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5:30 PM ET, March 11, 2019

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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: 'He's Just Not Worth It'  —  Nancy Pelosi stands up in her spacious office in the U.S. Capitol, walks past an enormous window with a commanding view of the Mall and the Washington Monument, and picks up a small plaque from her desk.
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Washington Post:
As Europe worries about Trump, congressional leaders invite NATO head for joint address
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Washington Post:
Trump proposes $4.7 trillion budget with domestic cuts, $8.6 billion in new funding for border wall  —  President Trump is releasing a $4.7 trillion budget plan Monday that stands as a sharp challenge to Congress and the Democrats trying to unseat him, the first act in a multi-front struggle …
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump's 2020 budget proposal seriously cuts the nation's safety net
Discussion: Politico, Roll Call and Breitbart
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
President's Budget Would Add More than $10 Trillion to the Debt
Discussion: Vox, Hit & Run and CNN
Russ Vought / Fox News:
OMB Acting Director Russ Vought: Spending addiction threatens American economic resurgence
Discussion: Politico, Sara A. Carter and Breitbart
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox News under fire  —  Fox News has enjoyed record ratings over the past two years, but its close ties to the president and its commitment to right-wing opinion coverage is putting the network on the brink.  —  Driving the news: A series of damning reports over the past week has forced Fox News …
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David Goldman / CNN:
Fox News rebukes Jeanine Pirro after she questioned Ilhan Omar's hijab  —  New York (CNN Business)In a rare rebuke of one of its star hosts, Fox News condemned Jeanine Pirro late Sunday for questioning whether Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's Islamic religious beliefs stand in opposition to the US Constitution.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News “Strongly” Condemns Host Jeanine Pirro's Comments About Muslim Congresswoman
Discussion: Hot Air
Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Choose Milwaukee for 2020 National Convention  —  The Democratic Party has selected Milwaukee to hold its 2020 national convention, choosing to nominate its challenger to President Trump in the key battleground state of Wisconsin.
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Associated Press:
Democrats turn to blue-collar Milwaukee for 2020 convention  —  Democrats selected Milwaukee to host their 2020 national convention Monday, setting up the party's 2020 standard-bearer to accept the presidential nomination in the heart of the old industrial belt that delivered Donald Trump to the White House.
Discussion: Axios and Balloon Juice
miamiherald:
Why Miami won't be hosting the 2020 Democratic convention (and Milwaukee will)
Discussion: Splinter
Julie K. Brown / miamiherald:
Federal court moves to unseal documents in Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal  —  A federal court of appeals in New York on Monday took the first step in unsealing documents that could reveal evidence of an international sex trafficking operation allegedly run by multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Former Gillibrand aide resigned in protest over handling of sex harassment claims  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the most outspoken advocates of the #MeToo movement who has made fighting sexual misconduct a centerpiece of her presidential campaign, spent last summer pressing legislators …
Charles Davis / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson Defended Statutory Rape in 2017 With Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes  —  The Fox News star dismissed his past defense of statutory rape as being ‘more than a decade ago.’ But more video shows he's done it as recently as two years ago.  —  Tucker Carlson, the 49-year-old Fox …
Jaspreet Singh Boparai / Quillette:
The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History  —  On March 4 2011, the French historian Reynald Secher discovered documents in the National Archives in Paris confirming what he had known since the early 1980s: there had been a genocide during the French Revolution.1 Historians …
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Incendiary N.R.A. Videos Find New Critics: N.R.A. Leaders  —  The flash point was Thomas the Tank Engine.  —  Last September, the National Rifle Association's famously combative spokeswoman, Dana Loesch, provoked widespread outrage when she took to the gun group's streaming service …
Tom Llamas / ABC News:
'He's not taking me to Washington?'  Michael Cohen furious at snub: Stormy Daniels' former lawyer  —  Keith Davidson, the former attorney for adult-film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, detailed his role in negotiating hush-money deals to keep both women quiet …
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, IJR and The Week
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Tom Llamas / ABC News:
Fox News reporter had details of alleged Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels affair before election: Lawyer
Nihal Krishan / Mother Jones:
Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush's Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Foreign Nationals  —  Neil Bush, Jeb's brother, was caught asking a Chinese businessman for money.  —  The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential bid …
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Maggie Severns / Politico:   FEC fines Jeb Bush super PAC over foreign donation
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party  —  There's a lot of news right now about conflicts within the Democratic Party, and similar stories will likely continue to pop up for the next two years.  Much of this is normal and unsurprising.  The American political system has only two major parties …
Discussion: Althouse and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Moves Toward a 2020 Race He Could Upend, Ready or Not  —  Beto O'Rourke has driven alone across the plains, straining to find his emotional bearings — or at least a Pancake House in Liberal, Kan. He has collected an “El Pasoan of the Year” award, before a modest audience …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Associated Press:
The Latest: Irish PM delays trip for urgent Brexit meeting  —  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on talks about Britain's departure from the European Union (all times local):  —  Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has delayed a trip to the United States for an emergency government meeting on Brexit.
Discussion: Politico
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Associated Press:   UK prime minister fights to save Brexit deal
CNN:
White House rejects Cummings' request to interview former official  —  Cummings: Want more info on Ivanka's security clearance after CNN report  —  (CNN)The White House is rejecting House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings' request to interview a former White House official who now represents …
Discussion: Axios
David Frum / The Atlantic:
If Liberals Won't Enforce Borders, Fascists Will  —  I. The Wave That's Still Building  —  Through much of the 20th century, the United States received comparatively few immigrants.  In the 60 years from 1915 until 1975, nearly a human lifetime, the United States admitted fewer immigrants than arrived …
Washington Post:
Former vice president Cheney challenges Pence on Trump's foreign policy  —  A chummy discussion between Vice President Pence and former vice president Richard B. Cheney quickly turned into a vigorous back-and-forth over President Trump's foreign policy at a private gathering on Saturday …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
In Leaked Chats, Nebraska GOP Gov's Field Director Pushed White Nationalist  —  Bennett Bressman has “more compassion for small dogs than illegals” and claims his “whole political ideology revolves around harming journalists.”  He uses the n-word freely and cracks jokes about the Holocaust.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Reminder: The president regularly spends the weekend hobnobbing privately with rich clients  —  President Trump returned to the White House from his private resort in Florida on Sunday.  In total, Trump has spent all or part of 42 weekend days at the resort since his inauguration …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Elizabeth Warren Is Running for President.  The Other 2020 Democrats Are Just Jockeying for Position.  —  Her proposal to break up the tech monopolists is only the latest example of a campaign that's pointing to a better way forward for Democrats.  —  Michael Tomasky
Michael Bamberger / Golf.com:
President Trump won a 2018 club championship — without actually playing in it!  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Donald Trump takes great pride in his golf game.  Shinzo Abe and Tiger Woods and countless others can tell you about that.  He once tweeted “I don't cheat at golf” …
Alex Ward / Vox:
A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea.  It's doomed.  —  Stephen Biegun told a Washington audience that “we are not going to do denuclearization incrementally.”  —  The top US diplomat tasked with negotiating with North Korea just laid out a denuclearization plan that's destined to fail.
 
