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7:55 AM ET, March 11, 2018

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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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump in talks with impeachment lawyer as aide reveals new concerns  —  As the reality of the Russia inquiry sets in, Trump is ominously looking to an impeachment lawyer for help.  —  Trump reportedly initiated discussions with an impeachment lawyer this week, signaling that he may be more worried …
Discussion: Splinter, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Warren: 'I'm not running for president'  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren insisted Saturday that she was not running for the White House in 2020, but the Massachusetts Democrat repeatedly dodged on whether she would serve her full six-year term if she wins re-election to the Senate this November.
Eli Watkins / CNN:   NY Times: Trump looking at adding impeachment lawyer to WH team
Washington Post:   After once predicting quick end to Mueller probe, White House now looking to expand legal team
Hannah Seligson / The Intercept:
Ivanka Trump Backed Flynn and Manafort.  She Discussed Firing Comey.  How Has She Evaded Mueller's Investigation?
Discussion: Raw Story
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
How Stormy Daniels could impact the Russia investigation
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself  —  MOON TOWNSHIP, PA — President Donald Trump got business out of the way quickly Saturday night - urging voters to elect Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone, who's locked in an unexpectedly tough special election battle in Pennsylvania …
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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 …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:   The GOP's messages don't seem to be working in Pennsylvania. Is that a warning sign?
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump to rally for endangered Republican in Pennsylvania
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump urges support for GOP House candidate
Discussion: Breitbart
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Plumes Seen at Plutonium Plant May Belie Kim's Disarmament Talk  —  North Korea appears to be making new nuclear bomb fuel, satellite imagery shows, even as its leader, Kim Jong-un, has expressed willingness to negotiate atomic disarmament with President Trump.
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Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times:   Whatever comes next, North Korea's Kim Jong Un can claim a win against Trump
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
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
How One Child's Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria  —  The genetic mutation arose 7,300 years ago in just one person in West Africa, scientists reported on Thursday.  Its advantage: a shield against rampant malaria.  —  Thousands of years ago, a special child was born in the Sahara.
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
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
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: KVUE-TV, Breitbart and Fox News
New York Times:
Out of Public View, Trumps and Kushners Are Talking Business  —  LONG BRANCH, N.J. — Jared Kushner's family company recently began construction on an oceanfront development in this Jersey Shore city, a project that has the strong backing of local officials, who agreed to support it with $20 million in bonds.
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
The Terror Continues: Walmart, Cox Comms Dole Out Bonuses To Workers Thanks To Trump's Tax Bill  —  On December 22, 2017, the world ended—if you're a Democrat.  The Trump tax bill was signed into law.  Every Democrat voted against it.  They said it was the worst piece of legislation to ever come across Congress.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Christopher Liddell Is Front-Runner to Become Trump's Top Economic Adviser  —  President Trump is strongly considering Christopher P. Liddell, a White House official who was an executive at Microsoft and General Motors, to succeed his departing top economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn, according to two people briefed on the discussions.
Discussion: CNBC, Axios and Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Pomona man, 39, arrested in killing of Pomona police officer, ending long standoff  —  A man suspected of killing one Pomona police officer and wounding another was arrested Saturday afternoon after an overnight standoff at the apartment complex where the shooting occurred.
Discussion: Fox News and KTLA
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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?
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
CAITLYN JENNER SAYS TRUMP HAS BEEN ‘WORST EVER’ FOR TRANSGENDER RIGHTS, ‘SET OUR COMMUNITY BACK 20 YEARS’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Campus Reform:
Student barred from class for claiming there are two genders
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
A felon pleaded his case on ‘Fox & Friends.’ Days later, Trump pardoned him.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Political Wire and HuffPost
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Did Carter Page Call Devin Nunes From Moscow?
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Rollbacks Target Offshore Rules ‘Written With Human Blood’
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Nun Embroiled in Katy Perry Legal Conflict Dies at 89
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Ex-Model, Mob Suspect and a Murder Could Bring Down Slovakia's Government
Bloomberg:
Florida's New Gun Rules Really Matter
 

 
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