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Greg Farrell / Bloomberg:
New York Has Prepared Paul Manafort Charges If Trump Pardons Him  — Cy Vance has been investigating ex-Trump aide since 2017  — District Attorney sees way to avoid double jeopardy protection  —  New York state prosecutors have put together a criminal case against Paul Manafort …
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
New York D.A. Expected to Charge Manafort, Guarding Against Trump Pardon  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office is preparing state criminal charges against Paul J. Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, in an effort to ensure he will still face prison time even if the president pardons …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller could tell all in last major court filing in Paul Manafort's case  —  Washington (CNN)Friday may be the day that special counsel Robert Mueller tells all in the long-running court saga of Paul Manafort's prosecution.  —  Mueller's sentencing memorandum is due to a federal judge in DC District Court before midnight Friday.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Deadline:
Jussie Smollett Dropped From Remainder Of 'Empire's Season By Producers  —  One day after Jussie Smollett was arrested on multiple felony charges for the alleged racist and homophobic attack of last month, the producers of Empire have cut the actor from the rest of the show's fifth season
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Dahleen Glanton / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Sorry, bigots, but I'm not sorry for once trusting Jussie Smollett
TMZ.com:
Jussie Smollett Apologizes to ‘Empire’ Cast and Crew, Maintains Innocence
Evan Urquhart / Slate:
Why Jussie Smollett's Alleged Hoax Won't Change How Anyone Feels About Hate Crimes
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The slowly written Mueller report that's sitting in plain sight  —  President Trump has benefited enormously from the frog-in-hot-water nature of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into his campaign and possible overlap with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Schiffting to Phase 2 of Collusion  —  Conspiracy theorists look for something new, anticipating a Mueller letdown.  —  There's been no more reliable regurgitator of fantastical Trump-Russia collusion theories than Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff.  So when the House Intelligence Committee chairman sits …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
All the President's broken men
Discussion: Roll Call, KBZK and IJR
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘He is not going to be the nominee’: Dems slam Sanders over Maduro stance  —  Florida Democrats are denouncing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for refusing to call Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro a dictator — a politically explosive issue in the nation's biggest swing state.
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Sanders has early lead over Warren in battle of the left
Discussion: Crooked Media
Adam B. Schiff / Washington Post:
An open letter to my Republican colleagues  —  Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat, represents California's 28th Congressional District in the House and is chairman of the Intelligence Committee.  —  This is a moment of great peril for our democracy.  Our country is deeply divided.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information.  Then They Tell Facebook.  —  Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; ‘This is a big mess’  —  Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps …
Discussion: Slashdot
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump aides worry he'll get outfoxed in North Korea talks  —  President Donald Trump is eagerly anticipating his second summit with Kim Jong Un, touting his “really meaningful” relationship with the North Korean strongman and insisting he's ready to give up his nuclear arsenal.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Pfizer executive Sally Susman to host 2020 presidential fundraiser for Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand  — Presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is slated to attend a fundraiser at the home of Sally Susman, a top Pfizer executive, on March 31, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Discussion: The Guardian
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Fox News Quack Doctor Keith Ablow Accused of Sexually Exploiting Patients  —  The infamous TV huckster allegedly lured multiple female patients into sexual relationships, according to lawsuits, before engaging in physically abusive behavior.  —  A former member of Fox News' “Medical A-Team” …
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Sex in New York City Parks?  It's Less of a Thing Than It Used to Be  —  A decade ago, New York City police officers handed out hundreds of tickets for “sex in park.”  Last year, they wrote six.  —  In a wild, overrun corner of Fort Tryon Park, a secluded area had become a popular destination …
Sasha Issenberg / Politico:
Here's What Beto Could Unleash on Trump  —  AUSTIN, Texas—With rain hammering outside, Zack Malitz stood in a warehouse space lit by strands of bistro lights and began to reveal the campaign strategy of Beto O'Rourke in exacting detail.  Malitz, who was the field director of O'Rourke's Senate campaign …
UMass Amherst:
Early Poll of New Hampshire Voters Shows Potential Problems for Republican Presidential Primary Season  —  UMass Amherst Poll Finds GOP Voter Support for Primary Challenge  —  AMHERST, Mass. - With nearly 40 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire saying they would welcome …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Netanyahu's Most Cynical Ploy Yet  —  By allying himself with one of Israel's most despicable parties, the prime minister is jeopardizing his legacy.  —  Most Americans have probably never heard of Yifat Ehrlich, or for that matter her former center-right political party in Israel, Bayit Yehudit.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Naming and Shaming the Pro-Trump Elite  —  Charlie Sykes is sitting behind a desk in a sparse, disheveled office—blank walls lined with empty filing cabinets, windows covered with crooked blinds—as he tries to conjure the perfect metaphor for The Bulwark, the anti-Donald Trump conservative news site he recently helped start.
