlier Items: 
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
How One Child's Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Plumes Seen at Plutonium Plant May Belie Kim's Disarmament Talk
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
The Terror Continues: Walmart, Cox Comms Dole Out Bonuses To Workers Thanks To Trump's Tax Bill
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
Discussion: Boing Boing
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
CAITLYN JENNER SAYS TRUMP HAS BEEN ‘WORST EVER’ FOR TRANSGENDER RIGHTS, ‘SET OUR COMMUNITY BACK 20 YEARS’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Out of Public View, Trumps and Kushners Are Talking Business
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Adam B. Vary / Variety:
The Blair Witch Project cast requests retroactive residuals and “meaningful consultation” on future projects, after Lionsgate and Blumhouse announced a reboot

Tariq Panja / New York Times:
Sources: FIFA is close to giving Apple the global rights for its 2025 World Cup-style soccer competition in the US, likely for ~25% of FIFA's first $4B estimate

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% YoY to 615M, below 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% YoY to 239M, and a €168M operating income

 
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