 
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Stacey Abrams: ‘2020 is definitely on the table’
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
Syrian forces use widespread sexual violence to humiliate and silence male prisoners, new report says
CNN:
Whitaker to return to House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday
Stephanie Murphy / Orlando Sentinel:
Congress missed the point with watered-down resolution on anti-Semitism | Commentary
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Rachel M. Cohen / The Intercept:
A GOP Bill in Georgia Would Jail Doctors Who Perform Abortions in a Post-Roe America
Jfarrell / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint Over Rep. Adam Schiff's Contacts with Glenn Simpson and Michael Cohen
Discussion: The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Sarah Sanders sidesteps questions on leaked Trump comment that Democrats hate Jews
Discussion: ABC News and Vox
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Newsrooms that went wild when David Duke endorsed Laura Ingraham suddenly silent when he did the same for Rep. Omar
Discussion: New York Post and NB Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
While everyone sleeps, the courts are abolishing all immigration enforcement
Discussion: Daily Wire
Sohrab Ahmari / First Things:
Giving the Boot  —  The Corrosion of Conservatism:  —  Why I Left the Right
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Denies Calling Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple.’ It Happened on TV.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Vox and Hullabaloo
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
‘F—ing insane’: De Blasio allies warn against 2020 run
Discussion: Splinter, Eschaton and Vanity Fair
Osita Nwanevu / New Yorker:
Democrats Push to Make Washington, D.C., the Fifty-first State
Discussion: Splinter and IJR
 

 
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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