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
PBS NewsHour Continues to Expand Its Team by Naming New Foreign Affairs Producer  —  Some notable revolving door news to report this morning: PBS NewsHour has named Ali Rogin the nightly news broadcast's newest foreign affairs producer.  —  “I am delighted to welcome Ali to the NewsHour …
Julie K. Brown / miamiherald:
Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules  —  Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A federal election will be rerun because of fraud.  Republicans aren't talking about it much.  —  The 2018 midterm elections are not yet over.  —  North Carolina's State Board of Elections voted Thursday to throw out the results of the election held in November in the state's 9th Congressional District …
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Joe Bruno / Popular Information:
The anti-Ivanka  —  There is normally only one free edition …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House Dems introduce measure to revoke Trump border edict  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border.
Discussion: Shakesville
John M. Donnelly / Roll Call:
Congress could block big chunk of Trump's emergency wall money  —  Full funds likely to be unavailable from the sources president has identified  —  A reporter's homage to government workers — unsung heroes of transparency Trump Ignites New Budget Fights by Targeting Pentagon Programs Inhofe open to ‘exaggerated’ war budget
Walker Davis / CREW:
Roger Stone-Linked Group, Under Scrutiny From Mueller, Filed Missing Tax Return, Added Vendor  —  New tax documents obtained by CREW shed light on the finances of a dark money group tied to longtime Trump associate Roger Stone, who was indicted last month on felony charges in Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation.
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Jim Risch tries to calm Republicans furious with Trump  —  Sen. Jim Risch was on the verge of facing down an insurgency from his GOP colleagues.  —  Top Senate Republicans were fuming at the Trump administration last week for ignoring congressional demands to further investigate the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Discussion: The Week
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Audience of One: Why Flattery Works in Trump's Foreign Policy  —  When the commander of U.S. forces in Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti, met privately with members of Congress at the Munich Security Conference, last weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham finished the meeting with a blunt question.
Discussion: Politico
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Mark Zuckerberg Promised A Clear History Tool Almost A Year Ago.  Where Is It?  —  Facebook spent most of 2018 embroiled in one scandal or another.  But there was a point early on in the year when Mark Zuckerberg thought he could turn down the heat by offering a fix for the public's privacy concerns.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
No great sense of panic as Trump team prepares for “imminent” Mueller report  —  President Trump's team believes Robert Mueller will submit his report “imminently,” but is unsure exactly what that means, two sources familiar with the situation tell Jonathan Swan.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Politico:
Who is Nomiki Konst?  —  Nomiki Konst, the 35-year-old TV pundit casting herself as the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the New York public advocate's race, readily acknowledges that her background is politically unconventional.  —  She's wandered from Tucson to Buffalo to Florida to Los Angeles …
Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:
Facebook Grew Too Big to Care About Privacy  —  Once it became indispensable, it gained the power to reverse promises it had made not to gather certain data.  —  Two years ago, a Yale Law School student published what became an influential paper about how antitrust law should apply …
Morgan Cook / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Rep. Duncan Hunter gets help with legal expenses from government contractors, others  —  Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, and his wife and former campaign manager, Margaret appear in this file photograph.  —  Nine donors, including at least two who had already reached political contribution limits …
Discussion: Roll Call
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Democrats' Grand Delusion  —  The 2020 Democratic primary has only just begun, but it has already been defined by a fatal tension between the passion and controversy driving the candidate's agendas and a reality that few of them want to grapple with.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) …
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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Associated Press:
Alabama woman who joined Islamic State sues to return to US
Discussion: Townhall
Aimee Edmondson / USA Today:
Don't gut libel ruling that gave us brave civil rights, Vietnam and Watergate coverage
Discussion: CNN
miamiherald:
Americans arrested in Haiti with arsenal of guns won't face U.S. charges
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The state of women in U.S. media in 2019: Still f'ing abysmal — especially at Reuters and the AP
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise
Discussion: Boing Boing
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
It's time to take John Wayne's name off the Orange County airport
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Won't Rule Out Using Stolen Data in 2020 Campaign
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden calls on candidates not to ‘aid and abet’ foreign election interference
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